Juliet, the apple 🍎 of eyes

Greetings!

Juliet, our only and youngest daughter in the house, was the most cherished of the family. She was given birth after several attempts by our parents to have a female child but all to no avail. Our parents had given birth to five of us before God gave us Juliet.

We were all happy for the gift of Juliet to the family as before her birth into the family, we used to see those families that have female kids as a special family as we all in our family adore a female child, but since the arrival of Juliet, we all feel special as a family.

I could remember my dad shouting for joy when he heard the news that my mum had given birth to a baby girl, I could hear him saying on the phone,

“Wow! This is great news, I will be back today.”

Less I forget, my dad was not at home when my mum fell into labour and we were the one that took her to the hospital where she delivered safely to the family a bouncing beautiful baby girl.

Like I said earlier we were all happy and thank God, our dad came back from his business trip on the exact day he promised us to be back.

On the day of the naming ceremony, the older brothers to the new born baby girl were asked to submit names that would be given to the baby girl and thank God, the name I gave her was the name she was popularly called and that's, “Juliet.”

I and Juliet were very close and this was because I happened to be her immediate elder brother. Although every other person in the family was also close to her as she has many fathers aside from his biological father as we her brothers were automatically her father as well.

So, we all monitored her as she was growing up and thank God for our father who had handed her over to us and said,

“You boys, as you already know that I'm getting old, this beautiful daughter of ours is your daughter, make sure you take good care of her. I have handed her over to you all.”

After he had told us this at the family meeting he had called immediately we finished with the naming ceremony, we all said,

“Okay sir, we will take good care of her, just don't bother yourself sir and help us tell mummy not to stress herself too much.” “Thank you all,” he said.

After a while, Juliet was enrolled into the primary school and we were all monitoring her progress in the school, although, none of us had graduated from the university as our first born was in his last semester studying medicine in the college of health sciences in the university while the other two were in their 300 and 200l respectively.

I was the only one that was about to write his SSCE examination which means I was the one the rest of my brothers delegated the functions of fatherhood that our dad had previously delegated to us.

So, aside from paying her school fee, I was the one that used to look after her both at home and elsewhere.

My brothers used to call me to ask about how she was feeling and fairing in her education. Atimes they would send from the stipend given to them just for me to get things for Juliet and I can boldly tell us that it got to a point I was getting jealous of Juliet.

Fast forward, I sat for my exam and I passed after which I was admitted to the school of my choice to study microbiology, the course of my choice. Leaving Juliet behind was kind of difficult for me,but I had no choice than to do so.

I left Juliet with mummy and daddy but would always come home to check on them every weekend, after years in the school I graduated and thank God my brothers have also graduated and that was when we now had time to take care of Juliet.

Thank God Juliet was a brilliant lady and by this, she was double promoted on many occasions and this really fast tracked her education and before we knew it, she also got admitted into the university to study Law, her dream course.

Having spent 5 years in the university, she graduated with a first class after which she won a scholarship to the United states to do her master degree.

After her graduation from her master degree program, she decided to get married and when she brought her man to us, we were all happy and immediately I saw both of them, I hugged them and asked the guy to take good care of our sister for us which he promised to do.

However, as they were about to leave, something touched my mind and I asked Juliet saying

“Have you guys gone for your genotype test?” “No,” they both answered, “Haa, you both need to do so urgently,” I said. “We will,” they responded.

The following, Juliet called and her voice was kind of dull, I asked her,

“What happened?” She said, “We have went for the genotype test and we both tested to be AS.” “Haa, that means,”

Juliet would not even let me finish talking as she interrupted me saying that,

“I have asked people around and they say we can still get married as there's this kind of probability of not giving birth to SS.”

When I heard this, I told Juliet not to try it and narrated a friend ordeal to her and before I could finish telling her about this my friend ordeal, I had seen that I have been able to get her convinced and that was when he promised me to call her relationship with Abel quit citing the medical report.

Although it was so tough for her to call the relationship quit, but she told me she did and after like three months, she called that she had seen another guy and that they have both gone for the genotype test and that the guy tested AA and that was the end of her grief and now Juliet is happily married with kids and so also Abel, both families are now friends and I'm happy for both of them.

Thanks for reading.

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