VALENTINE’S CITY
CHAPTER TEN
Mike spent at least two months in the hospital before being released. When he came back home, I asked him what happened then he told me everything.
It happened that, when this uniform men took held him hostage, they got him well beaten. Bernard’s cousin was amongst the uniform men and he was the one leading. They took him to an uncompleted building where they called Bernard and his brother to come and take Their revenge. The got him tired to a block where he couldn’t release himself. They took turns in Punching him till he passed out. They thought he was death so they carried him and dumbed him in front of the gate.
I told him we needed to report to the police, which of couse he told me he wasn’t going to report to any police. That he was going to handle things his own way. I let it slide, after all it was his life he was joking with. Though we had grown up together, he was three year older than I was so I decided that I will let him make his own choices, and how ever way it affected him was no longer my business.
I went on with my life and he did same with his. I and Samira became even more closed. She helped out with my studies. Well, Keren got tired chasing me. Besides I couldn’t even imagining myself dating a girl like her. Don’t get me wrong I can’t judge people for the life they lived, but I had my taste in women. I loved my women well rounded and fully packaged. I also love women who were intelligent, considerate and outgoing and most especially calm and not talkative. I hated noise and women who nag a lot. That was exactly what Samira had. At least that’s what I thought.
Time ran really fast and a year was coming to an end. I was going to my second year in the University, but I had some obstacles. I wrote my exams but some of my courses didn’t come out. I spent so much time and energy writing letters to the administration, but to no avail.
I couldn’t also figure out where the problem had been coming from. I paid a visit to Samira one evening and told her everything. She told me not to worry that she was going to look into the problem. I asked her how, but she just pushed it aside. Our friendship had grown so much. As at now I was preparing to ask her out already. One thing I was sure of was that she also had feelings for me too.
I decided that, after I deal with my problem, I was going to invite her on a date and ask her to be my girlfriend. But as faith will have it, things took didn’t work as planned. She took my slip I discovered and within two days had settled my problem. I was happy at the same time had mixed feelings because one hand , she wasn’t one of the school delegates nor was she a that close to the administration. At least that’s what I thought.
She didn’t even have friends that were closer to the administration. Everything about her, I wanted to ask her how she managed to pull that out so fast, but I thought against it and let it slide. The evening I invited her, I went to her room to take her along. It was already about 9:30. What I had in mind was that we will go to fancy spot just the two of us and then later go clubbing.
When I entered she was in the room bathing. I knocked and she asked me to enter and wait for her in the living room. I went in sat on her Couche and switched on the tv. Few minutes later her phone rang persistently for over 5 minutes, I didn’t pay so much attention and she never heard as well. The phone rang again and for long so I decided I was going to pick the phone and hand it to her in the bathroom.
I walked up to where the phone was and I was shocked at the name I saw. It was boldly written Mr. Nchinda.
Mr. Nchinda was the Head of department in school. I wondered why would Mr Nchinda will be calling her at such odd hours of the Night. While I stood there wondering, the phone rang again the third time. This time around I said I will pick it up and hear what he has to say. Maybe they were just friends.
“ Allo, Mon Cherie amour, Mon Coeur ! Comment Tu vas ??” hearing this words I didn’t need to think further.
In order to not make things look suspicious on my side, I took it to her and told her someone was on the line. That the person had been calling for too long so I had to pick and decided to rush to her.
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