Bitch

Episode 33

10:00 PM. Thursday.

With all the energy she could gather, Zainab
gave Jummy a deafening slap. It was so loud
that the neighbors at the extreme end of the
street heard it and became scared, hoping it
wasn’t what they thought it was.

“Are you high on cheap drugs?!” Zainab yelled at Jummy who was totally confused and now counting the stars only her could see.

“Jumoke, what’s wrong with you? Are you that desperate?” Zainab asked.

Jummy couldn’t find the right words to reply
Zainab with so she kept quiet, glaring at
Zainab, the slap had been surprisingly very
painful.

“Jummy, I rushed into marriage with Richard
and you saw where we ended up. Your case is
even worse, not only do you want to rush it,
you want to get into it for the wrong reasons.”

Zainab moved closer to Jummy, held her
hands and looked into her eyes.

“Jummy, don’t do this,” she said
sympathetically.

---

9:30PM. 30 MINUTES AGO.

“Any problem here?” Henry asked as he had
gotten closer to Zainab, he spotted Taofeek
before he walked into his house and thought it
might be trouble, so he decided to come and
be Zainab’s knight in a shining armor.

Zainab turned to Henry and with a fake smile
she said, “non at all, I’m sure you’ve met
Jummy, this is my brother, Taofeek. Taofeek
this is my friend, Henry.”

Both men stretched forwards their hands and
shook it, “nice meeting you.” They both said in unison and just smiled back at each other in
response. Taofeek had a warm smile on his
face but Henry gave him a cold stare which
some how said: “Nigga, you ain’t welcome
here.”

By the time they retracted their hands, Henry
turned to Zainab and asked in a low tone, so
low only Zainab could hear, “You never told
me you have any siblings.”

“You never asked,” Zainab replied.

Henry shrugged, she had a good point and he
had no reply to fire back so he turned to the
small pack of people and literally screamed,
“okay, I think I’ll be going to my house now,”
he paused and turned to Taofeek, “nice to
meet you, hope you going to stay long,
because I wouldn’t mind knowing some of
those secrets Zainab would never tell me.” A
warm laughter followed and even Jummy who
hadn’t really been in a good mood smiled a
little.

“I really don’t know, but let’s see how it goes,”

Taofeek replied with a grin and watched Henry
walk back to his gate and enter his house.

As soon as Henry was gone, Taofeek started
grinning at Zainab so hard it made her
uncomfortable.

“What?!” Zainab asked.

“Nothing, you didn’t tell me you now have a
personal security guard or is he the new
boyfriend?” Taofeek replied and his grin grew
wider.

Zainab smiled and changed the topic, “okay
then, let’s go in, I hope you are spending the
night here? Its already too late to go to an
hotel and its rather stupid considering I have
a free guest room.”

“Okay, if you say so.” Taofeek replied, he knew Zainab just avoided the question.

Zainab looked at Jummy and saw the swollen
eyes once again, and concluded Jummy
obviously had some gists for her. She opened
the gate and let Jummy and Taofeek walk into
the house while she drove her car into the
compound.

By the time she had successfully parked the
car and walked into the house, Jummy and
Taofeek were already sitting in the palor in
total silence. For her brother, it was a normal
thing since he wasn’t much of a talker just like
Zainab but It was really unusual for Jummy to
keep quiet for so long and Zainab noticed it.

“Errr… The guest room is over there… The
second door by your left,” Zainab said to her
brother trying to take things easy and be in
charge of the situation.

Her brother smiled and walked to the room as
Zainab directed, pulling a small trolley bag
along with him.

As soon as the brother was out of sight, she
walked to the couch where Jummy was sitted
and dropped her handbag on the floor.

“So what’s up?” Zainab asked.

“Nothing much,” Jummy replied, “how was
work today?”
“Apart from discovering Henry now worked at
TOP, my day was just casual. Enhen, that
reminds me, aren’t you meant to be at China
now or something like that?” Zainab asked.

“Yes, I am but the trip got cancelled.”

“Is that why your eyes are swollen? Don’t tell
me you cried over it.” Zainab said in a
mocking tone, “let me guess, you were hoping
to travel to Dubai afterwards to shop right?”
Jummy smiled, “you think everyone is like
you? Shopping at every opportunity you get.”

“So why is your eyes swollen?” Zainab asked
grinning, “did you finally fight with that Mrs
Ogbonaya at your work place and she ended
up beating you up?”

Jummy looked at Zainab and she was sure
Zainab grin would fade once she told her what
was troubling her.

“You are killing me with suspense, what’s
wrong with you na?” Zainab replied sounding
impatient.

“Its John.” Jummy finally said.

“John? What about him?”

“Its a long story…” Jummy replied, still trying
to decide if it was such a good idea to tell
Zainab about it.

“Well, you had better start gisting me now
before it gets to my bed time.” Zainab replied
and braced herself for the ‘long story’.

• * B * *

Jummy sighed and stared at her feet, “well,
John and I spent yesternight together at my
place.” Jummy started.

“Hmmm, so you guys finally did it?” Zainab
said with a mischievous grin, “I was starting
to think he was gay self, which normal guy has
a girlfriend with your type of curves and
doesn’t make a move?”

Jummy rose an eyebrow in surprise, she
mentally gave herself a knock for being so
blind, even Zainab who wasn’t in the
relationship noticed. “Sorry to burst your
bubbles but nothing happened.”

“Nothing? As in nothing nothing?” Zainab
asked, emphasizing on the nothing.

“Err.. Not entirely, we cuddled and did some
really naughty things but didn’t do the koko.”

“Oh! You were forming and playing the hard-
to-get card on him?” Zainab asked and tapped
Jummy on the shoulder jokingly, “you are one
naughty lady.”

Jummy didn’t smile. “Actually, I wanted him
but he was the one who refused, he said he
wanted us to get married first.”

“Awwww… A nice guy. So romantic.” Zainab
replied and blushed for reasons she didn’t
even know.

“Would you just let me land!” Jummy yelled,
she was getting irritated as Zainab cut in after
each statement, it was hard enough that she
was literally reliving the whole incidence by
telling the story and Zainab wasn’t making it
any easier as she made the story seem longer.

Zainab was taken aback by Jummy sudden
outburst, but she knew Jummy only acted that
way when she was d–n serious, “okay, I am
sorry oh, I won’t say anything again.”

“Better!” Jummy replied and with a really low tone, she went ahead to tell Zainab almost
everything, from when she got to John’s house to the deal and just as she was about to tell Zainab about the statements Samuel made
before leaving the room… Kpa!!! Zainab
slapped her.

---

9:45PM, Same night.

At the other side of Lagos.

As John undressed in other to have a shower,
thoughts of earlier that day crossed his mind.

He was now wondering if he handled the
situation properly or was just being a moron.

He had discovered he was bisexual in high
school when a certain friend of his who was
purely gay made a move at him.

It so happens that the friend and him used to
sleep on the same ‘six inches boarding school
sized bed’ because John bed has been stolen.

He was new to the school and didn’t even
know it was possible for beds to be stolen, but
after his was stolen… He obviously now knew.

So the friend had been so nice to let him share
his bed with him until the new bed which he
called his parents to send arrived.

They were both lying on the bed one faithful
night when John’s friend started. The friend
placed his hand on John’s shoulder then
slowly started to caress it, slowly moving up
and down. Due to John’s tender age and
ignorance, he didn’t find anything wrong with
this so he let the friend continue and to the
best of his knowledge he assumed his friend
was just being nice since it was a cold night
and the feeling he got from his friend made
him slightly warm.

The friend took the risk and slided his hands
all the way down and grabbed John’s butt.

John was startled, and was convinced beyond
any reasonable doubt that squeezing the butt
had nothing with keeping someone warm,
“what are you doing?” He asked.

“Nothing, just playing with you.” The friend
replied, “or don’t you want to play with me?”

John considered the fact that the friend may
throw him out of his bed if he said no and
besides he knew it was a weird kind of “play”

but he ignorantly said yes since he didn’t see
anything wrong with it and that was how it
started, the friend advance to caressing
John’s whole body and even kissed him, they
went ahead to do it the next night and the
night after… Well, the rest is now history.

Back to the present, John walked into the
bathroom stark naked and as the warmth of
the water hit his skin, he started thinking once
again about the earlier incidence.

He knew he at least had strong feelings for
Jummy even though he didn’t really love her
and he had really planned on telling her about
his sexuality situation before asking for her
hands in marriage.

He had it all figured out in his head. A
romantic dinner on the roof of one extravagant
building in Paris, he was sure there was no
way she could say no in such situation but
now things had taken a different turn.

He dried his body and walked out of the
bathroom, “I can’t loose her just like this.”

He said to himself.