Let It Go - Episode 6

 

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KENNIE

“Just shut up! Shut your trap! And listen well now, remove the wool in your ears. I, Kenneth Bryon will never be yours again . Put that in your thick skull” I dropped the phone and put my two hands on my face. 

“Lord, Maddy, make her listen, make her understand. We have gone too far, Lord” I prayed before my phone rang again. I picked up without checking the screen, thinking it was Rita and wanted to scream into it before I heard a different voice. 

“Good Morning, Ken. This is Tessie” the person on the other end said. I breathed out, scared already. 

  Maddy had promised to stop our wedding plans and now, this is Tess, our wedding planner calling. 

“Hey Tess. Morning. What’s up?” I said, trying to sound neutral.

“I’m good. I tried your number severally but it didn’t go through”
 
“Oh, sorry for that. The phone was probably off already” I replied, trying to calm myself.

“Maddy called last night. She told me to cancel all wedding plans.” I huffed. 

 “She was even so serious about it that she said she will compensate me for my stress.” I sighed again.

“It’s just two months to your wedding

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. Let me make it more realistic. You have eight weeks between being single and being married. What in the heavens is wrong with you two?” she shouted and I took the phone away from my ears a bit. 

  Tess is a friend to both Maddy and me. She was my very close friend in secondary school. In fact, most people thought we would date but we weren’t romantically inclined. She was the fellowship president and I was the assistant in our last year but we lost contact after then and got separated. It happened that she, Maddy and Nancy met in the university and became friends. She is much closer to Nancy than to Maddy though. When I later met Nancy, I met her too. I even met those two before Maddy.  The thing is, Tess carries the problems of her friends like they are hers. She behaves like a mummy and now she is practically scolding me. Aarghh!

“I don’t even know what to do. The thing is…” I sighed and fell silent.

“Is what? Better spill right now, Kenneth Bryon!” she shouted again.

“You see, Tess” I sighed again and mustered the courage to speak.

 “You remember Rita?” I asked.

“That devil of a girl you dated briefly in SS1 that I clearly remember I warned you not to date?”

There she goes. She told me then she will clearly remind me when I start regretting it that she told me not to date her. She should’ve just become a lawyer. She has a very good memory, just that it’s being used against me right now.

“Yes, what happened to her?” she asked when I fell silent. “Did she…” she hesitated “Did she cause any ruckus?”

“Yes, she did” I replied.

“Spill”

“While you travelled to the US, I met her again. She was the agent sent by a company we had deals with to our office. She no longer looked like the old Rita and she even told me she was engaged to be married. I was sincerely happy for her and we exchanged numbers. Later on, I told Maddy about her and we all got along well. She later introduced me to Abigail, her fiancé’s younger sister. Abby and Maddy had good relations.” I said and fell silent again.

“Continue” Tess urged.

“She and I met often and Maddy started getting worried but I calmed her that we were only working together for some time, so after a while, we won’t have to meet so frequently any longer. She got calm, but after a while, Maddy got incessantly troublesome. I told Nancy and she promised to talk to her”

“Okay”

“So yesterday, Maddy and I were meant to have a date so I planned to leave work early. Rita dropped by my office unexpectedly so I wanted to dismiss her fast. I was checking the documents she brought but when I was done and raised my head up, Rita was almost totally undressed before me. She was in just underwear and…”
 
“Ohh myyy” Tessie drawled.
 
“So, what happened? Don’t tell me you…”

“No I didn’t” I interrupted her.
She took a deep breath in relief.

 “Thanks bro. I love the God in you” I smiled a little. That’s Tess’s way of saying ‘I love you’ to every hooked guy. She says her hair doesn’t grow fast, she can’t afford to have all uprooted by any ‘high’ lady. She cracks me up most times with that.

“This is now the real problem. You know of this saying ‘When temptation calls you on the phone…’”

“…don’t argue with it, just hang up” Tess said with me. “You’re very right. So, what did you do?”

“I didn’t even wear my shoe, I just fled to the door but as I wanted to turn the door knob, it opened and Maddy walked in”

“Oops. Aish! Bad, very very bad”
 
“Exactly. Maddy didn’t even wait, she just stormed away. She didn’t open the door for me so I turned back after a while. I’ve been unable to reach her since then. I called Nancy and she went to her house early this morning. I called her too but she said she said she’s still speaking to her. You also know Maddy can be very stubborn when it comes to issues like this. I just don’t know, Maddy wasn’t meant to be at the office. I planned to pick her up at home and…”

“Wait!” Tess said suddenly and I flinched. Her voice is really loud.

“You say Maddy wasn’t meant to be at the office. Don’t you think this was a set-up? I don’t think all of it is a coincidence. By the way, what did Rita do?”

“Hmm. I just told my secretary to lock the office whenever Rita came out and to ensure she doesn’t leave with anything in the office. Rita kept apologizing that she didn’t mean it and it’s because her boyfriend left her blabla. She’s just the devil’s accomplice sent to destroy me”

“Silly person. If not because Ray has been kicking sense into me, I would call her stupid. I have the urge to say ‘I told you then’ but I won’t”

“You already have, lady”

“Whatever”

“What are the things Maddy said out of annoyance?” she asked again.

“She was very angry. She was shouting at me and crying at the same time. She said she would call the cops on me. She said she couldn’t believe it until she saw it with…” I trailed off. Oh My!

“I told ya!” Tess said like she won a jackpot.

“I was set up. Wait!” I shouted and even I flinched.

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. I never knew I could shout like that.
 
“What?” Tess shouted back. That girl ehnn.

“My secretary was trying to tell me about some other woman.”

“Haha!” Tess shouted again. Ray will really have to get earmuffs to live healthily with her after their marriage.

 “Maybe she’s Rita’s accomplice who brought Maddy.”

“Thanks Tess. You are a darling” I said into the phone as I went to pick my sandals.

“You mean the God in me?” she asked, laughing.

“Toor, all of you combined jare” I said, joining in the laughter. “I’ve got to get my wife back. She should be at the hospital. Wish me well” I picked up my car keys.

“God’s best and journey mercies.”

  I cut the call and went out, praying in my mind that Maddy listens to me and gets convinced I’m innocent in all this mess.

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