Broken and bruised - Season 1 - Episode 11

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Broken and bruised - Season 1 - Episode 11

Tobi drives in a very reckless speed heading no where but all of a sudden, he spots a bar and stops his car, he comes out and realises he was actually close to home, he steps into the bar to the surprise of Everyone around, he could tell why they all looked at him that way, first it must be because he has never stepped into the bar for all these years he moved to this street and secondly because it’s too early for anyone to step into a bar, except if the person is in a fix when he met those eyes, he wanted to turn and go back to his car but he needed this….. he waves to the waiter who comes immediately, Tobi settles for a table in the corner

“Good morning Sir”
“Get me something strong”
“Which one exactly, we have….”
“D--n you!!!…. didn’t you hear the word Strong?…. get for me something strong….I don’t give a d--n what you have or don’t have”

“OK OK sir” the waiter backs away and returns with a bottle in hand and a glass”
“I don’t need this” Tobi threw the glass away and orders the man to open the bottle for him he just empties the whole content in without taking a break and he was done in a blink of an eye, everyone in the bar is in pure shock with most of them wondering if something related to business happened to the rich kid,he continued to drink for the next ten to twenty minutes until when he felt he was beginning to get super drunk, he calls the waiter who comes immediately

“How much is your Bill”
“Fifty thousand shillings Sir”
“Just that”

“Yes Sir….” he struggles to stand but he falls and the man has to hold him firmly
“Do you know how to drive” he asks
“Yes Sir”

“Then take me home….take me home….take me home”

“But you haven’t paid me”
“Don’t you know Tobi….don’t you know me” the waiter agrees to take him home anyways because he knows he will get his money once there, he helps Tobi stand to his feet and guides him to the car, it took a big amount of effort to get him seated in the car, the waiter takes the drivers seat and hits the road heading to the most expensive mansion in the area……………

Ron packs his jeep in the small compound and gets out to meet a very lonely and quiet environment,, no one is insight, he walks towards the kitchen to see if Mel is in because she usually waits for him outside but today she’s not there Ofelia hears the car and knew Ron was here she gets out of the garden and walks over to home to meet him
“Good morning mum”

“Good morning my son…. thank God you’re here”

“I hope all is well”
“No…Melanie is sick, why did you ask her to spend the night if she wasn’t feeling well” Ron is taken aback by this statement but he recovers quick enough to go along with this story

“I’m sorry mum….I had no idea she was not feeling well because she never mentioned it”

“Really, but it was you who dropped her home this very morning yet you couldn’t come face me her mother and apologize for making her spend the night away from home without my permission” Ron is beyond shocked
“Where is she”
“Inside, covered in blanket and acting so strange…. she didn’t want to talk to me ”
“I need to see her” he walks past her to enter the small but well kept house, there are two rooms he suspects to be bedrooms and wonders which one is Mel’s, Ofelia follows him inside

“She’s here….you can go ahead but please, you two shouldn’t hide these things from me….I know you love each other but this isn’t the way to go…I’m her mother and I just want the best for the two of you” Ron nods and the crying Melanie heard her mother speak she knew Ron was here but she’s sure she’s not Ready to face him now….she wonders what she’s going to do or say to him, she panics and the door flies open just when she was cleaning her eyes
“Hi…” she nervously says to him……


Melanie greeted Ron with voice full of fear not knowing what she’s going to say next or how she’s going to starts explaining herself in case he demands answers, but still she managed to ask him a question
“What are you doing here Ron”
“I came to pick you up for school like I always do”

“I’m not going to school today”
“I can see that already” he was still talking to her standing by the door, he finally shuts it and walks over to her small bed, he sits down next to her
“Mum said you were not feeling well…what happened, is it malaria, do you have fever” he reaches to touch her face to feel her fever but she jerks at his touch, she shifts away from him….he couldn’t miss her response