JULIET
By: Oluwasola Abiola Elisha - ABSOL
How I felt I could not explain, but it was nothing compared to any feelings I have felt before, every little cell of my body was more than happy to have seen the almighty demon that has been troubling my emotions all the while. I decided to give him a light kiss knowing fully well that Anthony was approaching, I did that intentionally to further tell him I was not interested in him, I was shocked and totally regretted ever asking him to escort me to get Femi’s dinner. Like, he was trying to tell me that Femi did not deserve the much love I was showering on him, men and their evil ways. I was much surprised because Feranmi’s beauty and assets were nothing compared to mine and yet the bastard was still trying to woo me to be his side chick, I cut him short by threatening to tell Femi everything if he refused to stop. Not his fault, men will always be men.
We agreed we will both play along as intimate lovers that we were not and Anthony became more jealous at every public display of affection I did, it did not reflect in his voice but action speaks louder than voice. After ensuring Femi consumed every bit of his dinner, his doses were given to him and we were once again speechless staring at each other in the face.
“Like how soon will he be discharged” I asked the medical personnel attending to him.
“He is very alright now actually, the whole thing was due to shock and he is fine already, we could diagnose no injury that would have delayed him with us in the hospital and because we need bed he will be discharged tonight since he can walk.” He explained. Every other thing he said I did not listen to but that part of him being discharged that night was what got my attention. By my time, it was just some minutes to ten and even though we will not be able to board town gboro, we will go with bike, I thought to myself but on a second thought, I remembered Segun has a car. An asset he thought will lure me into running after him. He lived at the staff quarters being the son of a lecturer, and to punish him for his sin I decided to call on him to come and transport us down to campus. I removed his number from blacklist and like he was monitoring my movement his call came in immediately. I took my time before I picked it eventually.
“What else do you want?” I pretended.
“Juliet, please just listen to me, I am ready to make it up to you, I really am sorry, thought the prank will work but…”
“You want to make it up to me?” I cut him short.
“I am not planning to go to church tomorrow so we can have the whole day to ourselves, all bills on me” He said and where the smile came from I had no idea. Femi sat up and was ready to get down from the bed. Anthony will not stop staring at me, an adventure I have been avoiding but he will not stop staring, I stared back and signaled to him to help Anthony down from the bed, an action that brought him back to reality.
“Yes and I mean it, anywhere you want to go” I am not like the hungry ladies you carry about I said to myself in my mind before replying him.
“I am presently at the emergency unit of OAUTHC and I need a ride back to campus. Can you do that?”
“Juliet, anything for you! But hope it is not that something is wrong with you” he said and I could smell panic in his voice.
“It is my friend and they are discharging us now” I chose my words properly.
“Okay, I am on my way, will beep you once there”
“Okay” I said and ended the call abruptly.
With that settled, I walked back to meet Femi who was now sitting by the edge of the bed.
To be continued...
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