CHAPTER 2
"I mean it Sandy, I like you and I want you to be my girlfriend!"
I can't think straight right now.
" Run Sandra, run!"
My subconscious is screaming at me.
" Don't go Sandra, he's being sincere!"
My heart screams.
Who do I trust?
My stupid heart or my ever sincere subconscious?
My heart finally wins.
"Why me Oscar? Aren't there girls in the city? Beautiful and sophisticated ladies.......classy ladies?...educated ladies?"
I can't get it yet.
" It's you I want Sandra. I've been thinking about you since I divorced my wife and I've been waiting for the best moment to approach you."
He pauses to sip on his coffee.
" According to you, this is the right moment?"
I ask him, feigning disinterest.
" I couldn't approach you when you were still in school. Now that you've done your exams, I found it wise to inform you."
I don't know what to make out of his confessions.
I'm still awed by his boldness and confidence.
He doesn't blink an eyelid when talking to me.
He looks straight into my eye.
I'm just surprised. What do I tell him. I don't expect him to confess his feelings for me so soon....not even in the near future!
"I have a boyfriend!"
The words come out as a whisper.
Even the most dump person on Earth would feel the lied in there.
Never in my life have I ever had one.
No boy has ever been interested in me.
They all think I'm too poor to be loved!
"It doesn't matter. What matters is that it's you I want and I'm sure you'll not turn me down!"
Talk of Confidence!
"I'm leaving Oscar, thanks for the coffee, and sausages. And the company too. My mum must be tired of waiting!"
I say as I rise up to go.
" Don't leave Sandy.......not just yet!"
He rises up and disappears into a room which I presume to be his bedroom.
In a minute or two, he's back, holding an envelope in his hand.
"Here. Use the money to buy something for you and for your mother."
Money?
My heart beats hard against my chest!
Money!
I don't know whether to accept or decline.
I know my mother and I can use a few notes to buy some stuff but, where do I tell her I got the money from?
"Tha....tha.....thank you!"
I manage to murmur.
"It's nothing Sandy. Lemmie see you out!"
He holds my hand and leads me out.
I'm trying as much as possible to avoid his gaze which is really burning into mine as he hugs me goodbye.
"Here's my card. Call me once you're at home. Don't forget to give me feedback!"
" I......I......I don't have a phone!"
" Oh sorry! I'll buy you one Sandra, don't worry!"
" I'll use mum's to call you. Bye!"
I say as I get out of the already wide open gate.
It's already dark and I'm sure mum will scold me.
As for the money, I'll have to approach her with a convincing explanation or else she'll sent me away with it.
If she refuses to have the money, then I'll use it to buy myself shoes and decent clothes!
I tuck the envelope safely under my bra and half run, half jog home.
Mum is shitless worried about me.
"Where have you been Sandra? I've been calling
Sarah and she told me you left two hours ago? "
She asks, breathlessly.
" Relax mum, I'm here already! Have you cooked?"
I ask as I head to my bedroom to count the money.
They are crisp notes of one thousand shillings arranged neatly, inside the envelope.
Twenty thousand to be precise.
I sort scream in shock.
I've never held so much money in my entire life.
Will mum believe me?
"Sandra, come and eat your good. It's getting cold!"
I fold the money together with the envelope and get out, following her to the sitting room.
The anxiety is too much
It can speak volumes.
I just pick on my food, the butterflies in my stomach preventing me from eating.
"What's wrong Sandra? Why are you so anxious? You look confused and you're just picking on your food!"
" Mum, promise that you won't scold me when I tell you what's raging me up!"
I'm looking at her beseechingly.
" Let it out already! Have you started sleeping with boys!"
" Hell no! I'm still a virgin."
I say as I toll my eyes, a trait I picked from a rich classmate back in highschool.
"What is it then? In case you start having sex, make sure you don't bring any pregnancy here!"
"mum! "
I shout at her!
" I've said my own! I've brought you up well so it's upon you to create a future for yourself!"
" I haven't slept with any man mum.....not just yet!"
" That means you're intenting to sleep with one soon?"
" Stop it already mum, will you? Here, it's all yours!"
I say while handing the envelope over to her.
She chucks out all the notes and almost drops them on the couch.
She gives me an eye, as if she wants to say... *I told you! I knew it!*
"Who gave you this? Which bank did you rob?"
She's physically shaking.
It's definitely the highest amount of money she has held in a long time.
By the look of thinks, she'll have an attack any moment from now.
"Mum! Relax first! This is clean money!"
She just stares at me as I narrate everything about Oscar to her. At the end, she let's out a heavy sigh as she returns the money into the envelope.
"Oscar is a nice person. I'm sure he has good intentions with you! I hope he means everything he said yo you. I hope he truly takes you to college."
The confidence she has for him is just unfathomable.....
One think is for sure.
I already have an answer to Oscar's proposal....
It's a yes!
A big yes!
