[STORY]:- The Blind Alley – Episode 16

[STORY]:- The Blind Alley – Episode 16

I’d doubt if either of us slept at all through the night. Obviously, we were both pinned down by guilt, tormented, debased and devastated.

A child that eventually eats of what he keeps vigil for would definitely doze off..

We have both tasted of the forbidden fruit in New Haven and we felt nothing but acerbity and astringent .. ..

That would smoothly define the sorry case of Myself and Bro. Mathew.

Early in the morning, as early as 6:30am, Chimezie had woken up to dress for work. He knocked on our room door to check if we were awake already. He was surprised to see we were both fully dressed.

“Wow, “did you guy attend any job interview last night that you’re both fully dressed before a bank staff?, he jokingly asked surprisingly.

Mathew acted as if nothing happened, he managed to drop a smile. It seemed Chimee had coded what happened as his white bed sheet was replaced with a sky blue stripped one…. Bad boy, he acted indifferent and rather behaved as if he didn’t notice it…

The previous one stained with my blood was hanging onthe rope in his bathroom dripping…. I had washed off each stain eventually.

I knew he would be the umpire that planned the entire champions league match that happened last night….. “He must have given him the impetus to devour me, “i kept my brain busy with weird thoughts.

Bruh…, i’d drop you guys off at the park before leaving for work, ”he suggested as he asked us when we would visit him again.

Could you imagine?

Click to read : The Blind Alley – Episode 15

I wished he could see through me and realise how terrible the one i visited made me feel before soliciting for another.. . That’s poppycock..

Chimee dropped us off at the Holy Ghost Park, hugged me, chatted briefly with Semi before finally leaving us for work….

“Obioma, i’m really sorry,.. Words would fail me trying to express how gruesomely grieved i am,” he kept on with his litany of exonerative twaddle.

He had bought a bus ticket for me and made sure i was placed at a very comfortable sit.

At that moment, i hated everything about Bro. Mathew. I saw his behaviour to me last night as bestial. He took advantage of my naivety and finished me up.

He pleaded with me to talk to him at least as the bus was about departing….i found everything he said repugnant.

I could see how remorseful he felt. His cute eyes were red, his lips were trembling as he held my hands without saying any further words.

I didn’t know what to do nor say to him. One part of me still loves him dearly but the other part of me wished him dead….. Yes, i wish i could strangle him with my bare hands…. Arrrrrrrghhhh…!!!!

What a conflicting clash of feelings…..

Our bus left without me talking to him, i watched him stood there gawking….he managed to raise his right hand to wave me bye as i watched him via the side mirror fade off.

Immediately, i lost sight of him…. I cried out loudly such that i couldn’t realise i was in a public place..

A journey to visit my crush which ought to be exhilarating had turned out to be a chagrin….. Such a pity.

I was seated in the front with the driver so he noticed and asked what happened. He was elderly man, should of my daddy’s age or thereabout. I didn’t know what to tell but lied to him that i wasn’t feeling fine. The pernicious look on his face showed he knew i was lying as he grimaced scornfully.

Before our vehicle would drive past 30 minutes, Bro. Mathew had given me 21 missed calls……

“Why would he be calling me as if i eloped with his manhood,” i rhetorically asked myself.

I had made up my mind never to talk to him ever again. I could be adamant when i wish to and that was such a situation where my fastidious nature becomes heightened.

I was totally obdurate..

To me, Bro. Mathew is as good as a forgotten handout from a finished semester exams.

We arrived Awka at exactly 8:15 am…..

“Thank God, “i heaved a sigh of relief as i flagged down an okada to my hostel…

My insipid feelings had suddenly turned sour,…

What could be Semi’s fate now?

Hang on for the next Episode…. 

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