The next morning, when we woke up, Cheta acted like nothing had happened the night before, and I also decided not to bring it up again, but I wasn't going to let it either, I would just keep watch and try to understand what Cheta was up to. By the time I was up, Cheta had already called the kitchen to bring up our breakfast to the room, so we had breakfast in the room.
"What are we doing today?", he asked me
"I don't know"
"Are you angry with me?", he asked me again
"Why will I?", I asked him
"I don't know, I know I didn't do anything", he said
"I'm not angry with you, there's nothing to do here. We can stay in and watch a movie"
"Okay, we can do that"
We continued eating our breakfast, and Cheta kept looking at me now and then, trying to understand what the problem was with me.
"Is it the call from last night?", he asked me
"What?", I asked and looked up from my plate of eggs and bacon
"I mean what has got you upset?"
"Cheta, I said I'm not upset, why won't you let it go?", I asked him
"Because I know you are lying about not being upset...babe you forget that I know you very well"
"Baby, it's too early in the morning to fight so please can you let it go?"
"Okay, but you know I can't pretend to notice your mood"
"Baby?"
"Fine, I'll drop it", he said and went back to eating his breakfast. He tried to change the subject by bringing up something else.
"Is there a mall here, where we can go shopping?", he asked me
"Why do you want to go shopping?", I asked him
"I want to take you shopping, is that a bad thing?"
"I didn't say it was, but we can wait till we get to Abuja to do that"
"Okay"
We finished our breakfast and I went into the bathroom to take a bath while Cheta took a work call, it was a rather long one, it lasted until I was done with my bath and even got dressed. When he finished with the call, he walked into the room from the parlor and climbed on the bed, putting his face on my neck and kissing me.
"You smell nice, baby"
"You should go and shower too"
"Yes, I'll do that now. You should pick a movie", he said and got up from the bed.
"Okay, any genre?", I asked him
"Yes, whatever you like", he said and walked into the bathroom. I picked up the TV remote and started shuffling through the list of movies, trying to pick up a movie. 25 minutes later, Cheta walked out of the bathroom, tying just a towel, he walked over to the wardrobe. He got dressed and then he joined me in bed, I was almost sleeping off when he got into bed, I guess I was tired of waiting for him.
He kissed me on the lips and that woke me up, "Sleeping already?", he asked me, and I opened my eyes.
"I got tired of waiting, you know how you like taking your time"
"I'm sorry, I'm here now", he said
He tried to get up but I held him closer, sniffing him. Yes, I can be weird like that, if there's something I love better than smelling nice, it's my man smelling great and Cheta had that covered, he knew how to get the right cologne, so yes, I love holding him tight and sniffing him even when I am very angry with him.
"Do you want us to stay like this?", he asked me, chuckling. I let go of him and he picked up the remote controller and pulled me closer, held me, and then pressed play. We started watching the movie and both fell asleep halfway through it, I think it has become normal for us to fall asleep while watching a movie, I don't know why we even bother watching a movie. I woke up to my phone ringing, it was my Mum calling.
"Hello Mum", I said, rubbing my eyes.
"Did I wake you up?", she asked me
"Yes Mum, but it's fine"
"Okay, I just made porridge yam and goat meat. So you should send the driver to come and pick it up from the house"
"Okay Mum, thank you."
"I'll see you and Cheta at the house tomorrow, right?", she asked me
"Yes, Mum. We will be spending the day with you tomorrow. Thank you for the food Mum", I said
"Yeah. Take care my baby.", she said and hung up the phone.
I turned to wake Cheta up to call the driver, he got up and called the driver and told him to go and pick up the food. While I waited for the food, I called the kitchen to send up the plates for us. The food and the plates were brought up almost at the same time.
"Thank you Sir", I said to the driver when I was taking the bowl of food from him.
"Your Mama give us food sef, me and police", he said in pidgin, excitedly. This driver sounds like all he cares about is just food, thankfully, he does his job well.
"Oh! That's good. You should enjoy it then", I said and shut the door. I dropped the bowl of food on the table and Cheta walked over to the table, smiling.
"This smells good. I can't wait to eat this.", Cheta said and picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth.
"I'm about to serve some for you my love", I said, smiling.
I picked up a plate and served some of the porridge to Cheta and he picked up the spoon and started eating.
"Baby, I'll want more. This porridge is the best I've eaten in a long time. Is this what I'm going to enjoy when I get married to you, I know you cook just like your Mum", he said
"How sure are you?", I asked with a smile on my face.
"I just know and you know when a man knows he knows", he said
"Is that how they say it?", I asked and chuckled
"I can't think right now, this food in my mouth is all I can think about", he said with food in his mouth.
I laughed and served some of the food for myself. I opened the refrigerator and took out a pack of juice and poured some out in a glass for Cheta and then some for myself. I sat down to enjoy my porridge. We finished eating and could barely even breathe, this happens every time we eat my Mum's food, we can barely control ourselves after the first spoon, so here we are again. With the way I had been eating since I got to Aba, I knew that the moment I got to Lagos, I was going on a diet and hitting the gym. Well, all we could do after that meal was to lie on the bed and try to fall asleep which didn't take too long. This time around, we didn't have any interruptions, so we slept until very early in the morning. I woke up first, I woke up to use the toilet and when I got into bed to sleep back, Cheta turned and opened his eyes and that was how we were both awake at 4.00 am.
"I can't believe we slept for almost 10 hours", I said to Cheta
"Well, we have your Mum's food to blame"
I laughed.
"But we can just stay up and talk", he said
"Or we can just stay here in each other's arms until we fall asleep", I suggested.
"I think my idea is better"
"So what do you want to talk about?", I asked him
"Us"
"Or maybe I should ask what have planned in Abuja?", I asked
"What are you talking about?", he asked me trying to keep a straight face.
"I know you have something planned but I can't tell what it is, so you can just tell me yourself"
"Why do you think I have something planned?", he asked me
"I have been watching you, the secret calls, the whispering here and there, the hidden texts, baby I can tell something is up"
"Well, nothing is going on, you are wrong. Can we talk about something else?"
"Nope. I'm not talking about any other thing", I said.
So we just lay there on the bed and didn't say anything to each other.
"Baby, we can just talk?"
"You have to tell me what is going on. Are you seeing someone else? Is that what it is?", I asked him
"What are you saying? Why will you say that?", he asked me
"Because if you are not planning anything, then it means you are stepping out on our relationship"
"Okay, yes I'm planning something. It's a surprise party for my friend, I didn't want to tell you because it was a surprise for him", he said
"What friend?", I asked him
"My friend getting that's getting married"
"You should have just told me, you sneaking around just made me think you were up to no good", I said
"Why don't you trust me? I have told you that I'm here with you all the way"
"Yes, you have said that and I'm sorry that I keep disbelieving you, it won't happen again", I said
"You promise?"
"Yes, I promise baby. It won't happen again"
I moved closer to him and he held me in his arms and I shut my eyes, I don't know how long my eyes were shut because I slept off, I think Cheta did too. In every relationship, trust is very important because, without it, you are constantly trying to catch your partner in a lie or something else. I have to work on my insecurities that have built up from my past relationship because it's starting to mess with my present relationship and that's not good.