Ebere 2&3

Ebere (the girl of circumstance)

Episode 2&3

Episode 2.

A year later, Evelyn is seen in an apartment backing a baby who was obviously Ebere, Peter, her brother had rented the apartment for her to stay with the baby since he claimed he doesn't want the cry of a child to distract him from his work at night when he would be filing a document.
He was a lawyer, and a good one at that.
He hasn't married yet, but had a fiancè, a girl he was planning to marry in four months time.
Time to time, him and Adaobi would come visiting and he would leave Adaobi to be with Evelyn and Ebere, helping her with baby things. Sometimes Adaobi would stay with them for three weeks just to make sure she wouldn't be bored at home.
Peter always brought food stuffs like half bag of rice, a carton of tomatoes and some other ingredients needed to make stew and soup.
Ebere on the other hand was a beautiful girl, she was fair in complexion, has a nice stylish dark hair, which she inherited from her dad.
At the age of seven when she was in primary five in a private school, she had once asked about her mum about her dad, Evelyn was surprised at the question, she never imagined Ebere asking about her dad from this age.
"Ebere, why did you ask?" Evelyn asked Ebere as she sat her daughter down on a small plastic chair.
"Some group of girls in primary six said that I don't have a father, they said they've only seen my mum and not my dad." Ebere said wanting to cry but Evelyn stoop up her daughter and sat her on her laps then she started soothing her back, then she told her daughter not to mind what they said about her but Ebere wouldn't want it.
"It's uncle Peter my daddy?" Ebere asked with her tiny beautiful voice that can melt the hardest of heart.
"No, sweetheart, uncle Peter is your uncle and not your father." Evelyn said soothingly.
"Then who is my daddy, mummy?" Ebere again questioned her mum, it was obvious Ebere wanted an answer, something to hold on to, she remembered that the seven years she has been with her, it was only uncle Peter that is only the male that has visited her mum, she saw pupils get picked up sometimes by their dad, but in her case, no elderly man, including her uncle that has come picked her up, it was only her mum or her aunty Adaobi, uncle Peter's wife.
She remembered when her she was three years old when her mum took her to uncle Peter's house for omugwo, they had stayed for a week and during that time when she would be back from school, she would go play with baby Dennis.

Tbc.

Episode 3.

Her mother hugged her and told her that when the time comes she would tell her everything.
Ebere just looked at her mum then hurled herself into her mother's bosom.

Twelve years later.
Ebere was now a big girl with a very beautiful feature, she had big boobs and a well shaped booty that made men, old and young, rich and poor, tall and short coming after her,  proposing marriage to her, but she would refuse them saying, she wasn't ready to get into any relationship now, she had just wrote her senior waec and waited for the result, she prayed and fasted, asking God for a good grade.
Ebere never jokes with prayer, she was a born again believer and she believed that with God, all things are possible.
When some of her church boys approached her, asking her out, she would just rebuke them, most times she would quote the bible for them.
In her church (Salvation Int'l Church) she was the head chorister, she loved singing, this made, Mrs Faith Ayo, the pastor's wife, found her to be unique, everyday she would call Ebere just to counsel which Ebere always appreciate.
One time, Mrs. Faith had told Ebere not to follow men because of any material things and that she should finished her school before engaging in any relationship which Ebere promised to do, after that, they prayed and she told her driver, John Simon to take Ebere home.
Evelyn was happy with her daughter, she remembered last year, when Ebere clocked eighteen, she had sit her down and told her the circumstances behind her birth, when Ebere learnt that her dad had run away made her felt worthless, she remembered the look in Ebere's eyes and felt pity for her daughter for going through such pain.
But now, she was happy that Ebere had pushed those things past her, now she hoped Ebere would gain a scholarship and would pass her senior waec.

Ebere decided to work with her uncle for now since her uncle was a lawyer and she wanted to be a lawyer also. She figured that she would learn so much about things relating to the country and the constitution, so she went to talk her mother, which she supported.
She promised Ebere that she would talk with Uncle Peter, her brother about it.
Uncle Peter on the other hand liked the idea, so she became an intern for her uncle.
Aunty Adaobi, uncle Peter's wife was also happy with the decision.
But this was a decision that changed Ebere.