HOUSE OF THORNS : EPISODE 11 – 20
HOUSE OF THORNS
Episode 16
When Leonard walked out of his room some time later, one would have expected him to be mourning and looking all gloomy, but he was anything but gloomy. He had told himself to snap out of the pain; it was needless to cry over spilled milk.
He had somehow reckoned that his wife would still have left him even if he was the meekest of men. What did she expect him to do when the thought of the man with his wife was already posing a problem to him? Did she imagine that he’d hug her and kss her for getting pregnant for another man?
“Mind telling me what all that was about?” Vince asked him calmly when he got into his room. He was actually talking with Tricia and Valerie about how strangely the couple were acting, before Leonard tapped on the door and came in.
They were wondering what the couple found out at the hospital that could have made Vivian behave the way she did, and then Leonard too.
“Something tells me the drama in his house that day is yet to let the couple get back to where they used to be” Tricia opined
“Could that be why she’s sick? Have they perhaps found out that the shenanigan is taking a toll on her health?” Valerie asked.
“Have you two stopped to think about the possibility of her getting pregnant from that encounter?” Vince had asked and the two sisters looked at each other with mouths wide open.
This was their state when Leonard knocked and got into Vince and Tricia’s room, acting all cool. But the lines of worry that creased on his brows readily gave him out.
“Hello!” Vince said, waving five fingers across Leonard’s face when he didn’t answer his question. “Are you going to speak already or do I have to hit it out of you?” he asked, humorously posing like a Roman Reigns and everyone including Leonard burst into laughter.
“Nothing much my friend, I’ve just been served breakfast” he said, laughing wryly.
“Meaning?” Tricia asked, getting upset that he was playing with something as serious as that.
“Meaning, my wife just left me. She is pregnant for her supposed ‘rap!st’ and she has clearly chosen him over me. So I’m back to being a bI0ody bachelor” he said, his eyes glistening even though his face was forcing a smile.
“You can’t be serious! No! It can’t be! Like, how the he1l can she walk out on you after all you’ve done to keep this marriage? What was she thinking of when she chose the r0gue over you?” Vince lamented.
“That’s what I’ve just come to see now my friend, so I’m back to searching and wooing again buddy. I’m back to square one!” Leonard said sullenly.
“You don’t have to sound so pathetic, not with you being so blessed in gold and in looks. If you ask me, it’s her loss. Wait till I let my girlfriends know that I have a big brother who’s as cute as you are and see if you’d need to do any chasing or wooing” Valerie said nonchalantly.
“Common Val, the poor guy is hurt, this is not the time for jokes” Tricia said seriously.
“And I wasn’t joking when I said what I said. And if you’re not planning to have him mourn and stay down forever, now is the right time for him to mingle and giggle. It’ll help him heal faster and permanently” Valerie said matter-of-factly.
“Aren’t you sounding too knowledgeable for someone who’s never had a boyfriend?” Vince asked humorously and Tricia nearly fell from her seat as she laughed.
“Come off it Vince, you know what I’m saying is true. I don’t need to have had numerous previous relationships to know that when one is hurt, confronting the pains heads on is the best way to heal. It may not feel exactly same way, but Loveth had double crossed me to date my crush when I was in year three, remember Tricia? The only thing that helped me then was hopping around with friends, and doing all I can to feel wanted by being with people that really wanted me!” Valerie said.
“You’re right Val, and I’m sure Vince was just joking when he said what he said too. Right Vince?” he said, giving him the look.
“Sure boss” he said in exaggerated obeisance. “And talking about mingling and giggling, we don’t have to wait till Valerie is able to have a score of her friends and acquaintances lined up for a royal parade before we get started.
I’m sure Leonard wouldn’t mind joining us to the nightclub later today. Would you?” Vince asked his friend who had been standing there quietly, just looking at them and smiling as they bickered.
“Of course not Vince. I’d be glad to go out and live again. I’ll be glad to club with you bunch of good hearted fellows” he said getting emotional.
Later that night, they set out to the nightclub, walking in pairs as though they were two couples. Valerie allowed Leonard hold her hands, it was a brotherly hold after all.
They had fun unlimited as the two pairs danced to good music on the dance floor. The strobe lights in the night club and hot tunes the DJ blasted sent the people in the dance floor into a frenzy, everyone dancing almost as if to outdo the next person.
Valerie was thankful that Vivian hadn’t come to the club with them, she wouldn’t have had a partner to dance with, she thought, smiling to herself. She wasn’t one to dance with any random stranger.
“There’s truly a blessing in every disappointment” she said while they danced, and Leonard couldn’t help but agree. For while they were rocking to the hot music, he could feel his small man throbbing uncontrollably as Valerie danced all over him in sheer excitement.
Maybe because she had had so much to drink, or maybe she just wanted to make him feel wanted, but he liked the fact that they danced so freely, not having a care in the world.
For Valerie, she was having fun dancing with a man she has come to hold so close to her heart, he was almost like a big brother. She could dance so freely with him, because she was sure there was no strings attached.
He noticed how excited Valerie was dancing with him, but he was being careful, making sure he didn’t let her feel the budge her erotic moves was creating below his belt line.
“I would have thought that you’d be a good dancer, but dancing with you today has shown just how much you still need to learn, if you really want to make your future girlfriend rate you better” Valerie teased Leonard as she sat besides him on their way to the hotel.
“Don’t tell me Valerie beat you today” Vince said as he drove and Tricia who was sitting in the front passenger’s seat turned around to look at Leonard’s face, as he was teased non stop.
Leonard sat there smiling. None of them could tell why he was so happy. They must have thought he was trying to conceal his shyness at the taunting and teasing he got, but hisind was far from them.
By the time they got to the hotel, Valerie was already sleeping, she had truly had more than enough to drink that day. Tricia looked at her in disappointment and shove her harshly.
“Wake up you little br@t. Who told you to drink so much?” she queried. “No sis, I’m not drunk, just a little tipsy. And sis, I’m no longer baby, cut me some slacks would you?” Valerie argued as she staggered out of the car.
“This time, I agree with her. You should let her breathe sometimes without gaging her with your motherly sternness” Vince told his woman.
“And sweetheart, you’ve been so attached to your sister since we came here that you’ve hardly had the time to give me the care I deserve. Don’t you think you’ve been too unfair to me?” he asked looking all pitiful.
“Common darling, you know I’ve just been concerned about her being all alone. But when Leonard accompanied her today in the nightclub, didn’t I give you a full dose of what you’ve been missing before?” Tricia slurred, as they all walked on.
“Hmmm, that’s true! I had you to myself all through our time in the nightclub today. Pray tell Leonard, would you please help me send Valerie to her room and give me the privilege of having my woman to myself tonight?” Vince asked with all seriousness.
“Then maybe, I’ll get a chance to teach you some dance steps before you get to meet your girlfriend. It’d be a total shame if you danced like you did back there before your girlfriend” Valerie giggled.
“I’m sure that would be saving me from the fear of passing the night in solitude and anguish. Yes, it’d be a nice idea to have instructor Valerie teach me how to dance. it’d be a good idea to dance all night long instead of sitting in misery all through the night” Leonard said honestly.
“Thank you Leo my man” Vince said as he swept Tricia off the ground before she objected to the plan, walking in large strides towards their room, after winking at Leonard mischievously.
“So, when do we start instructor?” Leonard asked Valerie, looking at her amusedly as she walked about shyly, seeming uncomfortable with his presence.
“See Leonard, I think it’d be better we played a game instead. I’m really too tipsy to dance” she told him, not knowing exactly how they were going to dance in her room with her pnties and other lady stuffs lying carelessly in the room.
“No ways! We came here to dance, and dance we shall! I’ll quickly use the restroom, you’d better be ready when I return or I’ll be the one teaching you” he said playfully and went into the bathroom.
“Thank you father” Valerie screamed in her heart as she watched him enter the bathroom. She quickly picked all those stuffs that had been making her so uneasy and before he got out of the bathroom, she was searching for songs on her mobile phone.
“You’re set?” he asked smiling intimidatingly. “You bet!” she responded so confidently, and they were rocking to a nice song shortly after.
At first, they just danced, both doing their freestyles, but after a while, she had him stay behind her and copy her moves. “You’re still not dancing. You’re just marching” she had told him, laughing playfully.
It was quite unfortunate that while Valerie was dancing away, thinking that he was watching her moves to learn, he was looking at how she swayed provocatively, and getting turned on.
“I think I’ll need to sit for a while” he told Valerie at some point. He was getting embarrassed with the way his propagator kept pointing unabashedly. The last thing he wanted was for Valerie to notice what her sensuous moves was doing to him.
“You wouldn’t dare. How would you be sitting while your instructor is still on her feet” she said giggling like a school girl. Leonard laughed hard and sat on the couch in the room, daring her to discipline him.
“You asked for it!” She told him as she went on to give him a lap dance, rolling her tiny waist as her bvtts grinded hotly on his lap.
“Oh Lord, this girl is going to drive me nüts now” he thought and tried to help himself before things got out of control.
It had been a long while since he was with a woman, and with the way this little girl had been rolling and rocking on his lap, he was fast losing the restraining order he had given his hands from grabbing her waist.
He watched her giggle and grind for a few more seconds and his hands moved on their own accord. When his hand touched Vivian’s waist, she stopped dancing suddenly and turned we around to look at him. The look in his eyes told her she should have known better.
HOUSE OF THORNS : EPISODE 11 – 20
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