Pearls of Love (Episode 13)
Well, I didn't touch her. Instead I chose to admire the gown “Wow! It’s so beautiful”, I actually meant she and not the gown, though the gown, sincerely was very beautiful, you wouldn’t have believed she sew it.
“I am almost done with it” She said, pretending not to notice the tension in me. “The owner is expecting to get it before next week”. She said excitedly.
Call me the father of all slackers if you like. I later sat on the rug watching a horror movie, as she continued her sowing. Later she said she was tired and came to relax beside me on the rug, as she did our hands mistakenly touched and we both pretended nothing happened, and quickly looked away. I wasn’t sure what she had in mind.
I slept off forgetting that I wasn’t in my house, I suddenly woke up, not sure how long I had drifted off, probably about ten minutes. I noticed she had also slept off beside me. I still know how it happened, but we had sex twice. I can’t describe to how it happened. That was my first cheating in my relationship with Ann. I slept with another woman, not Ann, for the first time in about four years.
Somehow, I was beginning to enjoy her company so much such that I was beginning to forget Ann. We continued to see, almost every other day. Well, for everything that is not properly established, it’s never going to have a proper ending too, the affair lasted for about a week. That was the shortest affair I ever had.
I remember how it ended, The day I made up my mind to end it, I went to her place and even before I knocked on the door I knew there was a guy inside because she hardly locked her door, all the time I had been to her place, her door was always opened. But it was locked this time.
She opened the door and I immediately noticed a frown on her, then she tried to smile. There was a guy lying on the bed as I entered into the room, he was having only a boxer on, and I knew without being told that they didn’t like my presence.
“Dan, meet Barry, my boyfriend”, she introduced “Barry, this is Dan, my friend we did computer together.” She didn’t mention that I was the guy who she had been balling. Women!
Barry and I exchanged cold greetings and I told them I was just passing by and said to look her up. I left and Rita did not even bother to see me off. Somehow I was happy, since I was already looking for a way to end the unholy affair. I had cheated on Ann and wasn’t comfortable with it, now was the opportunity to stop it.
On my way out of the compound I met Jamie. Remember her? Rita’s friend I mentioned earlier. You know, I wasn’t expecting her to recognize me or talk to me because of the way she reacted towards me the first time Rita introduced us.
“Hi Dan”
“Hey Jamie”
“You didn't meet her?” she asked, pointing towards Rita apartment.
“Oh, Rita, she's in”, I answered absent minded, thinking of what to do, I planned spending some time with her, now I have to think of something else.
I think idleness is one of the greatest problems with graduating and having to wait for the National service, I think it is a whole waste of time.
“She has a visitor” I told her
Jamie looked at me; I think she was wondering what kind of visitor. She probably thought I was Rita’s boyfriend.
“But you can check, she is not busy” I told her.
"A guy or girl?” She asked
"Guy"
“I think I will come back” she said, “it’s not so important”
“Ok” I answered and started walking away, while she followed, through the pavement out of the compound.
“Which way are you going?” she asked and I told her. She said she wasn't going that way but could drop me off at my place if I didn't mind. I was surprised, I wasn’t expecting that, for one thing it was the first time we were talking for another thing, the first time she met me, she did like I wasn’t her match.
“I surely appreciate that, thanks”
We walked to her Audi, not saying anything as we did. While driving off, I asked her where she worked.
“Here and there”, she paused as a car approached in high speed, it was a one-way road, she continued after the car had driven by “I own my own business; I have three cyber cafés with a business center, I am going to open another soon".
“Great! You look young though”, I said trying to take a closer look at her.
“Sure, you may be right” she said, “one needs to survive and it's not by sitting down doing nothing”
Somehow that talk went somewhere deeper in my sub-conscious, and I felt I was an unserious person because at this time I was actually sitting down, doing nothing. Somehow it wasn’t my fault that I wasn’t doing anything, in my country you must first serve your country for a year after you have graduated before you can seek employment in any establishment, whether Government Agency or Corporate Establishments, apart from the fact there were too many unemployed graduates.
“I like ambitious ladies”, I told her
“Some men are scared of them”, she replied
“Yea, I think so, but I am not”
“But why are men afraid of successful women?” she asked as she took the corner at the front of Winners.
“I think, men always want to be the head. They don't feel secured when the woman is too important in the society, they don’t get the significance they should”.
“Hmm! Men!” Jamie looked at the clock on the dash board.
“So where are your cyber café located?” I asked her and she described the location, I wasn’t familiar with the name. She probably knew I needed a job, because she told me she needed a manager to run the cyber cafe.
A part time job would do me a lot of good at this time, at least before I go for my National Service.
“Take the road straight down” I told her as we approached a street.
“This road is bad” She complained. “Why is no one doing anything about it?” she asked.
“We are getting used to it”, I told her, thinking of how corrupt government officials are, not bothering about the needs of the common man, the roads are completely dilapidated, with massive pot-holes, bad dredging, and no drainages. The majority of the masses were unemployed; there was massive poverty in the country, while the people in government steals away several billions and save in foreign accounts.
“So what do you do?”
“Waiting for my National Service to commence, I graduated last year December, but I need a job all the same”, I said, trying to put all my words together, I hate not to convey my message properly, sometimes it sounds like I’d jumbled words together.
“Really? Nice”.
We approached my house, “That's my house”, I pointed to the house down the street.
I lived in an estate with my parents. My both parents were sitting outside. I told her to park at a distance to the house, I didn’t want her getting to meet them.
"I need a part-time job”, I told her. Just then her phone rings.
“Yes”, she said into the mouthpiece of the phone “Who? Okay”.
When she had finished her call, she gave me her complimentary card and asked me to check on her the next day. I thanked her for the ride and she drove off.
The next day I went to her office, the entire building, a storey building was rented for her business. Her office was on the first floor of the building. It was a very simple office that contained her desk with a computer and printer. The rug was red.
“Dan, how're you today?" She greeted me as I approached her desk.
“I'm good”, I told her as she offered a seat opposite her desk.
“And how was your night?”
“I didn't sleep much" I replied.
“Love sickness?” she joked
“Partly”, I tried a smile.
“A run-away lover?” She teased
“No, a far-away lover”, I answered smiling. There was hardly anyone I had met since we started dating that I didn’t tell about Ann.
“It happens all the time”, she looked at me like she felt some pity for me at least that was I thought. I nodded in agreement. She had probably experienced the feeling several times more than I have.
“Your office is fine, and the entire building is nice too!” I told her
“Thanks”, she smiled
We talked about a few personal things, then my reason for being there. She told me again about the position, the Café manager; though I had little experience of computer at this time, I could do the job well because it was beyond just operating computers but managing the entire business but computer knowledge and experience is required too to properly manage a café business.
This was one lucky chance for me, the advert was to be placed on a newspaper that morning, but since I showed interest, Jamie took me to her uncle’s office; the man was a Permanent Secretary in Finance ministry and jointly owned the business. I signed an MOU with them on the running of the café and I began work the next day.
Yes, it was as easy as that!
I can remember once writing in my diary about that day being one of my best days in my life. You may not know what financial freedom means to me, you will understand if you are the kind of person I am. I like to be able to do things for myself, I hate being a liability and, it doesn’t make sense when you are dependent on people, be it your parents.
The pay was worth my status at that time, I had some months to work before I went for my national service. Soon Jamie and I became good friends as I continued to do well in the business. Within the first two months the business had generated profits of over a hundred thousand and I was also making extra money for myself from other businesses I generated from the internet.
One evening Jamie invited me out; it was a Friday night, for me it was a good business night as many customers would want to browse over the night. We went to a busy joint in a hotspot in the center of town. This is where a lot of people who has money, spends their money.
Let me tell you something quickly, I don’t go to parties, I don’t go to clubs, I not antisocial person, but I feel there are lots of things to with the time, rather than spend on partying. It is not a problem to visit friends, friends can visit too, but know your purpose on earth, and know that some time, you would be leaving the earth, and you need something very important, to leave behind, that people will use to remember you for a very long time.
I have been goal oriented since as a child, I have some important things I want to achieve in life, and one of them is a good family, a great author, publisher, and very rich man. Achieving those things honestly doesn’t come from parting, maybe you can meet someone who make you rich from attending parties, yes, but what about other goals, you need a lot of time, to sit down alone, think and use your brain.
Enough of that! I was putting on a tee shirt that matched with an old-school jean with a timberland. I sat across the table watching lustfully at her boobs that shot out of her loose blouse which was worn over a blue fitted jean. She looked beautiful than all the other time I had ever seen her.
We had four bottles of stout each, I didn’t know she could drink that much, Ann couldn’t drink much, manages up to two or three bottles of small stout on occasions.
I was afraid this lady wouldn’t be able to drive us back and it was getting late, but she insisted she wasn’t a baby and usually drink more than four bottles to get drunk. I sensed she was drunk, she sounded tipsy but I didn’t tell her this.
After that night, I became much of a better friend with Jamie. Our relationship was not so much of a boss to an employee, we were friends. I managed her business properly and even made much profit, than she could have, which she admitted.
I had never gotten someone to appreciate my work so much as Jamie did, she gave me a free hand such that the other workers, café attendants and even customers, saw me like the owner of the business.
It has come to my mind a lot of time to ask her out, but apart from the fact that she was older than me, I didn’t want to cheat on Ann again, never again!
There was a time I had a serious fall-out with my parents that I had to left my home, I stayed with Jamie in her apartment for some weeks. But we both lived in mutual respect, knowing our boundaries. I don’t think I met anyone as nice as Jamie.
Though all through this time, I didn’t meet her boyfriend but I never at any time saw her with any man. According to her, the guy was uncaring, not showing any love towards her, does not visit, unless she went to him.
I was convinced her boyfriend had another girl but didn’t tell her.
Money is good, honestly. I was making more money than I thought and was tempted to get a waiver for my national service, thanks to Rita, I probably wouldn’t have met Jamie.
Something happened that changed my life, I made almost a million, it wasn’t my regular business, it wasn’t my payment, no I didn’t steal either. But I got almost a million cash. Believe it or not, it was like a dream, but I got almost a million not doing more than a few walking with some catch of breaths. With that money I began to achieve some of my life goals, bit by bit.
I guess this is why even after several years I haven’t been able to forget Rita and when she came to me for help when, I thought it was right to help her, because through her I met Jamie, and I won’t just be helping her for nothing, I would also be making money.
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