We "run" things

Chapter 9

I tossed on the bed endlessly like an indecisive coin, then someone tapped me. I opened my eyes slowly. It was Kesse. I was lying on his bed and in his room now. The erotic moment we had in the other room flashed through my mind like a fast lightning bolt and I hid my face beneath the sheets.

"Get dressed, we need to meet Raima."

"Raima?"

"I'll send you back to Nana very soon don't worry sweet girl, and I'm sorry about last ni....."

"Don't!!!!!" I screamed out of fear, I didn't want to remember that he just made love to me.

"What happens in the other room stays in the other room?"

"Yes, what happens in the other room stays in the other room!"

"I hear you Sharon, but we need to return to Nana, if you ever want to talk about what happened last night, in the other room...well, I'm always available."

"First of all, I am not your Sharon!! I'm just a wanderer who wanted to pass her night stealthily in someone else's house, precisely the other room...

" Wait, its me Kesse, Sharon is there anything wrong?" he tried to wrap his arms around my but I turned away sharply and hit my head over on the bedside drawer.

"Oooouch...ouuuch.."

"Sorry, sorry bae..you should take things easy and stop acting weird....he pulled me closer to him and he was practically breathing into my mouth. The urge to kiss him was very strong, but I tried to control my emotions. I felt my chest was going to explode.

"We are not doing this again KESSE!!!

I shoved him to the floor and hugged the blue and white pillow tightly. For a moment, my head started spinning. Memories upon memories kept flooding my brains.

I was the Sharon, I was me... I remembered the accident, our escape journey.....everything.

" Kesse!!!!You??? How??? "

"Sharon calm down, what's the problem you've been acting weird ever since you got here. First! You say you cannot make me out...Talk to me, please"

I said nothing, my brain was spinning in circles. Beads of sweat had already formed on my forehead. The memories and events kept flowing in my mind.

Everything made sense now. I was his Sharon. The girl he claimed to love so much. The girl whose grandfather he wanted to destroy. The girl he deceived. The same girl that trusted him enough to elope with him.

I felt very unhappy. Not just unhappy, I was angry!!! He is a liar and a hypocrite.
I needed to return home immediately and tell Nana everything. I knew Nana wasn't doing anything fishy, but I had to warn him about these suspicious undercover journalists.

"Sharon, why are you not saying anything?" Kesse asked in a worried tone.

"You are the worst person I've ever met. You've hurt me the most with your lies and your pretence...and you know why it hurts the most? It's because I actually thought you were cool...."

"Sharon, dear what are you trying to say..

"I heard you that day. You told Raima who you really are and what you are really made of. "

"How do you mean?? Dear....I..am Kesse..
He tried to get closer but I broke away immediately...

"...and you're a journalist aren't you????

"That has not nothing to do with what we feel dear..."

"You and who"? 

" Sharon...? I thought... I mean, I didn't know things would get to this..."

"You're such a liar, keep your stupid explanations to yourself...."

I felt my eyes getting wet as I spat those words to his sad face. I wanted to stop living. I wanted all this to end.

My life had actually ended. I wish I had died in that accident. I held Nana's amulet out wondered if it still had magical powers. I gazed at it intently, my fingers caressing it sadly. Ever since I received this birthday present, my life has turned upside down.

Kesse lied. Nana was wrong about him. Everything made sense now. Why he allowed himself to be enslaved by Nana so easily, why he refused to leave after he was fit.... It was all just some silly trick. There was no accident, he came to Nana's shrine on a mission. And there I was, I fell in love with him like a cow. I even included him in my plans. I escaped with him and all.

I pressed my amulet hard to my chest, regretting every single moment. I almost killed myself. If he hadn't agreed to come to Accra with me, I wouldn't have been so eager to escape anyway. I wouldn't have gotten involved in any accident. I wouldn't have lost my memory, I wouldn't have lived an empty life for three whole days not knowing who I was....and I wouldn't have allowed him to make love to me.
 
That day, my tears reminded me of the sea behind Nana's hut; salty, wavy  and warm..

"Sharon right?"

"Yea", I said and turned to see the Raima Kesse had been blabbing about all this while. To my uttermost surprise, She was that woman who had her fat self middled in the MMT. Apparently, she didn't obtain any bruises or cuts from the accident. So she had the strength to play 'betweener' for Kesse and I.

"Sharon don't be too upset," she said in an attempt to soothe my wounded heart.

"I'm not upset!" I shot back and sat on the hard floor. I wrapped my arms around my legs and rested my jaw on my knees.

"I saw how happy you guys were on the bus. It was obvious you loved each other. Please, everything happens for a reason, just give him the chance to explain."

"No! Raima, I've heard enough. Just give me some money, I want to return home to Nana. If you really want to help me, well then this is your chance..."

"Chance?"

"Just give me the money Raima, your baby is wailing... Give me the cash and lemme scram out of here."

She handed me an envelope. It contained about ten crisp notes. It was enough to send me back home. To my white bearded but bald Nana.