Must Read: Diary Of A Broke Playboy

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Must Read: Diary Of A Broke Playboy

For the rest of the week i was run down by fever. I couldn’t stand erect and had to lay on my bed while my mom did all her quack prescriptions for me. I wasn’t getting better and worst still, i had to stay at home alone when everyone else leaves for work. Amara who could have looked after me was sick too, not as much as i was but it was something.

Chinaza’s love for me seemed to be rekindled at that point in time. She would stay around me, prepare special dishes for me and force me to eat them cos even though i made requests for those foods, i didn’t have the appetite to eat them. She spent most of her time tending to me.

On the third day, i noticed rashes were coming out of my body but i didn’t border much about it, i named it heat rashes and not until the fourth day that it also showed up on Amara’s body that i was freaked out.

I had always known there would be repercussions for my Sekxual promiscuity but i never expected it to be STD.

Even though i don’t usually use protection, i had always thought i was immune to all those STD stuff. I began going lean back to back and i lost interest in anything around me.

I soon began to expect Naza to fall ill too and i wasn’t disappointed. Hers started lightly although there were no spots on her body, she was down with fever and often coughed.

I silently prayed to God every minute and swore with my manhood that should he take all this away from me, i would never ever stare at a girl twice in fact that i won’t even have a girlfriend.

I had confided in James who at first laughed and said i was being too serious until i told him about Amara and Chinaza. He then suggested i asked each of them if they were fukking anyone behind me. I had questioned Amara about her Sekxual activities and she had sworn she only had S£x with me all her life. I didn’t even dare broach the topic with Naza or the whole of our neighborhood would have heard about it since i’m obviously the one circulating the strange illness. I kept thinking of all my recent escapades and trying to see which of the girls was likely to have given me the disease.

I didn’t have to look around much.

At exactly 12am on the sixth day, Cynthia called me.

“Hey baby” she seemed excited over the phone.
“Wassup” i said weakly
“I’m fine, just missing you”
“Thank you, so why are you calling me this early morning?”
“Nothing much, just wanted to make sure you are ok”
“Well, i’m sick” i said

“I thought as much” she said and i became suspicious.
“What does that mean?”
“well, i got sick and went for a test, i was diagnosed with staphylococcus, anyway i’m undergoing treatment and i think I’m getting better. Just thought you should know”

I was sweating as she was talking.

“Cynthia you came to my house and gave me std? I asked not knowing if i was crying or not.

“Baby its not like that, we are not even sure if you were not the one that gave it to me, you know we both aren’t saints” she said and laughed, she sounded so carefree which is more than i can say for myself.

After we dropped the call, the questions that kept hitting my mind was how i was going to tell my people i had contacted an std and had transferred it to Chinaza and Amara…. AMARA…. I cried in the darkness and prayed God to cleanse me of my iniquities. I was almost close to swearing that i would quit school and enter the seminary should he save me from the shame i was about to bring to myself.

As if that wasn’t enough, the next morning, Chinaza walked in looking a bit better but her face was all moody.
“Whats wrong with you? ” i asked her.

” Chinecherem I went for a test ”
My heart sank as i waited for her to tell me about the Std, i was sure she was going to raise hell for me.

” And what did it say? ” i asked with my heart pounding like a mortar.

” I’m 2 months pregnant ” she said looking at me. At this point i didn’t know what was going on in my mind, i didn’t know whether to be glad she wasn’t infected or to freak out about the pregnancy. I just decided i was in in deep shhit either way. We spent over 3 minutes staring at nothing without talking.


Chinaza got up from the bed and left without exchanging any word. I know I would marry her for sure, i mean i wasn’t going to abort my own baby, i loved naza and i wasn’t going to regret marrying her but the disease that was in me, what if naza had it too and some way it affects the baby.

I just wished my whole life was a dream as i la!d on my bed and cried. My Penance had decided to come together in a day and i would rather die than face it. I soon began contemplating suicide but i loved my life and wasn’t going to leave all these fine girls behind. I hadn’t even driven my dream car, a Lamborghini.

I was in my room still mourning myself when Amara came in and sat besides me on the bed.

She bent and kissed me. In my mind i was like
“The staphylococcus you get never do you, maybe you wan collect aids join am too” i thought but I was too weak to speak.

“Neche don’t worry, we found out its just measles that i got from Chioma my friend and you caught it” she said and smiled.


I jerked up from my bed feeling partially healed.

“Are you sure?” I asked her not knowing whether to kiss her or to verify.

She nodded. I grabbed her and kissed her so passionately. Chinaza walked into my room just as we had disengaged and with a wide grin on her face shouted “APRIL FOOOL” . Confused i checked my phone and the date was April 1.

My full healing was like a miracle…..