Making Love At The River Bank

chapter 8

Liza and I decided to stay in the hut after finishing our meal. We started talking about random stuffs and she asked me about my family and my work back in New York.

So I tell her how I am born into a business family that owns many casinos, clubs and hotels. “Rich niggah? Huh”  liza asks me. “yeah rich, tired  and unhappy” I laugh at her.

“What would make you unhappy?” She asks with a concerned look. She looks pretty, soo pretty.  “it's just that am tired of working everyday with no off, and my parents handed the responsibility of the businesses to me when I turned 18, I have been working ever since. And I don't want to complain to my parents because I really want them to enjoy their lives too”

Liza stands up from my bed and comes over to Zak's bed , where I was sitting.  “Awwwww you are such a sweet guy and your parents must be feeling proud and lucky to have you” she says to me while putting on a puppy face. “you are sweet too”  I tell her while pinching her cheeks.

“How about you tell me about your family” I tell. She sighs and tells me how her mother died when she was 9 years old and how her father was just a drunkard. She tells me how she used to wake up at 5 in the morning and go to the tea plantation to pick tea leaves and how she would rush to school at at 8 O'clock in the morning after she was done with her labour. She used to earn one dollar a day and bring food to the table for her dad and herself. She said she never loved her dad but she cared about him, until when he agreed to marry her off to Othiambo at the age of 14 that's when she lost the care she had for her father.

Othiambo took her to a secondary boarding school in the city, where he paid for her fees for four years until she graduated. Now that she is eighteen he was ready to marry her. All the time she was telling me her story I was getting emotional and I knew I had to help her excape soon.

I decided to give her a reassurance hug , so I pull her into a hug. I feel all my inner organs awakening. She hugs me back by putting her arms around my neck. So now her face is on my chest. I just hope she doesn't feel how my heartbeats were being so wild because of her.

It's not like she was the first woman I hug. There's a time when I was a man whore but I never felt like this. Only god knows what I was feeling but I loved whatever I was feeling.

“ let's go to the river and watch the sunset" liza suggests pulling out of my hug. She looked kinda shy because she was avoiding my eye contact, that's soo unlike her. Was I having effects on her? Was she feeling what I was feeling?

She puts on her shoes and goes out of the hut. I remove the clothes I was wearing and put on a white tshirt and a grey sweatpants. I go outside and find liza is gone. I walk to the river hoping she will be there.

The river is just like five minutes walk from the village but Liza's spot on the river bank is like ten minutes away from the village. No one goes to the side she always goes hence the place is always so peaceful.

When I arrive at the river I find Liza's clothes on a rock and she's already swimming.
“yow I thought you said we were just going to watch the sunset” I shout at her. “well I changed my mind because it's really hot" she answers back swimming away.

I sit on the sand close to the river water because it was hot and I really wanted to feel the cool breeze.
I watch liza swim back and forth. The sun was already setting, casting it's golden rays on us. Liza comes out and I don't fail to notice her black bikini on her chocolate skin. She sits beside me and looks up to me. She then turns to the sun.

“you are wet and almost naked, you should put on your dress before you catch a cold” I suggest.
“ nah am going back to the water after the sun sets and am not cold anyways" she shrugs.
I stand up and grab her dress, I decided to wrap the dress around her because she's going back to the waters apparently.

I sat behind her and wrapped the dress around her from the back. I move closer to her and wrap my hands around her so as to held the dress around her tiny figure.

So now it's like am hugging her from behind, I felt hot already. I felt pain in my groins already. I instantly started to regret why I decided to cover her up. She leans backwards making things worse for me.

We stay like that for a couple of minutes and I find myself smelling the back of her neck. I continue running my nose around her neck, smelling the river water, her hair also smelt like the river. So satisfying. “ I love how you smell Liza" I admit. " well thanks" she replies.

" Am obsessed with your smell" I state running my nose around her neck again. She flinches and I proceed to smell her collarbone. It must be her weak spot , I thought to myself.

Something got the better of me and I decided to kiss her collarbone. She leaned her head backwards and I continue kissing her collarbone. Why was she allowing me to kiss her tho ? Did she like me back?
“These were dry kisses and maybe it seemed friendly kisses to her" I thought to myself.
I moved my mouth to her ear and slowly put it in my mouth and sucked it. She was about to stand up but I prevented her since my arms were around her.

" David " she said my name in merely a whisper. “yes liza?” she didn't say a word for a minute. I felt guilty that maybe I was making her uncomfortable and she was just eighteen god damnit.

“Sorry beautiful, I just got carried away” I apologize to her. She leaned her head on my chest and turned her head up to me. Our faces were mere an inch away from each other.

“Don't apologize David, I actually liked it, I never knew my ears and my collarbone were so sensitive" she said soo innocently. What made matter worse was the fact that she didn't turn away from my face. She stared into my eyes as if she was looking for something. I stared back into her eyes and then stared into her lips. Her eyes and lips were so tempting.

Before I knew I was crushing my lips on her.