SAMI
1378 Words
A.
I stand there in your room, gazing from your face to the faces of the two impossible beings in front of me.
Sammy is dressed like a hip-hop star vacationing on an island in Hawaii. His bright orange shirt is unbuttoned, exposing his dark hairy chest. His thigh hugging black short leaves little to the imagination around his crotch.
His black flip flops hug his hairy feet with nails as white and sparkly as a star in the night sky.
The boy Sammy called Gab looks bored. His tan color makes him to look younger than you and Sammy.
You are standing close to him. Your massive frame is no match for Gab's who seems mischievous with every gesture he makes.
Immediately I have a flashback to the pictures in your office. The two boys you were smiling with. The ones who look like models. The ones you were happy with.
"Oi Black, who is this wanker?" The new boy, Gab asks with indifference written all over his face. He looks at me for a moment. He squints his tiny eyeballs , his nose twitches. He walks past me and towards the large mirror near the bed and begins to gaze upon his bulky frame.
He has a look of tiredness mixed with indifference. He is dressed in a long white robe with brown leather sandals which look anachronistic in appearance.
"Yeah mate, he does look like Rome Flynn, now why are we wasting time talking about this wanker when we have alcohol and naked girls waiting for us in the guest room? Let's go party mates!"
The boy says with a glint of ecstasy rushing through his tired eyes.
"Yo! Let's go!" Sammy says as he and the boy he calls Gab leave.
B.
"Hey Nate, you cool? When did you get back from the Village?" You ask me. I look at your blue Tunic and your brown leather bag swinging around you and I come to the conclusion that rich people like to invent reasons to spend money.
"I...I um...I came back yesterday" I tell you.
"Alright, hope your mum and Dad are chill?" You ask me.
"I..um..I don't have a mom but my dad is 'chill'" I tell you.
"Is Your Mom dead?" You ask.
"Nah, she left I and my Dad when I was just five" I say.
"Oh, sorry about your mom dude. Come, let's go partey. Work resumes on Monday" you say and I nod.
What am I doing? I should just drop your watch and go home. That is what I came here to do.
"Umm.. so Berry is here?" I ask you.
"Nah, she went to a volunteer outreach in some local calabar village. She is some part of a league of female Santas that bring free healthcare instead of gifts to poor children who don't have access to health care.."
"Santa Docs..." I tell you.
"Yeah, that's their name" You say and a familiar face walks into the room. She is on a black tunic with a red silky veil covering her hair.
"You remember Farah right?" You ask me as Farah walks towards us. She looks at me and her red lips c***k up with smiles.
"Hey Nate!" She says, "I remember you" she hugs me.
Weird but she smells nice.
C.
"Where's your costume dude?" Gab asks as he enters the room with a chubby fair girl clinging to his chest.
"I...I didn't come for the party" I say.
"Then why are you here? Sammie asks, his eyes are on me. He peers down on me, as if he is suspicious of me for doing something but doesn't know exactly what I have done.
"I came to..., I thought Berry was here. We were supposed to see to plan the Santa Docs community outreach together" I lie.
"Are you a doctor?"
"No Samuel! I'm not a doctor. Last I checked, you don't have to be a doctor to be a decent human" I say in quick succession.
"It's Sami, S-A-M-I. Sami, not Samuel you prick!" Sami says and I roll my eyes.
"Well, since Berry's not here, can you get out now? Wanker. You are killing the mood" Sami says and I begin to hate the boy.
"Oh come on Sami, that's my friend you are talking to like that" You say and Sami rolls his eyes. He throws the beautiful black girl he entered with onto the bed and he begins to make out with her, he pours alcohol on her tummy, then he licks it up.
Gab is dancing with the girl he entered with.
"I'm sorry man. These are the friends I told you were in the UK" you say and I nod.
"They have probably stayed too long over there and they have lost all sense of decency" You shout at them but they don't seem to care.
"Hey, it's okay bro. I have to go" I say.
"Hey, we cool man?" You ask me and I nod. I look at your face and my traitorous heart skips a beat. You have reduced your beards, your shaving outline makes you look younger and instantly I wish an apocalypse can happen so that it will just be you and I trying to survive against a horde of zombies.
I know I will kill Sami first if an apocalypse turns him into a zombie. And if it doesn't turn him into one, I will still kill the 'wanker' all the same.
I look into your eyes and I muster the gentlest smile I can.k "I'm fine bro. I will see you on Monday" I tell You and You nod.
"Alright mate" You say and I leave the room.
Mate? You haven't even stayed with them up to two weeks and You are calling me mate already and what on earth does wanker mean?.
I have barely left the room when I realize that I am still wearing your watch. I stand in the large hallway staring at the watch . I have to give it back to you but I don't want to. I am torn. I look at the beautiful Arabian gold watch with sickle and snake designs on it's body and I heave a sigh.
I am many things Yemi but I am not a thief and an obsessive freak....okay maybe a little obsessive but I'm not a thief.
I turn back to return the watch and I hear voices coming from your room.
"I thought you had taste in friends man. This low budget Rome Flynn should be your personal assistant, not your friend" Sami says.
"I don't know, he seems cool, for a personal driver" Gab says and laughs. Apparently he thinks his joke is funny.
I am crushed. Personal assistant? Driver? Do these airheads know what I have done for you? What I have sacrificed for you in the name of love and likeness?.
Their words don't cut me as deep as your laughter. I walk towards the end of the hallway, down the spiral staircase, out the beautiful door, down the long corridor and into the large living room.
"Oh my gosh, is that him?" A fair girl standing with Diana squeals.
"Yeah" Diana says.
"OMG! He's so cute and dreamy" the girl says.
"Yeah, duh. What have I been telling you?" Diana says as she and the girl walk towards me.
"Hy, I'm Anna, Diana's friend" the girl says turning her tiny frame from one side to the other.
"Oh s**t" I groan.
"So Diana says that Yemi told her that you are like really poor, and my sister says that poor boys know how to love very well" Anna says.
"Anna! You promised you wouldn't ask him out. He's mine" Diana screams as a shot of betrayal races across her face.
"Yemi said what?" I ask flabbergasted.
"So Nate, got a girlfriend?" Anna asks and I dash out of the house.
"Look what you did now, you've made him mad" I hear Diana groan
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"What did I say?" Anna says.
I walk out of the compound, past the sneering eyes of the security men and flag down a taxi.
For the first time in along time, I have found a reason to hate You, Yemi.
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