Memories Of Cupid - Season 1 - Episode 36

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Memories Of Cupid - Season 1 - Episode 36

Elyme creased her eyebrows as she pushed the door open and entered Jimi’s room. A blonde girl with caramel coloured ponytail and tiny legs had just lashed her with words. She had noticed it was the same girl she saw at the party few days back.

“Jimi, who is that girl?” Elyme’s lips fell open in disgust as she directed the question to Jimi who had just emerged from the restroom.

“Violet?” jimi chuckled in response

“Whatever her Bleeping name is” Elyme
wheezed out, simmered with anger.

“Common, you told me not to use swear words and you are here using it” jimi replied, stressing each word dramatically.

“Am sorry. I just couldn’t select the right words. Besides, the girl mouth-lashed me as I was climbing the stairs to your room”

“I also saw her at the party few days back.
Who is she and what’s she doing here cause evidently she sleeps here.”

Jimi licked his lips.

“hmmm.. Someone is jealous here” he laughed boisterously.

“Am not jealous, I just need to know” she chided as she tried to straighten her face in denial. She almost gave herself a whiplash in the process.

No matter how hard she tried concealing the fact that she was jealous. It was still glaring she was. They were both head over heels in love with each other. Just that anytime the love wanted to be confessed to the other, something would always stop it. An occurrence, a strong force of ill-lucks would always block the confession of the love they both felt towards each other. Something they both didn’t understand.

“Well, her name is Violet. She’s the girl I told you about”

“Really? did you?”

“Yeah and you were like “Is Violet a
name?”

“Oh.. I see, but why has she got such a bad leaky mouth? This is Niger o, not Italy so she’s better behaved herself”

“Lest I forget. Happy birthday in advance, you are gonna be eighteen tomorrow, July 18!”
jimi exclaimed as he adjusted the fedora on his head which made him look nothing less than a gangster.

Elyme blushed and muttered some grunts of thanks as she looked deeply into those blue-slash-grey eyes of his as she took in the beautiful view of the horizontal silhouette of the mansion her gaze fell at outside the window.

“Thanks dear” she muffled a reply.

“I wanna be the first to greet you though, so get your phone charged plus my driver is gonna drop some stuffs for you tomorrow by 7:00am” he said as he curtsied and made a gracious bow., narrowing his eyes as the corner of his lips turned into a savage smile
Elyme gape opened her mouth. Her skin flushed some shades of red until she was like a tomato.

“Thanks jimi but you don’t really have to…..” her breathe hitched in her throat as the door opened to reveal Sewedo and Vio. She had thought it was Violet. she knew the latter was trying to get attention from jimi in order to fulfill whatever she wanted.

“Happy birthday in advance!” Sewedo and Viovenna chorused as they walked into the room. Vio wrapped her tiny hands around Elyme. Sewedo winked at her and promised her he would send her his gifts the next day.
Viovenna looked into Elyme’s eyes and kissed her cheeks lightly. Her eyes were the strangest colour of green and specks of blue. Her iris had golden band around it. Her eyes depicted they were gotten from their late mother who was an Italian beauty to behold.

Elyme sighed with sheer bliss and thanked them after which Jimi suggested they went to the mall and also to the hillside of the estate to have some fresh way. They got some caramel ice creams from the kitchen and they all made their merry ways out of the wing. They ignored the couple of curses and deranged cries violet let out. Sewedo cranked the volume of the music playing on his phone up and they all chorused Jessie J’s domino’s song except Vio who mumbled some words she didn’t know.

“I’m feeling s*xy** and free

Like glitter’s raining on me

You’re like a shot of pure gold

Think I’m about to explode…

I can taste the tension like a cloud of smoke in
the air

And I’m breathin’ like I’m running
Coz’ you’re taking me there,

Don’t you know?

You spin me out of control…..”

They chuckled and smiled when they realized it was time for the melodious chorus.

“Rock my world until the sunlight
Make this dream the best I’ve ever known
Dirty dancing in the moonlight

Take me down like I’m a domino

Every second is a highlight

When we touch don’t ever let me go
Dirty dancing in the moonlight

Take me down like I’m a domino….”
******

Elyme unplugged her earpiece and placed her head on the plush pillow. She had just tucked the twins into their beds after they had practiced the birthday songs they would sing for her in her presence!. Not only that, they had revealed the gifts they both planned to give her.

“hmm, I can’t wait to give aunty Elyme the
cake mommy brought and also the …”
Victoria had said.

“shhhh, Vickie, I thought we already said we wouldn’t make the mistake of telling her”
Victor had also replied.

“But you were the one that reminded of the cake when you said you perceived the smell of cake”

“Victoria you are a liar! I only said that so that we would not make the mistake of talking
about the perfume we haven’t wrapped!”

Then, Elyme had gone into bouts of laughter.
She then got to know the twin’s mother who owned a shop where she baked cakes and made delicious pastries had brought a cake that evening when she was away and the twins had also contributed money to buy her a nice perfume. She thanked them and read them their bed time folktales for few minutes before they drifted into sleep. She kissed them and sighed in relief.

“thank God they’ve finally slept, it’s a relief. Damn! Children are indeed wonderful creatures” She mumbled as she walked to her parent’s room to greet them before retiring to bed. She greeted her parents who were busy gisting away in their room about the business of the next day.


She had planned it to be brief but it had been elongated when her mother called her into the big room and had engaged in a long prayer section. Elyme yawned severally to cut her prayers short. She thought her mother would get the message but the latter didn’t.

She prolonged the prayer the more as she chipped in birthday blessings. Elyme sighed and mumbled her “Amen”. She stretched her hands and squinted her eyes to prevent the bright light illumination in the hall way from blinding her. She glanced at the wall clock and it was 10:00pm. She was tired and needed to sleep.

She could remember she danced into the early hours of her birthday when she clocked seventeen but she wasn’t ready to engage into any dancing section again. Images of the day’s event flashed through her mind and she grinned widely.

The day had been fun and amusing. She had enjoyed every bits of the time spent at the mall and the hill side. The breeze which rubbed
against their skins had made
them ‘oomph!’ in delight. They had also bought three VIP tickets for a movie at the cinema he next day which promised to be beautiful for Elyme with the plans they made already. Sewedo had suggested they informed their dad about the birthday preparations as they planned to be out from morning till night but Jimi had kicked against it, saying he didn’t want to talk to him or have anything to do with his father till he found out who his father was in love with.

“To hell with the woman” he had cursed under his breathe. Well, luck hadn’t been on his side for Elyme had heard and had forced him to retracting his words.

Elyme checked the time on her phone. It was 10:30pm already. She had spent thirty minutes remembering the events of the day. She put her pillow on her head and shut her eyes close enough to sq££ze out the fluid in them. Her phone fell from her hand as she slowly drifted to the land of sleep and slumber. As for Jimi, she knew she had fallen for him hook, line and sinker.