Missing Pieces (Episode 2)
Mirabel met Christabel in the room when she got back,it was quite obvious they both had a bad day,she was lying on the bed with her legs propped against the wall and her head hanging out on the air and cool music playing on her phone,dropping her bag right on the floor,she joined her and for a few minutes nobody spoke…this was their brooding position,when ever one of them or both of them had a problem they always end up in that position…finally Christabel,as always,broke the silence…
‘I couldn’t even get him to talk to me all day…the only thing he said to me was ‘your food is burning’…and that’s all,I tried everything except pull off my clothes and stand naked as the day I was born and yet he still didn’t so much as acknowledge my presence….’
‘Go naked’…Mira laughed…’that’s a good one,why didn’t you try that,I thought pulling off your clothes for people of the opposite sex was a great talent of yours’…
Christabel shot her a wounded look…’ok ok am sorry for that statement,I really am,but somehow I don’t blame Chris for acting up,that guys gives you everything,including attention and yet you still don’t do enough for him,I actually felt sorry for him the other day,I mean no matter how hard he tries for you you don’t even appreciate it…haba!...their should be a limit to everything’…
Mira felt tears gathering as she finished the long speech,she wasn’t only referring to her friend and her boyfriend,she was talking about herself and her mystery lover,today’s had been the worst,it was like he was angry at something,it barely lasted a minute before he came and she was not even halfway done by then,he just stood up and went straight to the bathroom and took a bath after which he came back and told her he needed to sleep,gathering her clothes she had gone to the bathroom to take a bath too crying all the way, not that he noticed anyway and left, never since they started their whatever it was they had,had he ever hinted that she should leave his house…she not only felt bad but cheap,and the worst was that she knew she would go running back to his room anytime he calls…she had foolishly fallen in love with him…
‘What was that about,what is bothering you’…Christa broke into her thoughts,it didn’t take special psychic powers for her to know something was up…
‘I just had a bad day that’s all….’..she went about narrating a stupid story to get her friend off the track..it worked..
‘I don’t know what to do about Chris,I have tried everything,he wouldn’t even take my calls’….
Mirabel stood up, stretching..’at least you had some food…’
Christabel watched her friend go into the kitchen then returned to her musing, she knew she did bad but she has been trying to make amends…no matter how hard she tried to deny it, Christopher was the only guy who rocked her world and she wouldn’t jeopardise their relationship for anything,she picked up her phone one more time…
Chris woke up to the ringing of his phone, Christabel,picking up the phone he gruffly said ‘come over’ before hanging up, 8missed calls, all from the same number, Christabel, the girl never gives up, yet he never plays with her, even when she wronged him he still tried his best…and today was no different…
10minutes later he heard a knock on the door and went to open it, his flustered looking girlfriend entered quietly…she started to talk but he cut it…
‘sheeeh..no talks please, am tired of that’….then he kissed her and suddenly their quarrel seems to be a distant memory…
Eddie was out with his friends having a drink…his weekends were always the same,hang out with his guys,have a drink and call up one of his ladies for an all night session, he chuckled to himself at his choice of words, session,h e had both day and night sessions…he was just on the verge of dialing up one of the ladies when he saw her…sleek,tall,fair and beautiful, exactly his type of lady, the lady walked like she owned the world, and she knew exactly the effect she had on the guys around her, his shifted his glance to the guy beside her, Christopher, his glass of cold drink he had on his hand suddenly tasted like mud to him, he so much hated the guy and with no good reason, his eyes went back to the girl beside him, their was no girl in this campus he wanted that he couldn’t have…he must have her and the mere fact that she was with Christopher fuelled his determination…
‘Who is that girl with Chris, do you know her?..’…he asked his friend Mike…the sure smile on Mike’s face showed he not only knew her but has so many stories to tell…
‘That girl is Christopher’s babe oo, word has it that he is hanging on tight’…he stared at them as if looking at their faces would automatically bring in more information, maybe that seem to work because he still had more to say…’I also heard she is an aristo babe, though nobody has even been able to prove that, and somehow nobody believes that either because she comes from a very wealthy family.
So that means money can’t get her either, Eddie thought…standing up he shook his friends’ hands and with the customary ‘Guys we go yarn later’ he left…
He was so restless when he got back home, he couldn’t stop thinking about her, he was even more disturbed by the fact that Christopher had a girl he wanted, just the mere thought of Christopher drove him mad…knowing he wouldn’t be able to sleep unless he got some action,he picked up his phone… He already had someone in mind…
Mira was in the room brooding when her phone rang, she ignored it, it has been over 3hours Christabel left and even longer time since she had been thinking about her life, few months back she had met him on a bus on her way back to school, she had been sitting beside him, she had learnt that he was also a student of their school and he was so entertaining, they had talked and laughed so much, along the way their bus spoilt and they had to find a guest house for the night, it was only sensible they shared a room considering the fact Mira had merger money and he was obviously a really rich dude. They had sex that first night,that was her first mistake which strangely she never regretted… she did not hear from him again which should have been her first clue, but she never stopped thinking about him… when they went back to school thoughts of him drove her crazy so much that she tried to track him down, that was when she realised she didn’t even know his name…
Her phone rang again and this time with an accompanied beep of a ping…’I want you here’..that was all the message read…quickly jumping up from the bed she put on a gown deliberately forgetting her underwear, he hates the extra wasted time, and rushed out grabbing a handful of money….
She obviously got there too late because she was in time to see another girl enter the room, from the window, their silhouette showed her all she feared to be true…
‘I couldn’t even get him to talk to me all day…the only thing he said to me was ‘your food is burning’…and that’s all,I tried everything except pull off my clothes and stand naked as the day I was born and yet he still didn’t so much as acknowledge my presence….’
‘Go naked’…Mira laughed…’that’s a good one,why didn’t you try that,I thought pulling off your clothes for people of the opposite sex was a great talent of yours’…
Christabel shot her a wounded look…’ok ok am sorry for that statement,I really am,but somehow I don’t blame Chris for acting up,that guys gives you everything,including attention and yet you still don’t do enough for him,I actually felt sorry for him the other day,I mean no matter how hard he tries for you you don’t even appreciate it…haba!...their should be a limit to everything’…
Mira felt tears gathering as she finished the long speech,she wasn’t only referring to her friend and her boyfriend,she was talking about herself and her mystery lover,today’s had been the worst,it was like he was angry at something,it barely lasted a minute before he came and she was not even halfway done by then,he just stood up and went straight to the bathroom and took a bath after which he came back and told her he needed to sleep,gathering her clothes she had gone to the bathroom to take a bath too crying all the way, not that he noticed anyway and left, never since they started their whatever it was they had,had he ever hinted that she should leave his house…she not only felt bad but cheap,and the worst was that she knew she would go running back to his room anytime he calls…she had foolishly fallen in love with him…
‘What was that about,what is bothering you’…Christa broke into her thoughts,it didn’t take special psychic powers for her to know something was up…
‘I just had a bad day that’s all….’..she went about narrating a stupid story to get her friend off the track..it worked..
‘I don’t know what to do about Chris,I have tried everything,he wouldn’t even take my calls’….
Mirabel stood up, stretching..’at least you had some food…’
Christabel watched her friend go into the kitchen then returned to her musing, she knew she did bad but she has been trying to make amends…no matter how hard she tried to deny it, Christopher was the only guy who rocked her world and she wouldn’t jeopardise their relationship for anything,she picked up her phone one more time…
Chris woke up to the ringing of his phone, Christabel,picking up the phone he gruffly said ‘come over’ before hanging up, 8missed calls, all from the same number, Christabel, the girl never gives up, yet he never plays with her, even when she wronged him he still tried his best…and today was no different…
10minutes later he heard a knock on the door and went to open it, his flustered looking girlfriend entered quietly…she started to talk but he cut it…
‘sheeeh..no talks please, am tired of that’….then he kissed her and suddenly their quarrel seems to be a distant memory…
Eddie was out with his friends having a drink…his weekends were always the same,hang out with his guys,have a drink and call up one of his ladies for an all night session, he chuckled to himself at his choice of words, session,h e had both day and night sessions…he was just on the verge of dialing up one of the ladies when he saw her…sleek,tall,fair and beautiful, exactly his type of lady, the lady walked like she owned the world, and she knew exactly the effect she had on the guys around her, his shifted his glance to the guy beside her, Christopher, his glass of cold drink he had on his hand suddenly tasted like mud to him, he so much hated the guy and with no good reason, his eyes went back to the girl beside him, their was no girl in this campus he wanted that he couldn’t have…he must have her and the mere fact that she was with Christopher fuelled his determination…
‘Who is that girl with Chris, do you know her?..’…he asked his friend Mike…the sure smile on Mike’s face showed he not only knew her but has so many stories to tell…
‘That girl is Christopher’s babe oo, word has it that he is hanging on tight’…he stared at them as if looking at their faces would automatically bring in more information, maybe that seem to work because he still had more to say…’I also heard she is an aristo babe, though nobody has even been able to prove that, and somehow nobody believes that either because she comes from a very wealthy family.
So that means money can’t get her either, Eddie thought…standing up he shook his friends’ hands and with the customary ‘Guys we go yarn later’ he left…
He was so restless when he got back home, he couldn’t stop thinking about her, he was even more disturbed by the fact that Christopher had a girl he wanted, just the mere thought of Christopher drove him mad…knowing he wouldn’t be able to sleep unless he got some action,he picked up his phone… He already had someone in mind…
Mira was in the room brooding when her phone rang, she ignored it, it has been over 3hours Christabel left and even longer time since she had been thinking about her life, few months back she had met him on a bus on her way back to school, she had been sitting beside him, she had learnt that he was also a student of their school and he was so entertaining, they had talked and laughed so much, along the way their bus spoilt and they had to find a guest house for the night, it was only sensible they shared a room considering the fact Mira had merger money and he was obviously a really rich dude. They had sex that first night,that was her first mistake which strangely she never regretted… she did not hear from him again which should have been her first clue, but she never stopped thinking about him… when they went back to school thoughts of him drove her crazy so much that she tried to track him down, that was when she realised she didn’t even know his name…
Her phone rang again and this time with an accompanied beep of a ping…’I want you here’..that was all the message read…quickly jumping up from the bed she put on a gown deliberately forgetting her underwear, he hates the extra wasted time, and rushed out grabbing a handful of money….
She obviously got there too late because she was in time to see another girl enter the room, from the window, their silhouette showed her all she feared to be true…
MISSING PIECES
By Nnagoziem Udensi
and Ekene Mgbechikwelu
...to be continued
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