FED UP!

(…continued…)

While they were still talking back and forth, Kemi entered. She didn’t waste time in walking briskly towards the table where Segun was. Mabel saw her and braced herself. Margret pinched her again.

  “Stop doing that,” Mabel told Margret. “You will wound me.”

  “Who invited her here?” Margret asked Segun.

  “I did. I told her where I was.”

  “Why?”

  “We were supposed to see like thirty minutes ago but you insisted I remained here.”

                Kemi came close and touched Segun’s shoulder passionately with her right hand, stroking his hair and ear with the left hand.

  “Baby you kept me waiting,” she said with such a voice as to make Mabel jealous. “What’s going on here?”

  “Who invited you here?” Margret asked her.

  “My boo did. What is happening here?”

  “Can’t you see I am chatting with my brother? Can you excuse us.”

  “And what is she doing here?” Kemi asked, pointing at Mabel.

                Mabel moved her chair backwards to get up but Margret held her down by her thigh. All the pinching and nudging were going on under the table so only the two of them knew what was going on.

  “You are a fool,” Mabel said to Kemi. Then she turned to Margret and said, “I can’t take this anymore.” She turned to Coker and said, “Let’s leave.”

                Coker gave her a sign to calm down. He sat still, waiting to know what would happen next.

  “If Segun chooses this one that entered, then it is over between him and Mabel” Coker’s brother whispered to him.  “Maybe I could then stand a chance.”

  “shhh,” Coker told him.

                All the while, Segun just looked on without saying a word.

  “Baby let us go,” Kemi told him.

                Segun looked at Margret as though he was waiting for her permission. She just sat there eyeing Kemi.

  “Are you waiting for her permission?” Kemi said, pointing at Margret.

  “Sugar, wait for me outside. I will soon join you.”

  “You want to go back to this witch you left?”

                Mabel let go of the ice cream plate she was carrying and it landed on kemi’s face and overturned on her body.

  “O My Gosh!” Kemi said and approached Mabel. Before she could do anything, Margret got up and slapped her. The sound of the slap reverberated through the eatery. Everyone turned to watch the action. Margret pulled Mabel behind her and stood directly in front of Kemi. Kemi was in a rage. She wanted to fight but Segun held her back.

  “All of you are witches,” she said.

                Margret slapped her again.

  “Will you stop that!”Segun said.

  “Allow me beat all of them,” Kemi told him. “Oohm baby leave me to teach them a lesson.”

                Margret made to slap her a third time but Segun held her hand.

  “I said it is enough,” he said, angrily.

  “Let me go,” Margret said as Segun still held her hand.

                Coker and his brother came close and made sure there was a separation.

  “This is a public place,” Coker said. “We can’t be creating such scenes here.”

  “Let’s leave,” Segun said to Kemi as he pulled her away.

  “Take this slut and husband snatcher away from here,” Margret said as they retreated.

                At the door, one of the female workers offered to help clean Kemi up.

  “We don’t have time for that,” Segun said.

  “Wait I need to clean this mess,” Kemi said and followed the lady to a secluded room.

  “You should go with her and lick the ice cream on her body,” Mabel shouted after them.

                Margret laughed and lifted her hand to give Mabel a ‘hi5’. Mabel was not in the mood.

  “You embarrassed me, you know that.”

  “How? I was trying to help.”

  “The story Kemi will spread this time is that I am desperate to have Segun back and that I even fought her over him.”

  “Don’t bother about any story. We know what really happened.”

                Mabel cleaned her hands and picked her handbag.

  “It is obvious now that Segun has moved on,” Coker said.

  “I have always known that,” Mabel said. “It is Margret who has not.”

  “Now I know,” Margret said. “I wonder what he saw in that girl that he did not see in you.”

  “More curves I guess,” Mabel said.

  “Curves without character is rubbish,” Coker’s brother said. “The difference is clear between the two of you. I just watched your reaction all through. You are beautiful, nice and with good character and public carriage. You are it.”

                Mabel just looked at him, not knowing what to say.

  “Just blush and say ‘thank you’.” he said.

  “Let her be,” Coker said to him.

  “Sorry,” he said and gulped the remainder of his drink.

  “Thank you,” Mabel told him.

                He almost choked with the drink in his mouth. He smiled.

  “Can we leave now?”Mabel said. “I have my sister to go check up on.”

  “Wait till Segun and his slut leave. I don’t want to have to slap somebody again.”

                They sat for a while. The people there kept stealing glances at them.

  “Everybody is looking at us,” Mabel said.

  “I guess we will not come here again,” Margret replied.

                They laughed.

                Some minutes later, Kemi and Segun were out to the door.

(…to be continued…)

-Chinedu Isaac ©2015