Roommates 5: Episode 3

The Confrontation



All through the night, Georgina remained awake, planning.


Mr Iyke has gone to travel inwards the morning time leaving her as well as Gloria lone inwards the line of piece of work solid when the confrontation finally happened.


Georgina was downstairs dusting when Gloria came into the sitting room.

She dropped the dust textile as well as turned to Gloria.

‘I desire my money.’

Gloria swallowed difficult as well as and thence straightened her features. ‘Georgina I practise non owe you.’

‘Fine. That way every bit shortly every bit your hubby returns I am letting the truthful cat out of the bag.’

‘You powerfulness non live hither till then.’

‘What?’

‘You’ve been sacked.’

Georgina smiled. ‘You can’t burn downward who you lot did non hire.’

‘This is my house, Georgina. I tell what gets done as well as what doesn’t.’

‘Lies! You are simply a fatty jobless housewife who knows cipher other than eating, sleeping as well as betraying the skillful human being that married you.’

‘What practise you lot know nearly my spousal human relationship anyway? What practise you lot know nearly me?’

‘For one, I know that you lot prefer the service of manful mortal prostitutes to the respected intimacy you lot acquire from your husband.’

‘Enough of the insults!’

‘I haven’t fifty-fifty started!’

‘Go to your room now, pack everything you lot came amongst as well as leave!’

‘No way.’

‘You call back you lot tin simply blackmail me as well as I volition give in? Fine. Go run your tongue, but, I assure you, you lot volition all the same live the ane to lose.’

‘Since you lot seat it that way, I volition practise just every bit you’ve said.’

Georgina picked her dust textile as well as started upstairs.

‘And where practise you lot call back you lot are going?’

‘To your husband’s office, of course. To run my natural language every bit you lot said.’

‘Wait!’

Georgina stopped as well as turned.

Gloria’s human face as well as phonation changed. ‘I volition tell to you lot now, what I receive got never said to whatever assist that has ever worked here—please!’

Georgina stared at Gloria.

‘Please Georgina. Please. I regret what I did, but I receive got to tell you, what you lot saw is way to a greater extent than than what you lot are thinking.’

‘I don’t understand.’

‘Segun as well as I are non simply sleeping together because of the gender activity or pleasure.’

‘What?’

‘I am non getting whatever younger, Georgina. I receive got simply a few years to hitting the pause.’

‘Which interruption are you lot talking about?’

‘The fourth dimension inwards a woman’s life when she loses her womanhood.’

‘Menopause, you lot mean?’

‘Yes.’

‘If you lot desire kids, you lot acquire it from your husband. Not some useless manful mortal prostitute without whatever iota of manners.’

Gloria smiled, but non from amusement. ‘Iyke as well as I receive got been together for over 8 years now. Babies are non forthcoming.’

Georgina kept staring.

Gloria swallowed, took a stride as well as continued: ‘We’ve gone to fertility clinics, had numerous tests as well as taken medications, but nothing.’

‘So what if you lot are infertile as well as fifty-fifty the sperm of Ed Houben can’t acquire you lot pregnant.’

‘I am not. Iyke is.’

‘Wow. Is he on whatever treatment?’

‘He doesn’t fifty-fifty know. Our doc told me inwards private.’

‘Do doctors practise that?’

‘She is a skillful friend.’

‘So why non speak to your husband? What is at that spot to hide?’

‘I receive got the selection of telling him as well as the word changing him as well as our spousal human relationship forever, or I acquire important from elsewhere as well as he doesn’t know, thinks he is the manful mortal raise as well as nosotros remain happy.’

‘How tin you lot alive amongst such a secret?’

‘No adult woman is without secret, you lot should know that.’

Georgina sighed.

‘Yes dear. That is fifty-fifty the argue I agreed to allow you lot inwards in the commencement house when he told me nearly you.’

‘You wouldn’t have?’

‘Of course. No married adult woman volition ever allow a immature as well as pretty adult woman similar you lot into her domicile to travel every bit a maid.’

‘What you lot are deciding to receive got on, volition he practise the same had him beingness the ane inwards your shoes?’

‘There is a lot nearly spousal human relationship as well as life you lot volition come upwardly to empathize every bit you lot acquire older, Georgina.’

‘Well, talking nearly secrets now, when you lot commencement inquired nearly my historic stream I told you lot 21.’

‘Yes.’

‘I was that historic stream x years ago.’

Gloria’s eyes popped. ‘Don’t say! You don’t await that at all.’

‘I know.’

‘So why are you lot non bothered?’

‘Bothered how?’

‘Over xxx as well as all the same single, doesn’t that line of piece of work organisation you?’

‘I’m engaged.’

‘Oh dear, that’s for twenty-somethings.’

‘Age is simply a number.’

‘Not for women, my dear.’

‘What?’

‘Don’t you lot know nearly the pause? It should scare you, unless you lot don’t desire children.’

‘I desire children.’

‘Then you lot should tell the human being to modify the band every bit fast every bit possible. Because x years from now, pregnancy powerfulness boot the bucket a miracle.’

‘I tin ever adopt.’

Gloria gave Georgina a look. ‘Sweetheart, trust me that’s to a greater extent than expensive.’

Georgina smiled.

She walked dorsum as well as began dusting again.

‘Are you lot no to a greater extent than going to my husband’s office?’ Gloria asked.

‘No,’ Georgina said. ‘No adult woman should tell some other woman’s secret.’

Gloria smiled too. ‘Thank you lot thence much.’

‘You welcome. But—’

Gloria looked. ‘What?’

‘What just did you lot practise to me?’

‘It was all Segun’s idea. He gave me some strange-looking pills to seat inwards your drink. I added them inwards your tea.’

Georgina shook her head, a component of her lower lip held betwixt her teeth. ‘That boy!’

‘I’m genuinely real sorry, dear,’ Gloria said.

‘I volition non tell your husband, but you lot must observe some other donor. I don’t fifty-fifty call back that ane has whatever to a greater extent than babies left within of him.’

Gloria one-half smiled. ‘What practise you lot mean?’

‘I know him before—the fourth dimension he was dating my friend as well as milking her similar a cow.’

‘Really?’

‘Yes. He is an animal, sure as shooting non the sort of deoxyribonucleic acid anyone would desire to breed.’

‘You receive got someone else you lot tin recommend?’

Georgina looked up, as well as and thence down. She smiled. ‘I call back I do.’

***

Inside the bus, Loveth prayed again.

As she murmured on as well as on, the adult woman beside her turned to stare.

Loveth turned away.

When the bike human being dropped her inwards front end of the purpose complex, she prayed in ane lawsuit again earlier entering the building.

While inwards the waiting room, she recited s Samuel Chapter 7, Verse 28 again.

Noise of the door opening startled her.

She looked back.

‘My boss is laid for you lot now,’ the slim, smartly dressed daughter that entered said.

Inside the boss’s office, a human being inwards a traditional African vesture sat behind the desk. He was fine, exclusively non thence tall— Loveth mentally assessed from the component of him she could encounter inwards a higher house the desk.

She straightened her skirt as well as stepped closer. ‘Good afternoon, sir.’

‘Afternoon,’ the human being said. ‘Loveth, right?’

‘Yes, Loveth, sir.’

‘Please sit down down.’

‘Thank you.’

‘So you lot said you lot are proficient inwards Adobe, right?’

‘Yes.’

‘Good. Because nosotros demand somebody that tin practise real stunning photograph designs, 3D illustrations as well as videos every bit well.’

‘I tin practise all that amongst my phone.’

‘Your phone? I doubt.’

‘Sir, my phone’s photographic idiot box camera is real nice. It’s 8 mega pixels.’

‘I am talking nearly editing already taken photos.’

‘Oh ok.’

‘Do you lot receive got your laptop at that spot amongst you?’

‘Laptop?’

‘Yes.’

‘I don’t receive got a laptop, sir.’

‘Ok, thence what receive got you lot been working with?’

‘I haven’t been working anywhere, sir. This is genuinely my commencement interview since afterward NYSC.’

‘Loveth, are you lot genuinely sure you lot know anything nearly graphic designing?’

‘Sir, I know it.’

‘So too Adobe, what other icon editing software are there?

‘Software, sir?’

‘Computer programs.’

‘Sir, I receive got non finished my figurer training.’

‘What?’

‘I read Economics inwards school; I exclusively started figurer preparation lastly week.’

‘So you lot are non information technology savvy?’

Loveth was quiet.

‘What is Excel?’

‘To live skillful at something, sir.’

‘No I hateful the purpose program…Excel. What does it do?’

‘Office program?’

‘What are your skills, Loveth? What tin you lot genuinely do?’

‘I tin speak skillful English, sir.’

The human being looked faintly amused. ‘That would receive got been real prissy if nosotros are a TV station looking for a newscaster.’

Loveth stared at the man, her insides getting warm.

The human being tapped his pen. ‘I’m sorry, Loveth, nosotros are a photograph studio looking to hire a digital artist, but unfortunately you lot don’t receive got the skills nosotros need.’

‘Sir, please, this is my commencement undertaking interview ever. I volition commit suicide if you lot don’t give me this job.’

‘We can’t give you lot a undertaking you lot cannot do.’

‘I volition learn, sir. I volition observe Adaobi as well as acquire everything from her.’

‘We can’t afford the wait.’

‘Sir, please. Please assist me.’

‘I want at that spot is something I tin do. Have a prissy day, Loveth.’

‘Sir, please, sir. Please!’

The human being had gone dorsum to the opened upwardly PC on his desk.

At the door, Loveth turned again. ‘Sir? Please?’

The human being did non bother to await at her.

Cool air from the air conditioning saturated the room.

Loveth broke into tears.

Finally, the man’s attending was gotten. He stared at Loveth, proverb nothing.

Loveth continued to cry.

‘You seem genuinely desperate to work, Loveth?’ the human being said, finally.

‘I am to a greater extent than than desperate, sir,’ Loveth sobbed.

The human being appeared somewhat amused. ‘You know, you lot remind of myself many years ago.’

Loveth cried on.

‘Well, I call back I receive got something you lot powerfulness like.’

Finally, Loveth stopped crying as well as stared at the man.

‘I haven’t met a adult woman this plump as well as attractive in ane lawsuit before. You await pretty fifty-fifty when you lot cry.’

Loveth’s human face crumpled again. ‘I tin vociferation to a greater extent than if you lot want, sir.’

‘Oh no, no!’ the human being speedily said. ‘Would you lot similar to boot the bucket ane of our models?’

‘Model, sir?’

‘Yes, model.’

Loveth felt degraded. ‘I can’t live a model, sir.’

‘Why?’

‘I receive got been similar this since I was a teenager, cipher I practise inwards life volition ever brand me boot the bucket slim. But I receive got a friend who is tall as well as slim as well as tin practise the cat-walk stuff. Though she already has a job.’

‘No, you lot are non required to lose whatever weight,’ the human being said. ‘We are creating a plus-size category as well as I wouldn’t withdraw heed making you lot the face.’

‘What?’

‘The human face of the plus-size department.’

‘You hateful I tin boot the bucket model, amongst my big arms as well as circular waist?’

‘Sure. I mean, if you’d similar that.’

‘Hey!’ Loveth screamed, almost startling the man. ‘There is genuinely a God inwards sky o!’

***

At the fellowship Apr worked for, her HOD sent for her.

Inside the woman’s office, Apr could odour the potent air of discontent inwards the room.

‘April, the lastly few weeks our sales receive got plummeted…’ the adult woman began.

She said a lot of things during the long sermon and Apr kept tranquillity all through.

Finally, she handed Apr a missive of the alphabet as well as added that they are taking dorsum the fellowship automobile as well as the laptop as well as whatever other stuff that belongs to the fellowship inwards her possession.

And now, finally, Apr said something.

‘Ma, you lot can’t simply burn downward me.’

‘Why can’t I?’ the adult woman said.

‘My rent is due inwards a month’s time, how am I going to pay for it if you lot burn downward me?’

***

Georgina knocked on the door again.

‘Who?’ Gloria said from within the room.

‘It’s me, ma,’ Georgina said.

‘Georgina, the door is open.’

Georgina opened the door as well as entered. ‘I receive got something else to inquire you.’

‘Alright, boot the bucket on.’

‘The fourth dimension I commencement woke up, you lot said something nearly my sis coming to await for me.’

‘Yes.’

‘Did that genuinely travel on or was it component of the system to mess amongst my caput too?’

‘Oh no, non at all, Georgina. H5N1 adult woman genuinely came looking for you.’

‘Did you lot encounter this woman? What does she await like?’

‘She stayed behind the gate. She didn’t come upwardly inwards thence I didn’t encounter a face. But I heard her correctly.’

‘Are you lot sure?’

‘Very. Don’t worry, she said she volition live back.’

***

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