Made - Episode 3

 

The door to my office opened and Philip's head appeared on the door way.

"Daniella, goodmorning."

"Goodmorning sir," I replied pretending to have been busy before he walked in.

"Can i get the report on the Geneo farm from last week?" He inquired.

"Its on your desk together with the PowerPoint presentation in a red flashdisk."

"That's great now am equipped for the board meeting. Kindly send me the soft copy of the report and also to Maggie."

"Okay sir."

With that he left the office and i let out a sigh of relief . WIDCOS our company dealt with export of vegetables and flowers. We were one of the largest export companies in the country. Now we were expanding to include importing wines and spirits and it was quite a catch. We had production farms of our own and would supplement with giving contracts to small scale farmers. 

Philip was the overall manager and unluckily for me i became his assistant. This meant every sales report or any other kind of report had to pass through me before going to be presented to the board. I loved the thought of being able to produce food and supplying it to the world. What i hated was as much as we were producing tons on top of tons, my country was the least beneficiary of this products.

By lunch time i had cleared almost everything on the intray

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. From the laughter coming from Philip's office i knew the meeting was a success. Despite everything that was going on in me i could not help but smile. I walked to the reception. Mercy was already waiting for me. We normaly had lunch together at Zuna's Cafe 5 minutes walk from the office.

"You look beat, has Philip been trying to kill you in that office with paper work?" Mercy immidiately started joking after seeing me.

"Not really am okay. So what did Kim want to tell me?"

The smile quickly disappeared on Mercy's face and my heart sunk. 

"That bad huh?"

She shook her head in agreement.

I still hadn't wrapped  my head around the fact that he had left me. I wished that one day he would pick up the phone say he was sorry and had been a fool to treat me that way. All this were castles built on air to make myself feel better. It would take divine intervention to put Kim in that position i had only dreamt him in.

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In my fourth year on campus, the Engineering students went on strike. They had complaints about having less lecturers and that it was not legal for them to undertake that course because they were not registerd on the national board.

It did not affect me so naturally i paid less attention. Becka came up to me one afternoon in search for Kim's number. She claimed she wanted to see how he was doing with this strike going on. Wanting to help a girl with a crush i offered to help. We had shared classes with Kim in my first year so i knew few of his coursemates. I contacted one of them and he agreed to send me the contacts.

I did not have  to wait long. That evening i got a text from Kim. From the message i could tell he was really exited to have found my number. He did not hide from me the fact that he was glad this situation had happened and now he would get to talk to the guy of his dreams.

We took off from there. At first it was just just chatting and calling one another into the night. I enjoyed every single text i read together with the calls. I was falling fast. More like the Lucifer fall. My soul had loved that guy to the core. We gradually got bold migrating from audiocalls to videocalls. Then followed date lunches. Into the second semister of the last year we started serious dating.

Bit of advice. Always listen to your sixth sense. There was something obviously wrong with Kim and me. I always felt this huge darkness when i tried to picture my future with him. A huge impenetrable darkness. I did not take that to much account because at the time everything was great between me and Kim. Besides i did not want to be that lonely girl finishing school hoping for a happy ending but never getting one. Had i listened to my inner voice i would have saved myself the situationship that i ended up in.

After graduating i got the job i am currently in almost immidiately. Kim wasnt as lucky but was quite handy in getting a business of his own and starting it. We did not get to spend as much time like before but we were good. Trying to get together as much as we could in the free time we had.

At this point in our relationship the darkness i had felt before had sunk deeper into the past and i was not worried about ever being dumped. A year passed and it became extremely difficult to meet. We migrated back to vediocalls and messages. Kim had not given me any reason to doubt me whatsoever.

On one Sartuday he asked me where i was in a chat. I had gone to my friend's place to pass time. I ended up spending at his place. Despite the fact that i was religious i would spend time with my boyfreind for i felt it was part of being romantic. I had convinced myself that not doing what other youths were doing in campus  would make me miss out on my youth days.

On this particular day we decided against cooking so Kim had to go get us food. We had spent most of the afternoon watching one movie after the other and did not notice darkness engulfing the place. Kim paused the movie and ran out of the room to look for supper. I  laid down on his bed to relax before he came back.

Becka knocked and enterd Kim's room. I was suprised to see her here of all places. I had not seen her since graduation and the same had been the case with Kim. While i was still wondering how and how her expression changed from smile to fright.

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. She kept pointing under the bed i was sleeping in. I rolled off the bed and fully knelt to see what she was looking at. Lying under the bed was a full size skeleton.

Scared out of my mind i started screaming but no sound came out of my mouth. I stood from my kneeling position and started for the door when Kim came in. He must have observed my countenance and percieved what i had seen therefore he quickly placed his hand on my mouth and pushed me back into the room. I struggled but he was too strong for me.

"Daniella! Daniella!"

"Wake up. Its just a bad dream."

I woke up to Kim trying to calm me down kissing me all over the face. I wasn't sure what to feel of all this affection he was giving me. I must have fallen asleep when he left to bring food. I was partly relieved that it was just a dream but partly concerned for dreams could be something as much as they could be nothing. For a little foolish puppy love i was willing to push aside all my fears behind and fall into the broad arms of Kim's deception.