three whole months to be with her. In
their time apart, he’d grown attached to
her, wanting to know how she was,
what she was doing and how her twins
fared. Every photo she used on her
WhatsApp was saved and transferred to
his other phone… The one his wife never
touched. And he had over 20 photos of
her and her twins. She fascinated him
immensely. Everything about her made
him happy. They had spoken several
times and after every call, a sheepish grin
left a mark on his face. He suspected that
he might be in love with her but the
logical part of him argued that it was not
LOVE, it was LUST. He knew she felt the
same way about him. She was very open
about her feelings. When they had
become friends, she had told him
outright that she was attracted to him. He
couldn’t tell if she meant it or was just
teasing. She teased alot. It was one of the
things that endeared him to her. They
had remained friends; always talking
about family, mutual friends, their
spouses and their kids. He had a son…
Barely a few months old. She had twin-
toddlers; beautiful little cherubs that he’d
fallen in love with when they’d first
become friends.
It had only taken them a week of
constant chatting, calls and emails to
realize that they had an attraction that
couldn’t be ignored. By the second week,
he wanted them to meet but she
hesitated. She’d never cheated on her
husband before… She’d had several
temptations but they’d never been strong
enough to make her want to stray from
her vows. Outside that, she didn’t trust
him. He seemed like the kind of guy that
would warm his way into the heart of
any woman he wanted, fucked them and
left them in the cold street-corner called
FRIENDZONE. She’d watched him closely
for a while. He was friendly with some
married women whom she knew had
fire-crotch. Though she liked him alot,
she was also careful around him. She
didn’t want her name in his black-book.
She didn’t want to be one for the count.
So, she told him to wait… for a few
months.. not because she had any moral
reason but simply because she hoped
that the insane lust she felt for him would
wane as the days flew by.
The lust did not wane, sadly. It grew into
a steady flame, burning brightly between
them, drawing them closer and
enveloping them in its warmth. He was
her waking thought. She was his
constant dream. They both couldn’t deny
it, the feelings they shared had morphed
into something stronger and deeper.
They spoke daily, laughing and sharing
jokes. He told her about his family and
she told him about hers. In the actual
sense, they were both happily married.
He loved his wife and couldn’t think of
marrying any other.
She loved her husband and couldn’t bare
to lose him.
His relationship with his wife was
awesome.
Her relationship with her husband was
envious.
He enjoyed fucking his wife and did so
on the regular.
She could barely keep her husband off
her at night.
To the outside world, they had it all. They
were happy in their respective marriages
but they wanted more… They wanted
each other. No topic was taboo for them.
They talked about everything. The days
they didn’t communicate, they missed
each other sorely and when they
eventually did connect, their joy couldn’t
be rivaled. They had tried to act like
rational adults… They had tried to define
their situation…
“What are we doing?”
“How did we get to this point?”
“How did things become so deep?”
“Why do I want to fuck you so bad?”
Two months zoomed by and their need
grew even fiercer. They exchanged
favorite movie titles, watched it in their
homes and chatted about it. They
exchanged songs, photos and crazy
online videos. They had a bond… an
invisible tie that bound them together.
One evening, they were chatting as usual
and he asked “What are you wearing?”
She giggled and told him she was
wearing an old faded boubou.
“What’s underneath the boubou” he
pressed.
“Nothing. No bra, no panties… Nothing.”
He said nothing after that and she
thought he had dropped. Then she heard
him breathe.
“Precious, I swear, I will give anything to see
you right now. Scratch that, I will give
anything to be in a room with you right
now. I don’t think I can hold it back for
much longer.” His voice sounded
labored… breathless. She was silent for a
brief moment.
“My husband is back. Let’s talk
tomorrow” she said and cut the call
without waiting for his response.
Her husband was indeed back but she
could hear him having a conversation
with their neighbor and from what they
were discussing, he didn’t seem like he
was coming up soon. She had to rush
Thomas off the phone because he had
excited her sexually with his declaration.
Her clit was still throbbing as she
replayed his voice in her head, over and
over again. That night, she made up her
mind to fuck him. She was convinced that
if they fucked, the lust would die off
naturally.
When they spoke the next day, she told
him her thoughts. She sounded practical,
almost passionless about it. She
convinced him that sex was the only way
out of the madness they felt and seeing
as the long wait wasn’t working its
desired magic, they might as well fuck
and get it over with. He mentally sang the
“HALLELUYAH” chorus and they got right
down to planning it.
They chose a Friday. Precious’s husband
usually closed a little late and almost
always had a few beers with his
colleagues before returning home. Also,
her nieces came straight to her house for
the weekend after school. Thomas
promised to get off work early enough
on the chosen Friday so he could make
the necessary arrangements. She
furnished him with her itinerary for the
day. It involved dropping the twins off at
crèche, picking them up at 1pm and
waiting for her nieces to arrive from
school at 3pm. Their planned meeting
was at 4pm.
The night before their meeting, both
were nervous. Precious thought of all the
negative scenarios her mind could cook
up and ended up a nervous wreck.
Thomas’s thoughts, on the other hand,
kept yoyoing from excitement to fear in
bipolar delight.
Friday morning, her husband left the
house late. Precious almost had a nervous
breakdown. Her paranoia had resumed
early and was working overtime. All sorts
of thoughts crossed her mind. She
wondered if her husband suspected she
was going to be with another man that
day. She watched him closely as he
lounged about, taking his merry time to
eat, dress up before finally leaving for
work. Thomas had WhatsApped her
severally but she had been too nervous to
respond. With her husband finally out of
the house, she dialed his number, and
told him she would see him in a few
hours. She hurried through the motions
of shaving her armpit, pubes and ass-
crack clean; mentally discarding outfits
and finally downing half a glass of brandy
just to steady her rioting nerves.
Time seemed to crawl and by noon, her
head throbbed so badly, she had to lie
down for a little shut-eye.
At 1p.m., she went to the crèche to get
the twins; bathe and fed them, then sat
with them in the living room. She could
easily have left them at the mercy of her
maid and go about, preparing for her
date, but she didn’t. She sat with the kids,
trying hard to talk herself out of the
plan… fighting the guilt that was fast
consuming her.
At 2:30p.m., she had showered and was
dressing up. She took time to dress as
simply as possible. She wanted her maid
to think she was merely going to run
some errands. She wanted to look sexy
but casual all at once. She didn’t want to
be too early and she didn’t want to be
too late. She wanted to be simple but
lovely for her first romp with a man who
wasn’t her husband. She kept her fingers
crossed and hoped for fireworks.
All morning, Thomas could barely
concentrate at work. He was excited and
scared. He’d expected Precious to call and
cancel and had been mildly shocked she
didn’t. He had sensed her fear when
she’d called him earlier. He didn’t like that
she was scared but he wanted to be with
her so much, he didn’t call off their
meeting. The last three months had been
nothing short of torture. Precious was firmly
entrenched in his marrow. He thought of
her constantly, yearned to hear her laugh,
longed to tease her and most of all, fuck
her. In the three months, his sexual
thoughts had gone through different
stages. In the beginning, he had planned
to fuck her so hard, her ovaries would
disengage. By the second month, the
violent sexual thoughts he’d plotted had
softened to ‘sexpertise’: A situation
where he planned to show-off his sexual
skills and wow her till kingdom come.
Now, all he wanted to do was make love
to her… nice and slow, taking his time to
explore every inch of her… building
memories that would last him for a very
long time. To make the moment even
more memorable, he bought flavored
condoms. He had plans for Precious. Very
sexually explicit plans. And he couldn’t
wait to put them into action.
By 3p.m. he left his office after laying
down a perfectly good excuse. The
previous day, he had driven to Ikeja to
scout for a nice but affordable hotel. They
both lived on the island but thought it
better to take their “couplation” as far
away from there as possible. He got to
the hotel, paid for it, got a room and sat
down to wait.
Precious received his WhatsApp message just
as her nieces arrived noisily. It was
perfect timing for her. As they fawned
over the twins, giggling and talking all at
once – the way excited teenagers do –
Precious chose that moment to announce
that she was dashing down the road to
get something and made a beeline out of
the house, without giving the maid
instructions or kissing the twins
goodbye. Her heart raced as she drove
away from the compound. She was
tempted to turn back twice and at a
point, she had to stop at a fuel station to
calm her nerves. She checked her make-
up and surprisingly, it was still in perfect
condition… No panic sweats or eyeliner
smudges. She counted to hundred slowly,
taking deep breaths and exhaling noisily
like a woman having contractions. Pulling
herself together, she drove out of the fuel
station, turned on the car CD Player and
sang along to “Warn Yourself” by
Omawumi. The hotel wasn’t hard to find.
Thomas had given her a good description
of the place. She parked her car deep inside the car park,
at the last spot and decided to just take a few minutes
and sit in the car just to think about what was about to
happen. Her heart was racing so she took off her seat belt and
sat relaxed and shut her eyes for a while. 5 minutes later,
She heaved a long sigh and got out.
In a few minutes from now, ‘The Wait’
would officially come to an end..................
To be continued.................©
Phoenix I Think You Are. A Great Writer! Can't Wait To Read More From You.
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ReplyDeleteNice and lovely! I love the flow. Waiting for the concluding part
ReplyDeleteLuvly story........ Great work
ReplyDeleteBeautifully written, could almost visualize. Anticipating the concluding part. Weldone!
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ReplyDeleteInteresting...
ReplyDeleteCud even feel the paranoia she felt! Lovely piece
ReplyDeleteThanks guys. ~Phoenix
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