@Soulwriter 18 October 2021 more from that month

The mysterious guy 2

After the warm welcome, we ate and we got talking, in the middle of our conversation he said “will you be my girl?”. I was shocked. I didn’t utter a word at that moment, instead I changed the topic and spoke about my experience at the zoo. He brought it up again but this time I said I would think about it. Deep down I knew the answer to the question already, I just didn’t want to make it easy. On 19th of May I told him YES, he was happy and he immediately told me to dress up that he was coming to pick me. We went to a shopping mall, then to the cinema, we had fun throughout the day. The relationship was only a month and two days when I started getting red flags from him. The guy who would spend time talking to me changed all of a sudden, he would rarely call me and anytime I try talking about it he would say “I’ve been busy.” I wasn’t comfortable with his attitude but I couldn’t voice out because at the end of every argument I’m always the bad guy (the one who never understands). July 21st, we were together in his room and a call entered his cell phone, it was a video call on WhatsApp and he picked it. It was a lady speaking to him and with the conversation they had I knew she wasn’t just a friend. After he ended the call, I adjusted my position to his side of the bed and I asked “who called you”, he said it’s a friend, I took his phone to check through the person’s name and my eyes went straight to where the girl said “ I love you” he replied back with “I love you more”. Tears rolled down my eyes, I could only utter “how could you”?... “I was ready to give the relationship my all, I loved the guy, it was my first serious relationship in college, I was still new in the relationship and I was being cheated on”, these were words going through my mind. He immediately stood at his door, I was already packing my bag. I said to him “I’m leaving, Mike”. I then asked, “who is she?” . He said she was his ex girlfriend.I said “ex”but you never told me about her. Then, I asked “do you still love her?” He said “no”. I asked again, “what is the love you text for?” He said, “she said it first and I didn’t want her to feel left out”. He went down on his knees and said he would delete her numbers and begged me not to leave. I accepted him back but things were not quite well that week as I couldn’t imagine I was cheated on. We continued the relationship, things were back together, we enjoyed each other’s company until one fateful day... I followed him to the salon that day and his phone was in my hands until a message came in from Maggi, it says “please pick my calls, I’m not joking it been one month I saw my last period” I wanted to go to where he was and give him the phone but people were in the salon I couldn’t start an argument. I waited patiently till he finished barbing. When he finished, we left to his apartment, I was quiet all through the journey. He then asked when we got into the room “babe, is something wrong”, I told him “nothing”. I went straight to bed but I couldn’t sleep I found myself constantly pondering over the text as I have taken a picture of it on my phone. The following morning, a call entered but he didn’t pick it, I knew it was the girl. He checked the phone and saw the text, he then came over to me and said “you saw the text”, I didn’t utter a word. Then, he said “I’m sure she’s cooking up a story to get back with me”. I asked “who is maggi?” he said “my ex girlfriend, the one you read her chat the other day”. I told him to call the girl right in my presence and ask about her about the pregnancy which he did. Mike and I later concluded that she came over for a pregnancy test at his apartment. We then brought in a nurse and waited patiently for her to come. Mike then said to me “Tee, I don’t think it ok you see her, why not stay in the other room while we do the test”. I asked “why should I?” He said faintly “please”. I didn’t know what to do, I was speechless right there, it was like he was hiding me from her but I just didn’t have a say. I left to the other room. she arrived shortly, I could hear her voice . The nurse asked her some questions which she did answer. She was told to urinate in a small bowl and bring it. I heard her footsteps to the bathroom. The test was done but the result couldn’t be read by any of them as it was a straight line and a faint one, which means she was probably pregnant for him. The nurse advice that they both go to the hospital for a proper test as she took her leave. I heard the lady murmur but I couldn’t figure out what she said until she shouted “what is a lady’s panties doing in your bathroom”! It was that moment I realized that I was the side chick and she was the main girlfriend. I felt like breaking the flower vase in the room when I heard “what do you mean? Can’t my girlfriend’s panties be in my bathroom?”. Maggi then said “ who am I to you, mike?”. He couldn’t answer, then she left angrily. It was at that moment I calculated, if it been a month she missed her period that means he slept with her two weeks after I answered him. I blamed myself for been so dumb, how did I not notice? **Heartbreaking Moment** He came to meet me in the other room and said “come to the room”, I didn’t answer at first but later joined him. We were both looking at each other. He wasn’t willing to talk first, so I said “when will you be going to the hospital?” He said Monday. On Monday evening, he drove down to my apartment. After the pleasantries, I asked “how did it go?” He said “it went well, it’s Negative”, with a broad smile on his face. I smiled back and hugged him... After a couple of days, Linda (my best friend) and I met at a restaurant and I explained all to her, she was shocked and said to me “Do you remember the day he chatted you for the first time?” I said YES. She said again “Do you remember my countenance that day?” I answered “NO”. Then, “she said I knew he would joke with your heart”. I got mad immediately,I said to her “you knew” with a shaky voice,”why didn’t you ever mention it to me?”. She then said “I thought it wouldn’t be so with you, tee”. I left the restaurant in tears, but one thing I was happy about was that the girl wasn’t pregnant. I continued my love affair with my boyfriend until the day I was able to grab his phone in my hands. I went to his WhatsApp, I searched Maggi’s name but I couldn’t find it. I was shocked but later concluded he might have deleted her number. The following morning, I took his phone while he was still asleep and searched again but found nothing. My instincts told me something was wrong somewhere, so I decided to watch him operate his phone. The following morning, I left to my apartment. I got bored and decided to post a picture of me on my WhatsApp status. I got some nice comments until a guy’s reply came in, which was “you love feeling yourself” I sent him a smiley, then archived him immediately. After doing that I came to my senses and asked myself what if mike archived Maggi?... The following weekend we met. After sometime together we decided to get groceries at the store. After a while, I cooked and we ate in silence. A match was going on already, so he finished his meal earlier and left his phone at the dining table. I took the phone and immediately checked if he archived any chats, I was able to see two names but Maggi wasn’t one of them and her name wasn’t in his contact list either. I clicked on one of them whose name was SAM and to my amazement it was a girl’s number he saved with SAM. I read through the chats and I saw where he told the girl to use the iron and folic acid supplementation and drink lot of water to keep the baby safe, it was at that moment I knew SAM was the same person as MAGGI. “Oh my God!” I heard mike say “is something wrong?” It was at that moment I realized I spoke out loud. I took the phone and went to the living room, I gave him his phone without locking the phone, my eyes were filled with tears. He took the phone from me and saw I had read it, he immediately went to the door just like he did the first time, I screamed at him to let me go and told him never to come look for me and I said “it’s over between us, you liar, I hate you”. I was heartbroken for three months, it affected me, my education. I couldn’t do anything but cry all day and night. I wish I hadn’t given my all in the relationship, I wish I had not expected the best from him, I wish I didn’t judge through his looks or kindness, I wish I wasn’t naive, I wish I had ended it when I saw the red flags.