DARKEST NIGHT A manuscript by Folasayo Awodumila Adaobi sat on the hospital bed tears still rolling down her face, and the echo of the doctors voice kept reoccurring in her head “Your womb is badly damaged and as such you won’t be able to bear children by yourself” Adaobi is just sixteen, she just finished her Secondary School Education working towards her jamb to secure an admission into the University. Adaobi’s mum is a single mum, she has been the only support system Adaobi knew from when she could speak; Njidika, Adaobis mum struggled to give her child the best, she took various jobs just to sustain her and her beloved daughter. They lived in a one bedroom apartment in the axis of Surulere in Lagos State. Njidika was a very beautiful woman who had many suitors around her but chose to remain the way she was because she loved Adaobi’s dad, who died in a ghastly motor accident, she found it hard lov