Crumbling Climax (Grey Love)

CHAPTER Five

“LIFE IS NOTHING BUT A GAMBLE.. YOU WIN SOME, YOU LOSE SOME!

Fred had been waiting for me with an open bottle of wine, I was really frustrated and I just
wanted to get wasted and forget about everything. Fred pulled me closer and we started
dancing, “where did you go? I missed you so much".  he said to me with a flirty smile. “nowhere important, I just want to get drunk and forget about the world.” I said to him with a tone of besought. Right then he pulled me closer to him and before I realized it he was kissing me, I was really drunk and unaware of what was happening but I just felt his lips on mine and I didn’t care about the world around me. He held the bottle of wine towards my lips, hardly had I sipped the wine when everything around me went crazy. I heard the bottle of wine fall to the floor, the music stopped and people surrounded me, next minute I saw Michael punching Fred and yelling. The fight went on for a few second before both Fred and Michael where held apart, “stay away from her your piece of trash, if I see you near her I will feed your filthy penis to the village dogs!"  Michael shouted with anger.
“she isn’t your girlfriend or your sister dude, so whatever I do to her is none of your business!" Fred yelled back bleeding on his lower lip. Michael got more furious and was almost punching him but he was yelled back. I was really in shock and had no idea what was going on but I shouted, “what the hell is wrong with you Michael! Can’t you just stay away from my life? One minute you’re humiliating me the next you’re punching somebody just because they were hanging out with me” when I said these words It hit me  that two men had just fought over me, and I felt joy inside my soul. ‘’ Stay the fuck away from my life! Fred is right you are neither my brother nor my fucking boyfriend!"  I yelled at Michael trying as much as I could to add emotions to my words.
I had never seen an expression like the one I saw on Michael’s face, it was a mixture of anger and hurt but I just had to put him in his place.
               
“you hardly know this fucking man, how weak can you possibly get!” Michael yelled at me,
“this man was planning on drugging you for God’s fucking sake, he put some pills in the bottle of wine!”
Hearing these words from Michael tore me apart, I felt so weak and vulnerable and I was loss of words. Angela and Derick were holding Michael, but he vigorously freed himself from the, “let me go, I’m done fighting for a girl who isn’t worth it. He said almost walking away from the club. I wanted to follow him but Thelma caught up with him first.

“I can’t believe you have the guts to fight for that murderer! Why didn’t you just let her be raped, it wouldn’t have been the first time!” Thelma shouted.
Everyone in the club looked at me, and everything just hit me like a hurricane, and I began to drown in my own past.

“yes people, she is Muwemi! The girl who murdered two of her lovers, the famous serial lover.” She shouted to everyone in the club.
I just stood there feeling more worthless than a sack of trash, I felt like I was standing in front of a jury of a thousand people who wouldn’t listen to my story. I was nearly blinded by the flashes of people’s cameras as they took pictures of me, right then Derick and Angie grabbed me and pulled me outside to the car. Derick quickly drove off as fast as he could, people in Zambia were worse than the tigers of the African wild. They took justice in their own hands and would beat   an offender before he even had the chance to stand before the Jury. Maybe their actions were so because in the world justice was just a matter of random probability, and sometimes
guilty people would be set free without a scratch on their body and the innocent ones like me
would face trial for a year before finally given a verdict. Everything felt like a nightmare, I chose a school far away from home or Lusaka city so that I would start afresh but I guess you can never run away from your bad past because it will always catch up with you. As I fell asleep that night everything just came back to me, and I recalled every detail of what happened that night my whole life changed.