4 Months later.
Leah and King are seated in the cabin talking, with a bottle of wine opened, placed in the middle of them.
"bring your hands, bring your hands, let me do a psychic reading for you" Leah said.
"please" King said, dismissing her.
"I would have you know I took a three month's psychic crash course on one of my stops in New York, I'm good okay" Leah said. Not wanting to argue with her and further elongate this, King stretches his hand and she takes it into hers. She hums for a while before she speaks.
"I see. You have a very close friend, it's either T, D or J and then… you are gay" Leah said.
"okay, let me put you out of your misery before you start making some stupid rhymes" King said and Leah laughed. "T and I are closer, we've been friends since we were kids. Along the line we met D, then J" King said.
"Age?" Leah asked.
"J is the youngest and T is the oldest" King asked.
"T? Then why are you his boss?" Leah asked.
"because being King is not about age, it's enthronement" King said. Leah laughed and shook her head. They stay quiet for a while before she speaks up again.
"okay, I'm getting tired of this. We've been on sea for about four months now. And I know we get to go to land from time to time and chill, shop…" Leah said then trailed off.
"you love that shopping part. So you go just dey do those girls dirty" King said.
"it's not my fault, they started it. You know that anytime I go to that mall and they see me, they always greet me, like they show me some maximum respect" Leah said with a smile.
"I know say na that kind thin wey dey sweet you" King said.
"can't blame me for being a boss. I was born that way" Leah said.
"you are spoilt" King said.
"no, I'm entitled, there's a difference" Leah said causing King to scoff.
"really? Please, enlighten me" King said, amused by her statement and interested in knowing what she was going to say to defend this. Leah clears throat and uses a chirpy voice to speak.
"oh gosh, you just stepped on me! You just stepped on my $400,000 red bottom heel designer shoes, how dare you!" that's spoilt" Leah said. She pauses then speaks with her normal voice. "do you know who I am, my father could have you arrested so fast you wouldn't realize what has happened till you are in a prison cell serving a life sentence", that's entitled. The difference is one is rude with serious attitude problems and the other just forgets that not everyone has everything handed to them on a platter of gold" Leah said.
"yeah, you just described yourself in two ways" King said which led to Leah hitting him playfully on his chest.
"I hate you. But four months though. Man, I need some permanent land time" Leah said, truly a bit exhausted and tired of the cruise. Not that it wasn't a nice time, with King and the sea and all, she would just prefer to be on land now.
"why, you are already tired of me? It's supposed to be the other way round" King said.
"I know right. Look, one thing is for sure, I will not be going on any sea trips after this. I mean what's with that Baba Sege guy sef, doesn't he get tired, what is he still looking for" Leah complained.
"evil never sleeps" King said.
"tell me about it" Leah said. She drew closer and laid her head in King's laps.
"wait, did you say sef in your previous statement? Like you spoke a pigin word and then you continued your sentence sounding Nigerian?" King asked. Leah stutters and then blushes.
"don't make it sound like I won one award like that or something. I still wonder why you just don't speak clean English. It's not that you can't, you can but you just chose not to, you and Simi, I don't get it" Leah said.
"like you said, it's a choice. And I go like meet that your friend Simi sha. The babe sound alright" King said.
"hey, this is not about her, it's about me" Leah said, pinching King on his checks, which caused him to smile.
"jealousy is not a pretty colour" King said.
"neither is frowning. You should smile more, it looks good on you. Come to think of it, I know nothing about you. not like nothing, but we've been here for four months and I've spilled my guts out to you, but I don't even know your real name. what's you real name?" Leah asked.
"King" King replied.
"no, not you stage name. Your real name".
"you see this is why we will always have a problem; you never believe stuff I say".
"you expect me to believe that your father named you King?" Leah asked as she gets up from laying on his laps and then straddles him.
"yeah. My father knew I was born for great things so he named me King".
"my mother knew I born for greatness, she didn't name me Queen".
"yeah well your mother doesn't run the streets".
"what is it that you do anyways… and don't tell me you are a business man, that's just ambiguous. What exactly is your business? Do you steal?"
"that's for armed robbers and petty thieves".
"do you kill?"
"and put babalawo's out of business? I wouldn't dare" King said, faking a hurt face. Leah chuckles.
"do you sell body parts?"
"again, no. That's for people who want to get rich quick.
"cyber-crime?"
"I don't know if you've seen where I'm staying but it's not really a place to further your studies in yahoo-yahoo plus, plus".
"you rob banks?
"nope, Professor has that covered" King said and Leah smiled.
"Okay that was good" Leah said then stops smiling. "so you do drugs then?"
"no way, that shit kills people".
"then what do you do?" Leah asked in between laughs.
"I know" she says and as she speaks, she places a trail of kisses from his chest up. "you kidnap women and make them spend months with you on sea, on your yacht, just so you can show off" Leah said.
"if I recall, I was saving your life" King said.
"um, knight in shining armour. Sorry, King, in shinning yacht" Leah said with a small smile and is about kissing him on his lips then he pulls away. "what? What?" she asks and King looked to her finger and then she follows his eyes to the finger he was looking at.
"seriously?" Leah asked in disbelief. "I thought we were over this" she thought.
"you are engaged Leah" King said with a weak smile.
"to who? I don't see him around here" Leah said.
"you will when you get back, so let's just not start something we can't finish" King said then stood up, causing her to get up from his laps.
"what are you afraid of? I'm into you and I know you are into me to so what is it?" Leah asked.
"I'm not afraid of anything. Just drop it" King replied.
"what are you running from?" Leah asked again.
"no one and I said you should drop it!" King said sternly.
"no, I'm not dropping it! We've been at this for months and I'm sick of this back and forth. And don't give me that "you are engaged" crap, it's just a load of B.S. Who was she? Who hurt you so bad that you think that's all it".
"there was no one. Now drop it because you are getting on my nerves and I swear Leah I will…"
"hit me and run away? Seems like the last part is your specialty".
"you don't know anything about me. I warning you don't test me" King said and paused, before he spoke again. "at the end of the day you all leave".
"to where? To where King. You keep saying that but I'm not going anywhere. What happened?" Leah asked but King ignores her and turns around.
"just tell me what happened? Who was she? King it's me and you on this yacht in the middle of the sea, I'm not leaving" she said which causes King to turn around immediately and face her.
"you are! You all do, you all leave. Mom, Dupe, you! They all left and you are no different you will leave to. Why because everyone eventually realizes that there is a better life out there than to waste it with King, living in a remote village. It's just a matter of time, you will be leaving too" King said. He turns around and walks away from her, just a few steps, so that here is some sort of distance between them.
"I'm not going anywhere, I swear. I promise" Leah says and starts taking a few steps towards him. That's when Kings phone starts ringing, then he sighs. "King?" Leah still called, but he ignored her. He took a deep breath, before he was able to answer the call.
"T, how far?" King asked.
"the coast is clear" T said.
"okay" King replied coldly.
"you dey alright?" T asked, hearing how King's voice sounded.
"I'm good. Just get everything set. Tomorrow, I go show" King said and ended the call. He took another deep breath before he turns around and starts leaving. "we leave tomorrow" King says as he walks away to his room, Leah wants to say something but then doesn't and just places her hand on her head, thinking maybe she only made things worse.