Emma arrived at her grandmother's house feeling exhausted. She couldn't believe that the bastard just tried to kill her. He nearly put her six feet under and grandma told the girls no police should be involved.
'How could grandma say that after all, he did to me!?' Emma wondered to herself unbelievably. Even the girls agreed that he should be arrested after she updated Omolade about what has been happening in her life for the past three days.
Omolade was furious. "I should have done more than scream in his face! I should have clawed out his eyes or at least spat on his face" Omolade said angrily to Abby's amusement.
Looking at Omolade as she angrily walked the length and breadth of Emma's bedroom, Abby realized that the two sisters looked more alike than she had thought. Apart from the fact that Omolade was a bit more chatty, the two sisters were both animated individuals. Omolade talks with the same ferocity as Emma does whenever she's angry. She also seemed not to be afraid of facing anybody no matter how big they are
"Sometimes I don't understand grandma!..." Omolade ranted on. "A man raped your granddaughter and all you could say was go home, we'll talk about it when I arrived, like what the fuck!?
"Uhhmm, Lade!..." Abby called her name to get her attention to no avail. She just kept on talking on and on... Gesturing and displaying with both her hands
Hearing that statement from my grandma made me felt like maybe she's been kidnapped by the Salvadors or something. Maybe they are making her talk under duress... It just came to me that grandma might be in danger while we're here discussing!" She said and gasped. "What if they really got her! Let's just make that call right now and..."
"Lade!" Both Abby and Emma called her name at the same time to get her attention.
"What is it?" She looked towards them startled, wondering why they called her name in such a manner.
"He didn't rape her... It was mutual! You don't want to start accusing a guy of rape without getting your facts right you know... And I don't think grandma has been kidnapped as you believed, she has called like four times in the past three hours already remember?" Abby said somewhat seriously
"He didn't!?..." Lade asked Abby with a surprise look on her face before turning towards her sister
"Really, Emma? He didn't rape you?"
"No sis, he didn't! It was mutual and..."
"Well duh!... He didn't rape you but he put his hands on you, didn't he!? He tried to kill you! If we couldn't nail him for rape then what about attempted murder? When grandma comes, we would insist to her that we want to press charges of attempted murder. It's high time guys like him who think they can do anything and get away with it all because they are rich know they are not above the law!'' Omolade talked on and on again without reserve.
"You don't agree with me? She asked looking towards Emma with her eyes slightly widened in surprise when she saw that Emma and Abby were not as fired up as she was.
"Of course I agreed with you Lade but I just thought we should hear whatever grandma has to say first before making such a decision," Emma replied gently to her sister but thought to herself...
'Of course, I don't agree with you!'. She wants to make Leo pay for what he did to her in her own way not to press charges. She wants to get him arrested just to embarrass and frustrates him, knowing he would eventually get out of it. But press charges!?... Nah
"Well, I don't agree with you, huh!" Omolade puffed, making Emma and Abby laughed.
"So what's up with you and Dave?" Omolade asked with a wink, easily changing the subject. "He likes you... Damn sis! Everybody at the party could tell he likes you given how he couldn't concentrate on the games and all"
"Who's Dave?" Abby asked with a teasing smile looking towards Emma.
"It's the doctor I told you about when I went for PEP. We met again at the party Lade invited me to and... That's it!"
"And that's not it! You cannot tell me you don't find him attractive?... Cos I won't believe you if you do. I know girls back when we were in school who would give an arm and a leg just to be able to sit with him for just five minutes"
"Well, sis does that include you, maybe?" Emma teased sweetly
"Well back then, yeah! I had a crush on him, but not anymore. I am engaged now, in case you've not noticed that fact" Omolade said holding out her ring finger first to Emma then Abby.
"He's cheating on you!" Emma suddenly blurted out.
"What!?" Abby asked not believing what she just heard Emma said. How could she know her sister's fiance was cheating when they recently both reconciled.
"Now how could you know that when you've not even met him!?" Omolade asked with her two hands placed on her waist
"When I've not even met who?" Emma asked Lade, looking confused
"You're kidding, right? Omolade rolled her eyes upward and laughed
"No, I'm not?" It seemed I zoned out for just a moment right now... Tell me what did I miss from the conversation?" Emma looked expectantly from Omolade to Abby.
"Huh!?..." Omolade asked with her mouth hung wide open
"You just told Lade that her fiance's cheating on her with a straight face. How could you dropped such a bombshell and claimed to have zoned out, are you crazy? Abby asked while seriously laughing at the look on Omolade's face.
'I said what!? How could I have accused somebody I've not met of cheating?... That's unbelievable!' Emma thought to herself looking confused.
"See you think I don't know that you're trying to avoid the question about Dave ehn?... Look at this girl o!" Omolade exclaimed towards Abby and laughed. "She thought I don't know what she's trying to do! She's trying to avoid the question about Dave and it's never going to work! Better spill it out right now!"
"Yeah!... I want to hear that gist too so start spilling girl!" Abby laughingly urged Emma too
"I swear I'm not trying to avoid any question..." Emma replied and also laughed. "But if you insist, I don't have any problem telling you." She shrugged her shoulders
"Dave is a nice guy but I don't like him that way"
"Well, you're lying sis! I don't believe you one-bit" Omolade replied
"Well I'm sorry you don't believe me but that's the truth."
"How could you thought you don't like him that way when you've only talked to him for like three hours!?"
"Isn't that enough time to be able to tell if you're attracted to someone or not?... Anyway, I know for a fact because we kissed!"
"What!?..."
"Huh!..." Abby and Lade's mouths hung open before the room suddenly erupted with a scream from both of them.
"You both kissed already!?... Omg sis, you sure don't waste time at all!"
"Well go on!... Please continue, don't just live us hanging... How was the kiss?" Abby asked
Emma also laughed at their energy and enthusiasm. "Well... It was just a kiss, nothing to it... The guy can kiss no doubt about that but compare to my knight in shining armor, Dave's kiss wasn't hot, it was tepid."
"Who is that again?... Hmm, bag girl! Your knight in shining armor, huh?... Tell me about him right now!" Lade demanded bouncing on the bed beside Emma.
Abby was in shock and Emma went still, realizing too late what just came out of her mouth before covering her embarrassment with a coughing fit that wouldn't stop until Omolade who was patting her back stood up to go get water for her
"Keep patting her back, let me quickly get water," Omolade said and left the room. When Omolade left, Emma suddenly stopped coughing, looking everywhere but her friend.
"Emma, have you fallen in love with him?" Abby whispered, trying to catch Emma's eyes who was looking at everything inside the room but her
"No now, what sort of question is that?"
"Are you sure?..." Abby probed dipper, still trying to catch Emma's eyes
"I'm sure, alright... I mean why won't I be sure? I just talked about a kiss, how could you easily concluded that I've fallen in love with him when it was just a kiss I talked about!"
"Well maybe because your eyes refused to meet with mine!?... Okay, we'll talk about this later" Abby quickly said under her breath when Omolade hurried in with a glass of water.
Abby knew Omolade would freak out if she knows who Enma was referring to as her knight in shining armor.
"How is she? Has the cough subsided? Is she okay now? We shouldn't have made you talk so much. How is your throat? It's aching, isn't it? Oh, I hate that bastard!... Omolade sat beside her sister on the bed and resumed parting her back, talking on and on to Abby and Emma who has completely disappeared under the duvet out of embarrassment.
How can only one person asked about ten questions in like a second?' Emma wondered to herself. 'I'm not in love with him, Lade made me say the wrong thing because she talks too much!" She assured herself.
Abby looked worried for her friend. 'Shes's in love with him!?' She thought to herself aghast. 'What kind of strange love is this!? Isn't she supposed to hate him considering the circumstances of how they met and everything else that has happened ever since?