The rest of the day Cheta tried to compensate for what he did in the afternoon, I could tell that he was trying to make up for what he had done, but that wasn't the way to go about it, well in my opinion.
"Baby, do you want to go out?", he asked me at one time
"I don't feel like going anywhere?"
There was just this silence between us but no one knew the right thing to say, it was like we were being careful not to say the wrong thing, so we don't annoy the other person. Well, we were able to get through the day without getting in each other's way.
We ended the night watching a movie on the couch, we were cuddled up but I knew something was off. We had ordered takeouts for dinner. We were halfway through the movie when the doorbell rang.
"I'll get the door", I told Cheta and I got up and walked to the door.
The doorbell rang again, right before I opened the door. I opened the door and I was shocked when I saw who was delivering our dinner. It was Danny, my ex from a year ago. What a shocker.
"Danny! What are you doing here?", I almost exclaimed.
"Chimdinma! You live here now?"
"No, my boyfriend lives here... what's going on?"
"Your boyfriend? Wow!", he said, trying to look into the apartment.
"So what's been going on? Do you work here now? What happened?", I asked him
"Let's just say, Karma... I lost my job. I mean everything went to shit."
"Don't say that Danny.", I said to him.
We were still talking when Cheta walked up to the door and interrupted our conversation.
"Baby, what's going on? You are taking so long", he said pulling me close to him.
"I was just picking up the food"
"Hi... sorry I kept her", Danny said.
He gave me the food and then walked away. We shut the door and walked back to the couch. I dropped the food on the table and Cheta asked me, "Did you know the delivery guy?"
"Yeah, someone from my past. I'll get plates and cups", I said and walked out of the living room.
"Okay baby", he said and sat back down on the couch.
I know you are all wondering who Danny is and the story behind it. I met Danny when I had just graduated from College. Danny had just come back from the United Kingdom where he had completed his Master's program, he was what you will call a "Hot guy". It was like every girl wanted him and of course, he gave all of them the attention they wanted. We met at a friend's party, I was being my normal grumpy me, and my friend Zoey was trying to cheer me up and get me to dance. Danny walked over to me and asked me why I was upset and told me how my mood was dampening the party, which only pissed me off more. I thought he was an annoying arse but 10 minutes into our conversation I was laughing, even Zoey was surprised. By the end of the night we had exchanged numbers and we couldn't stay away from each other. The next day, Danny was at the house with a gift basket, I thought it was sweet, he was just standing at the door, holding the gift basket and smiling. I remember I asked what the gift was for and he said.
"I don't know, I just felt like bringing something for you"
Well, we went out on our first date that evening, and 2 months later, we were dating. I kind of made it difficult for Danny because he gave off the Playboy vibe, but he was insistent. We started dating, well I can say it went well, we couldn't stay away from each other the first 3 weeks but after that, Danny was always busy or so he said and after a week of him blowing me off with his "I'm busy" excuse, I decided to surprise him at his house but I was surprised instead. I walked into his house, he had left the door unlocked and right there in the bedroom, my boyfriend was having sex with a random girl. She wasn't the first girl, he had cheated on me with, I had stumbled on different messages from girls on his phone but he said it wasn't anything and it was all in my head, so I had decided not to dwell on it. You wouldn't believe what he told me when I walked into his room and saw him in that awkward position with another girl.
"Baby, it's not what it looks like"
I broke up with him and that was the last time I saw him. I blocked him from calling me because he called me nonstop, saying he couldn't lose me. Well, now you know why he said it was karma that was dealing with him. Well, it was just a shock seeing him deliver our food that evening. I wondered what it was that had happened to him.
Cheta and I went into the bedroom after we finished our dinner and finished watching the movie. I took a bath and joined him in bed. We just lay there quiet and lost in our thoughts and just when I was almost sleeping off, Cheta turned to me and asked,
"Baby, are you awake?"
"Yes, I'm awake," I said and turned to look at him,
"Can we talk? I don't like this silence between us, it's killing me", he said
"Yes, it's killing me too"
"First, I'm sorry for what I did during lunch. I know we talked about sex when we started dating and you said you wanted a no-sex relationship and I agreed to it. I'm sorry that I broke that agreement this afternoon", he said
"Baby, I understand. I know that it can be difficult too, but we can fix that, you know?"
"How do you want to fix this?", he asked me
"Maybe we shouldn't spend so much time together? What do you think?". I asked,
"That's a bad idea... that's not the idea I was thinking about"
I laughed.
"Okay? So what idea did you have?", I asked him
"I was thinking, we should get married immediately"
"What?", I said and laughed hard
"Don't laugh baby. I'm serious. I can't wait to hold you and just make love to you. I can't wait to have that", he said
"You think I don't want that too? I do but we can't just rush into marriage just because we want to have sex"
"I know, I know but can we go and see your mum next week?", he asked
"Next week? Is that not too soon? And you are still recovering"
"Baby, it's not too soon. Why do you keep pushing this visit with your mum? Don't you want me to meet your mum? Or you don't want to get married to me? Something is not right", he said
"Don't do that baby. You know I love you and I can't wait to be your wife and have all the crazy sex but... baby, you are not feeling very well", I said
"I'm fine now baby and you know this, so let's travel to the east and see your mum"
"Okay, fine. Let's do it. I'll tell my mum. She will want to be informed", I told him,
"Are you sure you want us to go? I don't want to force you"
"No, baby. You are not forcing me. I want us to do this"
"Okay, so we are doing this? I'll book the flights and take care of the hotel arrangements", he said
"Okay baby. We are doing this".
"Come here baby", he said, pulling me closer and kissing me on the lips, then he added, "I can't believe we were almost going to sleep, upset with each other"
"I love you baby", I said smiling.
"So who was that delivery guy to you?", he asked me
"He was an ex"
"You dated a delivery guy?", he asked me
"No offense to delivery guys and people that are hustling hard for their money but hell no"
"So are you saying that if I was a delivery man, you won't date me?", he asked me again
"That's not what I'm saying...okay can we let this go because I think you are playing with my mind now", I said
Cheta laughed.
"You know I love you baby?", he asked
"Yes I do and I love you too baby. Now can we please go to bed? I'm very exhausted"
"Yes, we can go to bed, my love", he said and kissed my neck.
I closed my eyes and slept off, smiling.
There's something I have come to learn about relationships when two people come together and decide to make it work, all they have to do is put in the work, communicate with each other and make it work...Like they always say, Love is never enough, you just continue to put in the work and that is exactly what Cheta and I are going to continue doing in our relationship to make it work. I was going to give my all in our relationship and that's because Cheta was giving his all too, so it was only fair that I do the same. Love is never really enough.