Encounter With A Mubaba( Mercy's Diary 2)

Hell breaks lose

After being done with my final semester in school, I get an attachment in a water company that is in town. I feel old now to be staying at my parent's house and so I tell them that I want to move out and live with a cousin of mine who has rented in town. I furthermore add that I'll be saving on transport cost if I stay at a place that is near my place of work. They are too difficult to convince but I manage to.

Days have turned into weeks and weeks have turned into months since I started my attachment. My affair with Ernest the v8 guy is now pretty serious and he suggests that he should get me an apartment so that I can move out of my cousin's place. I think about it and after consulting my two friends Fahima and Joan I decide to let him get me the apartment. My cousin is not happy with the idea but there's nothing she can do about it. I just beg her to cover me up in case my parents come asking for me.

Ernest gets me an apartment that is fully furnished in town. I honestly feel loved, taken care of and treated right. From the time I said yes to him, being broke has been a thing of the past. A classy and expensive lifestyle is what am getting used to now. I feel like am living the life I've always wanted.

Ernest comes to sleep over at my apartment thrice a week. I'm so guilty about this illicit affair and the fact that I've sabotaged another woman's relationship but then it's just what it is. I've grown to love Ernest and I'm scared of how being over possessive of him I'm becoming. I've slept with him several times now. I remember telling myself that I was getting involved with this man just for material gain and nothing more. I even convinced myself that I wasn't gonna let him have his way with me but but guess what.... here I am catching feelings when he doesn't call me back immediately. I get bored when he doesn't come home to me and I feel so irritated when he doesn't pick me up from my place of work.

Its now 5 days and Ernest hasn't come home.
I try calling him but I'm send directly to the voice mail. The way have grown to love him really scares me. I feel so down, anxious, worried and frustrated. 'Could he have patched things up with his wife?' This question pops in my mind. Am in the balcony this Sunday afternoon and I keep my eyes glued outside hoping to spot the v8 making it's way towards the apartment.

My phone rings and I quickly pick it up knowing its Ernest but am disappointment right away. It's a number that I do not know. I reluctantly receive it and guess who is on the line.. The ex boyfriend of mine that I bumped into when I had gone on my first date with Ernest. "Hello Mercy, Julius here." He starts the conversation. Am a little shocked with his phone call. 'Hi' I answer Back. "I was checking up on you. I see you moved on." He continues. "Yes I moved on, any problem? I ask him. "Well there's no problem just feel like you moved on too first and you didn't give me enough time to prove to you that I deserved you and I was gonna take care of you. Of All people you had to move on with, did it have to be an old man, don't you think you are just fooling and wasting yourself?" I'm offended by this statement. "Look Julius, you have no right to question any decision I make about my love life. Its none of your business, get a life"I fire back. "You know what you've turned into? You've turned into a whore and if you don't take care, your life is going to turn into a big disaster.!?He says and hangs up on me before I can give him a piece of my mind. Am agitated. But wait, have I really turned into a whore? Just as I ask my self this question, I spot the v8 making it's way to the apartment's parking lot. I don't know if I should be happy or mad that he is here. I hear the door bell ring and I head out to get the door.

"Hi babe." He says and gives me a light kiss on the lips. I don't answer him. "Why haven't you been picking up my calls Ernest!" I ask him as I close the door. "Is that how you welcome your man?" He says as he sits down on the couch. "You haven't answered me. I demand an explanation!" I tell him. "Demand an explanation as who?" That question almost breaks me. I'm even weak to speak now. "Listen young lady, I'm a busy man and I have a family. I have a wife at home and I also have grown up kids who need my attention. Not everything is about you." Its now that it dawns on me that Ernest is not entirely mine and that am sharing him with his wife. Tears fill my eyes and I walk out on him and lock myself inside the bedroom. From the bedroom I get to hear him receive a phone call. "I'll call you later Gladys, don't call me! I'll be the one to call you." He's trying to whisper but I still get to grasp some words from his conversation. As I begin to analyse the call, Ernest knocks on my bedroom door only to inform me that he's leaving. Am so overwhelmed with different emotions now and I don't bother to ask him where's he's going. After he's left the house, I unlock the bedroom door and rush to the balcony. I watch him driving off and the thought of following him behind crosses my mind.