And It All Falls Down

Anna looks at Munya’s dried cum on her thigh. This was so weird. She knew that the Depo Provera shot was ninety percent effective against pregnancy. Last night had been wild and crazy. They had made love for hours. The setting definitely contributed to the sexual experience. The bungalow that they were staying in was like a multimillionaire’s getaway house. Munya walked into the bedroom pushing a tray. There were all sorts of breakfast treats on it. 

“Good morning gorgeous,” Munya says. He comes up to her and kisses her. Things starts to heat up quickly and the kiss turns into a morning quickie. For breakfast, Munya made her a cheese omelet stuffed with mushrooms and toast with a bowl full of fresh, cut fruits. 

After that, they went to the beach and Anna got to try on one of her new bikinis. The water was warm, clear, and beautiful.

“Do you think that there are dolphins in the water?” Anna asks Munya. She’s a little afraid to venture further down. Her swimming skills are a bit rusty and she’s afraid of sharks even though there are shark nets in the water. 

“Possibly,” Munya tells her. “You like dolphins?” 

“I love dolphins. I used to spend hours drawing them and at one point I wanted to be a marine biologist,” Anna explains kicking in the water. Munya wraps his arms around her waist from behind. 

“Why didn’t you become a marine biologist?” He asks. Anna shrugs. 

“I found out that they don’t earn much and I come from an African household,” Anna explains. Munya laughs. 

“I also once wanted to work in biodiversity, but my parents didn’t understand what that was,” he tells her. 

“So you didn’t want to become a doctor?” Anna asks him. 

“Eventually I did when I realized how much I helped people, but initially I was forced into medical school by my parents,” 

“Well at least I’m not the only one that had impossible parents,” Anna tells him. They spend the next two hours by the beach and then Munya drives her in a Jeep to a restaurant nearby for lunch. They have pasta and then stop by a Gelato place for dessert. They go to the local theatre where they’re lucky to catch a production going on there. One of the actors in the production is a major celebrity who used to do the big screen, Blessing Xaba. Anna is excited to see him. He starred in the Spud movies that were the obsession of every youth when Anna had been a teen. Anna has a chance to talk to him after the production and take a few selfies with him. She can’t help but ask him about what it was like to work with Troye Sivan. 

By the time they returned to their vacation home, it was already dark outside. Munya had bought her a new phone so that she could play Genshin Impact on her phone. It was the latest iPhone 13 Pro Max with 256 GB. He also got a PlayStation so that they could play on the TV that came with the vacation house. Anna had been using an outdated phone forever and this was the first time in forever when her phone wasn’t backward. While she was in the bathroom and Munya was setting up the Play Station, out of curiosity Anna checked her Seeking Arrangements account. The KingHenry2022 had sent her another message.

KingHenry2022: My apologies, I realized that I had not sent you a way to contact me outside of this platform. My W******p number and calling number are +44 7837 ******** . I hope to hear from you soon.

Anna rolls her eyes. This KingHenry2022 is getting annoying. He is almost certainly one of those Nigerian or Ghanaian scammers. She ignores him again and is about to delete the message when Munya calls for her. She quickly finishes her business and joins him in the lounge. They end up playing Genshin Impact all night long. Anna switches between using her new phone and playing with Munya on the Playstation since she’s on a much higher level than him. She can join into his world on Genshin and help him progress in the game. They make a lot of progress. The only time they take a break is when Anna sits on his lap and kisses him, straddling him which turns into his pants coming off and Anna having her first experience being on top. 

They end up falling asleep on the carpet in the lounge. Anna wakes up on Munya’s chest. She decides that she’ll make him breakfast this morning. She goes to the kitchen and makes yoghurt and muesli cups, fresh-cut fruits, freshly pressed fruit juice, and breakfast burritos with minced meat. She carries them on two trays. This is where her training as a waitress comes in handy. Munya wakes up when she arrives with the food. 

“That smells good,” he says. Anna sets down the food. “Well I used to work as a waitress so I have a few skills,” Munya takes a bite of the breakfast burrito. He groans at the taste.

“Were you the waitress or the chef?” He asks her. Anna blushes. 

“I like food a little,” she says. Munya raises an eyebrow.

“You could have fooled me, I thought you liked it a lot,” he tells her. 

“You saying I eat like a pig?” 

“No, just that you never were shy around food or pretended not to eat much at first to try and impress me,” 

“So, that’s a polite way of saying I eat like a pi…”

“An honest person You’re one of the most real people I know,” Munya tells her. Anna feels a stab of guilt as he says that. He doesn’t know that he’s probably with one of the most deceptive people that he will probably ever meet. Anna wonders if she should tell him the truth…she opens her mouth and before she can say anything Munya’s lips are on hers, feeding her one of the watermelon pieces. 

In the afternoon they go shopping at the mall. Anna pretends to go to the bathroom but instead pops by a lingerie shop. She buys something that she thinks Munya will like and heads back to the Lush cosmetics shop where she left him. He doesn’t even question why she was gone for thirty minutes. He is such a patient guy. 

Before they leave, they stop for lunch at Ocean Basket where they share a seafood boil. The waiter comments that they are a very cute couple and takes a picture of them together. They leave holding hands. 

“So, the waiter called us a cute couple,” Munya says as they leave the restaurant. Anna nods. “Are we a couple?” He asks. Anna laughs.

“Well, I don’t usually have sex with guys I’m not serious about,” she tells him. 

“But are we serious enough to be a couple?” Munya insists. Anna turns to him.

“Are you asking me what are we?” she asks. 

“Well, duh,”

“Well, I don’t know, you haven’t asked me anything yet,” Anna teases. “I don’t want to be too forward,” Munya rolls his eyes but he’s amused.

“Will you be my girlfriend Anna?” He asks her.

“I’ll think about it,” Anna says coyly. She shrieks as Munya begins to chase after her and tickle her.

****

“Yes!” Anna groans as she and Munya are in the bedroom. She’s on top for the second time. 

“Yes, you’re my girlfriend?” He asks her. 

“You’re impossible,” she groans. He thrusts in her again, making her unable to talk for a moment. He sucks on her neck.

“Okay, yes, I’m your girlfriend…” she finally concedes.

“And I’m his wife!’ A voice yells from the door. The shock of this unknown third party makes Anna jump back. Munya gets up from where he is lying down.

“Rebecca?!” He exclaims in shock. “What are you doing here?” 

“What am I doing here?” The woman at the door screams and stomps to the bed. Anna looks on in shock and covers herself up with the sheet. The woman looks at Anna in rage. “What are you doing? I didn’t want to believe it when I got a message on F******k telling me that my husband was having an affair with some gold-digging bimbo but I caught you right in the act,” She moves threatening up to Anna, but Munya blocks her way. He gets up from the bed and stands between Anna and Rebecca.

“You’re protecting the bitch?” Rebecca says in disbelief. She screams and starts to punch Munya. Anna continues to look on in shock.

“You’re married?” Anna eventually mumbles out.

“Don’t act like you didn’t know you fucking slut!” Rebecca screams at Anna and attempts to swipe at her but Munya blocks the way. Munya grabs a night robe nearby and puts it on. Rebecca tries to attack Anna again but Munya blocks her. She starts to scream obscenities again, but Munya takes her by the wrists and persuades her to come and talk to him in the en suite bathroom. Anna finds herself naked and covered in a sheet alone in the bedroom. She gasped as though she was holding all the air inside of her all this time. She looks around. She has to get the hell out of there right now. She gets up and wraps a night robe around her body. She packs her suitcase as quickly as she can and rushes out of the house. She orders an Uber when she finds herself at the corner of the road, for a moment she’s afraid that there would be no Uber available in the area. It’s still the afternoon so there’s fortunately one available. 

The Uber arrives in five minutes and she instructs the driver to take her to the nearest hotel. Fortunately Uber has a new feature where a woman can choose a female driver. Anna wouldn’t have felt safe with a male driver in South Africa. The driver drops Anna off at a hotel in a decent neighborhood. Anna checks in. People look at her curiously with her bathrobe on. Fortunately, Munya had given her a card pre-loaded with about one thousand five hundred dollars to carry with her on the trip. He had also given her the South African equivalent of about five hundred dollars. She would sleep here tonight and figure out what to do tomorrow. Anna went into her hotel room and it was only there that the weight of everything that had happened hit her. Anna burst into tears and felt so terrible. Munya had been married this entire time?! Of course, a man of his age and accomplishment would have a wife…did he have kids too? Anna cried for an hour straight and felt so nasty. She had slept with a married man and enjoyed it…

After crying, she lays down in her hotel bed letting depression take over her. Around six in the evening, a W******p call came from her mother. She answered it.

“Hello…”

“So you’re having affairs with married men for money now,” her mother says in a low voice. Anna’s blood freezes. “You went to Durban with a married man to have sex with him,” her mother’s voice is dangerously low. Munya’s wife must have contacted her. “Don’t you ever ever come back to my house again. You are never welcome here again you little whore. You have chosen the life that you want,” Her mother cuts off. Anna tries to call back but she’s been blocked. Panic rises in every part of her body. She begins to shake. What is she to do now?

Suddenly her alter ego appears beside her. The imaginary her that consoles her in tough situations. 

“Look here, bitch,” her alter ego tells her. “Shit has hit the fan, suck it up and take. You almost two thousand dollars to your name and you can do something with that if you’re smart about it,” 

Anna continues shaking. She’s not completely destitute. She looks at the messages that her mother has sent her so far. Before she called she sent her messages saying that I found out what you were doing. There’s a video. And a screenshot of a W******p conversation. The video is of her and Munya having sex… that time when they went to his house after lunch at Pistachio’s. Anna can’t believe it. The screenshot shows someone messaged her mother with a Namibian number telling her that Anna was having sex with her husband. So Munya’s wife had probably got ahold of security videos and sent the part of her and Munya having sex to her mother. Anna felt sick to her stomach. That means that she had probably slept with Munya in their marital bed.

Anna wonders how many people this video has been sent to. What is she to do now?

“What about trying and contact that KingHenry2022?” Her alter ego asks her. Anna pauses. That scammer? But what was the chance that he was not a scammer? What if his offer was legitimate? She literally had nothing to lose right now. Anna copied the number from Seeking Arrangements and tried calling it on W******p. After three rings someone picks up.

“StormySugar?” A person with a posh British accent answers. 

“How did you know?”

“You’re the only girl that could contact this number from a Zimbabwean line,”

“I’m actually in South Africa right now,” Anna tells the person. They do have a British accent…and a white British accent, not a black British accent. 

“Interesting,” The person on the other side of the line says with a tone that sounds like nothing could be less so. “ I suppose you’re contacting me about the offer that I sent you on Seeking Arrangements. It’s still available,” 

Anna pauses. “ I don’t know you,” 

“I can arrange for a flight to London from O.R Tambo Airport,” the guy tells her. 

“I’m in Durban,”

“I’ll also arrange a flight from Durban to Johannesburg,”

“Look…”

“I know that my offer might be a bit unbelievable but I will send you the itinerary in three hours including a return flight and taxi to Heathrow. You can think through it tonight and if you choose to go you can leave in the morning tomorrow. Please send me your details,” 

Anna sends him her details and decides to think about it. Right now going back to Zimbabwe isn’t an option really. In such a conservative country, that sex tape will be held over her head and used to blackmail her. And even with the jobs there, nothing pays a decent salary. The cost of living does not match the amount jobs pay at all. Anna decides to take a risk with London. She wonders what will the arrangement be with visas…Zimbabweans are not just allowed into the UK…But if she manages to get into the country…and it doesn’t work out with this KingHenry2022…then she’ll just stay and start afresh there. Zimbabweans can seek asylum there right? Anna goes to sleep feeling scared and apprehensive. What the fuck just happened in less than six hours?