Bounced By My Brother - S01 E22

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Bounced By My Brother - S01 E22

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 22

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Sarah’s Twin Brothers And University

●<Third Person’s Point of View >●

Stephen had skeletons in his cardboard. That could partly explain why he couldn’t divorce Lucy after she cheated on him with Doctor Clark. It happened the day Doreen paid him a visit to explain the circumstances surrounding Martin’s birth and why she wrongly thought Martin was his Son. Lucy was very surprised when Stephen forgave her for having an affair with Dr. Clark. She knew he could forgive her but she also felt something was wrong somewhere. Stephen’s forgiveness was too easy. As if gifted by clairvoyance, Afua, her husband’s secretary paid her a visit in her boutique. “Welcome Afua,”she said.

“Thank you,” she responded. “Is everything all right,” she asked curiously. “Well, it depends on what you are referring to as ‘everything’,”she said.

“What are you trying to say,” Lucy asked her.

Afua said, “I’m here to tell you that your husband is having an affair with a lady by name Doreen. She is a teacher at Zionsville preparatory school. I caught your husband last week making love to her in his Office. It was her scream of excitement, “Aww,babe….,“that drew my attention to that place.

“Did you say, Doreen?” Lucy asked her.

“Yes,” Afua said.

When Lucy heard the name, she nearly sank into the ground but managed to control herself and thanked Afua for telling her about it.

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A few weeks later, Lucy began showing signs of pregnancy. Stephen was quite sceptical if he was the real father of the unborn child. Could this be the result Lucy’s affair with Dr. Clark’s or their last lovemaking.

He wanted to be sure the pregnancy belonged to him so he sent Lucy to another Hospital and asked the doctor to determine the age of her pregnancy. It was one-month old which coincided with the last time he made love to Lucy.

Then he received a call from Doreen. She also said she was pregnant for him. He nearly sank into the ground. Two women pregnant for him at once? Lucy realised he was palpitating and asked what the matter was. It was the most difficult confession He had ever made and it was only God who had given him the strength to tell Lucy, ” I impregnated Doreen, your best friend.”

He was expecting Lucy to get furious and threw tantrums, or even burst into tears but she took it calmly. That increased his anxiety. Lucy told her daughter Sarah about it, and she was greatly disappointed in me. She refused to talk to her father for weeks.

8 months later

Stephen was at his work place when he received a call from the hospital that his presence was needed. The caller said his wife gave birth to identical twins – baby boys. Out of sheer joy, he rushed to the hospital with his mother Alice and sister Rhoda. The doctor welcome them.

“Please, where is my wife and my baby boys,” he hurriedly asked him. The Doctor looked at him for a long time and said , “you mean your wive,concubine and their identical twins?”

When the doctor said, that“Stephen was confused until he saw it for himself. At the left side of the female ward was his wife Lucy with twins. At the right side was his girlfriend Doreen also with twins. All males. Four baby boys were born to him by two women who used to be the best of friends. Surely Karma was at work. He didn’t know if he should be happy or worried. Finally, he managed to say, “Congratulations, both of you ” and left.

One week later

{In Sarah’s point of view}

I was happy to receive an admission to the University of Ghana, Legon, to offer B.Sc. Geomatics Engineering. Beneath the joy of getting admission into the University was sadness. Sadness caused by the birth of my twin brothers. Life was indeed a paradox. In high school, I was crying because I don’t have a brother. In the university, I have four good brothers, yet I’m sad. The saying that ‘ be careful what you wished for’ is very true. But why am I sad when I should be happy for having four brothers? I was quite happy when I heard my mother gave birth to twins but my joy was short-lived when I heard my father’s concubine Doreen who was also my future mother- in- law also gave birth to twins for my father.

Now, how could I be happy with this? It meant my half brothers will become my brothers in- law and my potential step – mother will also become my mother -in -law if I get married to Martin. I looked into the future and it didn’t look promising.

During a semester break

In the Garden of Nymph

During our semester break, Martin took me to a local garden to appreciate nature. I told him some months ago that I wanted our wedding to be one of the fairy tale weddings. I had always imagined getting married in a garden surrounded by flowers, like the biblical garden of Eden which was said to be very beautiful, peaceful and well-watered by rivers with beautiful flowers like Tulips, Orchids, lilies, Daffodils, marigold, Nymohae anelumb, lotus and perfectly manicured flower beds and fruits.

Martin and I decided to have our fairy tale wedding at a local botanical garden with lots of beautiful flowers as I mentioned earlier. We will use, not a car, but a horse drawn carriage.

Before I knew it, Martin knelt down and asked, “Will you marry me?”

I stared at him, with tears trickling down my cheeks and said, ” Martin, I love you more than any living thing on earth and I will even die for you but it’s unfortunate I DON’T THINK I CAN’T MARRY YOU.

“Why, “Martin asked, disappointment clearly etched in his eyes.

“I think you know why. Your mother is my father’s concubine and your half-brothers are my half-brothers too. If I marry you, then my brothers’ mother will also become my mother- in- law.

“I understand you, Sarah, but it’s not our faults that these things happened.

“I’m sorry, Martin,” I said, trying to hide my tears but I wasn’t successful. It fell on the ground in torrent. Martin hugged me quickly and hastily said,if that’s how you feel, I respect your decision,Goodbye.”

When I rejected Martin’s proposal, I felt like I have rejected part of myself. I stood rooted to the spot when I saw Martin. It was as if part of my life had left me.

The tears flowed freely and even Victoria Falls could even take its source from my tears which was incontrovertibly uncountable.

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Love is Mysterious. It is the only language that needs no words but universally understood wordlessly by every tribe, race, rich, poor, able and disabled without the need for an interpreter.