The Things Girls Do

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 4

Priscilla:

Everyone stared at me as I kept on sobbing on my bed.

Gloria, Lucy, Bella even Cynthia were all sitted around me, wondering what was wrong with me.

” You can’t keep crying all day long, Priscilla. Tell us what happened,” Gloria spoke impatiently.

I didn’t say anything. I only cried more.

” Are you ill?” Lucy asked.

I shooked my head.

” Are you home sick?” Cynthia asked.

I shooked my head again.

Bella then spoke for the first time in days. ” Did you catch your boyfriend with another woman?”

I stopped crying. The silence that followed after hung around the room heavily.

The girls grabbed me. ” Tell us it’s not true!”

I rose my head and slowly nodded. ” It’s true.”

” Oh you poor thing,” Cynthia said, placing my head on her chest as she petted me like a child. ” Just take it easy, okay.”

Gloria was fuming with rage. ” That bastard! I knew something was off with that guy. What happened?”

I didn’t want to tell them but seeing there were no other options left for me, I told them all the same. ” He was broke. He needed some money to settle his depts. The trouble with Rollins is that whenever he gets depressed and mad over something, he pushes the blame on me. I couldn’t stand it so I offered to give him my school fees to settle his depts.”

Gloria and Lucy nearly yelled their throats out. ” You what?!”

” It was a mistake,” I continued sharply. ” Believe me, I never wanted to do it but I had promised Rollins I’d give it to him and Rollins isn’t the type of person who likes being gyped out of a promise. So I gave it to him, hoping somehow, I was going to get the money out of him one way or the other. Ever since I sent him the money, his line was unreachable. He didn’t call to even say thank you. I got worried and rushed to check on him. You wouldn’t believe what I saw when I got to his apartment.”

As if that was exactly what Lucy, Gloria and Cynthia was waiting to hear, they asked in unison, ” WHAT?!”

” I caught him with another woman in bed. The same bed we’ve shared together for two years…..and after the money I’ve sent to him…. I—I don’t just know what next to do. I’m confused. Soo confused. The worst part is that examination will soon commerce and failure to provide your school fees means no exams for you. My parents suffered to get this money for my fees. Right now I feel soo stupid to have given it to Rollins. Where can I get the fees? Where do I even start from? Oh God…I am finished!”

” Bella,” it was Gloria. ” You’re not saying anything.”

Bella being the eldest amongst us was supposed to be the one in charge; taking responsibilities, giving the rules, sorting out conflicts, being the leader. But Bella was always quiet, always thinking about herself, always clubbing, always drunk, always self centered. She rarely had time for any of us.

Bella shrugged, pouring a tin of milk on her bowl of cereal. ” Well, she’s learnt her lessons hasn’t she?”

” Bella,” Cynthia snapped. ” That’s Soo cruel.”

” As cruel as catching her boyfriend with another woman? Come on give me a break, I’m just speaking sense. If you ask me, I’d say she made a stupid mistake. She deserves to learn from it.”

Gloria and Bella do get along but not today.

Gloria quarreled her. ” Stop it, Bella. You’re not helping matters at all.”

” What do you expect me to do?” Bella sipped from her cereal. ” Should I run over to Rollins house and begin beating the crab out of him?”

” Well, the least you could do is find some comfortable words to reduce the stress and pressure from Priscilla,” Lucy pointed out. ” Or best, find a better solution for her.”

Bella smiled. ” Well, here’s a better solution for you, Priscilla. Move on, find yourself another man and make money out of him. That way, you’d have forgotten about Rollins plus, you’d recover your school fees from another man.”

I glanced up at her. Cynthia was horrified. ” Bella, that’s not the best advice you can give to her.”

Gloria grunted. ” In as much as I’m in the same game as you, Bella, still doesn’t make any sense dragging Priscilla into the game. The game is risky, you know that.”

Bella smirked. ” But the game will pay her school fees, wouldn’t it?”

” Game?” Lucy looked confused. ” What’s the game?”

Bella and Gloria answered simultaneously. ” Double dating older rich men for money.”

” Don’t listen to them,” Cynthia held Priscilla tighter. ” I’ll pray for you. I’m certain there are other mediums for you to recover your money back and as for Rollins, may he be judged by the heavens.”

” Amen,” Bella chanted mockingly. ” But all the prayers in the world won’t undo the do’s nor unfcked the fcked he’d f*cked her for the past two years. It wouldn’t even pay her school fees. I’m just giving you a solution out of your problems, Priscilla but I won’t force you. Whenever you’re ready and you’d love to join Gloria and I, you can always meet Gloria. She knows what to do.”

Gloria glared at her. ” Hey, not me. I’m not getting her into this sh*t. What has come over you?”

” You know what guys,” I said rising up to my feet. ” I think I should just leave. Bella’s right, it’s all my fault I’m in this mess. I’ll try to figure something out.”

Cynthia was worried as I grabbed my handbag and moved towards the door. ” Where are you going?”

I paused at the doorway. ” To meet an old friend of mine.”

Gloria’s POV:

” I can’t believe you made such a proposal to Priscilla,” I said as I sat down opposite Bella in Socrates bar.

” What can I say,” Bella retorted, studying a book she’d brought along with her. ” The girl is foolish. It’s about time she grows up.”

” Yeah but engaging her in the game?” I waved my hands in the air. ” Bella you and I know how risky this stuff is, going after rich strange men isn’t something I’d like my roommates to get involved in.”

Bella smirked. ” As if you weren’t their age when you began hanging out with men.”

I pouted. She got me there, hasn’t she? ” Bella, these girls are just kids. I wouldn’t want an angry mother or father coming after me with complains about how I initiated their daughter or stuff like that.”

Bella took her cocktail and sipped slowly, staring longingly at someone aside me.

I tapped her. ” Hello? Bella, I’m talking to you.”

” What do you think of that man,” she said eyeing the young man that has just stepped in. ” He looks handsome and he reeks of money too.”

I turned as well and I must admit it, she was right. He was good-looking and from what he wore, there was no doubt that money was talking.

” Yeah, he seemed like a perfect catch,” I smiled. ” You do have good eyes, Bella.”

” I’m taking him,” she said and stood up. ” How do I look?”

This girl. Always ready for business. ” You look sexy.”

She walked away from me and wandered over to the new man’s chair. Next words I heard from her lips were ” hi, can I join you here?”

In less than eight seconds, they were already chatting and in sixty seconds, Bella had succeeded in flirting with him. I saw him smiling.

Men these days, Soo easy to get. I grabbed my own cocktail and began sipping, my mind still dwelling on the marvelous date I had with Adeola last night. He had not only bought me an expensive dinner, he’d also taken me to see a movie and after a satisfactory hour at an Ice-cream and pizza joint, he dropped me home in his flashy Prado Jeep and bid me goodnight, thanking me for giving him a good time.

I couldn’t believe it. The least I expected was for him to drive me to a hotel. I mean, with Soo many experiences with men, I thought after spending a reasonable amount of money and time on me, which yes I was willing to offer my body to him, he would’ve taken the advantage and satisfy his sexual lust.

But Adeola didn’t do that. He just drove me home, thanked me for the night well spent and sped off, promising to call me. And he did call, sounding quite romantic on the line for an old man with a potbelly.

All these and yet no sex. No sex! Not even a kiss! I was surprised but I’m certain he’s just trying to be a gentleman. Next time, he’d take me That’s for sure. I would’ve told the girls about this but something at the back of my mind told me to keep it low and quiet especially from a hunter like Bella.

Just then, two couples walked passed me. They were holding hands and were seated next to me.

I studied this couple, my eyes focusing on the man especially.

Bella returned back to me sipping her cocktail with her phone held in her hand.

” So, how did it go?” I asked, distracting myself from the couple next to me.

” I got his name and his number,” Bella said.

” Wow, you’re soo fast, sweetheart,” I slapped her playfully on the wrist. ” So what’s his name?”

” He’s name is Paul he’s a big shot engineer contractor and I’m meeting him tomorrow night,” Bella said.

Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul. Why does that name sounds Soo familiar? I knew I heard it somewhere but I couldn’t figure out where.

My eyes returned back to the new couples next to me. ” Say, doesn’t that guy looks familiar?”

Bella turned and stared at the new couple. She grimaced. ” Nope. I’ve never seen him before. What’s Soo special about him?”

I gasped as I recognized the bastard. ” That’s Priscilla’s boyfriend, Rollins.”

Bella raised an eyebrow, her face expressionless. ” You don’t say. Are you sure that’s him?”

” Hell yeah,” I almost yelled. ” That’s the animal who ate her school fees and made out with another woman. That must be the woman.”

Bella was busy drumming her fingers on the table, a fixed smile on her face. ” He’s not even handsome. And this is the boy Priscilla has been Killing herself for?”

” I told you she was a foolish girl, now look, he’s hanging out with another woman despite being caught last night in the act. Some men don’t have conscience. See wickedness and after collecting her money. Now he’s spending it on this w—e!”

Bella wasn’t saying anything. She was smiling. The kind of smile she gives when she’s thinking deeply about doing something cruel.

Then Bella lumbered up, taking her cocktail subtly in her hand. She walked right towards Rollins chair and stood over him.

The whole thing happened so fast. She began emptying the contents of her cocktail on him, streaming it down as it slowly ran down Rollins face like springs of water.

Rollins w—e started up to her feet in a fit to handle Bella. ” What the hell is going on here? How dare you—”

Before she could finish her sentence, Bella reached out and gave her a dirty slap in the cheeks.

Rollins got up, shouting at Bella and raising his fist but Bella wasn’t in the mood to bear his disgusting breath.

With a tremendous incredible power I’ve never seen from her, she snatched Rollins on his collar shirt and smacked him down on his seat. That was enough. Even his w—e wasn’t saying anything.

Bella stood there, having a deadly look at him. ” This will teach you never to pick on my roommate, you smelly pig. The next time you want to mess a young innocent girl, pick wisely because you never know how far her friends could go to treat your f–k up.”

” And as for you,” she turned to his woman. She paused for a while. ” You disgust me, hanging around with a cheap donkey like this.”

I heard a man whistled. Another man laughed.

Bella walked away from them. She nodded at me and I got up following her as we started out of the bar. All eyes were on us and I caught Paul smiling admiringly at Bella.