The following morning, Darien was woken up by the ring of his phone. Without waking from the bed, his hand searched for his phone. When he found it, he pressed on the power button and hang up the call. The call came again and again until he end up answering it. "What?!" Darien hissed. "I an sorry boss but please Mr. Yankee is here again. He is causing trouble." Darien frown his brow and glanced at time. "It's 6:10 Jerry." Darien lamented with his obviously annoyed tone. "Yes but he is here with a lot of people and they are really catching attention with their trouble." Darien's assistant told. Darien sighed. "Okay I'm on my way." Darien said and ended the call. The placed the phone down and stared at the sleeping Beryl. She looked like an angel. He kissed her hair before stepping out of the bed. He got prepared to leave for work and when he was all done, he gave the still sleeping Beryl a kiss before leaving.
Beryl woke up at eleven and she was so troubled. What will Neves think of her? She sighed and stood out from bed. To her horror, her body couldn't stand straight. She was limping. 'How she go out like this?' She cursed Darien in her head. She went into the bathroom and took her bathe. She was so embarrassed to go out but her stomach won't stop grumbling. She made her way downstairs to the kitchen hoping that Neves wasn't there. But to her great dismay, Neves was at the kitchen. "You are awake." Neves smiled. "I'm sorry. I slept too late." Beryl apologised. "It okay. I'm cheering for you. Just hope it won't take too long before I welcome my grandchild." Beryl frown her brow at the woman's words. Her mind hadn't drift to that part before. "Here..." eat these bananas while I will reheat your breakfast for you." Neves said handing her a plate of cut bananas. "No...thank you. I can do it." "I know you can do it but I want to pamper you while you are here." Neves insisted. "Please aunt, I should be the one to pamper you..." "What did you just call me?..."She interrupted Beryl. Beryl went mute for awhile. Yesterday at the end of their conversation, Neves insisted for Beryl to call her mom and Beryl reluctantly agreed. "Mom." Beryl answered realising her mistake of calling her aunt. "Good... now eat these while you wait for me to finish reheating the food."
Darien came back at two in the afternoon. Beryl was watching television with Neves in the living room. He came forward and kissed Beryl's forehead. At first Beryl was taken aback but she brushed it off telling herself the man was only putting up an act in front of his mother. Darien went and did same to his mom. We were waiting for you. Hurry up change for us to have lunch together. " Darien nodded his head and went upstairs.
When he came back in shorts and a white round t-shirt, the women had already set the table. Beryl served the food and when they started eating, Neves brought up a conversation. "So tell me, when are you getting married?" The food almost came out of Beryl's nose at the question. "Mom I haven't even proposed yet. You should relaxed. We won't break up... I will make sure of that." Beryl frown her brow. 'What did he mean by that?' Beryl questioned inwardly. "How are you going to do that huh, with how bad you are at pampering women?" Neves scolded. She turned to Beryl and added, "don't mind my son. I will go to the jewelry shop with you to get a perfect ring for you...." "No...it okay. I'm not in hurry." Neves frown. "Why are you not in a hurry. Don't you want to marry my son? Don't you love him?" Neves asked again. "No...mom...it's not like that. It hasn't been long since we started going out. We need to know each other more before we proceed to the next stage." Beryl explained. Neves sighed. "But atleast he needs to secure you while you are at it. We need to get you a ring to show that you have already been taken." Beryl sighed helplessly. She knew the woman was stubborn and will only allow things to go her way. "Ok...okay". "By the way mom we will be leaving after supper." Darien told. "Can't you wait till tomorrow?" Neves grumbled. "You can just come over to the villa and take her to the shop." Darien suggested. Neves sighed before agreeing. After their meal, Sarien informed Beryl that someone wanted to talk to her. He took out phone and made video call. When the call went thorough, it was a doctor. Beryl frowned. "Is everything alright. Where is my brother?" She questioned seeing the doctor Darien had introduced her as the one taking care of her brother. "Everything is fine Ms Blandford. Your brother wants to talk to you that's why I called. He is here so I will hand over the phone.
Beryl's eyes quickly welled up seeing her recovering little brother. Though he look all good but it was better than before when he was always pale and sleeping.
"Hey Lian. How are feeling?" She asked with a big smile on her face. " "Sis I'm okay now. Can you please come and take me away? I don't want to stay here any long." Julian complained with a pout. Beryl laughed a little. "You must stay and recover fully Lian. You don't want to become sick again and make sis sad and worried all over." "No" Julian shook his head. "Then be a good boy and focus on getting much better hmm?" "Okay sis." "That's it. I love you to the moon and back" "I love you to the moon and back."
After the call, Beryl was smiled widely even though tears was filled in her eyes. "Thank you so much Darien. You don't know what this means to me." Beryl said. "Do I get a reward for being so thoughtful." Darien said with a proud smirk. Beryl smiled and sighed. She took a step forward, tiptoed and kissed him. If he would always be this thoughtful of her then she wouldn't mind giving in to his demands.
Darien wiped his arm around her waist and returned her kiss. They kissed for a while but but Darien suddenly broke the kiss before things spike out of control. "Are you alright?" Beryl asked. "Yes. Just that I am not that heartless. You still need to rest from our last night work out. And not can't promise I will let you rest tonight so you better door it now. Come and let's take a nap." He carried her to the bed laid them in his favourite position, the spooning position.
In the evening while they were driving their way back to the villa, Beryl remembered something and insisted for the driver to stop by a pharmacy. When he did, Darien want to go with her but she immediately rejected the idea. "Darien I'm not going to ran. You still have my brother with you." Darien thought maybe she wanted to buy some girly stuffs and she will be embarrassed if he tags along. He nodded head and Beryl quickly went out to the shop. She came back a few minutes after with a polythene bag and told the driver they could go.
When they arrived, Beryl went straight to the bathroom. She took three pregnancy test from the polythene bay and tested herself. She sighed in relief when all the three of them showed single red line. She placed them in the bin and went to take her bathand prepare for tomorrow. She was starting class tomorrow and she didn't want anything to go wrong on her first day.
Just as she finished arranging her things and zipped her bag, Darien came and hugged her from behind. He gathered her hair to one side and commenced to give her short kisses. "Darien stop we need to talk." Beryl said and turned to face him. The moment she did, Darien smashed his lips on hers. "Stop it or else we won't do it for the next two weeks." Beryl hissed hoping it will affect him. Fortunately he heeded to her, it worked. Darien quickly pulled away. "You won't ever do that." "Dare me." For the first time, Darien felt defeated. "What do you want us to talk about?" Beryl freed herself and placed some distance between them. "I am starting school tomorrow and I've thought about it. The number of time we do it should be reduced and you should also use protection. I can't afford to get pregnant while schooling. It was also not part of the contract." Darien was quiet for a while. He didn't see anything bad in what she was say but he did fell good about something she said. 'Maybe it was the reduction of number of times they do it.' "Okay. From now onwards instead of five I will make it three. Beryl sighed and shook her head. "I went to the pharmacy and bought some protection." Darien's felt disappointed. "Hmmm..." I will go and take my bath.
When he went bathroom, he eyes landed on two PT in the bin. His heart beat fast as he picked them up. His disappointment rised to it's peck when he saw both of them had only one red line. He place them back and walked out of Beryl's room to his own room. He sat on the bed and ruffled his head. He couldn't understand why he was angry. She was only being cautious. He went to the bathroom and took a cold shower. He came back in a sleeping wear and laid on his bed. He wanted to sleep alone. He closed his eyes to sleep but after almost an hour of toss and turns on the bed he gave up. He stood up and groaned in annoyance. He stood out of the bed and made his way to Beryl's room. He slowly opened the door and locked it from behind after entering the room. He laid behind Beryl, embracing and inhaling her soothing scent. He gave her a good night kiss before comfortably drifting if to sleep.
The next morning after they were all set to go, they walked to the BMW. "Darien can we use less expensive car. This will really catch a lot of attention." "I'm using this car because I know you don't want attention. Get in. You'll be late." Darien told and Beryl sighed. They embarked the car and when they were three blocks away from Yale, Beryl told them to drop her off but Darien refused making them stop right in front of the school. Beryl became annoyed. She was about to disembark from the car but Darien stopped her. "A kiss before you leave." Beryl frown her brow and tried to ignore him but Darien won't let her go. He knew the man was stubborn so she leaned in and gave him a quick kiss. Only after that did Darien allow her to leave.
The moment she stepped out, what she was trying to avoid was staring right at her. People were looking at her from all angles. She ignored them all and walked inside the school. She followed the direction and was able to go to her class. She glanced around to find an empty. The only empty seat was at the first row. She sighed. She was already finding trouble ignoring the eyes that were gazing at her. "Hello." She greeted the girl who seated beside the empty desk. "Hi." The girl responded. "Please is this desk free?" Beryl asked. "Yes, it's free." "Thanks." Beryl smiled and took her seat. Soon after a teacher walked in. "Good morning class". He greeted. "Good morning sir." His eyes analyse the pupils until it landed on Beryl. He smiled "Young lady please come and introduced yourself." Beryl was taken aback. When did this come in. 'Was it crucial?" Beryl slowly went forward and introduced herself. "Hello. Please I am Beryl Blandford. Nice meeting you all." She turn and smiled at the teacher wanting to know if she needed to add something else. The teacher smiled back and nodded for her to sit. When she was seated the class began.
They sat for six hours. While ICT took three hours, elective maths also took another three hours. She wasn't all that hungry and she didn't even have a meal card so she went to the library. She took out her jotter and started to revise. Her next class was in an hour later so she had quite some time. Minutes after into her revision, she heard someone greeted. "Hello". She lifted up her head and found a familiar face. "Hey." She responded. "Can I sit with you?" He asked. "Yh why not?" The guy smiled and took the seat opposite her. "Because of your guards interruption we couldn't even introduce ourselves. I'm Danielle Ekwins." He said. I'm Beryl Blandford." She responded and returned to her books. "So what course are you offering?" "Computer Science." Beryl asked. "That's nice. I'm offering Computer Engineering."
Danielle replied. "Nice coincidence," Beryl cooed. "Yeah...Our courses are quite similar, I guess I'm gonna see you more often." Danielle said. 'Maybe' was Beryl's response. As they spoke three girls entered the library. Pearl and her minions, Lexy and Constance. "Pearl..." Lexy whispered. "...isn't that Danielle?" The three girls watched closely. "It's really Danielle. Who is he talking to? Pearl questioned. Constance chipped in. "That is Beryl Blandford, the new girl. She's offering Computer Science." Lexy fed them with information. "Why is she talking to Danielle? Why would Danielle prefer her company to mine? She looks like a loser?" Pearl poured out her displeasure. "You need to warn her, tell her that Danielle Ekwins is only yours." Constance said as they made their way towards the two.
Hello there, Pearl said when they got to the table. "Danielle, you forgot to introduce me to your new friend." Pearl said and Danielle sighed. "Beryl ,this is Pearl, Lexy and Constance." He said while pointing at each of them. "Nice meeting you." Beryl gave a little forced smile. "Nice meeting you too." Pearl responded and glanced at the time. "Danielle it 1:30 class time is up let's go." Pearl urged. "No...I will skip class today, I have an emergency to attend to in twenty minutes." Danielle replied. Three girls frown their brow. "Danielle you never skip class." "Everything has their first time." Danielle replied Pearl cursed Beryl in her head.
To Beryl surprise her last lectures ended at seven in the evening and when she was exiting the school, she saw Danielle talking some guys. She thought bidding good bye to him but she immediately rejected the idea. She didn't want to look like she was pushing herself on him. She began to to walk out but her name was mentioned, making her stop in her tracks. She forced a smile while turning to him. Just caught her right in time for her to escape. "Hey Danielle. You aren't gone yet." Beryl asked as if she was surprised to see him. "No...I just finished the emergency work. " He told. "Oh. That's good. I am heading home now soo... see you tomorrow..." She cooed. "I am heading home too. Your car will be waiting for you right?" Danielle questioned. "Yh." "Then let me escorts you to the park." "Okay."