“That one
was small. I was shocked. I stood and asked him what was wrong. He told me in
front of everybody that he is no longer interested in me. I asked him what I
did wrong. He said I am not the kind of girl he likes and that there was no way
he could marry me. I asked him why he did not say it all the times he was
sleeping with me. He told me I am stupid and turned to Kemi. She just stood
there with a smirk on her face. I asked her why she took my boyfriend from me.
She told me I am not woman enough and I am not good for him. She held Segun’s
hand and suggested that they leave and go to another salon.”
“Why will
segun do such a thing?”
“I was
heartbroken. Imagine, inside a salon, which is the generation centre of gossip.
I am finished. The girls there felt bad for me and rained abuses on them as
they left. I cried and sat back down. The guy doing my hair knew I was no
longer in the mood so he rushed the hair. My friend, Glory, who I went with,
paid for me and we left. My face was soaked with tears and I was barely seeing
my way. She chartered a cab and brought me home.”
“But girls
can be wicked o. Didn’t Kemi know he was your boyfriend?”
“How didn’t
she know? She saw him when he came to pick me up from the office when we
started dating.”
“But men
can be stupid at times. They date a girl, sleep with her for months and then
dump her for another girl.”
“Which
months? We have been dating for almost two years now.”
“You see?”
“By now,
the news has spread. How will I face my friends? How will I face my colleagues
at work on Monday? I am tired of all this. It has become a recurring decimal.
This is not the first time a guy will take advantage of me and break my heart,
neither is it the second.”
Cynthia
heaved a sigh and tears started flowing afresh.
“Now it is
my turn to console you,” Mabel said and managed a smile.
“I
understand what you have been going through.”
“It is
painful.”
“I am yet
to get over that rape incident. From time to time, the memories come up and I
feel the hurt afresh. Yet it is not a reason to kill yourself.”
“I am sorry
I tried to do that.”
“So what do
we do now?”
“I need
some time to get over it.”
“You will be
in church tomorrow right?”
“I don’t
know. I am not in the mood to go anywhere. I may even take excuse from work for
the whole of next week.
“aww. Big
sis. You should talk to mummy about it”
“No.”
“What about
pastor’s wife?”
“I will but
not yet.”
Cynthia
looked at the clock on the wall and said, “It’s getting late. I think I should
leave”
“Really?”
“Yes. Mummy
is alone in the house.”
She got up to leave, then stopped.
“What have
you eaten since morning?”
“No
appetite.”
“you need
to try and eat something.”
Cynthia
made to leave again then stopped.
“You
promise not to attempt suicide again?”
Mabel kept quiet. Cynthia was
puzzled. She noticed sadness on Mabel’s face.
“infact, I
am staying with you this night,” she told Mabel and dropped her hand bag.
“The
incident just flashed through my mind now.”
“I will
call mummy and tell her I have an all night program in church and will come
back tomorrow.”
She
picked her phone to dial her mum.
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