DREAM WAKE

of

as it repeatedly struck the tabl

other, sometimes skipping large chunks of information in a bid to get to that o

ers to aid my eyes, as t

. . f

ed on some par

a company. As I gazed at the picture, my eyes rested o

it didn't cont

s idling by on the table and began searching the internet. I cl

to gain more information on my

oo her an

was saf

omething, nothing stopped

man --- she was

finances. I didn't see any further use for her and so on

hat a

rid

thrilled me further, because I always liked a challenge. The married one's were always

you

-- same boring r

d, same bed, same

almost ready to pull their

new comes along,

itement of someone ne

alway

this one wo

y charm -- that invisible c

ldn't be much different. Though, there was still much w

I wanted now, she wouldn't get

l them you loved them and they believed you -- even better -- buy a few gifts her

ell her. Even when we had met back in the university, all she ha

gotten pregnant

by somewhere the sun don't s

t that

ext prey, I had dumped her like a hot pot of scalding soup, because let'

ave nothing to g

bed, but man can not live by

me out holding a calabash which I held at a safe distance in front of me.

. "Osagiede, you are now my slave, you will do

e smoke emanated and w

ic. A terribly

cally, my eyes

it b

next

the mirror, trying to

lits when I smiled. They were my redeemin

reaction out of them in doing so. "Oh I love your eyes, they

d I'd love to get my hands

ical look at myself,

s, paired with dark brown chino's with gators so sharp, they could carve wood. This was worn well o

le leather shoes fi

ng look that wor

good and

tant for business and it helped make me more credible

sual, but I never went headlong into full

, my eyes became slits. I wa

he defini

y car, a Prado Jee

swing doors of the hotel, moving into the restaurant where I settled

n wearing a mini skirt suit. She swung h

her that. She caught the eyes of

eyes and a big smile broke out on her fac

from work, judging from the

et into c

ring as the ever - polite man, a fac

pasted a polite smile on my lips, all the while

she just shu

e been promoted to Development

wh

promotion,' as the rest of what

ebration my love." I

would make sure I got my money back later. My

bration, and I don't want to put a dampener on thin

e a bastard running aro

ve birth to a baby, otherwise you'd h

't raise it alone. What would I have told my parents. Final exams were still six months away and I would have started to sh

k." I decided to lay it on thick, so cupping her chin, I continued. "But I'm h

taneous, she clasped

e, because you couldn't stay away, right?" She asked,

oint if it helps y

y of my being away from you. It was torture for me! You don't know

how to stir me physically. "We will never be apart

was almost

er, punctuated only with s

ssert. "Sugar, I want you to

ce I had a taste of he

in astonishment. "I... I. You can't expect

about your dead

me with you, we need to be together, come on please." And in a low

d thereafter, her

away look in them and I smiled as I watched her p

cause her best friend wasn't feeling too well . . . I really don't know much more

she cut the call and looked at me,

, assessing her keenly as se

ody went slack and she slumped against the tabl

of invisible cobwebs. I watched as she looked around. It

d that effe

right sugar

ed." She gulped down some water, spilling

ravaged her over and over again to

dly speak. I had to call her office and pose as her husb

e no meetings scheduled, s

what her husband would say

va

I've gotten

get mor

e's much wor

me