TEMI {MINE} EPISODE 3
30 YEARS AGO!!
“Hey mum” Eliza shouted, as she ran to hug the middle age woman who had also extended her arms to reach for her daughter’s hug. They both stayed glue momentary in the embrace, swaying each other from left to right with happiness clearly expressed on their faces. It is no argument that the two had been away for quite sometimes and were just uniting. The affection imbibed a really frenzied their union.
“You are welcome dear, we missed you” the woman expressed, still rocking Eliza to and fro.
“Yeah mum, same here too, eighteen months was just way too long and I have been dying to be back here mum'” Eliza chortled. They later disengaged away from the hug, now staring at each other eyes with a pure emotions clearly drawn
“So how have you been doing my daughter?”The woman questioned rhetorically.
“Fine mum, you know things would always be cool over there,” Eliza replied, still trying to maintain the display of her crystal white set of teeth.
They both advanced towards the majestic sitting room with their hands holding each other’s back.The look on Eliza face quickly described her surprise. Her eyes had scanned through the room and admitted that the room had seriously undergone some heavy changes.
The color of the room had already been repainted with yellow tinged with crimson totally rusticated the sky blue that was formerly used. She knew that would be her mum’s idea, because she always knew color blue had been her mum greatest antipathy. Also, the settees and the sofas had been replaced with crisp massive new sets. She admired the new interior decoration employed in the house.
“You know you still have enough time to admire them” her mum chipped in, who noticed her daughter’s eyes quivering around. “But right now you have to take a bath then settle for your favourite dish’
“Alright mum” she nodded, as she hopped on the stairs up to her long waited room.
Her room was of medium size with a cool scenery. The room had the mixture of cream and blue color. It had blue colour as the background then stripped with cream colour in a parallel and horizontal line giving out a pleasing look of rectangular shape on the wall. A big round bulb illuminated the room giving it a shimmering look. Tapestries laid comfortably on the wall with the wall paper of popstar Rihanna staying glued to the wall.
Eliza found out that her room was clean to her expectation, though she wasn’t expecting to meet dust and rubble everywhere. Her bedcover had been changed credibly to her mom.
Then her eyes caught a portrait of someone on the wall adjacent to where the wall clock laid tickling peacefully.
“Who could have put it back?” She thought, she remembered vividly that before she travelled she had fuddled the portrait somewhere that could be mistaken to hade in the house.
Whatever the case maybe, a disgusting look stood in her eyes as she glared at the portrait. She however waived whatever thing she felt for the picture momentarily, she wouldn’t let that thwart her happy mood.
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After about thirty minutes, Eliza was done with freshening up, she swiftly took a look at her reflection staring back at her through mirror.She smiled as she took notice of her beauty once again.
Indeed! Eliza was a pretty damsel, a very fair lady in her mid-twenties but acquisition of a teenage body. Her oval face coupled with a set of crystal white teeth stamped her beauty with a moderate butt and small boobs. Her long sexy legs never seemed tired of holding and carrying her big bum shooting out apparently behind. Eliza had a killer body and definitely guys would teleport from planet pluto just to have a glimpse of her.
She soon found herself on the dining table with her mum. They had a light but warm conversation spiced with excessive emotion, while each of them took their time to devour their plate of amala with ewedu soup. It was quite evident they both had missed each other.
Eliza attention soon swayed from her food at what next she saw walking towards them at the dining. “OMG! Is this a guy”? She thought rhetorically as the charming figure alighted towards them. She never remembered she left such a cutie in their house before she left to USA for her Masters and her mum had never made mention of anybody now staying with them since her arrival few hours ago.
She stared at the figure as he finally advanced towards her mum, tilted his head down and jumbled some words she couldn’t grasp into her mum’s ear. She momentary felt embarrassed as the thought of being an acquaintance in her very home was sternly visible in the way he approached her mum. Nevertheless, that never stopped the glimpse look she passed at him seductively.
“Probably he doesn’t know who I am,” she thought again. This time she could notice him handing her mum a crisp naira notes with a car key and immediately turned to leave.
“Wait, Dami” her mum coughed before pointing to Eliza, “This is my daughter, I told you she travelled outside the country for her masters, she returned this afternoon”
“Oh! Really” Dami quizzed with raised eyebrow, “Hello madam” now turning to face Eliza with his hand muzzled out for a handshake.
“Hi” Eliza giggled, returning the handshake, “And you can call me Eliza” she quickly hinted him innocently.
“Alright Madam Eliza, you can also call me Dami”
“Hey! Just call me Eliza.” Eliza pointed and waved his left index finger in a gesture pointing out a correction.
“Alright Eliza, I had better get used to that” Dami smiled, freed his hand and left the room.
Eliza’s eyes tailed him from behind as he paced towards the exit of the room with seductive grimace curving out from her face. She was totally oblivious of the fact her mom was staring at her in ire.
“I think you know he’s just an ordinary driver?” Her mother muttered—placing more emphasis on new driver.
“Of course I do.” Eliza replied and stood up.
Few hours elapsed while Eliza was still in her room.She gouged her head between her pillows in other to block her eardrum, an effort she thought would save her from her mares. She never intended to fall for any guy at the moment, not to talk of a cypher, an ordinary driver. But the more she tried to block her thinking faculty, the more she failed woefully! She couldn’t just erase the image, the mild smile, the soft cool voice and the well-rounded cute face. Even her ex became faded where Dami was concerned. The whole of Dami’s features kept erupting her mind. She pondered vaguely on her bed for some minute, before siting and soliloquizing.
“No it can’t be, Eliza wake up! He is just a driver, better guys are out there waiting for you, you know you wouldn’t stoop so low to go intimate with just a driver? Just few hours in Nigeria and you are already head over heel in love. What’s wrong with me? Am I going crazy! Am I insane?” Eliza spewed those words like a cark having ignorance of her being audible enough for any outsider to eavesdrop.
“Definitely this is love at first sight, after all, she can’t dictate for the heart. As the heart always wants what it wants. But is she really sure this is not lust? No it can’t be lust. It’s pure love from the bottom of the heart.” Eliza’s mind pondered thoughtfully. But then, she recalled how her mother painted Dami blight abrasively– the cold stern look registered on her face when she said–I think you should know that he is just a driver.
She sighed. “If I’m not going to back out from this then Mom has to support me on It.” she prayed.
Later that evening, Eliza woke up and checked the time on her phone, it was 6pm.She remembered she was caught up by sleep while she was thinking about Dami. She wondered if her mom had even come around to check on her. She took a long glimpse at the window and found out that the sky had betrayed the time as the sun still shone broadly and it threw laser beam from the sky reflecting very well in the room through the window blinds.
She decided to take an amble walk around the house, moreover, she needed to find more about him. She had decided to quiz him and make him relate with her colloquially. That was what she wanted and she was ready to get. Any information about where he stays could help her. She was not ready to let her Dami slip away from her.
“Ah! oga welcome, I be dey greet you the other time, as me and big oga enter you no hear.” Kofi their spooky gate man greeted as he saw Eliza who was walking towards him. He knew Eliza as his madam’s daughter because he had been working within the compound before Eliza travelled. Kofi was a dark black Hausa man. I wish there wasany synonyms good enough to describe his type of blackness. Koffi was as black as charcoal. Notwithstanding he was a risible fellow who always planted smiles on anybody that bumped into him. He once had an accident that made his left leg shorter than the right one and which always created a funny scenery with the way he wobbled when walking.
“I’m sorry Kofi, I didn’t notice you” Eliza replied with a simper trying to conceal her laughter.
“No wahala. so wetin me bring come from abroad? Kofi asked again throwing Eliza.
“I brought some stuffs for you, I will bring them over for you later.”
“Thank you madam.” The Northerner said excitedly.
“Have you seen the driver?” Eliza asked, trying hard not to sound as a groupie.
“The driver?” Koffi asked again.
“Yes, where is he?”
“He don commot o. Me don open gate for am since” He answered waving his hands in monstrance to explained what he said.
“Are you sure?” Eliza asked with puzzled look hanged on her face.
“Yes oga” Kofi affirmed
“Okay.” Eliza veered towards the house with disappointment sprinkled all over her face. So she would be unable to see the driver. She thought of going back to ask him of his apartment, but later decided against it. She didn’t trust the lousy gate man, and even if she got his apartment, what’s she going to do? She couldn’t throw herself just like that to a guy who was not even aware of her feelings. Only time will tell. Her thought came to a halt with Kofi voice yelling after her,
“Madam shey make I com collect am for my gift you bring come for me?”
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