Quickly, I wiped the tears off my face. In my mind, I was trying to do a mental run through of the messages I got from Prince. I remember they were just two. But were they messages laced with romantic undertone? I could vaguely remember that one of them had something like that while the other was just an ordinary message anybody could’ve sent to me.
“Who is this?” MD barked, looking up from the phone.
I trembled slightly but hid it well from him.
“Who is the person telling you he is going crazy for you since he set his eyes on you?” he fired at me, his voice hard and angry.
“He is…he’s just…..” I tried to find the right words.
“He is who???” MD shouted at me, his entire frame quivering with anger.
“MD, you are shouting at me…” I said to him calmly, trying to buy time to compose myself and find the right words to tell him.
“Of course, I will shout at you!” he shot back at me, his eyes crimson red with rage.
“I will even shout down this entire house if you make me any angrier than you’ve already done!” he’d continued. “I just asked you a simple question and I need a straight forward answer, who is this idiot saying that he has gone crazy for you?”
I tried to smile. It was supposed to be a smile that would hide my discomfort and feign confidence but I wasn’t sure if it achieved that for me in that instance.
“So, you can be this jealous, MD?” I said, my voice trembling slightly. “Thought you no longer cared about me, didn’t know I still matter this much to you.”
“Anita!” MD screamed at me, “don’t push me…don’t test my patience. Who is this idiot sending you messages?”
This time, I lost the nerve to smile any further. The smile on my face instantly faded away.
“Okay, take it easy, MD, listen, it’s the same man that’s been calling me….the same Prince I told you about.” I answered nervously.
He was speechless for a few seconds. “You mean the same man has been all over you already, within just a few days that we had little disagreement? I can’t believe it.”
I shook my head frantically in disagreement. “No, MD, it’s not exactly what you’re thinking. Yes, the guy is just a toaster, he wants to have a relationship with me but that’s all, no more, no less!”
“Since when has this been going on, Anita?” he quizzed me.
“Since when has this been going on?” I pretended not to understand him.
“Don’t play dumb with me, Anita, since when has this nonsense been going on?” he asked again.
“But I still don’t understand you, MD, I have told you there is nothing going on between the man and I, and that is the truth,” I told him frankly.
He shook his head very slowly, very fearfully. “One last time, Anita, who is this bastard?” he roared at me.
I was really starting to get mad but I chose to conceal my disgust and annoyance. I had done everything possible to come out as plain as I could to him but he still didn’t believe me. What else does he want me to say?
“Listen, MD, I don’t know what you have in mind and I don’t know why you have chosen to blow this matter out of proportion like this…”
“Blow what out of proportion?” MD interjected, his eyes blazing with rage. “I just found out my woman has been having an affair with a man and you say I am blowing things out of proportion?”
“And I have told you I am not having an affair with anybody! He is just a friend, that’s all….”
“No!” he cut in again, his voice hard and firm. “The last time I checked, you said he was an admirer, a toaster. Now, he’s just a friend, right? A friend that’s been sleeping with you?”
I was getting really pissed off now. “MD, for crying out loud, nobody has slept with me, how many times do I have to tell you this?”
He shook his head. “It does not matter how many times you tell me, the bottom line is that I don’t believe you! Something has happened between you and that bastard!”
I was boiling with anger but I just barely managed to control myself. This was not looking funny anymore. I had to really be careful so that things do not get out of hand.
“Okay, MD, I think it’s high time we get this matter over and done with,” I said to him with a note of finality. “Now, tell me, what do you really want from me? What do I need to do to prove to you that the guy is who I said he is- just a friend, an admirer and nothing more?”
MD was silent. He was staring deeply into space, obviously trying to come up with something. “Listen to me, Anita, if you really want me to believe that you and this guy has not had sex together, I want you to call him on the phone right now and invite him to come over to the house this very minute!”
“What??” I exclaimed. “Why do you want me to do that? To prove what?”
MD smiled. “You asked me to tell you what you need to do to prove to me that there is nothing between you two, and I just told you what I want, simple!”
I shook my head immediately. “I am sorry, MD, I won’t do that. It doesn’t make sense!”
MD moved closer to me, held me by the shoulder and looked deeply into my eyes. “If I were you, Anita, I would pick up that phone and call up that guy right now and do exactly what I’ve asked you to do, otherwise you will leave me no other choice but to take some very drastic decisions you might live to regret for the rest of your days, so, the choice is yours!”
To be continued….
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