Consequences

Final Chapter 65

I was once again lying down in a hospital bed, but this time it wasn't an accident. I had just given birth to a baby girl. I had finally given my mother a granddaughter and she was the happiest woman on earth. My dad had come briefly to see me and the baby girl. Her name? Temitope. 

Lying down in the hospital bed, I looked at how my mother held the baby so close to her. Immediately my thoughts went to Ola. So many question flooded my mind. How was I going to break the news to him? How would he react seeing I never told him anything? Would he come to the conclusion that the baby wasn't his?

This bothered me a lot.  And it was in this state of mind that I went home after being discharged from the hospital. I was once again back in my parents' house being cared for, by the very people I had vented my  anger against. When I look at them now, I sometimes remember what the stranger I had me at the pub told me.

"You have wonderful parents, cherish them." He had said. I couldn't have gone through nine months of pregnancy without them. Here I was back in the very house I had left angrily, and all because of what my mother had told me. Now I will be in this house for as long as it takes to see me through the early stages of my daughter's  growth.

This is what I'm supposed to be doing with Ola. This is something we are supposed to be doing together. But where was he all this time and why was his phone always switched off? I kept asking myself. 

This is a question that was on my mind day and night until one day, a thought came to me while I was lying in bed. It was the strangest thought I had ever had. It was so strong that it was telling me to do just one thing-go to our former house. This  was the very house where I had seen Ola in a pool of blood. At first I brushed it off as mere imagination.

But then I got up and sat down on the bed asking myself why this thought about the former house was so strong. Something was going on which I was about to discover. As curious as I was, I followed this thought and got out of bed and picked up my handbag. I went out of the room to see my mother  playing with her granddaughter. Seeing them, brought a smile to my face. My mother noticed my presence and called me.

"Tola what are you doing carrying your handbag?"  I walked up to her and took the baby from her and held the baby for a brief moment. I then gave her back to my mother.

"I just want to take some fresh air, mom. I won't be long." I replied. My mother looked at me intensely. She may have thought that I was bothered about something.

"Tola, I hope everything is alright?" She asked.

"Yes, everything is fine." I assured her. She nodded her agreement trying to believe in what I had told her. Yes, everything would be alright once I see Ola and tell him we have a baby girl.

"I won't be long, okay?" She nodded and went back to playing with her granddaughter. I left the house with my heart pounding and got into my car and kick-started it. I was going to the one place I had left years back due to a crime that was committed there. I was going back to a crime scene. I didn't commit any crime, but I felt like I really did.

And now, I was going back to retrieve the murder weapon. But there was no murder weapon, there was just a house that both my father and Ola had told me had been sold off. I still had the keys, but I guess, they won't be useful anymore. There must be new occupants, people who would never know what happened in that house.

I drove slowly until I finally reached the house. I parked my car outside and came down and walked up to the gate. It was slightly open. This was quite unusual as during our stay here, the gate was never left that way.

I pushed it open and went in. Someone, a gate man, was supposed to come and meet me and ask me who I was looking for. But this never happened. I then walked up to the front door and found it also slightly open. I stood as I heard voices coming from inside the house.