With The Devil

Episode 15

For whatever reason unbeknownst to me,Pretty didn’t come that night as she promised.

I knew this cuz whenever I wake up from any sleep,I usually do remember the last part of my dreams, through which I now use to do a small recollection of what I was actually dreaming ( if at all I have the time to do that.).

I decided that I was not gonna call her to know why she didn’t come as promised,and reasoned I will be better off going to a game house to play away my time that day.

After breakfast that day,I proceeded to execute my plan that day; as soon as I entered the game house,my phone rang,and it was her calling:
“I knew you will not come!” I stated immediately I picked her call, starting the blame game.

“And am sorry about that.” She calmly muttered.

“If I ask you to tell me why u didn’t come now,you will refer me to the future” i jokingly said.

She started laughing,and then asked me:
“When are u coming?” She asked me.
Five seconds silence.
“Are you there Michael?” She quizzed.
“Yea!” I replied.
“This one u are silent?” She queried me.
“Nothing, its just that am not sure if I will come today” i simply told her.
“Is it because I didn’t come as I promised?” She asked me.
“Of course it is because you failed to keep your promise.What else were you expecting?” I asked her or rather, whispered in my mind.

“Its not it ooo.Am in a game house now.Where we play PlayStation games or PS for short” I told her.
“Oh.So you do that?” She asked.
” A very nice hubby of mine I love so much!” I told her.
“Alright.I will leave you to enjoy then.” She unwillingly said back to me.
“Do you want me to come?” I asked her.
“More than anything!” She said.
“I will come around 11am” I told her.
“I will be waiting” and then I could feel her being happy before the call went dead.
At that moment,two thoughts popped up my mind concurrently:
Allow her to wallow in the hope of my coming and disappoint her;or-
Forget what happened and just go as you promised….and then the battle of supremacy began between them.
Guys that I would normally spank on a normal day were busy raping me into pieces and wiping me as I never really focused on the game I was playing while the thoughts lingered.

At 10:50am,I was still at the game house(you know how the spirit of playing game use to keep the player spellbound).
It was exactly 10:58am that I decided that it was enough and that I had to go,the reasoning being to come back later when with a correct mind and correct head..
In order not to create any unnecessary feeling,I called her immediately, telling her I was on my way.I had to follow Faulks road and enter bus going to Mosque(cuz they usually follow okigwe road) to make it easier for me.
I reached her place around twenty minutes time,and she was all smiles as she ushered me in;but,the thing is,I didn’t know she had other plans for me that day…[
“I cooked rice and stew ax well as vegetable soup.So which one will you eat?” She asked me as soon as I sat on the bed.
“Vegetable soup” I replied immediately.
“Okay.You are in luck then cuz thats what I was planning on eating myself.” She stated.
“That film kwanu” I asked her.
“Somewhere there” she pointed,and said let her go and dish out the meal.

I went to search where she pointed,and I realised Pretty was also a film freak like me.I projected my voice so that she could hear me as I told her I will take some of her films to go and watch at my place, and she obliged.

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Twenty to twenty-five minutes later,we were both through with the eating comfortably relaxed on her bed.
We chatted for a while, mostly about me by the way,and then I started feeling sleepy.I suggested to her that it will be best I went home cuz the kind of sleep that is in my head is 5-6hrs straight.
She said I can sleep where I am,and promised to wake me up if I was asleep up till 5:30pm..With her assurance, I slept off,holding her hand intimately.

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The environment I found myself in was a very familiar place,yet its as if I have not been to that place.The road to the building looked exactly like the road to our house in the village,yet this particular road did not lead to my house, instead,it led me to a building it seemed I have been to previously even though I honestly don’t recall being inside it;yet I feel like I have been.
It was like a particular force was attracting me to itself inside that building, and so out of pure curiosity, I followed the force to its point of origin.
Immediately I reached the gate,it opened by itself. I entered and walked straight into the first door to the house,which was like the entrance front door. As soon as I held the doorknob and turned it and the door opened,I remembered why the place felt so familiar, it was the newly renovated and refurbished building of Jane’s dad;A building I can relate to as having enough of my happy memories and the worst life threatening event of my life.
As I viewed on about,I started wondering where everyone has gone and left the place empty.
At that moment,Pretty emerged from one of the rooms.

I was like:
“Fathai,what are you doing in my village and how did you know of this people?”
She laughed.
” The way you ask questions eh,you should be a journalist!” She retorted me and urged me to come.
I followed her to one of the rooms which was actually her room.
“How long have you known them?” I asked her.
“It doesn’t matter” she replied.
“Seriously, I wouldn’t like Jane or Ukamaka to come back and see me alone with you in their house.Especially Jane.I have to get going,but I will come back later” I told her.
She smiled the typical Pretty smile.
” Don’t worry about them,only me is around till Sunday.” She reassured me.
My mind calmed down as I relaxed on the bed with her.
“So,what will you take?” She asked me.
“Water.I am very thirsty” I replied her.
She brought me a bottled water and a glass,which i immediately used to gulp down the bottled water.

After a little chat with her while we both lay on the bed, she asked me if Jane would be angry if we have a moment,to which I said ‘no’ to cuz she is getting married,but instead,she will be furious at you for probably seducing me in their house.
” I can deal with Jane’s fury!” She wittily whispered to my ears!