Chapter 5 Meeting her again

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Fuming than ever before, Jason lifts his hand and unties the band that held his locs in place letting it fall around his shoulders.

He makes his way towards his car when the familiar angry voice shouts his name.

He rolls his eyes.

Here comes another drama.

Nevertheless, he ignores the shouts and presses a button on his keyholder to open his door.

"I'm talking to you, Jason! Don't you dare walk out on me!!" His father thunders as he stops in front of him.

"What now dad?"

"What now? You're seriously asking me what now? Huh?" He asks incredulously.

"You just ruined everything in there. You fucked up Jason! How could you walk out on us in the middle of the ceremony like that? Have you no manners? If you know what's best for you boy, you better get your shit together and walk back in there, you apologize and ask for the wedding to proceed. Got it?!"

"I will do no such thing"

"Jason Attah Michaels!!!!!!!" His father bellows,p much angrier now, his eyes dark.

"Father, please. For once allow me to take a decision of my own. I've obeyed you all my life. I even had to study science in high school and pharmacy in college all because you wanted it so. You never for once took what I wanted into consideration. It's always been about you. You and your goddamn pharmaceutical company. That's all you care about. I'm not going to get married to some girl because you want to be partners with her dad. I'm not bending to your wishes this time dad. Excuse me"

With that, he turns, opens the car door.

"That car is mine. You either go in there now and get married or you give me back my car keys and every other thing I've given you"

Jason stares at his dad for a few seconds and shakes his head.

He was no longer the teenager whom he always manipulated.

"As you wish" he throws the car keys to his father and walks away, leaving his father staring at his retreating back in utmost dismay.

*****

In the outskirts of Blue Gates town, Hailey wraps her arms around her huge baby bump as she makes her way towards the small cottage she had come across after walking for so long.

It was a deserted place. It looked like no one was around. Stopping in front of the door, she takes her right hand off her belly and rakes her fingers through her hair, searching for a bobby pin. Finding one, she pulls it out, inserts it into the keyhole a few times, and then she hears the click sound. Twisting the doorknob, it opens and she strolls in shutting the door behind, praying silently the owner of the cottage wouldn't show up anytime soon.

Hopefully, they wouldn't find her here.

Hailey stares around in the small room. It looked like it hadn't been used for a while.

Without bothering to search for the light switch, she squints her eyes and makes her way towards the bed, the heaviness in her abdomen getting stronger by the minute.

Propping herself carefully on the bed, her eyelids flutter close and soon she falls into one of the best sleep she'd ever had for the last eight years

*****

It was almost 4 pm when Jason finally spotted his cottage from a distance. Heaving a sigh of relief he makes his way towards the cottage as he fumbles for his keys. Finding it, he inserts it into the keyhole and opens it.

He sighs again as he takes off his shoes, black tuxedo and tosses them onto the floor. His hand roams the cold wall for the switch and when he finds it, he turns the light on.

An image instantly caught his vision and he screamed.

"What the hell!!!!!"

There, on his cozy little bed was a woman. Or should he say a lady? A pretty pregnant Lady asleep, her hair covering half of her face.

"What the hell!!!" He yells again and the Lady stirs.

How the hell did she get in?

***

"What the hell?!!" The deep voice rings in Hailey's ears as she desperately forces her eyes open.

She opens them and in front of her stood the most gorgeous man glaring at her.

Damn! The fact that he had braided his hair in locs and let it fall across his shoulders in waves made him hotter.

Damn! This guy is fine.

Before she could ogle some more, the handsome man screams at her again.

"Uhh... S..sorry... I just needed a place to stay and I found your cottage. I've nowhere to go" she stutters

"This isn't a place for stray dogs woman!" He snaps.

Ouch! That was rude.

"S..sorry. I will just go" Hailey sighs in defeat as she steps down from the bed and makes her way out. She barely made it to the door when she suddenly felt warm liquid trickling down her legs.

She looks down.

Did she just pee on herself?

Before she could think more, a painful contraction hits her and she screams clutching her belly.

Jason who was making his way towards the bathroom turns when he hears her scream.

Oh for heaven's sake! He grumbles as he makes his way towards her.

****

TWENTY MINUTES LATER.

Jason was sweating profusely now. The lady was screaming almost every minute now and he didn't know what to do.

He couldn't take her to the clinic because his car was now gone. And he couldn't possibly carry her on his back all the way to town which was about 4hours away.

Oh, Lord! What to do!

An idea suddenly occurs to him and he grabs his phone, dialing Alex's number.

"Alex?"

"Dude... There's fire on the mountain. Your dad won't stop raining insults on me demanding I tell him where you are and..." Alex begins to rant on...

"Shut up Alexander! I need help. There's a pregnant lady in my cottage who's in labor. I don't have a car. And I can't leave her alone and go to town in search of a cab!"

"Oh shit! Is she in real pain? Did her water break already?"

Jason glances at Hailey who was sweating and groaning

"Yes, almost twenty minutes ago"

"Look Jason you guys are far from town right now. I'm letting someone call an ambulance right now... But for now, we have one option" Alex says

"Which is?"

"You deliver her"

Jason's eyes grow wide as the words sink in. He stares at the lady who was groaning in pain. She looked like she was in real pain but him? Jason Michaels? Deliver a woman? That was a pretty bad joke.

"What? No! I can't!!" he shrieks

"Yes, you can Jason. Unless you want both mother and child to die"

"Of course not Alex. I.."

"Then do it. I'm searching through the internet so you better get your shit together and get ready. We don't have time" Alex instructs.

Jason swallows hard... He couldn't do this. What If the baby was too slippery and fell off his hand and died? No!

"Oh, God it hurts!" Hailey groans again and he gulps.

Oh, Sweet, baby Jesus, pour me your anointing today.

He prays.