TEMI {MINE} Episode 4 All About True Love & Betrayal
ONE WEEK LATER
The whole week was a pack full of boredom. Her mom was always going out on business trip, while Dami had been the driver that drove her out to places. So her mother and Dami were always out together and most times came home late. That was unfair on her part, as the Dami’s work schedule had not been in her favor.
It had been a week now she set her eyes on her charming prince, and that was actually the day of her arrival. She wanted to know more about him, get wind of his interests, play with him and jokewith him. Every night she slept, she always dreamt of having a relationship with him, relationship full of series of mirth, laughter and fun. A very risible relationship, and whenever she woke up it became dawned on her that it didn’t seem her reverie was a forthcoming reality.
She wanted to as her mom about him, perhaps she could feed with her with Dami’s where about but the killer look her mum pierced on her the day of arrival had always made her quail.
Eliza’s mind was benumbed, totally unresponsive to anything.Only the thought of Dami was allowed. It was not as if she hadn’t fallen in love before, she had, but not as compared to what she felt for Dami now. She only prayed her love should be reciprocated by him.
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It was on aSunday evening, Eliza had been indoors as usual, but being Sunday made everywhere a little bit resilient. The reason being that, her mother would stay indoors too. Sometimes, visitors would come visiting. Eliza’s mother belief was that Sundays were meant for resting while the remaining week days were meant to work and earn more money. A kind of woman who didn’t indulge laziness.
Eliza’s mind was still sinking in distress, she had hope to see Dami today but alas, she hadn’t caught a glimpse of him up till the moment.
“Why would I be expecting to see him? When the house is his place of work, and since Mum isn’t going out today definitely he is not coming to work” Eliza soliloquized, incognizant that Dami lived with them, in a different apartment but at the same compound and the reason why she hadn’t caught a glint of him was because he left home early, before she woke up and also returned late in the evening while she would have retired to bed.
Later that Sunday evening, Eliza plodded out of her room as a result of fatigue from sleeping too much. She carried her tired body outside their lawn, before settling down on white chair placed beside a table. She brought her new sim card with a new phone along. She had bought the new phone with the sim card on her way from the airport.She knew she needed it because of the invalidity of her previous line as soon as she stepped foot on Nigeria’s shore.The othernetwork was not registered here. The thought of Dami invading her mind had not really made her consider it usage before.
While she was trying to fix the device, the phone slipped from her hand and hit the grass covered floor, with patency the grass really helped in preventing it from shattering into debris. Immediately she stooped reaching out to pick up her device, a familiar hand swiftly gripped hers. Eliza tilted her head to see the familiar hand, Lo and behold, her eyes nearly popped out from their socket beholding who the person was.
The way she stared at him made her eye balls grew too big for the socket, even at the verge of combusting. Her mouth also, was still wide opened like that of whale that swallowed Jonah. While her heart momentarily stopped beating like it had gone on indefinite strike. She saw Dami mouth move, spraying out some words but it seemed her ear had also joined the strike, as she couldn’t pick out anything out of what he said. She just stood there astonished.
“Sorry, may I help you with this?” Dami repeated softly producing that wild smile waived in some sort of enchantment that had held Eliza’s heart hostage for days.
“Oh! Sure.” Eliza nodded sporadically, jolting back to her sit with her numbed body resuming to work. Dami was the last person she expected to see at that time. She wasn’t aware of all the time Dami had spent to notice her fumbling with her phone before the phone finally slipped out of her hand. Anyways, she however felt good he came around to help and probably, she could use the moment to spice things up between themselves.
Eliza watched keenly how Dami effortlessly fixed her device up– he firstly detached the sim card from it holder, then uncovered the back casing of her device before removing the battery then hitched up the sim inside the sim connector port before he later returned the back cover. What a genius? She thought–notknowingthat the little or tiny things someone you love does would always appear great to you. What Dami did was not out of normalcy, it was just a normal thing other guys out there will do—but the emotions she fostered towards him made all he did to be exaggerated.
“You know stuffs like this could be annoying sometimes.” Dami broke the uncomfortable silence, handling the device back to Eliza. He had actually noticed the look of astonishment in Eliza eyes, the reason– He didn’t know.But might wanted to know. All he had to was to feign ignorance like he never noticed anything.
“Yeah, exactly and especially to feminine folks like me.” She toned dabbing the surface of the device with the hem of the clothe she put on.
“Anyway thanks and I think I owe you one.”
“You owe me nothing.” He said curtly. He didn’t see any big deal with his kind gesture and was not even expecting any form of reciprocal.
“I won’t take no for an answer. You wouldn’t stress yourself over my phone without me showing appreciation.”
“Are you sure”? Dami gave a pecky smile.
“Of course.” Eliza maintained.
“Alright dear.”
Eliza’s heart didn’t hesitate to puke out through her mouth as the word‘dear’ flew out from Dami’s mouth. Her joy knew no boundary, for him relating to her romantically means he definitely felt something for her, so she thought. And, it actually did help because it buttressed what she felt for him too in her own world of fantasy.
“I would never let you slip away from me” she thought to herself.
“Hey! Wait” She called.
Dami halted his movements before tilting his face towards her.
“Hope no problem dear?”
“Jeeez! He just said it again, he likes me, I’m so sure.” Eliza mind kept bubbling like a bumbling idiot.
“Hope you can help me out with driving tomorrow? I will like to go out, but I am really scared. I really have a kind of phobia for driving in this country” She lied.
“Sure, anything for you dear.” Dami thought before answering. He knew on Mondays—however, he was always resuming his work with Eliza’s mother after some rests on weekends. But this particular Monday, her madam had informed him she wouldn’t be going anywhere due to reasons unknown to him. Perhaps Eliza knew that and more of the reason she wanted to make good use of that.
“Okay. 12pm tomorrow then.” She uttered softly, forcing out a feign look that concealed the happiness dancing inside her. She watched him closely behind as he disappeared into the lawn.
“Yes! I’m gonna use the best of my opportunity. Lizzy baby wise up, you wouldn’t want to dull yourself now.” Eliza kept rattling to herself as she strolled back inside.
“Welcome baby, Dinner is ready.”
Eliza turned her face up to find her mom gaze resting on her. Her gaze was in nowhere friendly.
After some minute Eliza settled down with his mum on the table. Eliza took her time to serve both of them dinner while her mum folded her hands a jaw.A lot of thoughts running rapidly through her mind. She had eavesdropped on Eliza and Dami while they were in the lawn and apparently, every single words Eliza peed out had fallen perfectly on her eagle ears.
Now, she had unmistakably confirmed her fears. She couldn’t why fathom Eliza had quickly fallen in love with Dami–a common driver she just met barely a week ago. And though she didn’t evennurture any pinch of faux or whatsoever against the driver—as a matter of fact, she had always seen him as her most loyal and trusted employee but not when her only daughter and her future were at stake.
She vowed never to allow Dami to shrewd on her daughter’s weakness. Even if it meant doing the unthinkable, she would put on a very ferocious look to fit in her pending behavior she had to unleash towards Dami. She was not ready to allow an ordinary boy she picked out from slum, nurtured up to taste, come around to wangle on her daughter’s weakness on pretense of love. She would never make him feel comfortable around her daughter in the house.
TEMI {MINE} Episode 5 All About True Love & Betrayal
It was a bright morning again, the sky was giving out it bluish color and the sun was getting ready to smile. Though with outward impression that it was the type of sun scientists claim that gives a kind of vitamin D to the body.
Eliza had already woken up from her sleep, but still laid noiselessly on her bed with her eyes shut tight to each other. She didn’t get enough sleep overnight. Yesterday dinner was an augury, or let me say it ended like one. As she kept reminiscing every dim words her mum said to her. She knew her mum had taken her time to have everything prepared for her.
She sat up, opened her eyes and used her two palms to rub away the vertigo in them so as to enjoy the beam in her room. She heaved a sigh, before she retired her hands akimbo while still sitting comfortably on her bed.
T
hen just immediately after that, her eyes caught the portrait of the same person she saw on the day of her arrival. The portrait carrying the face of some Eliza seemed to detest a bunch.“Oh! So I haven’t sent you back to the hade you belong to.” She groaned as stirred up from the bed she was sitting.She felt a kind of adrenaline surged through her as she leapt up instantly to grip the portrait from whatever hook holding it grimly to the wall, slammed it to the ground and the portrait got shattered into debris.
The adrenaline quashed now that it was done working on Eliza. Eliza breathed heavily like someone who just finished a hundredmetres race. So after all, it was her mum that reinstated the portrait after she travelled. But one thing that got Eliza much confused was why her mum suddenly developed interest on her boyfriend. I mean her ex-boyfriend—Tunde Ogunyemi.
Eliza and Tunde had never had any steady relationship or whatsoever. Their relationship was a good example of a meander not heading to a particular point. In short, if there was an award been granted on basis of relationships, then, theirs should have been awarded with world worst relationship ever. They both had since called it quit between themselves after she travelled to UK for her masters. Tunde had made up some nasty mess up again.
Eliza recalled vividly how she felt committed from the beginning, even though she was aware Tunde was a freak philanderer right from onset. But she, out of many of her rational beliefs, thought that being a lady she had in possession some special kind of aura that would coerce her man to submit to fidelity, hence that made her to stay committed to the relationship for a longer period of time.
But Tunde flubbed everything, he ruined all her staunchness, and disappointed her over and over again; all her determination was turned annul–which got her frustrated at the end of the day. And that was the she first time she disposed everything that served as connection between them–which included Tunde’s portrait, a golden trident and chain he bought for her on twenty-first birthday.
However, even after that, she was still hoping things got better between them someday. Perhaps Tunde would come back to beg her in other to settle things up between them;but unfortunately, the day never came. Instead, it was the worst day that surveyed. After Eliza travelled out for her program, Tunde had called to tell her that he stopped loving her long time ago and already had eyes on another lady. He even credited for being the first to summon the courage to announce their split.
“I’m sorry. Things never got better as we hoped to be.” Tunde had said. That was his usual perfect line he employed to ditch out his used vestal.
The words didn’t seem to ache Eliza much, as she wasn’t surprise, at least it was Tunde, a whole hotspur she knew so well. She only took his words in good faith while she riveted all her attention on her program.
But now, she couldn’t fathom any reason why her so called mother who was not ignorance of the whole scenario between them would try to fix them up together again. Her mother had pleaded on behalf of Tunde though not after she first chided him of his previous folly. After that, she made her believe that Tunde was a changed man—and being a change man he surely deserved the second chance. Her mother confessed to her to that she wouldn’t concur to any other suitor Eliza would present to her unless the person was Tunde Ogunyemi.
Eliza heaved a sign, “if mum is trying to quilt my relationship with you Tunde, trust me it would be mission impossible.” She muttered defiantly.
She picked up her phone to take a glimpse look on the screen. Dam! It was after 10am already.She leapt up from the bed, gave a lousy yawn with all her body parts stretched out then stood motionlessly on the ground facing her bedroom mirror. She watched her reflection for some seconds and gave a smirk while the thought of her curves excited her. The curves that would in no time belonged to Dami.
“I should be going out today,” she cooed to herself as Dami’s thought pirated her mind once again.Dami was someone she was rest assured she could never stop thinking about. She had informed himyesterday that he would be her driver today. The opportunity she needed to utilize her plan. She was ready to give out whatever it takes to be with Dami and nothing would derail that.
She quickly went to her bathroom to take her baths, and in a jiffy she was done. She took a long time surveying her reflection before nodding in complacency. She was just so beautiful to complement such a devilish handsome dude like Dami. She glimpsed at a phone to view the massive digital clock displaying on the screen–It was 11:55 AM. She was running late.She slid into her clothes and quickly scurried away from her room, climbed down the stairs and when she landed on the floor of the siting room and she thought she saw someone at the dining but she never bothered to take a longer look than necessary not to talk of opening her mouth to utter a word. She didn’t give a dam hoot about anybody when it came to Dami. Nothing worth more than the fantasy shrouded in her mind.
“Eliza, where to…?” A stern voice rang out from the statue she thought she saw. And by the time she tilted her head towards the angle the voice came from. She couldn’t help but swooned in bewilderment.
Eliza couldn’t believe her ears and eyes, her mother called her name–by her initial name. So she had in no quick time deliberately dumped the jillion of pet names she adopted for her. That was so weird! Eliza was someone who was fostered under a smooth motherly care and affection. She seemed to have become addicted to her mum calling her with pet names, and of course, it always made her feel she comfortable she was still intact in her mother’s endearment.
She knew her mum never called her by her initial unless she was perturbed by something and really wanted it be discussed between the two of them. That was always the time she swop to calling her, her real name. A subtle method she purposely always used to tinge her emotion a bit. While sometimes, she also used it as a weapon to chastise her or instill a disapproval. And apparently it did work well on Eliza; a girl who had grown up becoming emotional feeble and weak, who always enjoyed the mother to daughter affection, would quickly succumb and melt under her mother’s wraith. She didn’t like being treated a hostile by her very own mother.
“I am talking to you Eliza, you aren’t deaf yet, are you?” Same voice rang again, jolting Eliza out of her reverie.
“Oh fine! If it has come to this, then it’s cool. If her mum thought her rants or playing rigid will pave way for her this time, she had better shown her the stuff she is made of now. She is no more the docile type that trembles under her rage. If her mum has decided to play hostile on her, then she would stay rigid. She is not ready to bend, not when the love of her is concerned.”
“Sorry old lady” Eliza started with a smirk. As you can see I am in a hurry, will talk about it when I am back” she told her mum bluntly without even waiting for any more response from her. Dami could be waiting.
Her mum was stunned as she stared at her daughter who walked out on her just like that. Her heart gnawing so hard as the thought of losing her beloved daughter in just a week of her arrival beset her. She realized her daughter was no more the docile she used to be. The boldness, the impudent discovered in the way she talked back at her really said it all.
She thought of everything they discussed the previous night. She knew all what she told her was pure and out of motherly love. She wanted a promising and glowing future for her daughter and she wouldn’t dare jeopardize it by entrusting her feelings on Dami. Dami—a common driver.
She had deliberately started a topic about Tunde with her daughter yesterday. She was so much concerned about rekindling the love her daughter once had for him.
She saw Tunde as the perfect guy for her beloved daughter. Not even after Tunde approached her some weeks before Eliza’s arrival. As the young man approached her, she could read a mild difference on him. A changed soul, like that of prodigal son who had returned home.
She had promised herself not to let him slip away from her daughter’s finger. Of course Tunde was a whizz-kid, someone his progress stirred up day after day. A well collected and successful lad. Someone who had scribed his career with the most fortunate people in high places, with hordes of ladies trooping to walk down isle with him. It was a golden opportunity for Eliza to have someone like Tunde coming back for her.
She swooshed a breath. “I will do everything to bring you two together.” She said, determination reeking in her voice. “Even if it would cost me to lose my motherhood, I will help you protect your future Eliza.”
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Dami was lost in his own trance, though he was still conscious enough to handle the hand wheel. But still, right from the time he set his on her Eliza yesterday, she had occupied his mind. Eliza had successfully sneaked into his thought, taken control of it and eventually snarfed it away.
He had purposely stared at her yesterday when he saw her fumbling with the device. And quickly offered to help her fix it. Same reason he threw pet name at her just to build up the familiarity between them.
Dami had fallen in love with Eliza but he knew better not to allow it control him. Eliza was the daughter of her boss and wouldn’t jeopardize his only means of survival. But one stubborn instinct kept telling him that Eliza liked him as well. There was a chemistry when their body met yesterday, he felt a soft sensation trickling round his body. Something he hadn’t felt before. Afterwards, he noticed Eliza’s felt some sudden impulses too. Could their feelings be consensual?
“Dami you better think straight, no dey give yourself false hope oh. Fine girl like this no go come get any guy for in life.” He kept pondering to himself.
Wait a minute.
“So where are we heading to, Lizzy?” Dami found his tongue. It had been up to a minute on the road and Eliza hadn’t informed him the venue she intended going to. If he no ask so she no go talk?
“Oh where we are heading to right?” Eliza response turned out to be a question back to Dami.
“Yes.” he replied brusquely.
The question turned out to piss him off. If it had happened to be somebody else, there was certainty he would have lynched the person with words.
Eliza found traces of grievance in the way he replied her question. She was stupid too for throwing back a question as an answer. Was she even stupid? No she was nervous, jittery, scared and restive. But none of the five was going to dissuade her right now. She needs to brace herself up.
She later mumbled some words that made Dami wowed in astonishment.
“I don’t really get that, I thought you said you are going out.” Dami finally stuttered.
After listening to Dami’s stutter, it was then he felt the gravity of what she said. She wished she never said it but felt relieved she said it. After all, that had been the burden on her worrisome mind for a week.
But now, Dami’s attitude made feel her decomposed, as if she’ddone something so odd. The event made her mind quickly raised back to the behavioral of the Whites. She came to terms that a white guy would never feel eccentric to what she said. After all, she was in love, which definitely was not her fault in the first place. And since she wasn’t ready to die of lovesickness or suffer celibacy she has the right to make her feeling known. But now, the quirkiness punching out from Dami’s face had made feel embarrassed; like she had committed some sort of taboo. African mentality!
She swiftly raised a prayer point in her mind asking God to eradicate the black mentality that has overshadowed the Africans. But right now, she was not ready to flop. She had to summon up her courage, she was not ready to be defeated.
“Yes I am going out, that is exactly what I am doing.” She paused for 3 seconds before she resumed the exact lines that got Dami wowed. “But you are taking me out on a date” she added bravely.
Dami tongue momentary got arrested by Eliza words. He couldn’t fix if the next thing for him was to start jumping for joy or he should do otherwise. But as much he would prefer the latter, he still felt his heart spurred with great joy, her dream girl asking for a date. That would be the best thing that would be happening to him recently.
What a great feeling of perfection when the one you love, loves you in return. There is no feeling to be compared with that. You will discover infinite joy over flowing your heart.
Nevertheless, Dami’s joy was cut short as the thought of flopping the impromptu date kept staring at him. The so-called date he was happy for, was a head of extemporaneous one. If he had been hinted afore, then he would have solved his wrecked financial status at the moment, and also spruce up his outlook for the day. But now he wouldn’t want to turn down Eliza, if he did, then he was on a loose to a hell of embarrassment.
“Here, take this,” Eliza said, stretching out her hand to pass her MasterCard to him. “I know I caught you impromptu, so I had better be responsible for it. The pin, 1607” she concluded, plucking out her seductive smile.
Dami felt everything happening was vague. He couldn’t help but wandered how she was able to read his mind and quickly fix him up. And moreover, his mind raised nervously, as he kept on pondering on what was about to happen. Where the whole situation was heading to was getting clearer to him and he could now easily decipher Eliza’s mind. She wants her as much as he does too; so he promised himself to make things easier for her.
Dami’s brain quickly booted up and started scanning randomly for the best date to put up in other to save the scenario. As varieties kept storming his head, he would try to weight them. He could not afford to mess up things now. Eliza is big girl, so definitely she deserves luxury treatment. This was one of a crucial opportunity he wouldn’t dare to blow up. Finally, he decidedto take her to one the prestigious eatery around.
After some minutes they had settled down in one eatery. They both threw smiles upon smiles on each other.Perhaps, it was deliberated action they both adopted to kill the tension reeking in their system. While Eliza was already appalled at reason while Dami would just sit and threw glances at her. She expected him to man up, probably start a conversation, at least she had breached her pride by asking for date. And already helped in preserving his ego by helping his lump financial status.
“So dearie, what would you like to have?” Dami voice halted the thought cycling through her mind.
“Anything will do.” She replied nodding her head amidst the seductive smiles pasted on her lips.
“Alright then, be back in a jiffy” Dami stood up and walked briskly to place an order.
Eliza kept reminiscing all the events of the past few hours of her arrival, she couldn’t wonder how she had been through a lot. Firstly, she had been welcomed by the good sides of her mum, and while enjoying the latter, Dami surfaced. And so apparent that Dami’s came into sight had been the only circumstance that sparked the conflict between her and her mother. She still couldn’t fathom the reason why her mom would want to quilt the nonconcentric relationship between her and Tunde. She couldn’t even describe the tons of antipathy she has for him. She would never let Dami slip away from her. Nobody would dare try to make him slip away from her.
“So here we go, baby girl” Dami words now carried features of like a love stricken lad. And exactly the situation Eliza wanted for.
They soon later started settling scores with fried rice and chicken placed before them.
“You know I will like to take your selfie.” Dami emitted.
“Oh really?”
“Yes, it will make good to show my friends that angels do exist” he quickly teased fawningly, making Eliza flushed.
“So you want to tell me that you don’t have any angel in your life that you couldhave shown your friends?”
“Of course not, you know I haven’t had any opportunity to get close to an angel like you.” He teased more.
“So what about your girlfriend or Ermm.Perhaps your woman?” Eliza stuttered.
“Oh that? I don’t have any. Have never seen any lady that caught my fantasy.” He swiftly responded.
While Eliza’s heart was immediately goaded with happiness. The thought of Dami been in a relationship had not even for once crossed his mind. She didn’t know the type of impulse that pushed her in asking him such question and if he had answered negative, she would die from the bucks of disappointment.
“You know what?” Dami’s voice rang again
“What is it?” Eliza asked with anticipation sketched on her face.
“If I told you I love you?” He paused, getting flustered. “What would be your response?” He finally breathed.
TBC…
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