Dark Truth

I saw her for the first time in my office canteen

She was helping her elder sister sell food

Gosh, she was the most beautiful presence in the room

Her aura was so strong, it attacted every creed, class and title to her sisters small canteen.

Suddenly, the canteen which was always scanty, became the rave of the moment. Everyone wanted to eat there.

Even my boss!!!

Oga always sent the office assistants to get his food from any of the fancy restaurants or fast food close by, but suddenly, he would come down to the canteen  himself to get his own food...So shameless!!!

Every guy in the company came there to eat, and before 4pm, the sister was out of food

Reason wasn't farfetched and it had a name

Her name was Truth

What a name, right...

She was the light that attracted all the buzz

I went there to buy food that day as I had not come with any that morning, because I woke up late and couldnt cook

"Good morning sir," she said.

"Hi, I'm Kingdavid please not sir" I said smiling.

"Nice name, I'm truth not lie," she giggled as she said it

We both laughed and I left but came back minutes later and asked for her number, she took my phone dialed her number, and two days later I was kissing her at the back of the canteen, away from prying eyes.

It was too good to be true and too fast to explain.

It was a love that drove me senseless, the kisses we shared and hugs we exchanged made me never to miss work for one day.

I never brought food again to the office, I ate all my meals there and afterwards, we would kiss and she would look at me with the most beautiful eyes God created and I would melt before her gaze

When the guys in the office talked and swore that they would have her,  I would silently pray against their devious plans

When they talked about how tough and unfriendly she was, I would raise my chest and walk out with pride... The steps of a man who knew what others didn't, couldn't!

I was the chosen one

She was my bouquet of pride and joy

But she never visited me, we never had chance as I worked from Sunday to Friday, and Saturdays which was my only free day, she wasn't chanced to visit as she had to help her sister.

Later, she would travel and I would change office, and our love, young, yet blooming would be tested.

One day, three months after we parted ways, I never heard a word from from her again. She was lost to me.

I became preoccupied with work and it would be one year later before I saw her on facebook.

She was now a model and ten times more beautiful

My heart skipped,  immediately I sent a message on messenger, and she replied

She remembered me

Our love will be rekindled again after one year. I wasn't single but no other woman would take her place.

For her I would remain single for she was the only one that could change my relationship status.

"Where are you, I want to see you Truth,  I would go crazy if I don't." I said

"I want to see you too,  I missed you a lot but I'm in Abuja not Lagos." She replied.

Days passed,  months,  we texted,  called, chatted everyday, but that aged long enemy, distance and time, would steal her once more, for absence truly makes the heart grow cold.

Another three years would pass and one day, by chance I saw her post again on Facebook

This time around she was in Lagos

"Truth, my goodness,  fate keeps smiling at me." I chatted her

"lol, right... Where are you?" she asked

"I'm in Lagos love, I wanna see you and nothing will keep me from seeing you. Let me have your number." I replied

"Alright, 0901... She called it  and immediately I saved and called.

I kept calling and we kept chatting as the love kept growing, she even gave me her home address and each time I wanted to come over,  she was never available or chanced.

It happened for weeks until finally I got frustrated, could it be she doesnt want to see me, we are both in Lagos, If you don't want me to come over,  why don't you come over then. I would complain.

"Relax Kings,  I will come when the time is right." she would reply in the most beautiful voice and I would forget my annoyance

Until few days later,  she finally posted a picture on Facebook after a long streak of silence.

This time around, she wasn't a model, yet she looked as beautiful as ever and more mature, but she wasn't alone in this picture.

She was with a baby.

My heart stopped

No!!!  Maybe it's her sisters baby, or her mum's... With shaky fingers, I went to her inbox.

Too scared to look at more pictures, afraid to see a husband or a wedding picture.

"Truth, the baby, is the baby yours?"

I sent the message.

Then, remembering my manners, I would send another chat.

"Hi dear, forgive my manners, how are you doing, long time, please answer my question." I begged

Minutes later

"Hi Kings. Yes, she's my baby, I'm engaged now.

The truth hit me like a trailer

"You mean you were engaged and with a baby all this while, yet you still flirted with me and even allowed me keep my hopes high?" I asked shocked

"I'm sorry." she said

I waited for more,  there has to be more than I'm sorry,  but it was a Long wait... Nothing else came...no explanations, no excuses, no lies.

Every other conversation became blurry. I wept like I had never done before, I never even had an opportunity to properly know her, or love and experience love with her.

How do you get over someone you never really had and never truly lost

This love that chose me in its innocence, picking me amongst better men,  I couldn't get over this loss

So I deleted her number and erased our chat, to ease the pain. I couldn't bring myself to unfriend her, I wouldn't.

Finally, I summoned the courage and unfriended her

I had almost forgotten about her and moved on, when one day,  months later I got a text message from her in my phone.

"Hi Honey, when are you coming,  I miss you." she texted me.

I was confused so I replied.

"You miss me, but aren't you engaged or even married?" I asked

"Don't be silly, please come now." she replied

I don't care if she is engaged,  married even, I didn't care. 

This was my moment!!!

I still remembered her address, at the initial revelation,  I used to walk past her street, hoping to catch a glimpse of her and wishing she would see me and fall in love with me and forget her engagement, in one last act of obsession or desperation.

I was in her street in minutes but couldn't find the house anymore, I had forgotten the place as it looked very different and isolated.

A man walked up to me and I jumped. He wore a white shirt,  black jeans and white facecap, with a weird smile.

"Looking for someone?" He asked in a friendly way and I relaxed. Soon he pointed a gate to me and smiling he walked away.

I had goosebumps but I was too aroused to be distracted by an eerie feeling, so I walked-ran to the place and knocked.

For the first time In years, there she stood, in front of me in her gate, shining like a star.

It was a miniflat, the only house In the compound, she smiled and stood aside for me to walk in, the second I walked in, she locked the gate.

I asked quickly and short of breath from passion and lust.

"Are you alone?"

Smiling, she replied with the most amazing voice I had ever heard.

"If I wasn't, I wouldnt have invited you over."

I hugged her even before she finished the words, so tight, carried her while still in my arms and planted a kiss on her lips.

Her lips were moist, we kissed a long time,  she didn't refuse,  she wrapped her arms around me and I bent my head low to properly savor and devor her lips.

I was shaking

"Oh Truth, I have missed you," I said between kisses, catching my breath and sucking her lips like a hungry child

"We need to go inside,  I'm not running away." she said, gasping for breath and barely opening her eyes from obvious pleasure.

Refusing to let her go,  I carried her in my arms and strode inside the house 

"Where's your baby?" I asked

"She's fine, the bedroom is this way," she pointed and I almost ran with her, my bulge almost bursting out of my trousers.

In my haste I had forgotten my condoms

Don't worry Kings, I can take care of myself she said when I told her.

We were all over each other in seconds, clothes were literally ripped off, I tore off her panties amidst shrieks of delight and passion.

I found her nipples, but she smiled and said no, not this. I understood.

Kissing her lips,  I let my hands travel down to her navel,  then slowly her thighs,  and finally her clit, she was as wet as a dripping sponge.

I let my fingers play with it a little,  sliding in and out of her wetness while she squeezed her eyes shut and bit her lips, then I went down on her,  to have a taste of her middle.

Crushing my lips on her pussy, she let out a cry and held my head down on it, I kissed, sucked  and licked her like a dog lapping water, raising her buttocks to my face, I tongue fucked her fast and furious until she screamed

Then slowly I got up, laid on top of her and guided my cock right at the tip of her hole, locking eyes with her I said..."Truth, I have waited lifetimes for this day and this moment."

Moaning and holding my cock in her hands, she said..."I know, fuck me please, I came back for this."

She pushed my cock deep inside her and I began thrusting. I shoved all of me inside her,  penetrating her with rhythmic moves.

Bouncing up and down the bed, she held me with her hands and wrapped her legs around me, I kept pounding nonstop with vicious thrusts, moving up and down, rolling my hips sideways and then raising her legs, I moved sideways and kept hitting her from a different angle.

She gasped and gasped again and started vibrating, I knew she was coming so I intensified my thrusts and increased my speed until we both came, covered with sweats and cum.

"I need to shower." she said

I smiled and watched her naked butt move to the restroom inside the room. I was too exhausted,  else I would have had another erection for she had a butt shaped like an apple, I wanted another bite  and I was gonna get it.

She was in the shower for minutes when out of curiosity, I picked my phone and scrolled to facebook just to see what her fiance and baby looked like.

My heart skipped when I saw the picture of her fiance, it was the same man that directed me to her house,  I almost fainted.

I clearned my eyes and checked again, It was the guy,  the same beards, the same white shirt,  black jeans and white facecap. He even wore the same eerie smile.

My throat was closing up as I checked more pictures and it was him and her with a baby

What the hell is going on here,  I asked myself.

Then finally I saw the picture that made me freeze

It was an obituary picture on Facebook

Someone had posted it and tagged her.

On it, Truth, the fiance and the baby stood smiling

RIP flooded the wall

Truth and the finance and baby all died in a generator fume home accident six months ago.

Apparently the fiance came home, drunk, he managed to put on the gen and faced the exhaust pipe inside the house, and one of those one in a thousand smoke accidents that kills family happened, and they all died in their sleep.

I heard singing coming from the shower, I stood up trembling and walked closer, I heard the water running and Truth singing.

I ran out of the house,  my chest was out of control and my legs didn't feel like my legs

I ran nonstop for two hours until I got home, out of breath and out of my mind, I dashed inside my house.

I stood and held my chest, it was beating so loud I was sure my neighbors will hear it, I was almost collapsing on my couch when I heard a faint sound, no, it wasn't a sound, it was a cry, a baby's cry coming from inside.

I picked my long mopping stick by the side of the kitchen and tiptoed inside my room, opening it with stealth, no baby,  yet I was still hearing the faint, soft baby cry,  then I traced the sound to my bathroom, and using the end of the Mopstick to open the door, I saw her, she was sitting on my bathtub and backing the door.

The second I opened the door, she turned to face me, and in her arms was a baby being breastfed.

She smiled and said... 

"Oh, you are back, just in time for round two."

"Daddy welcome." the little baby said, both of them smiling a very wide smile.

I fainted.

Kingdavid Chinaeke Ofunne