Yvonne and i had been together for three years, when our love story began, she sometimes tells me jokingly that if i wasn't ready by the time we graduated from school that she'd leave me as she had made plans to get married and have her first child before she's 25. I didn't think she could leave me, i was over confident that no matter what i did or what ever happened, Yvonne would stick with me because she loved me and made me feel alive.
Time ticked and we were three years already, we were preparing and warming up in advance to when our NYSC postings would be out, we seldom saw each other as we weren't staying in the same state but we were communicating constantly. Then my Yvonne changed, she started avoiding some of my calls and request to visit, she became distance and i knew something had happened but i didn't see the need to start digging, i felt she was under pressure from house work.
Soon our NYSC posting came out, she was posted to Lagos while i was posted to Enugu, i was surprised because we had decided to work it to the same state and her uncle who i later found out wasn't her uncle was to help us as my parents didn't want to be a party to bribery, how come my name didn't make it to Lagos, i don't know because i had given the man a huge sum of money. Yvonne just gave some lame explanation as to why it happened and we parted ways in a rather cold manner, she was acting as if i was suffering from a terminal disease, she didn't want to come close to me even when i tried to hug her, she kicked against it with another lame excuse, i endured and felt it was one of her mood swing moments and we left school that day without much words.
Months had passed and we were almost rounding up with our youth service, we still communicated but it wasn't as before, something had really changed but i thought it was just the distance. I couldn't wait to break the news to Yvonne about my job, already waiting for my passing out so i could start and how i planned to visit Lagos immediately after the POP but she kept rejecting my calls which prompted my anxiety of really wanting to go to Lagos to ask her why.
The day was finally here, i had booked a flight to Lagos three days before then and it was for 4:45pm from Enugu to Lagos, i called my cousin Chuks to come pick me from the airport since i would be staying at his place.
I had a mixed feeling as we drove from the airport to my cousin's place, i couldn't explain it, i had to neglect any negative thought and focused on seeing my darling again after a long while.
I couldn't see Yvonne that day and even the next, she said she was really choked up with work because she had been retained in the oil servicing firm where she had served, Chuks told me to relax as i was still around and Lagos was a busy place so i'd still see her, i kept thinking maybe she was leaving me to get married as she had always teased but i waved the thought, i couldn't imagine it, losing my Yvonne to another man... No way!
It was Friday already, Chuks told me there was a remedy to calm my restless spirit, he told me there were girls who weren't necessarily prostitutes but could pass for pleasure while you pay them, he had a particular babe who would bring another one along while coming for me. I refused initially, i felt it was stupidity to pay for sex.. I'd rather have a woman in my life that i would be loyal to and use that money to give her a good life but Chuks kept insisting and with time i was convinced i needed a woman, then he called them, he promised to pay each girl twenty thousand naira for the night and before you know it the deal was sealed.
My heart kept beating, it was the first time i would be with another person other than my Yvonne in three years but my cousin with his sweet mouth kept reassuring me it would help me relax, and i agreed..
Soon the girls arrived, i was in the room when Chuks brought my own girl in. She is light skinned and very pretty, i became afraid because growing up we heard stories of fair women coming from the sea or being an "Ogbanje". When she spoke, her voice was soothing, i became more scared, she came closer to me, planted a kiss on my lips and whispered in my ears telling me to relax, then began to undress me while running her almost white fingers on my chest. I was going to have a good night after all so i should relax, soon we were done with our pleasure ride, the girl was out of this world, i haven't had anything so good in my entire life.
In the morning after another pleasure routine, i asked if she could come spend the night with me again and she agreed with a smile that charmed the eye.
We showered, got dressed and i went to knock for Chuks to give me the keys so i can drop off my new reason for highness, Chuks was getting ready to drop his girl too so he asked that we give him a little time. Five minutes later, they came out of the room and i had a voice that was familiar, i looked up.... It was my Yvonne coming out from my cousin's room, she was literally a call girl in Lagos? I didn't know what to do, it was as if dark clouds were gathering before me and i fainted, i woke up a few minutes later and saw Yvonne, she had cried out her eyes out and the were blood shot, she began to explain, i couldn't make out anything from her explanation except that she felt i cheated on her before our NYSC and that her parents desperately needed money so she had to do something else to support herself, she kept referring to her parents as the reason behind what she was doing.
To me she was blabbing, Yvonne knows my parents are wealthy and i could do anything for her, if i could pay her fees sometimes, she knew money wasn't my problem but she had chosen her part.... I didn't want to see her ever again but at the sane time i didn't want her to go, my heart was in shreds and wrecked.
I resorted to going out every night and getting myself a girl to help me relax, Chuks would always say a night of pleasure was drug for the soul, Yvonne had succeeded in destroying anything called Love in me, she denied my heart a chance to give her the best...
It was all Sweet nothings, she made me feel love was all i needed at one point and she took it away the next minute, she had been calling to apologise i suppose but i am not giving her that chance, i still don't want to believe all the coldness and change were for this and she had even started this deal with the devil before she left for Lagos.
I had better plans for us and she ruined it, will i ever survive this ordeal, it felt as though my heart was going to be ripped out.... I was dying inside but who would save me....
Ifunanya Ononiwu (c) 2016
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