Love-Life of Asante - Episode 5

 

“So it’s medicine that you have been buying since abi?” Adesuwa said to Asante, as her own way of ‘welcome back’.

“What happened Asa? You stayed quite long you know? And tomorrow is the presentation.” Akosua said bringing to her remembrance the nemesis that was just about to befall her.

She looked at both of them as they held their pitch-book in preparation. She didn’t know the exact response to give to them . She just went straight to the bed, dusted it, took one of her wrappers and slept. Both of her friends gave her that strange look, and gesticulated to themselves like “Well, who knows what happened?”

Akosua who had been praying that she does not eat when she comes back, quickly said “Babe, this one that you are sleeping so? Could that also mean you don’t want to eat again?”

She got no response from her and said “Well, Adesuwa you were here oh. She said she wasn’t going to eat.” Then she headed to the kitchen which was just demarcated with a curtain as it was a self-contained apartment.

As she turned to Adesuwa, the look she got from her frightened her immediately. She just respectfully went back to her chair as she took her book again and began to grumble that the food will spoil if she doesn’t eat it.

“My problem with you is that with all the food you eat, I still cannot make a perfect distinction between you and this mannequin” Adesuwa lambasted her as she pointed one of her clothes hanging on the inanimate object close to their wardrobe.

Just that moment they heard Asante sobbing gently and quickly called out simultaneously “Asante?”

Without getting any response from her, they both rushed to the bed as they began to console her and at the same time asking her what happened.

“You don’t cease to amaze me you this girl

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. Is that how you people behave in your village? You should console first before asking what happened” Adesuwa blasted Akosua again for the umpteenth time this night.

“What difference does it really make? You are consoling, I am asking the question. That way, we are both using two stones to kill one bird.” Akosua said sounding intelligent.

“Economics student! Chai. It’s almost the end of second semester and you still cannot effectively minimize resources? Your parents now in Accra will be thinking that their daughter is studying Economics, not knowing she has added ‘Home’ to the front. I pity you! Meanwhile, the adage is using one stone to kill two birds. Not the other way round. Nonsense!”  Adesuwa said as she hissed and turned back to Asante again.

Just that moment tears almost fell from Akosua’s eyes. As she was about to talk, Adesuwa’s loud voice cut her off as she said to Asante “What were you saying just now jare before the mosquito bite?”

Akosua got up in anger as she went to her reading table back. Asante just kept staring at both of them as if she was watching a movie in the Cinema. Only that tears were still coming out from her eyes.

Feeling shy and at the same time sobbing gently, she said “We did it!” Then she continued to sob.

“Did what?” Adesuwa asked shouting.

“We had sex!”

The room became quiet. Akosua who had dissociated her mind from the discussion to face her book soon opened her mouth. Only that one couldn’t really distinguish the symbol of her mouth-opening.

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. Whether it is as a result of the amazement or she was just yawing because of hunger as she never gets filled.

After a few seconds, Adesuwa said “Wait oh. Help me to understand. You didn’t mention that he raped you. You only said that you guys had sex, so where is the tears now coming from? Because I don’t understand.

Just that moment she brought out her phone. Showing them the text she saw in Bernard’s phone after the sex. She had taken a shot of his screen with her phone.

When she was picking up her clothes from the table then, a text had popped out on Bernard’s phone as he was sleeping. The text had read, “Sweet, how are you doing? I will still be expecting you for tonight’s round. Love ya”

That was when she fully realized what Bernard actually meant by “…if you could replace my X without asking Y”. She probably thought he said that then as a compliment, now she knows it was reality – even worse, as this doesn’t even seems like the text was from an ex.

As she showed it to them, they became really confused.

However, they had not even heard from Bernard himself if he really was dating someone else or there was just a mix up somewhere. Perhaps, there might just be another scenario to their own conclusion. Perhaps not.