I was just telling a friend that fate sometimes just plays
weird games with people’s lives. Actually, I say this all the time sometimes as
a joke but sometimes, I believe I mean it judging by stuffs that happen
sometimes.
This man [let’s call him Mark shall we?] had dated this lady
[errr... Mandy] for a while and they broke up. More than a year later, she
turned up with a 10 months old baby boy that somewhat looked like the man and
told him she didn’t want to tell him that she was pregnant because he had made
it clear to her that he wasn’t in the relationship for marriage. In fact, if
you knew the man, and you saw the child, you would be convinced it was his. To
even make it more convincing, the boy was born with a mole slightly above his
left eye and the man’s second son [he is separated from his wife] had a mole
there too when he was born. The man didn’t tell anyone this but somehow just
believed the boy was his.
Now here is where the problem lies. Mark already has four
kids from his marriage and never ‘played without ‘protection’. So even when
Mandy turned up with a child that looked a lot like him, he accepted the child
but wondered how it happened. Did she harvest his sperm? He was sure that was
what she did but why would a woman of her status do that? And you know it means
she took a used condom and what? Very very strange isn’t it? Or did she quickly
rush to a hospital..... What would that make her? Was she that desperate? Bottom
line, it just didn’t make sense. And this drove Mark insane. What was her
response when he asked her? ‘Look at that boy and tell me he is not your son’.
She refused to talk about it all. So he decided to take the paternity test. Just
to be sure. Yes the boy looked like him, had a mole that looked like the one
his son has but he had dated this lady for a few months and the few times they
had sex, he used condoms.
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So he told her, he wanted to do a DNA test. Was she
against it? Not really. She believed he wouldn’t go through with it. It is a rather
expensive test. More than a hundred thousand Naira. Why would he waste such
funds? He was already taking care of the child. But Mark wanted a DNA test that
would prove to him that he was indeed the boy’s dad. Then he can be sure that
his sperm was harvested. And probably form an opinion about women. Someone
would hear the story and write a circular informing men to dispose their
condoms and stuff and pass it round on Blackberry Messenger and Facebook.
*rolling my eyes*
