CHAPTER 25

RHODA'S POV

"I hope you are all ready for your examinations by 12:00pm this afternoon" the professor says to I and my group of friends as we greet him and pass".

"What the hell! It's like this man is hallucinating" I whisper to the lady beside me.

"What do you mean? Is today not Monday, didn't you check your timetable very well. We are having GST 404 exam today and next two weeks is our last paper.

"Oh my goodness, for hell's sake I thought it was tomorrow. I planned everything thinking it was tomorrow. I didn't even have intentions of leaving it was tomorrow. I didn't even have intentions of leaving the hostel today. I just came out so as to read more on my goodness"

"Stop crying over spilled milk baby girl, just try to read whatever you can lay your hands on right now. Moreover, you still have more than 2 hours to go".

"But it really isn't the same Oh my gosh. I really hope I pass this course. It's a very compulsory one" I lament close to tears and a see Collins pass by he obviously  attempts to say something but probably thought better of it and walked away with his remaining dignity. How on earth am I gonna sit for this examination without much preparation. Anyways I know my mum's prayers would assist. Moreover, I've been reading a lot than I normally do lately so I'm sure that I can't be blank in the exam hall.

"Are you going to the library with us to add finishing touches to your reading" she said again bringing me back from the world of my thoughts. I initially had intentions of going to the cafeteria to have breakfast but I already took two slices of bread and a cup of coffee before leaving the hostel this morning. So I guess I'll just skip it then. Moreover, this is an August issue. "I'll go with you guys to the library" I say to her immediately making up my mind".

Richard's POV

"Really, you are supposed to be a down. Why can't you just let me have a night rest ehn. Kira , Rhodie is gonna be here on Wednesday let me just sleep alone in my room for tomorrow"

"Of Course not I'll leave early Wednesday morning" At least we know the distance from her school to this place is fucking much so cut the crap or tell me, are you tired of me" she says and looks at me with pleading eyes. I immediately feel electric shivers run down my spine. It's like she noticed that. "Hey, don't tell me that you are scared Richie" it annoys me so much whenever she calls me Richie because I believe that it's only sacred for my girlfriend and not just any random girl, did I just call Kira a random girl, of course what else would I call her, that is just what she's a random girl.

"Ain't scared, why should I be? It's not like she's coming tomorrow, it's still the day after tomorrow so I'm not scared. I'm just saying that it would be so much fun if I stayed alone in my house for just a day at least".

"Okay sweetheart but I really do feel that I should be with you always okay and I really won't leave you for any moment except you look into my eyes and tell me that you are tired of me already" she says and inches forward, putting her hand on my chest and looking at my face for the effect.

She already knows that I can't love her, I can't look into her eyes and tell her that of course, I just don't love her, I can't be tired of her that's the bitter truth that I have to admit to myself. Even though it's been of years now since we've been together, I really can't get tired of her and even though I feel guilty anytime I remember Rhoda, I still can't call it quit with her.

Rhoda's POV

"Thank God everything I read come out, kinda know I wasn't gonna be blank anyway because even though Richard tells me that I read a lot, I still don't admit it but I now admit it to myself now anyway that I truly read a lot because everything that come out in the question it was like I was revising. I'm so glad and I'm really sure that I'm gonna pass anyway. I think its better I pay Richard a surprise visit since it's being long since I visited him suddenly. It's of no use telling him anyway. What should I get for him? I'll just visit the boutique on my way there tomorrow.

I take my car to the petrol station and refill it as it might skip my mind again and one thing I won't want to happen to me is being stranded in the middle of nowhere with an empty tanked car.

"Oh, it's being ages since I last read novel yeah, it's being a month now because since we started examinations, I have been buried in my school books having no time for novels.

"Who took my "Rebecca" from here? I scream in the room as I notice the novel titled "Rebecca" that I dropped on my bed is gone, I'm just asking the question to fulfill all righteousness because it's obvious that it's Mayowa that took it. She's the only one in my room that loves reading novels aside myself.

She's from the Western part of the country. Her name means "Bring joy" so funny though. Anyways she has to produce my novel right now or else I'll bring down hell on her head.

"Hey Oyinbo girl, it's here" she says as she hands it over I kinda detested the name when they firstly started but I've gotten used to it already. It's like its tradition here. I laugh to myself as I recall the first day that I entered the hostel. When I came in my first year, I lived alone but in my second year, I started staying in the hostel. It was fun though and they were all like "Oyinbo girl", "she speaks like Oyinbo" and all that so funny. At least in frivolous, they weren't that weird. Yeah they stared and all that but even if they had called me "Oyinbo" it wasn't to my face. Anyways it's pretty nice though.

Richard's POV

"Kira, won't you rest, we just finished exams day before yesterday, we need to rest okay. I'm not taking any drinks tonight okay"

"No Richard, you must be kidding, we must take drinks tonight, even if it's just a little okay".

"No problem sweetie, I'll do as you say" she says as she downs a whole bottle of liquor in cup by cup and I just watch and start watching a movie on my laptop with her sleeping and snoring already.

"Bang Bang Bang! Bang Bang Bang" I awake early in the morning to the noise on my door and find out that I slept off watching the movie and Kira is still sleeping but no longer snoring my laptop battery is down already and the system is switched off already.

"Who's that?" I ask as I stand to my feet and open the gate.

"My slippers dey here, I wan bath dis morning, na I m I can see say my slippers no dey my room" I just look at him with obvious annoyance.

"So that's why you came to wake me abi?"

"No vex o my brother, if I no look for an now, I no fit see am again"

"U no fit buy N200 slipper abi, your slippers no dey here o commot for my room, abeg I wan sleep jare" I lock the door back and make for my bed for a proper night sleep even though it's morning already.

"Who was that?" Kira asks and I notice she woke up already "never mind".

"Oh" she says and continues sleeping

RHODA'S POV

"Oh my goodness, Richie, faster oh my gosh"

"You are so beautiful baby"

"Fuck, fuck fuck, fuck fuck"

" What the hell is happening inside Richie's room" I mutter to myself as I can feel goose pimples all over me already, I quickly close the door of my car and carry the box of perfumes, I bought for him along.

"Holy fuck" Richard issues as he screams to his feet and pulls up his boxer shorts, while Kira pulls up the duvet over her chest and looks down.

Immediately it dawns on me that Kira and Richie were in bed together, the box of perfumes drops to the hard floor and smash into a million fragments just as my heart is smashed right now. 

With tears blurring my vision, I rush into my car and drive away in a frenzy not caring where I was going to.

I never knew Richard could do this to me. I never could have ever guessed. I hate him. He's a jerk. I loved him more than my own self. And that bitch of a gift as well. I hate then as well. In fact, I never know I could drive this fast.

I hate Kira, I hate Richard, I hate myself. I hate Collins.

Argh. Fuck them all.