Chapter 3

3

VERY EXPENSIVE JOKE

Like seriously , I can't believe I just lost my appetite. The hunger was still happening in me, but the desire for the food was totally gone.

Was this boy serious or just another way to get me talking on the phone?

What is Kova playing on me? I lamented to myself.

My phone rang again, it was a strange contact. My whole body tensing in a whirlwind of conflicting emotions.

“Hey!” I received the call. A familiar voice came up. It was Kova.

“It’s Kova. Being calling you for like ages now and you have refused to take your calls. What’s up?” he said in an exasperated tone. His voice cut through my tension like a knife.

I couldn’t ignore the sudden flutter in my chest. I felt a compulsion to drop the call, but brushed it off.

“You should be with your new wife right now having the first or second round.” I said coldly, hiding the pressure craving expression in my voice.

“I sent you text messages dear. It was a joke. There was no wedding, no such thing as that. I was playing with you.”

I didn’t know what to say at this moment. Like seriously you pranked me? I said within. And I called a million times and you hardened your heart and couldn’t take the call?

“I don't understand what you mean.” I pretended.

“Story cut short. There was no wedding. It was a joke. The wedding bill was fictional.”

It seemed like a waterfall was unlocked on my face, a stream of tears began to roll down my eyes.

I buried my face in my other hand.

“Why?” I muttered, sobbing.

“I am sorry if I caused you any harm. I was just playing a fun game.”

A fun play and you drove me to losing my hard-saved virginity? You just ruined my life. I pondered in my heart.

“Kova why? Why would you ?”

“I’m sorry my cutie pie. I just wanted to spice up the moment.

“Spice up the moment with such a mind blowing joke?”

Kova chuckled in a low laugh. “I’m sorry dear.”

He didn’t know the harm he has caused to us. I never wanted to cheat on him, that was why I didn't want to lose my flower. I know there’s a bad girl, a very bad girl lying dormant in me, seeking expression. The only way I suppressed it was that I hadn't started doing it.

But now, I can tell that I am very unsure of my life from here.

I ended the call and switched my phone off. More tears rolled down my cheeks like rivers of water.

I left the food there and dropped in the bed in my room, crying.

It shocked me to see how I have slimmed up within one full day. Slim and ugly. That must be the appearance of the new beast coming out of me.

I laid on the bed and thought about my life. Sleep had refused to come as I anticipated.

I wondered how I was going to safeguard and run my life with the loads of fine boys starking around me. In the street, on social media, even in the church mum forced me to attend before she was late.

And many of them are very cute. The kind of cuteness that makes me imagine them between thighs. But my restriction was my flower, and now it’s gone. Gone so soon ! Gone forever !

I was supposed to be in church today as a routine in my family, but that is not happening, even if dad was here.

I will have to stay indoors and moan my virginity for like 4 or 5 days. And before the end of that i could have recovered physically and emotionally perhaps.

* * * *

The best thing that happened to me this week was the boldness to pick my remaining particles, forgetting the former things and moving on.

“LilySaint my love.” Dora called out to me as I got to the church environment. She was so happy to see me.

I felt happy to see her too, but it will probably be my last time seeing her, especially in this same environment.

I knew I was never going to come back here ever again after today. Even if I do, it's going to be occasional, not like the other times I went to church as compelled unwillingly.

The new life I want to live is certainly a mismatch to the environment I am. Secondly, I wouldn't want to become a subject of negative reference here.

“Hey baby girl.” I replied to Dora coldly.

“Come here my baby, I have really missed you more than a cute boyfriend.” she said amusedly.

I gave her a tight but welcoming smile.

Dora is the only girl I have filthy gist with in our whole church. She's just like my version, but I wouldn't want to lead her on to what I want from here.

“I miss you too, my cutie pie.” I replied with a smug smile.

We went towards the back of the church building, where we sat until church service had gone halfway or three quarters to dismissal.

“Hey,” Dora signaled me to see who was approaching.

I shut up my brows, and ah.. such a cute tall man in a face cap coming our direction.

Dora wouldn't quit from her silly ways, always showing me guys with cute faces and strongly built physic.

His face looks familiar from first sight. He got close enough to allow me to see him well.

“Hi, lovely ladies.” the man said as he got close to us.

“Hi” Dora waved at him. I wasn't in the mood to talk to man, not after the two haunting experiences I just finished having with them. The man looked really cute enough to get our attention, and he did.

“Hey, you never reached out to me again?” He asked, referring to me.

A faint shock creased my face. “How? Have we met before?” I asked with a sudden tension that quickly grew in my voice.

“I think so.” He made a stingy smile from the end of his lips.

“You are mistaken.” I said almost quietly.

He smiled again and got his face cap off his head. Goddamn! The man in the heartbreak night.

A cold shiver ran down my spine. He looks cuter than the other time. I never knew I was going to meet him ever again.

A sharp anger creased my face. I didn't want to meet with him ever again.

He was just another man besides Kova, that caused me a pain that had left an invisible scar on my forehead.

“Oh..hi.” I said trying to cheer up fakely not wanting Dora to know what transpired between us.

“I have looked for you everywhere.” His voice sounded deep and velvet and more maturely than what he offered the night.

“Oh…sorry about that.” I said. “Just give me your contact card, I will give you a call.” I quickly added to dismiss him. I didn't want Dora to get the smallest clue of anything.

He waved his head in disagreement. “ You give me yours instead.”

I had no contact card. I showed a hand for his mobile phone, and typed my digit quickly so he could leave us.

“Where again did you say you stay?” The man asked.

Uhh…

“Coke street.” I lied.

Dora turned her eye on me suspiciously and forced herself to maintain an unruffled face.

Dora is way too smart not to know something fishy transpired between me and the man, but I didn't want her to know the story line. This is one thing she wouldn't know about me, I promised myself.

“Thanks.” The man said and turned to leave. “Your name please,” he added.

I wanted to give him another lie, but that will be too much for a day. Bedsides, Dora was listening.

“Lily.” I said, not saying the name in full. The other part of my name doesn't suit my actions the night we met.

“Alright. Talk to you later. I’m Frank Brucha.” he said and disappeared from us.

“Eh..mm.” Dora made a crazy sound.

I laughed.

“Who was that?” She asked. “You never told me you have a sugar daddy already.” She added with amusement flickered on her face.

I savoured my forced laughter. “Not what you think.”

“What then?”

“A long story for some other time. We have to get into the church before it gets badly late.” I suddenly became time conscious with the church service just to distract the main subject.

On my seat staring at the pulpit as the pastor preached to other members, because I was not listening. A text message came to my phone.

It was the tall man, Frank Brucha.

Please meet me at the same hotel tonight.

The same room.

Please, it's important.

Don't miss it.

Did I just read the correct words in his text? A sudden urge for what I didn't want covered my whole body. I can't believe I'm having such feelings for a man I despised and didn't want to see again.