While they were still talking back and forth, Kemi
walked through the door. She looked around in search. When she saw Segun, she
didn’t waste time in walking briskly towards the table where he was. Mabel saw
her and braced herself. Margret pinched her again.
“Stop doing that,” Mabel told
Margret. “You will wound me.”
“Who invited her here?”
Margret asked Segun.
“I did,” Segun replied. “I
told her where I was.”
“Why?”
“We were supposed to meet like
thirty minutes ago but you changed my plans.”
Kemi came close
and touched Segun’s shoulder passionately with her right hand, stroking his
hair and ear with the left hand.
“Baby you kept me waiting,”
she said with such a voice as to make Mabel jealous.
“So sorry honey,” Segun
replied and touched her right hand.
“What’s going on here?”
“Who invited you here?”
Margret asked her.
“My boo did,” she replied with
attitude. “What is happening here?”
“Can’t you see I am chatting
with my brother? Can you please excuse us.”
“And what is she doing here?”
Kemi asked, pointing at Mabel.
Mabel moved her
chair backwards to get up but Margret held her down by her thigh. All the
pinching, tapping and nudging were going on under the table so only the two of
them knew what was going on.
“You are a fool,” Mabel said
to Kemi. Then she turned to Margret and said, “I can’t take this anymore.” She
turned to Coker and said, “Let’s leave.”
Coker gave her a
sign to calm down. He sat still, waiting to know what would happen next.
“If Segun has chosen this one
that entered,” Coker’s brother whispered to him. “Then it is over between him
and Mabel. Maybe I could then stand a chance.”
“Shhh,” Coker told him. “Will
you keep quiet.”
There was silence
for some seconds. Segun just looked on without saying a word.
“Baby let us go,” Kemi told
him.
Segun looked at
Margret as though he was waiting for her permission. She just sat there eyeing
Kemi.
“Are you waiting for her
permission?” Kemi said, pointing at Margret.
“Honey,” Segun said to Kemi. “Wait
for me in my car. I will soon join you.”
“You want to go back to this
gold digger you left?”
Mabel let go of the ice cream plate she was carrying
and it landed on kemi’s face and overturned on her body.
“O My Gosh!” Kemi said and moved
towards Mabel. Before she could do anything, Margret got up and slapped her. The
sound of the slap reverberated through the eatery. Everyone turned to watch the
action. Margret pulled Mabel behind her and stood directly in front of Kemi.
Kemi was in a rage. She wanted to fight but Segun got up and held her back.
“All of you are witches,” she
said angrily.
Margret slapped
her again.
“Will you stop doing that!”Segun
said to Margret.
Kemi tried to
force herself out of Segun’s grip but he held her strong.
“Oohm baby leave me alone let
me teach them a lesson,” Kemi told him.
Margret made to
slap her a third time but Segun held her hand.
“I said it is enough,” he said
angrily.
“Let me go,” Margret said as
Segun still held her hand.
Coker and his
brother came close and made sure there was a separation.
“This is a public place,”
Coker said. “You can’t be creating such scenes here.”
“Let’s leave,” Segun said to Kemi
as he pulled her away.
“Take this slut and husband
snatcher away from here,” Margret said as they retreated.
At the door, one
of the female waiters offered to help clean Kemi up.
“We don’t have time for that,”
Segun said.
“I need to clean this mess,”
Kemi said and followed the lady to a secluded room. Segun stood there for a
while and went after them.
“Go with her and lick the ice
cream on her body,” Mabel shouted after them. “Nonsense.”
Margret laughed
and lifted her hand to give Mabel a ‘hi-5’. Mabel was not in the mood.
“You embarrassed me, you know
that,” Mabel said to Margret, eyeing her.
“I am sorry it turned out this
way,” Margret said. “I was only trying to help.”
“The story Kemi will spread
this time is that I am so desperate to have Segun back that I made you organize
a meeting and even fought her in public over him.”
“Don’t bother about any story.
We know what really happened. It was all my fault.”
Mabel cleaned her hands with a serviette and picked
her handbag.
“It is obvious now that Segun
has moved on,” Coker said.
“I have always known that,”
Mabel said. “It is Margret who has not.”
“Now I know,” Margret said. “I
wonder what he saw in that girl that he did not see in you.”
“More curves I guess,” Mabel
said.
“Curves without character is
rubbish,” Coker’s brother said. “The difference is clear between the two of
you. I just watched your reaction all through. You are beautiful, nice and with
good character and public carriage. You are it.”
Mabel just looked
at him, not knowing what to say.
“Just blush and say ‘thank
you’.” he said.
“Let her be,” Coker said to
him.
“Sorry,” he said and gulped
the remainder of his drink.
“Thank you,” Mabel told him.
He almost choked
with the drink in his mouth. He smiled.
“Can we leave now?”Mabel said.
“I have my sister to go check up on.”
“Wait till Segun and his slut
leave,” Margret said. “I don’t want to have to slap somebody again.”
They sat for a
while. The people there kept stealing glances at them.
“Everybody is looking at us,”
Mabel said.
“That means we will not come
here again,” Margret replied.
They laughed.
Some minutes
later, Kemi and Segun walked out of the door.
(...to be continued)
Nedu Isaac
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