Episode 34
I was expecting to hear people talking when I exited
the bathroom but I heard no sound. I saw Oge on
the bed with her phone.
“Who was on the door?” I asked entering the room.
Just then I saw Precious sitting on my reading
table staring at me. I was surprised seeing her. I
didn’t know she was back not to talk of expecting
her in my house. As a matter of fact, she told me
she hasn’t made up her mind on when to come
back just a day before.
“Precious? When did you come back?” I asked
breaking the tensed atmosphere in the room.
She didn’t say a word to me rather she kept staring
at me tears forming in her eyes. After a while of not
saying anything, she stood up and picked her bag.
Turning to Oge she said.
“I’m going to leave the two of you to continue
whatever you were doing. But let me warn you for
the very last time. Don’t come back here again. He
is my boyfriend and I can’t share him with you”
“Did you just warn me? Do you think I’m still in first
year? Lemme tell you, nothing is happening between
us yet so don’t start fretting. I didn’t know you guys
where still together. No wonder he has been acting
all good boy. But let me tell you, I’m no longer that
little innocent girl you scared away in first year. I
have come to stay. Consider it that I’m taking back
what is mine” she said standing from the bed and
walking towards Precious.
“Hey! You guys should stop ok. Precious sit down
and you Oge sit back down” I said coming between
Oge who was already approaching Precious.
“Don’t tell me to sit down. Who does she think she
is? You think you are the only one from a rich
family? I’m from one too. Is it because I
succumbed to her threat in first year? The truth is
that I have been waiting for this day to come. I
have been waiting for this moment to take back
what is mine.” Oge said with a raised voice.
Precious just stood at the door looking at her. She
was just calm. Oge was fuming. I managed to
calm Oge down and she went back to the bed.
While I took Precious out. I had a lot of questions
to ask the both of them, but I needed to get the two
of them out of each other’s sight.
“When did you come back and why didn’t you call
to let me know you are coming?” I asked Precious
when we were outside.
She ignored me and kept walking down.
“I’m talking to you” I said dragging her back gently.
She turned and said nothing. After looking at me for
some seconds she dragged her hand off mine,
turned and started walking down again.
“Fine, if this is the way you want it then its ok” I
said as we walked side by side down.
When we got to the junction, I hailed a cab for her
but she told the cab to leave.
“You want to trek down to school?”
“Is this what you have been doing behind my back?”
she asked ignoring my question.
“Thought you didn’t want to talk to me”
“Why that girl of all girls?” she asked with her teary
eyes.
“Precious we have a lot to talk about. But before
then I want you to go back to your hostel and rest. I
will come around later. And for the records, there is
nothing going on between us.”
“Don’t take me for a fool. Nothing is going on
between the both of you and she said all that? What
do you think I am, a kid?”
“We are in public, let’s talk about this later. And
don’t raise your voice at me in public again for any
reason whatsoever” I said and led her to a cab that
just discharged its passenger. I paid the cab man
and went back to my house.
“What was the meaning of all those things you said
to Precious” I asked Oge immediately I entered my
room.
“You heard it as it sounds” she said not looking up
from her phone.
“Oge I want you to tell me the truth, what happened
between you and Precious when we were in first
year. Was she the cause of our break-up? What is it
about threat that you just said? Did she threaten you
back then?” I asked sitting beside her on the bed.
“Purity, she is your girlfriend, if you need answers
go and ask her.” She said and stood up from the
bed heading to the bathroom. After bathing she
came out and dressed up ready to leave. I saw her
off and came back to think.
I needed answers.
“Did Precious threaten Oge to leave me in our first
year?”
“Was that why Oge said that she already left before
I broke off the relationship?”
“Why would Precious threaten her while she already
told me that she had a boyfriend then?”
“And what does Oge mean by saying she is back to
take what belongs to her?”
I kept rolling on my thoughts. I couldn’t think of
anything as my mind was just scattered. I sat up
on the bed still thinking. I didn’t know what to do
when I had so much to think about.
I went to my fridge and poured a cup full of Mc
Dowel, downed it in two gulps and went back to the
bed to know if sleep could take over me. I
expected the drink to start taking effect after a
while but it wasn’t even like I took anything. I
needed to drink to be able to think at least in one
direction for a moment.
I dressed up, picked my wallet from my table and
left for school. I located an empty space at a
corner inside 11:45 bar and ordered for some
bottles of Harp beer.
Within an hour I took five bottles of harp but my
mind was still not at rest. I ordered for another
three bottles making it eight bottles.
Half way down the seventh bottle, I was already
drunk but still a little conscious of the environment.
I noticed a lady, beautiful, not so endowed, on an
eye glass I suspected to be medicated with a face
cap and a beautiful smile walking towards me with
a tray of food.
“Hi! Can I join you if you don’t mind?” she asked
flashing a beautiful and charming smile.
“Yea, sure. Make yourself comfortable” I replied
taking a sip from my cup.
She settled into the sit opposite mine in the table
and started munching her food while I surveyed her
with my drunken eyes.
“Oh! My bad, please come and join me” she said
with that smile still plastered on her face.
“Don’t worry, enjoy” I smiled back.
“Wow! You must be good with bottles to still be
able to stand on the seventh bottle” she said
looking at the bottles and back to my face.
“You think so? What makes you think that I’m
good” I asked dropping my cup on the table.
“I know some guys that will sleep off on their
second bottle” she answered smiling. Her smile is
just something else. I don’t know if it was my
drunken mind that was telling me that.
“But don’t you think you have had enough already?”
she continued.
I laughed and looked at her. She held my gaze,
staring me in the eyes still with her smile.
“Can you drink?” I asked ignoring her question.
“Yes I can, if I’m in the mood to. But just know that
you haven’t answered my question smart boy” she
replied laughing.
The sound of her laughter was just as beautiful as
her smile.
“Like what puts you in the mood to drink?”
“I drink when I’m sad, when I’m with friends and
want to go wild. But I drink mostly when I get
emotionally messed up” she said taking a spoon
full of rice into her mouth. I kept mute watching her
chew the food gently like nothing worries her.
“So how often do you get emotionally messed up?
Like…. Ok let me rephrase. Have you ever been
emotionally messed up?” I asked.
“Who has not?” she replied laughing. “Yes I have
been but, that’s a very long time ago”
We kept talking while she ate. I opened the last
bottle on the table and poured some into my cup. I
watched as she finished her food, pushed the tray
aside and picked a saviet to wipe her lips.
After she did those after the meal rituals, she
stretched her hand and carried my cup. In one swift
gulp she emptied the cup and dropped it back to
my bewilderment.
“You never cared to invite me to drink with you so I
am taking it by force” she said with her smile not
leaving her face.
She asked the bar man for another glass cup and
poured a cup full for herself. She knocked her cup
to mine and said “cheers” raising her own up.
“Now we are drinking together, now we are friends
so tell me, who messed you up emotionally?what is
it that borders you?”
“What makes you think that I’m bordered or messed
up emotionally? Do I look like someone that can be
messed up by anybody?” I asked laughing.
The alcohol was already taking its toll on me but I
still managed to control myself.
“Nobody is above being messed up emotionally.
Most times we don’t ask for it but it comes” she
replied sipping from her cup.
“Have you ever been in love? I mean like have you
ever loved someone?” I asked. The reason for
asking her that question, I don’t know. I was just
asking her anything that crossed my mind.
“Yup I have, but that was a long time ago, why?”
she retorted.
“Nothing, just a random question” I replied.
“Now tell me, what is it that is eating you up
making you take solace in drinking?” she asked
looking at me.
“My story is kinda complicated and messed up in
itself, so let me not bother you with the long epistle
of my complicated story”
“I have all the time in the world and I think I’m
intelligent enough to understand your complicated
story so give me a trial” she said.
I laughed when she said that and pulled out my
phone from my pocket. That was the last thing I
remembered.
To Be Continued…
the bathroom but I heard no sound. I saw Oge on
the bed with her phone.
“Who was on the door?” I asked entering the room.
Just then I saw Precious sitting on my reading
table staring at me. I was surprised seeing her. I
didn’t know she was back not to talk of expecting
her in my house. As a matter of fact, she told me
she hasn’t made up her mind on when to come
back just a day before.
“Precious? When did you come back?” I asked
breaking the tensed atmosphere in the room.
She didn’t say a word to me rather she kept staring
at me tears forming in her eyes. After a while of not
saying anything, she stood up and picked her bag.
Turning to Oge she said.
“I’m going to leave the two of you to continue
whatever you were doing. But let me warn you for
the very last time. Don’t come back here again. He
is my boyfriend and I can’t share him with you”
“Did you just warn me? Do you think I’m still in first
year? Lemme tell you, nothing is happening between
us yet so don’t start fretting. I didn’t know you guys
where still together. No wonder he has been acting
all good boy. But let me tell you, I’m no longer that
little innocent girl you scared away in first year. I
have come to stay. Consider it that I’m taking back
what is mine” she said standing from the bed and
walking towards Precious.
“Hey! You guys should stop ok. Precious sit down
and you Oge sit back down” I said coming between
Oge who was already approaching Precious.
“Don’t tell me to sit down. Who does she think she
is? You think you are the only one from a rich
family? I’m from one too. Is it because I
succumbed to her threat in first year? The truth is
that I have been waiting for this day to come. I
have been waiting for this moment to take back
what is mine.” Oge said with a raised voice.
Precious just stood at the door looking at her. She
was just calm. Oge was fuming. I managed to
calm Oge down and she went back to the bed.
While I took Precious out. I had a lot of questions
to ask the both of them, but I needed to get the two
of them out of each other’s sight.
“When did you come back and why didn’t you call
to let me know you are coming?” I asked Precious
when we were outside.
She ignored me and kept walking down.
“I’m talking to you” I said dragging her back gently.
She turned and said nothing. After looking at me for
some seconds she dragged her hand off mine,
turned and started walking down again.
“Fine, if this is the way you want it then its ok” I
said as we walked side by side down.
When we got to the junction, I hailed a cab for her
but she told the cab to leave.
“You want to trek down to school?”
“Is this what you have been doing behind my back?”
she asked ignoring my question.
“Thought you didn’t want to talk to me”
“Why that girl of all girls?” she asked with her teary
eyes.
“Precious we have a lot to talk about. But before
then I want you to go back to your hostel and rest. I
will come around later. And for the records, there is
nothing going on between us.”
“Don’t take me for a fool. Nothing is going on
between the both of you and she said all that? What
do you think I am, a kid?”
“We are in public, let’s talk about this later. And
don’t raise your voice at me in public again for any
reason whatsoever” I said and led her to a cab that
just discharged its passenger. I paid the cab man
and went back to my house.
“What was the meaning of all those things you said
to Precious” I asked Oge immediately I entered my
room.
“You heard it as it sounds” she said not looking up
from her phone.
“Oge I want you to tell me the truth, what happened
between you and Precious when we were in first
year. Was she the cause of our break-up? What is it
about threat that you just said? Did she threaten you
back then?” I asked sitting beside her on the bed.
“Purity, she is your girlfriend, if you need answers
go and ask her.” She said and stood up from the
bed heading to the bathroom. After bathing she
came out and dressed up ready to leave. I saw her
off and came back to think.
I needed answers.
“Did Precious threaten Oge to leave me in our first
year?”
“Was that why Oge said that she already left before
I broke off the relationship?”
“Why would Precious threaten her while she already
told me that she had a boyfriend then?”
“And what does Oge mean by saying she is back to
take what belongs to her?”
I kept rolling on my thoughts. I couldn’t think of
anything as my mind was just scattered. I sat up
on the bed still thinking. I didn’t know what to do
when I had so much to think about.
I went to my fridge and poured a cup full of Mc
Dowel, downed it in two gulps and went back to the
bed to know if sleep could take over me. I
expected the drink to start taking effect after a
while but it wasn’t even like I took anything. I
needed to drink to be able to think at least in one
direction for a moment.
I dressed up, picked my wallet from my table and
left for school. I located an empty space at a
corner inside 11:45 bar and ordered for some
bottles of Harp beer.
Within an hour I took five bottles of harp but my
mind was still not at rest. I ordered for another
three bottles making it eight bottles.
Half way down the seventh bottle, I was already
drunk but still a little conscious of the environment.
I noticed a lady, beautiful, not so endowed, on an
eye glass I suspected to be medicated with a face
cap and a beautiful smile walking towards me with
a tray of food.
“Hi! Can I join you if you don’t mind?” she asked
flashing a beautiful and charming smile.
“Yea, sure. Make yourself comfortable” I replied
taking a sip from my cup.
She settled into the sit opposite mine in the table
and started munching her food while I surveyed her
with my drunken eyes.
“Oh! My bad, please come and join me” she said
with that smile still plastered on her face.
“Don’t worry, enjoy” I smiled back.
“Wow! You must be good with bottles to still be
able to stand on the seventh bottle” she said
looking at the bottles and back to my face.
“You think so? What makes you think that I’m
good” I asked dropping my cup on the table.
“I know some guys that will sleep off on their
second bottle” she answered smiling. Her smile is
just something else. I don’t know if it was my
drunken mind that was telling me that.
“But don’t you think you have had enough already?”
she continued.
I laughed and looked at her. She held my gaze,
staring me in the eyes still with her smile.
“Can you drink?” I asked ignoring her question.
“Yes I can, if I’m in the mood to. But just know that
you haven’t answered my question smart boy” she
replied laughing.
The sound of her laughter was just as beautiful as
her smile.
“Like what puts you in the mood to drink?”
“I drink when I’m sad, when I’m with friends and
want to go wild. But I drink mostly when I get
emotionally messed up” she said taking a spoon
full of rice into her mouth. I kept mute watching her
chew the food gently like nothing worries her.
“So how often do you get emotionally messed up?
Like…. Ok let me rephrase. Have you ever been
emotionally messed up?” I asked.
“Who has not?” she replied laughing. “Yes I have
been but, that’s a very long time ago”
We kept talking while she ate. I opened the last
bottle on the table and poured some into my cup. I
watched as she finished her food, pushed the tray
aside and picked a saviet to wipe her lips.
After she did those after the meal rituals, she
stretched her hand and carried my cup. In one swift
gulp she emptied the cup and dropped it back to
my bewilderment.
“You never cared to invite me to drink with you so I
am taking it by force” she said with her smile not
leaving her face.
She asked the bar man for another glass cup and
poured a cup full for herself. She knocked her cup
to mine and said “cheers” raising her own up.
“Now we are drinking together, now we are friends
so tell me, who messed you up emotionally?what is
it that borders you?”
“What makes you think that I’m bordered or messed
up emotionally? Do I look like someone that can be
messed up by anybody?” I asked laughing.
The alcohol was already taking its toll on me but I
still managed to control myself.
“Nobody is above being messed up emotionally.
Most times we don’t ask for it but it comes” she
replied sipping from her cup.
“Have you ever been in love? I mean like have you
ever loved someone?” I asked. The reason for
asking her that question, I don’t know. I was just
asking her anything that crossed my mind.
“Yup I have, but that was a long time ago, why?”
she retorted.
“Nothing, just a random question” I replied.
“Now tell me, what is it that is eating you up
making you take solace in drinking?” she asked
looking at me.
“My story is kinda complicated and messed up in
itself, so let me not bother you with the long epistle
of my complicated story”
“I have all the time in the world and I think I’m
intelligent enough to understand your complicated
story so give me a trial” she said.
I laughed when she said that and pulled out my
phone from my pocket. That was the last thing I
remembered.
To Be Continued…
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