She came back home that evening tired and exhausted. Her feet were sore from the angles of her stiletto shoes, her stomach ached with hunger pains and her eyes were sore from starring at the computer all day.
Her phone rang, it was Benjamin , ‘what did he want?’ She thought as she picked up the call
‘Where are you?’ The voice on the other end said, with no hint of sympathy for the already weary soul.
She replied ‘I just got home’ she replied. Then there was silence, she didn't know if he was not talking or if it was a network problem
She said ‘hello!, ‘ no reply
‘Hellooooo!’ And still no response.
She hung up the phone and proceeded to take of her office blazer and came down from her shoes. She sat on her bed, the only piece of furniture without any wrinkle in her room as her bed was properly laid. She felt like sleeping. She took off her clothes and went in to have a quick shower, her phone backlight caught her eye as she walked back into the room. She looked through her phone, ‘Benjamin’ she thought with a wry smile on her face. She got dressed in her house tees opened her note pad and wore her nerdy frames as she intended to get a little more work done before she slept.
She was totally engrossed in her report when her doorbell rang, she yelled out from inside her bedroom, ‘who is it?’ As she dropped the notepad and got up from the bed making her way through the lightly furnished sitting room to open the door, ‘I am coming, who is it ?’ She asked again.
‘Benjamin’ ,
Her heart skipped a beat, she hurriedly opened the door.
He walked in and went straight to the fridge, opened a can on beer and looked at her slowly.
‘ you smell fresh’ he said,
She smiled
She knew Benjamin was not one to flatter or pay compliments on random.
He walked towards her, took her by the hand and led her out of the apartment.
She wanted to resist but the smell of his sweat mixed with alcohol was too much to resist.
She eventually came to her senses when she saw his car engine was still running and he intended taking her out.
‘Can I go get my purse and lock the door?’
He stopped in his track, walked towards her and kissed her on the head,
‘OK’ he replied , ‘be quick’
She loved the way he loomed over her whenever they were close. She stood there for a few seconds and quickly sprinted towards her apartment .
He looked on and saw she had only a t shirt on, he smiled to himself.
Benjamin was all she looked forward to everyday, he only called when he was around, he said very few words on the phone and even to her, what she loved however was how much he loved to show her off to his friends and his colleagues.
She got into her room panting, her eyes darting back and forth as she located her keys, purse and a short in the corner of her open wardrobe. She quickly put it on and dashed back out of the room, leaving her notepad on and ran out of the apartment. As she approached the hallway, she could see him reclining on the hood of his Mercedes E 250. She stopped running and tried to catch her breathe, she just realized she still had her hair net on, Benjamin was never going to complain. He had taken her out once in her pyjamas, she was a little,embarrassed at first but he was totally comfortable with the idea. He told her ‘you should not make an effort to look good for me cos I only see beauty’. Those were the words that made her the most comfortable with him.
She walked out of the hallway into the streets to meet her Benjamin, he spoke so few words but meant every single one of them. When he said to her ‘ I love you’ , she knew he meant it.
Her feet no longer hurt, her stomach no longer ached, her eyes were no longer sore
