.
I excused myself and picked the call right in front of
uncle cheatmaster. He just kept staring at me with a very
straight face. I couldn’t really tell if he was angry or not. I
mean, it’s just a phone call right.
“Hello?” I said when I picked the call.
“How are you Meso? I just called to say hi” senior Daniel
replied.
“I am fine senior Daniel.”
“No, no, no. You don’t need to call me senior Daniel. Just
call me Daniel. I am your school father now.”
“Okay, I’m sorry Daniel. I won’t call you by senior Daniel
again.”
“That’s much better, my baby,”
“My baby?” I questioned myself in my mind.
“What are you doing? I hope I’m not disrupting anything.”
senior Daniel said.
“I’m actually busy with my uncle”
“Oh!!! so sorry. Then I’ll talk to you later. Just call me
when you’re free”
He said and I replied with an okay before we ended the
call. Dropping the phone back on the table, uncle
cheatmaster finally spoke up. “Who was that? your
boyfriend abi? you’ve started dating ehn?”
“No uncle cheatmaster, He’s not my boyfriend oo, I don’t
have any boyfriend. He is just my school father.” I replied.
You don’t know that’s how it all starts. Don’t pay attention
to them oo. You don’t know I’m the one that’ll marry
you.” He said with a smile. I just laughed because it was
not the first time he was saying it and he reminded me of
my dad. My dad would always say that to me whenever
he was trying to tell me to forget boys by not having
boyfriends and facing my studies.
When we were almost done with our meal, uncle
cheatmaster cleared his throat and said he wanted to tell
me something.
“My princess, do you know I like you. I love you so much.
In fact, my love for you cannot be found in this world”
“Unc..” I was about to call him uncle cheatmaster before I
remembered he didn’t like it. “cheatmaster, (it still
sounded weird for me to call him that but I did anyway), I
love you too, we all love you. You are a very nice man.
Even my friends say so, especially after you bought
things for them the day you took all of us out.” I said.
He just smiled when I stopped talking and replied, “No,
Meso, I don’t mean that. I……(taking a long pause)
…….don’t worry”
I couldn’t understand what was going on or what he was
trying to say, but he just smiled. We finished our meal
and waited for some time before we left the restaurant.
When we got into the car, uncle cheatmaster didn’t start
the engine immediately. He looked up at me and leaned in
closer to me. I thought he was trying to grab something
from my side of the car, but he pecked me on my cheeks
instead and whispered, “I love you”. There was something
different in his voice especially the way he said he loved
me. it didn’t really sound like the uncle cheatmaster I
knew. He sounded more like a different man. I was just
eleven, almost twelve so I didn’t really suspect anything.
He was just my uncle after all. He later started the
engine, asking me where I wanted to go so I told him I
wanted to go to the movies and immediately he drove
there. When we got to the movies, he bought me popcorn
and a Pepsi and got the same for himself. It wasn’t yet
time for the movie we wanted to watch, so we went to
check out some other things around. The movie theatre
was in a big shopping mall, so we decided to go site
seeing and possibly buy something for Esther.
An hour later, we were back to the movie theatre, taking
our seats on the third row, we sat right in the middle.
During the movie, uncle cheatmaster kept on glancing at
me. I just smiled whenever I caught him stare. I was
enjoying the movie, so I paid little attention to what he
said or did. I laughed almost every single minute and
couldn’t control myself even uncle cheatmaster noticed
how much I was enjoying the movie. Two hours later, we
were done and we left the cinema. While we were seated
in the car, uncle cheatmaster told me he wanted to get
something from his house and so we drove there
immediately.
When we got into his house, he asked if I was hungry. I
laughed and asked him if he wanted to kill me with food
so he got the message that I wasn’t hungry. He dropped
his keys on the table and asked me to follow him to his
bedroom. I didn’t see anything wrong with it because he
was my uncle so I followed him. We got into his room
and he went to his closet immediately. I guess he wanted
to grab something, I just went for the bed. I was about to
sit down, when he said I should check in the drawers
beside his bed for a blue paper. I was guessing it was an
important document so I reached for the drawers and
opened the first one. I didn’t see any blue paper so I
decided to check the other two drawers below the first.
When I opened the second one, my eyesautomatically
became bigger.
I saw a drawer filled with what looked like condom,
although they were all still in its pack, I didn’t stop at
staring. I decided to touch one and I realized it did feel
like what they had brought to class one time during our
integrated science period. My teacher had shown us a
condom when she was teaching on sex education and
reproduction in which she made us get a feel of it. She
said she wouldn’t expect anyone our age to be having sex
but just told us that it was one of the ways people
prevented sexually transmitted diseases or getting
pregnant. To my guess, I concluded it was a condom. I
turned back to see if uncle cheatmaster noticed what I
had seen, and just about that same moment I turned, he
turned as well. He looked down to the drawer and realized
what I just viewed. My heart started pounding like I had
seen the devil.
To be continued………..
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As usual, you know what to do
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