MY SUGAR DADDY AND I
CHAPTER SIX
“Tewan how are feeling now?” He asked sounding really concerned.
“I am okay”
“Why did you do what you did?”
“Do what?” I asked looking surprised
“Oh common you ran into my car”
“It was an accident” I lied
“ Accident”?
“You can fool everyone here but not me. Alright.?”
“In as much I understand how much depression and dejection your going through but it shouldn’t make you want to end your own Life.”
Despite the fact that I always hide my emotional breakdown from people, I couldn’t hold my self as he spoke.
I raised my hands and covered my face letting the pain out I cried out.
I turned myself to the other side to avoid him see me cry. I often hated it when people pity me.
“Your very young, intelligent, beautiful and the world needs you.”
“Everyone one of us have our destinies to fulfill. Learn to take life as it comes, there are perfect days and terrible once too.” He continued
“So my dear su.c.de is not the best. Okey?”
“ Are we okay?” he asked as he came and sat closer to comfort me.
“I am here if you have any problem. Whatever it is tell me”
“Yes Prof”
After few minutes of talking I was now calm then I asked him.
“Prof please tell me. How do you cope with everything?.”
“I mean you lost your wife just a year ago and now you just lost your job.”
“And despite everything you still manage to pull through it all”
“My dear like I earlier said we take life as it comes. If you decide to focus just on the negativity it brings, it will consume you.”
“But if you accept it and decide to move on, you will see that your stronger than the negativity it carries.”
“ Give me your brother’s number I will call him and tell him to come pick you up”
“No sir I don’t want to go home I better go back to the streets” I said as he mentioned my Brothers
“Oh common. Your brothers are your only family they”
“I know sir. But until things are calm I can’t go home anytime soon”
“Ok then you come with me”
“ Ahh nooo sir. You’ve done so much for me and I appreciate but I can’t”
“ Don’t get me wrong I just don’t want to make people talk more about the situation at hand”
“ so what if we’re dating” he jokingly said laughing
” Anyways I understand you but I can’t leave you here it’s either you go with me or I call your brothers to come get you”
“Besides I will explain everything to them”
“No sir anything that has to with my brothers for now I really just want to stay away for sometime”
“Ok this is what we will do I will get you a room you can lay low for a while and rest then you go back home”
“OK sir thank you I appreciate”
He did as he had said he would and left to his house. I stayed there for at least a week not wanting to touch my phone that was now off. So many things were going through my head as I laid down on bed.
I thought of my brothers and how my father would surely be cursing me where he was now for destroying his name. I thought about the Prof and his kindness towards me. I thought about how he has supported me despite everything he himself was going through and concluded that indeed I wasn’t going to allow people to get to me .
I managed and build up confidence and opened my phone. I took my phone and switched on. Immediately, Marry was calling.
Hello” I Said
“Yes Bri common what’s wrong with you?”
“Come back home already”
“I have been trying to reach you for days now your brothers are worried and they’ve gone to the police to report your that your missing.”
“I will dear but not now, I am fine okay” I assured her
” Please tell my brothers I am fine and will come back but not now”?
” Bright, I want to know where you live, how your doing, how your cooping and with home?”
“Hey!! Hey!! Mary! calm down. Alright. Am okay”
“Don’t worry i will let you know where I am but you must promise not to let my brothers know.”
I was in the hotel for at least one month now and I had gradually forgotten everything that happened to me but what I could not come to terms with was the fact that I was dismissed from the university without proper investigation.
I had no intentions getting back at Ashley for doing what she did but one thing I was afraid, was beginning to happening.
Mr Atabong and I became really close friends. Since he was the only one apart from Mary who knew where I was. There were days he came and kept me company. we played cards, watched movies, and played other interesting games.
I had propose to him that I wanted to get a job to start taking care of myself but he refused that he was going to get one for me , but I was stubborn. I wanted the job so badly so that I forget about living with my brothers because they’ll never let me grow as long as I was with them.
I had now forgotten everything about my past pains. My closeness to him began making me miss him very much, whenever he didn’t pass by to check on me . But t I wasn’t quite sure if I was Missing his company or missing him.
In him I saw everything I ever wanted, an understanding man, a caring husband, a loving father which I never had. I guess I had to just let things fall in place.
One fateful evening I came back home very moody and stressed so I decided to call him to Talk to him but he didn’t pick my calls.
I tried again several times and decided to go up to his house and check on him.
I took a bike which dropped me Up station, where he lived. I stepped down and decided to walk to his entrance since it was just a fifteen minutes Walk.
When I arrived there it was already 7:30 in the evening, darkness had painted the everywhere except the sky which was still white. I walked down the street really fast least I was attacked.
When I arrived his house, his gate was locked and house void of electricity. I became even more worried as I didn’t know how else to contact him. So I decided to go back to my hotel to check him again tomorrow.
As I walked along the streets going back to the entrance a black car passed me by and stopped, hooting at me. When I went closer to identify the car I noticed he was infact the one in It.
“Bright what are you doing here at this hour of the night?” he demanded looking so surprised
“ Good evening Prof I ..”
“ I had been calling and you were not picking.”
“So I decided to visit you since, you’ve been the only one visiting me so visiting me so I wanted to equally do same”
“Ooh so sorry my Dear I traveled to the village to see my mum”
“So sorry I didn’t tell you”
“Ooh okay Prof. Hope she’s great”
“And I hope your journey was great”
“Yes my dear the old Woman is there ohh”
He said as he drives and turns the car to stop at his gate. He gave me his gate keys I went out and opened it while he entered. I helped him with the stuff he brought home from the village and set it up in his kitchen. Then I came back and went to the parlor and sat down.
Thirty minutes later he came downstairs and I decided to enquire again about his mum’s health.
“Hope no problem on her side”
“You know mother’s and Their wahala na”
“She actually called me to Talk about a wife, her grand kids which I haven’t given her and so on and so forth”
“ To be bad. Poor Mama!. She wants to see her grandkids before she crosses on the other side’s”
“Which grand kids?” He said laughing.
“She has about Fifteen of them, some running around and making her Blood pressure rise yet she won’t hear word”
“I guess she just wants to see you happily married and having Children”
“I know my dear but you know my condition na”
“I am an old man with white beards which girl will be ready to settle down with an old man like me?” he asked giggling.
“Well Prof I don’t see anything wrong with you”
“Your old in age but still very much looks attractive and I bet many girls out there are battling to make you thiers.”
“So your saying am still very much in the market” he said smiling
“A hundred percent sure prof” I replied, returning the smile.
“And if I may ask, when you said Many girls, you also meant yourself inclusive right?”
“Well I.. I…” I blushed and simply couldn’t finish the sentence while he sat on the couch laughing at me.
He turned on the TV and went in to prepare dinner and I decided to go in and help him.
……………….. TO BE CONTINUED…………….
©️ Nita
