Love, Lust And Lost

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Love, Lust And Lost

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“I’m okay Theresa but you see, we can’t keep going the way we are.”

“What way is that?” She asked with her brow furrowed.

“I mean,” he scratched his head as though it were a recharge card and through that, it would reveal the code to his intended speech. “Always waiting till ‘teacher’ go home or at the food ‘vendor’ koisk.” He tried to explain, his speech depicting someone with ‘s’ factor problem, someone who does not know how to add an ‘s’ to teacher or vendor, to make them possessive words ‘`teachers’ or `Vendors’.

His face now written and seeming as the word ‘pity’ would or might mean.

‘See this guy sha’ she thought ‘you even get chance to dey kiss and touch me, you no happy’.

“But it’s still all good na, at least we’ve not been caught and it doesn’t seem we would be anytime soon.” She said trying to make him see reason.
She just loves Izu, even her earlier thought was rebuked in her mind.

“See Theresa, what I’m talking about is not on ‘been’ caught or like so,” he paused to take a breath of courage, so he could proceed with what he thought would not be nice to say to her.

He felt saying it might get her offended or so but wasn’t sure what her reaction might be. Her face looked to have brighten-up and enthusiastic when she knew he was going to give her a good explanation to see reasons with him, not knowing what was on his mind. She always knew he got her heart no matter what the issue of misunderstanding might be.

“We can’t continue with just kissing and romancing,” he finally let the cat out of the bag “make we do the real thing, I dey fed up of that `yama yama’ thing.”

Her demeanour changed once she heard him say what he said. She knew what he meant by that. He had asked her for it several times in the past but she had told him to wait.

She wanted to be sure what he meant really, so she asked “what are you trying to say, Izuchukwu?”

“s*x na Theresa, biko nu!” He pleaded.

She moved her face sideways, her hands tucked-in her laps as she engrossed herself in what Izu just said.

s*x???. Yes! She remembered!. It had always been the reason he wanted to come into her house. She was right after all about what he was driving at . It took her mind off the room, very far that it seemed some 100years ago; the distance between Lagos to Owerri could not be compared with going from Lagos to America which she had always fantasized about whenever her boss said they were going to America. But the distance was much, nonetheless.

She had met Chukwudi one day as she was going back home, basket containing harvested yam, cocoyam and cassava placed on her head. Chukwudi was one of the finest guy in their clan and an Ozo title-holders’ son. He was light in complexion, 6ft heavily built, – with beards on his jaw to give him a manly feature. He looked someone older than thirty but he was really a 22years old guy. He wore a singlet and tied a yellow towel on his waist, as he appeared from the bush holding a bunch of banana branch in his right hand.

“Hey!” He called out as she passed through the cleared path, his voice like every pompous child of a chief “what is your name?”

She told him her name and walked off when he followed her hurriedly “I’ve been keeping an eye on you for the past 2 months now and I thank my chi you crossed my path today.”
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“Yes!. What can I do for you?” She asked bringing down a hand from the basket.

“You see Nkiru, I like you and want us to be friends, very close friends and you know what value is added to it being a friend to the next Ozo title-holder after my father!. There are a lot of respect attached to it if you become my friend,” he said with pride in his voice.

“See Chukwuna or Chukwuka or whatever your name is. I’m not interested in being your friend. If your money is what you think can get me to yourself, then you are just like Joseph Nchakwu the dreamer.” She blurted angrily and increased her pace.

She thought that would be the end to their encounter; that she had put the shithouse proud turd into his pocket not knowing what his wicked and heartless plans were.

Two days’ later, she had gone to fetch water at the stream. On leaving the stream some few distance apart with her water-pot balanced on her head, – she didn’t smell the brewing danger. She was double-crossed by same Chukwudi but this time rather hostile. He swept her off aggressively, lifting her to his shoulder as she beat his back continuously as though it might set her free or have any effect on him; – her water pot smashed on the floor.

She screamed but no one came to her mercy as it was deep into the forest. That came to her mind now, the worst day of her life; the day she wept and went through the pain of being forcefully slept with. The very unfortunate event that led to the loss of her virginity.

She reported the case but as no man of words her family were in the clan against the chief, Ozo title-holder for that matter, chukwudi was only warned not to repeat such act again.

That was the advantage you get being a man of honour in our society, – she wept, cursed and didn’t eat for some time until it felt she would die. She recovered and it opened her life to the continual longing for s*x. It led to having s*x with 2 other guys in the village before she left for Lagos. But had not dared to do such the past 3 years of her stay in Lagos. Although, she sometimes felt the urge to lure the gate man but she had been reasonable on her path. Her madam’s husband sometimes often show up in her imaginations but she dared not venture on such shameful event. And here was the opportunity she had always wanted, to have a man between her legs. Staring in same room in her eyes was the guy she ever had something called love for. She thought it to be the right time to give it to him but rescinded.

“Ehn! Ehn Izu! I’ve heard you’ve recently been seeing Enore, the girl in SS1. I heard it while she was still in the Junior school but overlooked it as mere rumours,” she said trying to divert the topic.

He frowned hearing her say that and knew what she was driving at. He tried to reason what he could do to make her drop the topic.

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