Answered prayer

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  • Seven months later, the younger one gives birth to a baby boy. Her mother the one who previously flew off the handle cradles her grandchild lovingly.

“I am pregnant.” She says to him. A look of fear washes over his face. He looks like a man who has just seen a ghost. “No no no no.” he says rubbing his temple as he rises from the creaky chair he is sitting on. The same creaky chair he sits on while doing his assignments. The room is simple and devoid of any fancy furnishings. It is characteristic of the humble dwellings of many a campuser. The young man paces around the hostel room thoroughly disturbed. She looks at him, relieved that the burden of the secret she has kept for two months has finally been lifted of her shoulders.

“We must remove it.” He says suddenly, wildly, as he stops the pacing. “I will do no such thing.” She responds weakly yet determinedly. “Then I will have nothing to do with it.” She half expected this response from him. He is one of those guys. She slowly stands up, picks up her purse and leaves the room tears streaming down her face.
She tells her older sister, who isn’t amused. But like sisters often do she comes around. One Saturday the duo go home to their parents. They plan to let the cat out of the bag. The mother is in the kitchen blending different fruits to make a juice cocktail. The father is heavily engrossed in a newspaper crossword puzzle. He is the kind that reads the newspaper from page to page. The type that will have his nose buried in a book for hours transposed to another world.

After the juice is served and they are all sitting in the living room, her older sister does her best to gently drop the bombshell. But some bombshells often remain bombshells regardless of how you gently try to drop them. Her father holds his peace ruminating over the information. Her mother takes a different approach. She flies off the handle and makes a dramatic production of the news. The two girls sit it out in silence the older sister guilty merely by association.

Seven months later, the younger one gives birth to a baby boy. Her mother the one who previously flew off the handle cradles her grandchild lovingly. Her husband too cannot get enough of the little bundle. A father to only girls himself, the little boy is the first male child flowing with the ageing mans own blood. He comes from a generation where things like the gender of a child were held dearly. God often answers prayers in ways you never imagined.