Episode 17
I woke up the next morning with serious headache, i had cried myself to sleep the previous night, i quickly adjusted my night dress and went to the mirror âahâ as expected my eyes were swollen, luckily i had no photoshoot nor show that day, even if i had, thanks to make-up, i wonât have any problem fixing it. But there is just one thing that i was dying to fix, which make-up cannot fix. My relationship with Kelvin.
Immediately the thought of him came to my mind, my phone rang and i checked the callerâs I.D and it turned out to be Vivian.
âhello Vâ i said wearily.
âyou donât sound too good any problem?â
i contempleted hiding the truth from her but i decided otherwise, i was dying to talk to someone about my problem and she and Dency were the only two people i could confide in and presently Dency wasnât even in the country, she had travelled for a photoshoot for the âVogue Africaâ magazine, so i decided to open up to Vivian
âHello, Becky are you still thereâ
Her voice made me snap out of my âthinking worldâ
âyeâŠyes Vâ
âgirl, talk to me whatâs eating you upâ
âcan we meet, itâs not something we can discuss over the phoneâ i said to her.
âIs it about Kel?â
âyeahâ
âcan i come with Kola since he knows Kel better than anyoneâ she asked me.
âno, i want it to be just you and iâ
âalright, Olive gardens by 5PM, will that be okay for youâ she enquired.
âyes, thanks Vâ
âyou are welcome and cheer up already, no matter the weight of the burden you are carrying try as much as possible to smile and sound enthusiastic.
âyes mummyâ i said playfully and smiled for the first time in 24 hours.
âdonât blame me, i donât want you to get wrinkles on your face so that your bride price will not reduceâ
âyou and bride price. wait until you give birth and your daughters get to a marriageable age before you start thinking about bride price, you hear?â
âitâs not bad to think ahead, early to bed, early to rise â
I heard Kelvinâs horn blaring at the gate.
âthanks for calling Vâ
âwhat are sisters for?â
âsee you laterâ
âand you tooâ she replied and ended the call.
I rushed into the bathroom as i didnât want to see Kelvin, i didnât even know how to look at him knowing fully well he was just coming back from an outing with one of his mistress, i didnât want to cry in his presence.
I was in the bathroom when i heard the door open and then i heard him calling someone and telling whoever it was that he has arrived home and he was exhausted after the long night.
I sat down there crying my eyes out, i just couldnât phantom how a perfect relationship like ours which lacked nothing could go bad just like that, i searched and searched my memory to see if along the line i had done something bad that would warrant this kind of treatment but i got nothing.
After some minutes of thinking, i wiped my tears and took a cold shower and came out of the bathroom.
I met him lying down still in the clothes he wore out yesterday.
He just looked at me and murmured âgood morning babyâ
i felt my hands going numb and i was battling with the tears that were threatening to come out of my eyes.
This wasnât my love, this wasnât my Kelvin not even close.
The Kelvin i knew or i once thought i knew can never resist the sight of me in my short towel.
As of last month he would have been looking at me hungrily but now he just glanced at me and looked away.
âHow was the meetingâ i managed to say.
âIt was fineâ he simply said and layed down properly.
âso tell me how did itâŠ.â
he cut me off âcanât you tell just by looking at me that it was exhausting, please let me sleep, i didnât sleep well last nightâ he said with a note of finality and adjusted himself on the bed.
Hot tears began pouring down my eyes. He didnât even look at me when he heard me crying not to talk of even comforting me.
âV, hope i didnât keep you waiting for too longâ i asked vivian as i came to her table.
5PM had come sooner than i expected, i had been too broken, too busy crying that i hadnât even realized that it was already time. I even had to put on sunglasses as i didnât want anybodyâs sympathy or side looks.
ânah, but i must say you looks gorgeous in that shape fattering gownâ
âyou donât also look bad in your baggy gownâ i complimented her and she frowned.
She called a waiter and ordered drink for both of us.
âHow is workâ she asked me, gently sipping her fruit juice.
ânot as bad as my enemies wished meâ i said dryly.
âstop being like that, nobody is wishing you badâ
âi wish soâ i replied her.
âthe always optimistic Becky being pessimistic, that means itâs a serious problemâ she tried to joke but i wasnât in that mood
i kept quiet and she continued âBecky you can always talk to me whatâs the problemâ
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