WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 31 – 40

EPISODE 40

Amaka went after Dele, as he walked briskly towards the elevator, she kept calling him to stop, but he didn’t seem to listen.

“Dele please, hear me out, it’s not what it seems, I can explain” she pleaded as they got to the door of the elevator.

“Amaka, I don’t think there is anything you need to explain, I know what I saw”

She could tell, he was trying his best to keep his cool, with the way he was breathing heavily.

“Dele please, can we talk about this? At least let me explain myself”

Dele didn’t respond to her plea, he just shove his both hands into the pocket of his trouser, as he waited for the elevator to open.

“Dele, listen to me I…”

Amaka was still talking, when the doors of the elevator opened, and he walked in, without saying a word to her. They stared at each other as the doors of the elevator, slowly closed, separating them.

Amaka stood there staring at nothing in particular, what was she going to do? How was she going to explain what had just happened, to Dele? It was now, Jane’s words last night, made sense to her; the fire she has been playing with, is about to burn her real bad.

She walked back into her office to find Pius still there, what was he still doing here? She thought within herself. Hasn’t he caused her enough trouble already?

She pretended not to see him, as she went to her desk and picked up her handbag to leave.

“Who was that?” Pius asked.

“My boyfriend, or do I say my ex? Because I don’t know where I stand with him right now, all because of you” Amaka tried her best to not raise her voice at him, after all he was still her boss.

“Come on Amaka, we both know you have always wanted me to do what I just did, it was only a matter of time, before it was bound to happen” Pius said dismissively, walking closer to her.

“I never wanted you to do that Pius, I already told you I had a boyfriend”

“Oh really?” Pius came to a halt. “Then where was this your so called boyfriend, when you were busy talking to me for hours every night? Or did you forget you had a boyfriend when you busy flirting with me, from the first day I introduced myself to you, as your boss?”

“Flirt with you? I never flirted with you, if it’s anything, you have been the one flirting, and throwing advances my way!”

“And you did well to catch them. Amaka we are both adults, so there no need for you to start apportioning blames, if you really loved your boyfriend and wanted to be faithful to him, then you wouldn’t have been acting the way you did around me. Who speaks for hours on the phone talking to someone they are not interested in? And I even noticed you take out time in the way you dressed these days, just so I could pay you a compliment”

Amaka was shocked at his last statement, here she was thinking she was acting smart, but in actual sense she was being foolish.

“Oh, you thought I didn’t notice? Clearly you are not as smart as I thought. Everything that happened between us; you wanted. So stop trying to look for someone to blame for your cheating act”

Pius walked out on Amaka, and went into his own office. Leaving her to stand there, and think about how stupid, and foolish she has been for the past one month. Not only has she lost the respect Dele has for her, but also that of her boss. All because she was trying to have some silly fun.

She decided to go over to Dele’s and talk to him, hoping he might listen to her, and allow her explain things to him. Not like she has much of anything to say, that was going to make him unsee what he already saw at her office, but she was just going to try anyway.

When she got to Dele’s apartment, he wasn’t home yet, his neighbor told her he drove out about two hours ago. So that means he didn’t come home after he left her office. She decided to wait for him.

“You can come and wait for him at my place, instead of staying out here in the cold, and it’s beginning to get dark” Dele’s neighbor offered Amaka with a smile on his face.

If it were to be on a different occasion, she would have accepted, but knowing she was here to plead her case with Dele for being with another man, she couldn’t risk making things worse for herself, and she couldn’t trust this guy with the way he was smiling at her. It was same way Pius smiled at her, and look at where she is because of that smile.

“So are you coming or what?” the guy asked, when he didn’t get any response from her.

“No, don’t worry I will just stay out here, and wait for him instead, thank you”

“Okay, if you insist” the guy walked back into his apartment without saying another word to Amaka.

Amaka waited several hours, for Dele outside his apartment, the weather was cold, and she had no protective clothing on. She had to hold her handbag against her chest to protect herself against the cold wind, that was blowing. She kept praying it doesn’t rain, if not she would be done for.

By 12am, Dele drove into the compound, he was surprised to find Amaka sitting at his doorstep. She was shivering from cold.

“Amaka what are you doing here?” He asked, as she stood up, upon seeing him.

“Hi Dele, I came to see you, but you weren’t back, so I decided to wait”

“You are shivering” was all he said, before opening the door, and told her to go in.

“Dele I am truly sorry for what happened, I can exp….”

“I think you need to take a warm bath, take off those clothes you have on, to avoid you catching a cold”

Dele left Amaka in the sitting room, and came back few minutes later.

“I kept some clothes for you on the bed, alongside a duvet, those should keep you warm for the night, you will find a fresh towel in the bathroom”

Dele left her standing there, and went into the kitchen, he was hungry and needed something to eat. He had been drinking on an empty stomach, which wasn’t good.

Not like he planned on drinking tonight anyway, but after seeing Amaka in the arms of that man, alcohol seemed like his surest solace. He couldn’t call any of his friends because they were both with their families, so he was left to nurse his wound alone at the bar.

He decided to prepare some noodles, as that would take less preparation time. It’s at times like this, he feels grateful for taking the cooking class which he did few months back.

Dele was about to dish out the noodles, when he saw Amaka, standing there in the kitchen.

“Care for some noodles?” he asked her, without bothering to ask why she was standing there, instead of changing out of her clothes.

“Dele, I’m so sorry”

“Amaka, I have heard you, here is a plate for you, I’m sure you will need the energy, considering all what you must have done at the office today”

“Dele please don’t be like that”

“Don’t be like what, exactly?” he turned to face her with his bloodshot eyes.
“How exactly, don’t you want me to be, Amaka? Tell me”

He looked at her, with so much pain and hurt in his eyes, waiting for her to say something.

“What do you even want from me? Why are you here? To make me believe I actually didn’t see you kssing that guy, is that it?”

Dele gave out a sarcastic laugh, and carried his food to the dinning, and sat down to eat.

Amaka sat down on a chair next to him. “Dele please I’m sorry”

Dele just kept stuffing noodles in his mouth, without bothering to chew, he just swallowed. He didn’t feel like eating, he had no appetite, but he knew he needed to eat something, because of the amount of alcohol he had taken.

When he was done eating, he took his plate to the kitchen, and dumped it in the sink.

“Who was that guy?” He asked Amaka when he came back to the dinning.

“He is my new boss”

“Hmmmm I see, so you have been having an affair with him since when?”

“I am not having an affair with him, Dele”

“Oh really? So how do you explain the both of you kssing in your office?”

Amaka was silent, not knowing how to respond to his question.

“You can’t explain that, can you? Just what I thought exactly” he walked to the sitting room and sat down on a couch.

“Dele I can explain”

“You have been telling me you can explain, but I’m yet to get any explanation from you. So let’s hear it, go on and explain to me what you were busy doing, kssing another man, when you have a boyfriend!” Dele pun¢hed the couch out of frustration.

“I know it seems like I was kssing Pius, but I wasn’t, he was actually the one who forced himself on me and kssed me, before you walked in”

“But that wasn’t what it seemed like to me, when I walked in”

“Dele you have to believe me, that was exactly what happened”

“You actually expect me to believe that Amaka? You must really take me for a fool”

“No I don’t Dele, I respect you and..”

“Would you have believed me, if you were the one who walked in on me, kssing another girl?”

Amaka was silent.

“No, I need you to answer me, would you even allow me an inch close to your house, talk more allowing me to tell you, I wasn’t the one kssing the girl, but she was the one kssing me? Does that even make any sense to you? Because it doesn’t to me”

“I’m so sorry” was all Amaka could say, because she had nothing else to say in her defense.

“And so am I Amaka, because this relationship or whatever it is we were doing, is over!”

“What? Dele please don’t do this”