THE CHAT ROOM : PART 1 – 10
PART 6
By Temi Akintade
“We shouldn’t have gone this far Tayo.” I didn’t know why I was regretting maybe it was because I saw the faint $tain of my bIood that came as an evidence of the fact that I was no more a wrapped gift.
My truth stared at me in the face. Sx wasn’t as interesting as I thought it could have been.
According to the pictures and videos that he showed me, I always saw people enjoying sx but I didn’t enjoy it.
The only person who seemed like he enjoyed it was Tayo who kept groaning like a deranged man on top of me.
I was disgusted with what I did. I suddenly wanted to leave. I suddenly wanted to scrape the sx scene out of my mind.
“This is how vrgns behave. It’s because it is your first time you will enjoy it sooner.
Besides, you will thank me in few months to come because all this your straight body will become curvy soon.” He rose to his feet, nked then he threw me a grin and wore his shorts.
“You should thank me for dating you, Paulina. Girls are dying to have what you just had for free.
Let me get you chicken and malt so you can start going. I and my guys will be going out this evening. Merry Christmas.” He walked out of the room, shutting the door behind him.
I didn’t realize I was crying until I felt the tears drip on my b.are che$t. The same Tayo who had claimed to love me just spoke to me like I was some trash.
I quickly cleaned my tears and wore my clothes. Taking my first step was difficult. I began to walk as though there was something between my Iegs.
THE CHAT ROOM : PART 1 – 10
Finally, I walked into the sitting room to meet the chicken and malt packaged in a leather and placed on the glass center table. I was still staring at it when he came in.
“That’s your food. We will chat later.” He sat on one of the sofas.
I felt cheated and pained that he would speak in such a manner to me. Someone who was all over me when I stepped into his house. “Is something wrong? Did I turn you off or something?”
He ignored me, flipping through the channels. Finally, he turned to me. “You were acting like a novice.
You were acting like you never knew that we were going to have sx. Look if we love each other, we must have sx. It’s a normal thing.”
But I was tempted to tell him of what our teenage teacher said the Bible said. I wanted to tell him that they said, the Bible frowns against sx before marriage. But he interrupted me.
“Don’t worry. I will marry you and this is not a sin because God has already approved us.” He reassured me and saw me off to the gate.
He flagged down a bike and paid him. Then the motorcyclist zoomed off with me on the bike.
Somehow, I just knew that December 25th, 2001, marked a unique turning point in my life and created an opening an opening that I would never recover from.
By the time I got home, my mother was not at home. I concluded that she must have gone on one of her outings with the women in our church for the Christmas celebration.
Still, my abdomen ached. I quickly took some tablets of paracetamol and went to rest.
After some time, I rose to my feet, restless. I was passing to go to the sitting room when I saw my mother’s door ajar.
Curious, I entered the room.
There was no one in the room but I was more concerned about the papers lying on her bed.
I should have left but my legs have a mind of their own. I walked towards the bed and began to read through the papers. The one that caught my attention was the ‘letter of retrenchment.’
My eyes grew wide with realization. Until it dawned on me, finally.
THE CHAT ROOM : PART 1 – 10
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