Bitch

Episode 27

With every new sun, comes a new day. A new
beginning, a new hope that things would be
different and better than it was yesterday –
Eep, The Croods.

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After all the drama she went through with
Richard, Zainab attitude and view towards
love and life in general changed. She started
to view love as an excuse to get hurt and even
though she never really voiced it out. She
made a mental vow not to fall in love again.

Thanks to Richard’s one hundred million
which had been completely paid in to her
account, she had more than enough more
than enough money to spend on spending.

As good friends with Jummy, she bought
Jummy a brand new sleek Toyota Camry,
2013 edition, Jummy was more than excited.

You need to be there to understand exactly
how Jummy reacted because its something
that can’t really be typed.

She had earlier left “Let’s Talk Relationship”
with E.A because after all that they went
through, working together felt weird, so she
left.

As expected, she started receiving hundreds of
offers to host different shows from different
companies and after much deliberation with
the help of Jummy, she made her choice and
picked one.

She picked to work as a director on multiple
programs at Tunde Owolabi Productions (aka
TOP).

TOP, owned by Nigeria fourth richest man –
Tunde Owolabi, was and still is a production
company just like the Wale Adenuga
Production and as a matter of fact, was an
arch-rival. TOP specialised in soap operas,
movies, TV programs and many more.

So Zainab was glad when she got the offer
from them to be a general director, she had
years of experience in show biz, so she
assumed it would be a piece of cake, but
maybe she was wrong.

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MONDAY MORNING, two weeks after the court
case. .

As Jummy cruised into the car park of GNP,
she spotted the free spot which had a sign
board with: “RESERVED (asst branch manager)
” written on it. She smiled and parked right at
the front of the sign board.

She stepped out of the car and purposely
walked to the exit before pressing the “Lock”
button on the car’s remote, a sharp click
sound followed which signified the doors have
been locked. She loved the Ghen-Ghen feeling
it gave her.

She stylishly waved the few hair that were
over her shoulder backwards and catwalked
into the building feeling like Bruce Lee.

She felt exceptionally happy that morning. It
had been a wonderful weekend for her as John
being the most romantic guy on this earth –
according to her, took her out to over four
different places and occasions all in the span
of the usual two days weekend break
(saturday and sunday).

It all started on friday night, he picked her up
from her office after work hours and drove her
straight to “Golden Gate” where she had the
been dinner she had had in years and
afterwards, he dropped her home then with
just a kiss, he took off. From the way he acted,
having s-x with her wasn’t even in his
dictionary and that made Jummy feel luckier –
a man who isn’t interested in s-x but love her
for who she is.

What more can I ask for? She thought.
Saturday morning, he called her and by 1PM,
they were already already on their way to
Oniru Private Beach to chill out. Just when
Jummy thought that was all he had under his
sleeves, the left the beach by 5PM, and by
10PM, they were of to show which feature top
class celebrities like 3Face and P-Cube, it was
an all night show.

By 3AM Sunday morning, he dropped her at
her door steps and once again, he kissed her
and went home.

She slept for the rest of the morning, down to
12PM before she finally decided to wake up
and once again, John called and they both
went for a Christian comedy show. Jummy
was blown away. John was romantic, kind
hearted and also a christian.

So the glow on her face on Monday morning
was massive and obvious that as she stepped
into her office and saw Stephen sitting on the
visitor’s seat without any invitation, she didn’t
frown, she was too happy to let a jobless
Stephen spoil her mood.

“Someone seems to be in a good mood this
morning,” Stephen finally said as he watched
her drop her bag and switch on her system
without even uttering a word to him.

Jummy decided to use the advantage to make
a point to Stephen, “You are right, I had the
best weekend ever with my BOYFRIEND.” She
made sure Stephen noticed she was purposely
emphasising on “boyfriend.”
Stephen shrugged, “Oh! I see.”
“Yea, you won’t believe what he did. I don’t
know how he knew it but he fulfilled all my
dreams in one weekend. I’ve been dying to go
to that new Golden Gate eatery down the block
since it opened but haven’t had the time or
right companion to go with… And guess
what?” Jummy asked grinning.

“What?” Stephen asked irritated, he definitely wasn’t interested.

“He took me there on friday evening for
dinner!” Jummy replied excitedly, she seemed
to be enjoying the effect her story was having
on Stephen. “And you won’t believe where he took me to on saturday!” Jummy replied.
Stephen stared at his shoes and murmured,
“like I give a fucck.”
Jummy heard him but ignored him and went
ahead to tell him, “he took me to the beach
and then we headed to that show Etisalat
hosted and you know how etisalat parties use
to be like, right? Not like this our stingy GNP.”
Jummy hissed.

Stephen just stared at Jummy in silence, he
felt like stabbing her.

Jummy felt she had tortured him enough and
decided to pity him, “pardon my manners,
what are you doing here anyway?” She asked
calmly.

“I just wanted to give you this.” Stephen
handed over a letter and grinned, there was
something suspicious about the grin and
Jummy noticed it but she had no idea what it
could be.

She took the letter and read the contents. Her
glow faded.

She looked at Stephen disgusted, “how long
would this trip be?”
“Two weeks.” Stephen replied, grinning widely than before.

“Why am I going with you? Why not Mrs
Ogbonaya? After all she is the boss around
here.” Jummy asked, looking for an excuse.

“We are the bosses around here, point of
correction,” Stephen replied. “And we can’t
both leave the company for two weeks in the
hands of a newly promoted assistant manager
who knows nothing about managing a
company. This trip would help you familiarise
with an aspect of managing.”
Jummy bowed her head on her desk in
frustration. The letter was from the head
quarters and it instructed her and Stephen to
go to China for business purposes, GNP
wanted to sign a deal with a
telecommunication company in China and so
they sent them both.

This meant two weeks without John and two
week all alone with the one person she
despised the most, Stephen.

Stephen stood up from the seat and adjusted
his suit. He walked to the door and opened it,
before he stepped out, he turned to Jummy, “it
would be fun, trust me.”
He walked away laughing out loud. He
sounding like one of those evil scientist in
cartoons.

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SAME MONDAY.

Just like Jummy, Zainab cruised into the car
park of TOP company and parked at the
reserved spot for the director.

It was her first day on the job and she had
purposely dressed to kill.

She wore a kneel length red gown that
complimented her dark complexion and
showed off her To-Kill-for curves. She held a
portable Versace hand bag and Jimmy choo
four inches high heel shoes.

As she walked into the company, all heads
turned towards her, even the females couldn’t help but stare at her.

Zainab noticed over a thousand eyes on her
and wasn’t sure if it was her killer outfit that
warranted such stare or the fact that a big
shot like her was in their presence. Either
which way, she loved the attention.

A young man, about twenty-one, obviously
younger than Zainab was the first to go and
speak to her as she stood at the entrance
staring at the vast building in confusion – she
didn’t know where exactly to go to.

He was somewhere in between macho and
average, he had a reasonable amount of flesh
in the right places and he was pretty good
looking, he probably had a couple of girls that
would be crushing on him, but at the same
time, something about him said “not
interested in girls yet, book first.”
“Hello!” He said excitedly.

“Hello,” she replied and looked down at him.

Thanks to her heels, she was a few inches
taller than him.

“Am Michael, and I’ve been directed to show
you around. So for the time being, consider
me as your own personal secretary or
something like that.”
“Oh! Thanks Mike, I was already about
wondering where exactly I was meant to start.”
Zainab replied and gave him a warm smile
which made him blush.

“Err.. Zainab, its no problem, as a matter of
fact, am a huge fan of yours and I think am
lucky to be able to learn from you. Am just an
intern here.” Michael replied.

“Oh! Am flattered.” Zainab replied and gave
him that warm smile again. “So where exactly
are we going to start from?” She asked
immediately trying to change the topic.

“Oh! I’ve got your schedule at my desk over
there, if you don’t mind we can head over
there before I take you to your office.”
Zainab nodded in approval and followed him.

He handed over to her a thick file. She starred
at it in surprise, “what is inside that?” She
asked.

“Your schedule for the week, your first official
duty starts in about an hour so I’ll advice you
to start getting familiar with the contents right
away,” Michael stood up from his chair, “let
me show you your office.”
Zainab sighed and followed him as the went
through a corridor with about four doors on
about both sides, each door had different tags
at the front of them. Tags like: Dressing Room
and Make up Room.

They stopped at the front of the last door by
the left which had “DIRECTOR” written on it.

“Here we are,” Michael said.

“Yea.”

Michael handed her the file and gave a
mischievous smiled, “good luck,” he said and
just before he turned to walk away he added,
“you would need it. And welcome to TOP.”

Zainab nodded in silence and looked at the
large file in her hand.

“God help me,” she sighed.