Fourteen :

I honestly didn't know what the time was, so I just kept quiet. When it came to my mum, my father wasn't ready to joke around with anyone.

"Your mother wanted to talk to you, she had one of those dreams."

'One of those dreams' my father refered to was another of my mum's belief. She believed that every dream had a meaning and sometimes dreams can predict one's situation.

"Son?" I heard my mum's voice, she was with the phone now.

"Mum, good morning." I greeted, imagining her smiling over the phone.

"Are you okay?" She asked, sounding worried.

"Yeah?" I said getting out of bed and stretching a bit.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I wouldn't say I was okay if I wasn't sure." I tried to sound convincing. I sat back down.

"I don't know, I just have this feeling that something's happened."

"Mum, you are worrying unnecessarily, I'm fine, really." I could hear her sigh after I said that. It was clear, she didn't believe me when I said I was fine.

I know I wasn't but I didn't want her to know that. If she got to know that there was really a problem, I didn't know how she would take it, it might break her heart. Might? Who was I kidding? it would surely break her heart. I fucked up, I fucked up big time and I knew it.

"You know Jerry, I had this dream last night...." She began. "....There you were on this boat, a small boat and it was just floating in the river with no direction I think, but there was also a girl in this boat with you...."

"huh?" I asked, cutting her short. I wasn't fully listening to her tell her dream, many of the times she used to tell it to me or my dad and sister, we didn't always listen to it...well maybe my dad did but not me and my sister. When she said there was a girl on the boat too, I had to listen.

"I said there was also a girl in this boat with you and you both were just sitting and letting the water take you wherever on the boat but then this girl she takes out the paddle and begins to paddle and you join her, that made the boat go in the right direction now but after a while you stop to paddle and it made the boat slower than it was." She stopped for a moment. "Are you listening?"

"Yes mum." I was and I had this feeling that she was talking of Ann.

"Bad as it was that you stopped helping to move the boat forward, you jumped out of the boat and into the room water and started swimming away, somehow there was an island there, you swam to it without her and after a while I think her boat overturned and she was in the water trying to swim but she couldn't and you went on to save her, you swam back to her and helped her to the island and that was it, I woke up, well your father woke me up."

"I don't know what to say mum..."

"Are you okay, give me a genuine answer, I want you to know that I'm here okay?" I didn't say anything after this. "Jerry?"

"Yes, mum?"

"Is everything alright?"

"Everything is, mum." I lied.

"Okay dear, talk to your dad." She said.

"Jerry, you sure things are fine? Your mum really detailed this one." My dad said referring to the dream she just told me.

"I'm fine dad."

"Okay then, take care of yourself."

"I will....."

"I love you son!" I heard my mum.

"Love you too mum." I smiled after my dad cut the call. Even though I just lied to both of my parents, and I had someone pregnant with my baby, my mum's voice somehow made me smile.

I laid back down, trying to go back to sleep but I couldn't. Now, I just laid there thinking. There was a lot to think about, a lot; Ann, her pregnancy, her decision to keep it, me lying to my parents.

I don't know how Ann planned to take care of the baby, both during the pregnancy and how she planned for a possibility of taking care of a baby while we went to school. This wouldn't work, it just couldn't, I don't know why she wouldn't listen to me.

I know from her point of view, she thinks I might bail out on this and leave her through it alone, but she was wrong. I just wanted her to be practical when making such a deck like I was being.

I would support her like I said, I was going to do my best to help. I would call later today to know how she was doing and what next to do.

I don't know how she plans on making it possible but we were going to deal with it till our first semester break, when she planned to tell her parents.

She was a month pregnant, she would be four months pregnant by the time she was going to tell them.

When I finally felt sleepy again, with my eyes half closed, I hugged the pillow, but I heard my phone's ring again just as soon as I had closed my eyes.

It was an unknown number, I sighed before picking the call. Not saying anything, I waited to hear the caller say something; anything, so I could hear his or her voice but all I heard was breathing, so I decided to talk.

"Who is this?"

"You didn't save my number?" It was Ann.

"I did." I lied. "I just woke up, so I didn't actually look at who was calling and..."

"I'm going to the hospital, to get a real test, my roommate thinks it's more reliable."

"Oh."

"You wanna come?"

"Uhhhhh..." I didn't want to go, but I couldn't just say no that plainly, so I was thinking of a good reason.

I couldn't think of anything fast enough, I didn't have any reason other than me not just wanting to leave the lodge today.

"You know what, never mind, I'll call you whatever happens." I heard her say before she hung up.

"Okay." I said to the phone, even though I knew, she wouldn't hear me.

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