EPISODE 12
I checked and it was Kike again, Cynthia reached the phone before I did and switched it off.
“Let’s go in Femi, I am already feeling drowsy”
She slept in the room while I slept in the sitting room because the apartment had just a room to sleep in; the other room was a storage room. I couldn’t eat anything that night as thoughts kept running through my mind on how to ensure Cynthia’s mother is buried properly.
I imagined her taking odd jobs in the university to pay her tuition fee, and struggling to feed her mother at the same time and pitied her. She must have gone through a lot but she did not show it: her appearance was always calm and alluring. "How did she cope all these years by herself? How did she study micro-biology without any help?" I thought and concluded that God must have sent me into her life to help her.
She came to the sitting room after sleeping for about two hours, and I looked at her properly for the first time. She is not just some spoilt girl trying to flirt with a married man; she is a strong girl trying to take care of those that matter in her life.
“Femi?”
“Yes,” I said getting up from the three-seater chair I was sleeping in.
“I just finished calling my mom’s sister, she said the burial will take place in Calabar so we have to move her to Calabar after discharging her from the hospital,” she said looking sad
“What do you want me to do?” I said before I could stop myself
“I need money to discharge her from the hospital and to perform the burial rite in the village”
“How much are we talking about here?” I said again. It seemed strange that I made that response automatically as if I was been programmed and I never questioned my behavior.
“I will need about five hundred thousand, I am not asking you to give me everything; you have been nice to me already,” she said quickly.
“Don’t worry Cynthia; I have three hundred and forty-five thousand naira here. I am sorry I can’t give you more, you just have to manage that”
“Oh, Femi! I love you so much” she said and jumped into my hands. I never resisted her, what happened that night opened door to tragedy and now I wished I had never set my eyes on Cynthia.
We had sex that night, sex with Cynthia was like nothing I have ever had with Kike and it was as if it woke a demon in me. We had sex twice before daybreak, by the time we did it the second time I had lost all sense of reasoning.
Cynthia left me in the sitting room where the sex to place to clean up, I didn’t have the energy to stand so I sat on the floor till she came back.
“Was it good?” she asked with a smile in her eyes.
I looked up and returned her smile “Yes, it was good”
“Better than the one you have been having with Kike?”
“Better” I answered nodding my head as I spoke.
“That is why you should leave her and come to me,” Cynthia said smiling at me.
I looked up at her that instance and it was as if I completely forgot everything about Kike, I couldn’t even remember what she looked like.
“Who is Kike?” I said looking lost.
To be continued…
Oluwa oooooo!!!
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