CHAPTER SIX.
Please don't judge me, I decided to take the risk, and I forgave Cheta and continued the relationship. I've always said that if there's anything worth risking it's LOVE, so I took that risk and I'M BACK WITH CHETA. I know you all think I'm cheap or easily swayed but I think I'm in love.
Cheta was his happiest when he took me back to my estate that evening. Even after I told Cheta I had forgiven him, he continued apologizing and he sent gifts to my house every day that week (perks of dating a rich man, I guess) not just that, he spent every evening with me too.
I remember asking him one of the days we were sitting and talking in his car, "Are you not tired of spending the evening every day with me?"
"I can never get tired of you", he said.
A month after the incident with Amaka, I was in Cheta's house one evening, we were working together, then he said we were going on a road trip the next day somewhere and we would be spending 4 days there, I asked him where we were going to but he said it was a surprise, I tried to get it out of this man but he refused to tell me, "Be patient baby", that's all he told me. So I gave up and when I got home that evening, I packed a few things for a 4-day getaway, I tried to be careful not to over-pack or pack the wrong thing and I think I did well.
Cheta was at my house at 8.00 am the next morning, and when I got into the car, I saw a paper bag full of all the kinds of snacks I liked( this man had gone to the mall and picked all my favorite snacks; so thoughtful) He drove out of my estate into the road and turned towards Epe, thankfully there was no traffic on the road at that time. We talked and laughed and even had a little karaoke in the car.
We got to Lakowe resort at about 11.45 am, when we got there, the staff helped us with our bags, and that was when I noticed that Cheta had 2 big, luggage, I didn't say anything about it because we were both exhausted from the drive. All we did was have our breakfast and we slept off, I think we slept for about 3 hours before Cheta woke me up to eat lunch, and we had lunch in bed while watching a movie on Netflix.
When we were done with lunch, Cheta suggested we take a stroll on the beach together, so he told me to get changed, but he asked that I check one of his luggage, that he had gotten something for me. I opened the box and it was filled with designer outfits, from bikinis to two-piece overalls to dresses and other things, I was shocked and happy, I turned to him, smiling and asked, "How?"
"I did a little shopping for my girlfriend...but I also got a little help from my sister", he said.
"When did she send them?", I asked him
"Send them? She brought them herself", he said
In-between shocked and surprised, I asked him, "Your sister is in Nigeria? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Baby, she came in yesterday, I was going to tell you after I showed you this", he said
I picked up one of the dresses and said, "They are so beautiful".
I walked over to my handsome boyfriend and hugged him, kissing him on his lips.
"Okay baby, pick something and wear, so that we can go on that stroll", he said after he kissed me back.
20 minutes later, Cheta and I were walking on the beach, talking and laughing. We stopped over at a kiosk to buy cold cocktails and that was when I saw someone that looked like Amaka, but I felt it was just my mind playing tricks on me, so I didn't say anything to Cheta.
We walked through the crowd of people at the beach, and we sat at a cabana he had rented, we sat there and talked, and we even had food and drinks brought over. 30 minutes into our sitting at the cabana, Cheta pulled me closer to him and said, "Baby, my friends are coming over".
I looked at him, confused.
"What friends?", I asked him.
"You remember my friend, the one we threw a party for, he is coming with his brother and his girlfriend"
I answered, "Okay".
Few seconds after I said that, we hear someone call out to him, "Chets!!"
Cheta gets up smiling and his friends walk over to our cabana to join us. We exchanged our pleasantries, then I met Cheta's friend, Mike (Mike was Cheta's best friend, they grew up together in the States), I also met his girlfriend Mariam and his younger brother Yemi, and we all sat down, talked and ate.
Then while we still sitting at the cabana, Mike looked over at me and said, "You know you have changed this young man? Cheta didn't have the time to do all this even when he was with Ariel, how did you do that?"
I laughed, including every other person, then I said, "His mum said the same thing but...."
"But?", Cheta asked.
"Come on babe.", I said.
Then we went on to talk about other things.
3 hours after we all spent time together, it was time for them to leave and for us to go back to our cabin, it was getting dark already, so we walked Mike and his girlfriend to the car, (his brother had left earlier) and we went back to our cabin and took a bath, then Cheta suggested we had dinner just outside our cabin instead of the restaurant or inside the cabin (I guess he wasn't tired of being outside) but I thought it was a beautiful idea, so we did have dinner outside the cabin, and by the time we were done with dinner, we were both stuffed and not ready to go to bed so we sat by the private pool and sipped our wine, still talking. That was when I started feeling like we were being watched by someone, but when I told Cheta about it, he laughed it off and said, it was my mind but when he saw that I wasn't comfortable anymore, he asked me, "Do you want us to go inside?"
"Yes please", I said.
Cheta got out of the pool and taking my hand, he helped up and we walked into the cabin. We took a shower and got into bed, to continue the movie we started in the morning, this time Cheta didn't sleep off first, I did (I blame the wine though).
I woke up in the middle of the night and Cheta wasn't in bed with me, I picked up my phone to check the time and it was 3.15 am, I got up and checked the bathroom, but he wasn't there either, at this point, I got scared and worried.
Where was he at this time of the night?
I started dialing his number, but he didn't pick up, I called him 3 times, I think and when he didn't pick up on the 3rd call, I took out my night robe from the wardrobe and went out to look for him.
I walked up to the reception area (I felt he probably went there to get something or complain about something) but when I got there, he wasn't there, so I walked back to the room, thankfully people were still outside, I think there was a sort of party going on at the beach, so I wasn't scared being out that late. I walked back to the room and Cheta wasn't back, I didn't feel sleepy anymore, so I turned on the TV to watch something and keep my mind busy.
Then at 4.30 am, Cheta walked into the room looking very upset, when I asked what the problem was, he said he didn't want to talk about it, then I asked him where he had gone to and he said, "I got a call and I went out to handle something".
I wasn't satisfied with the answer but I didn't want to start an argument or a fight, so I went back to the movie while Cheta lay down on the bed, with his back facing me. I was very upset because Cheta must have thought I was stupid. Was he pretending to be upset to cover up that he had gone out and what he had gone out to do? I'm not doing this with Cheta. I'm not going to get into this back-and-forth thing with him. Tomorrow morning, I'm having a conversation with Cheta and I'm ending things with him.