Freaky Girl

CHAPTER THREE.

Bryan is still sleeping in bed while Kim is awake, smoking and working on her laptop. Bryan wakes up to the smell of Kim's smoke. He opens the blinds that covered his balcony and beach view. Kim closes her laptop.

"Good morning." She greeted.

Bryan slips his hands beneath her underwear to cup Kim's firm breast. "Beautiful morning to you. I know you had a great night, so what will you have for breakfast?"

"Toasted bread, chocolate tea, and peppered fish with snail."

" I see you have good taste in meals. Lucky you, I will spoil you to the moon with my meals."

"Can you cook?"

"My mother is a chef. She taught me well."

"I'm embarrassed. I can't cook." She laughed at herself.

"I will teach. So tell me, what excites you, what do you do for fun, what makes you happy?"

"I love good music, food, vacations and good sex."

"I hope last night was good enough?"

"Could be better."

"I am Bryan, thirty five years old, single, my family lives in London. I make good music for a living."

"I am thirty three, single. I'm a prosecuting attorney that resides in my mother land Nigeria. I am an orphan, I don't have a family and I don't want to talk about it."

"Then let's talk about good sex."

***

At the snooker board, Bryan, Andre and Gentle play snooker.

Bryan looks at his wrist watch.

"Do you have any appointment?" Gentle wondered.

"Yes, I have a hike date with Kim, in Ghana."

"Hike date in Ghana?" Andre asked.

Gentle danced a bit. "I can even hear a smile in his voice. Somebody is falling in love."

"Lover of every beautiful girl on earth. Be serious, how long will this fling last because the girls we ordered for from Dubai will arrive tonight." Andre said.

Bryan shaked his head. "Kim is too good and special to be a fling. Honestly I want to keep her."

Gentle chuckled. "Have you ever kept a girl in your life? Dude, you are incapable of genuinely loving a woman or being faithful."

"I say we all have fun and forget about this genuine love thing. My only definition of love is heart break and regret." Andre said.

"I've had couple of sweet committed relationships in the past." Bryan replied.

"That ended in heart break and regret. Memories that went sore." Gentle snapped.

"I was never at fault. I was the one that got played and cheated on instead."

"Yet you still want to give love another chance? I see you haven't learnt your lessons."

"Love is beautiful." Gentle concluded.

Andre laughed at him. "Caging someone for over ten years is not love Gentle. Free that girl, let her go."

"I know what I'm doing."

Bryan sighed disappointedly. "What do you think you are doing? Even God will not forgive you if you don't end up marrying Sharon. I have to go. See you guys when I see you."

"New girls are arriving tonight, are you interested?" Andre asked.

"No, Kim is enough for me."

Gentle smiled. "Have fun, say me hi to miss proud."

"Her name is KIM." Bryan said, exchanging handshakes.

"Happy heart break in advance." Andre said in laughter.

***

It is night. The path is lonely and dark. Pink is hurriedly putting on her dress. She and Nathan just finished having sex.

They both walk home quietly with guilt and regret written on Pink's face. They stop in front of her gate, Nathan tries to speak but she runs inside her compound wiping off the tear on her cheek. Nathan slowly walks out of the Estate reminiscing on what they just did.

***

Bryan and Kim were currently in Singapore, on a boat cruise. From Ghana they flew to Singapore. The country was indeed a beautiful place to visit. Kim is eating grilled chicken with vegetables, along side a bottle of chilled milk.

Bryan is sitted beside her angrily scrolling on his iPhone.

Kim asked. "What is bothering you, talk to me. Let me in."

"Do you know this journalist and blogger called Blade?"

"She is the richest and most popular journalist in Africa, of course I know her. What about her?"

"I hate her with everything in me. She always make fun of my music and life in general."

"She does that to every celebrity in the world. Don't take it personal, that is her profession. She is just trying to make money."

"At the expense of constantly making people sad and pushing some into depression? That woman is the the reason I am facing a hate train in the black community now. This is beyond making money, she just loves trolling people. She is sadistic in nature."

"People love her."

"Because of her clown behaviour." Bryan frowned deeply. "Don't tell me you are one of her fans."

"Does it matter?"

"It does. Because I don't like her. I hate her."

"I'm i supposed to hate whomever you hate and love those you love?"

"It's about us being compatible enough to be friends or more."

"Relax." She fed him a piece of chicken. "Can we just have a good time and forget about Blade?"

"She has managed to remain anonymous for the past years but I will find her one day."

***

Nathan is sweeping the living room. Payson is painting her nails with red nail polish. Nathan stumbles on a picture of Kim when she was very young in her teenage years.

"Mom," Nathan called out. "who is this girl?"

Payson becomes cold after looking at the picture. She tears the picture in tiny pieces. "She is nobody."

"Then why did you react this way?"

"Are you questioning me?"

"Yes I am. Ofcourse I should. Is this not the same girl you and dad fought over last night? Who is she?"

"You are not entitled to explanations concerning the personal issues I have with your dad, especially when it doesn't involve you."

"Then keep your personal issues private."

"Excuse me?"

"I was in my room last night trying to compose a song but I couldn't concentrate because you and dad loudly quarrelled all night. If you insist it's a personal issue then I shouldn't be affected, no one should."

"I am your mother, you don't talk to me in that tone. Instead of you to think of how to go back to school, you are busy composing songs that won't add value to your life. (A little pause.) Who are you, Chris Brown? Jay Z? One could hear you from the street as you kept singing 'ah-ah-ah-ah-'"

"I was trying to learn a new song for an audition."

"Well it's very dumb."

"You are drifting from the topic."

"Go back to school Nathan, stop wasting your life. Go back to school!!! Your mates are in school studying and graduating with honours."

Nathan angrily walked out.

"Silly boy!" She looked at the torn pieces of Kim's picture in fear. "Wherever you are, I pray you never come back, because if you do I will send you to a place of no return."

***

Pink and Nathan sit outside her gate, nervous and quiet.

Nathan broke the silence. "Why have you been ignoring my calls and text messages, why did you act that way that night?"

"How?"

Nathan knew she was pretending, he continued. "I saw the disappointment and guilt on your face. Sincerely i was also disappointed in myself but I don't regret anything that happened. Baby i really love you."

"Why?"

"Because I love you."

Pink blushed, exactly what she wanted to hear. "I love you too."

"Take." Nathan handed her a big packet of chocolate. "For you and Dalvin."

"Thank you."

"Should we take a walk round the hood?"

"Not today, my parents will soon be back from work, I need to cook."

"Jude has a comedy shoot tomorrow at the beach and I'd like you to come for it. From there we could go to the cinema and watch a few movies."

"I have WAEC classes tomorrow."

"Tomorrow is Saturday."

"WAEC tutorials." She corrected.

"But your two best friends Lydia and Ann will be coming for the shoot. You take school too serious."

"School means a lot to me. I need to pass my WAEC, JAMB and gain admission into the university to study Nursing then get married and have four kids."

Nathan laughed.

"What is funny?" Pink didn't find the conversation amusing.

"Nothing. I love that you are passionate about school."

"Why did you drop out of school?"

"Baby, let's talk about this some other time."

"When? I'll love you to go back to school. If you don't like your course and you can't change it, maybe you should sit for JAMB again, registration is still on going."

"I will think about it." Nathan seemed very uninterested in the topic.

"I have to go now, I'm sorry I can't walk you outside the Estate."

"I'll call you when I get home. Take care of yourself."

"You too."

They hug, Nathan pecks Pink on the cheeks, then walk down the street.

***

In Kim and Jennifer's hotel room. Kim is working on her laptop while Jennifer is reading a romance book, on GoodNovel. Kim's phone ring continuously.

"How long will you continue to ignore Bryan's calls?" Jennifer asked.

"He is too emotionally attached."

"I did not ask why you are ignoring his calls because I know you don't have a reason. Do you know how many women will kill to be in your place? Well i know i will."

"Can we switch positions please?"

"With all pleasure ma'am. But we both know it's impossible. Bryan is a good man, I just wish he came for me instead."

"I will call him later. I need to focus on work. Since I met Bryan my daily income has dropped because he doesn't give me space to work. All he does is take me on silly trips and cook me delicious meals. His company doesn't add any value to me, he demands too much attention."

"We came to France for a vacation. Girl you need to unwind, loosen up. You are too uptight."

"Even so, my profession is different from yours, you can afford to take a break from the hospital but I can't. I need to always work even when I'm not in the office."

"Stop making excuses you workaholic. Bryan doesn't know you are Blade. If he did you guys won't even be here. The fastet way to get rid of him is to tell him you're Blade. But please don't, at least one of us should have a celebrity boyfriend. I envy you, good things never come my way."

"Don't say that. You have the best things in life. You are a successful surgeon that earns good money, you have a family that loves you. You have me, what else do you want?"

"A celebrity boyfriend or husband."

They both laugh heartily.

"Please call him back, he is the type of guy you will regret losing." Jennifer advised.

"Did I hear right? Look, I am the blue print. It will take Bryan a lifetime to find a woman like me."

"Oh really?"

"Yes."

"So tell me, how many inches, nine or eleven?" Jennifer asked.

Kim ignored her, working on her laptop.

"Really? So you're just gonna keep me hanging, no exclusives?" Jennifer made the 'cute pit-me' face.

"Yes my darling, no more exclusives. Good night." Kim replied.