Dilemma

Chapter five: friends

When we got to my apartment it was so dark,that we had to use our phones as torchlights to avoid hitting our toes on the stairs.

"NEPA can really be annoying sometimes,' I spoke.

The room was quiet,which meant Daniel was no longer around. I knocked twice on the door before the door creaked open.

I could feel that Gina was sad ,she would have probably said something funny when she saw me,instead she just muttered a greeting and walked back in. She didn't even notice Jane behind me. Jane kept the things we bought on the table,we stopped at a restaurant and bought food, even got ice cream. I had sensed that we would need to eat them especially Gina who I predicted would be in a sour mood.
While Jane was unloading the food in the other take out bag she mistakenly knocked Gina's headset over. I actually froze thinking she would have screamed but she didn't even utter a word.

Gina must be in a bad place right now if she could wave off her precious headset hitting the ground.
Jane stooped low to pick it up and the light came back on,well NEPA was on cue. I  had a flashback of the last time Gina and I went to pay the electricity bills,how she had created a scene because she felt that they were charging us above the correct rate.

We paid higher fees but the light was not steady, that day we were almost thrown out by security but after so many threats of burning the workers and the whole place the matter was looked into.

Gina was right after all,one of the staff had been stealing from people by making them pay higher after sending in wrong calculations from false meters.

That is the Gina I enjoy so much,seeing her quiet and sad brought me sadness too.

"Jane! How did you get here? Gina finally spoke after she noticed Jane
I came in with Meredith, you probably didn't see me it was dark anyways, so how are you? Jane enquired  very relieved that Gina spoke to her.

While they conversed I heated the food ,boiled hot water for bathing .
When I got to the living room I was surprised to see bottles of beer standing very close to Gina.

Apparently Jane had gotten them hoping We'd be alcohol lovers like her but unfortunately I was not.
I served the food and we ate in silence,not until Gina finally opened up to me what had happened.

The stingy boyfriend of hers had the nerve to cheat on her and he wasn't even apologetic about it. Gina was very sensitive to that because she had grown up with a cheating father who put her mom through hell and discovering that about Daniel had made her remember her past.

I was beyond angry,I always knew Daniel was a horrible person deep down .stingy manwhore!

I could tell Gina was trying so hard to be strong in  front of us and I guess Jane noticed that too because she shocked us with a revelation.

"Mark and I are not engaged, we are just pretending .I'm actually using him to piss my father off. My father's business rival is Mark's father and they are also arch enemies so I've been using him to get to my father. We are just friends"

By the time she had finished Gina and I were staring at her with our mouths wide open and our eyes fixed on her face.

"What! Chei ! This girl you get mind oo' Gina finally spoke after we recovered from our momentary shock .

Jane reached out for the drink beside her and opened two bottles. She handed one to Gina and the other to me but I rejected it.

I was alcohol intolerant and the last time I managed to sip the one Gina brought home she had to literally tie me to the chair.

Watching them gulp the beer made me wonder if I was the odd one in the group.

Thankfully our conversations became more active and Gina livelier ,we talked about the crazy things we did while growing up .