Love is tragedy

Jessica sat quietly alone in her house. Thinking about all the happenings during that week. "Final notice. Pay 2.7 M in 7 days or we take action" The loan message. She was terrified because she didn't have that much money at that moment. Later in the evening, 9:12 PM, she arrived at west Nile bar in wandegeya town just to drown the loan stress. She ordered for waragi, one shot, two shots, three shots and eventually stopped counting. Jessica got highly intoxicated to the point where she was both crying and laughing at the same time till she had no more energy. The bar attendant was fed up with her presence. "Ma'am, you can't spend the night here." He dragged her out of the bar and placed her on the verandah. Rain doesn't usually ask for permission to make it's usual ritual. It started raining heavily, soaking her clothes in the mad. Jessica had nowhere else to go, dress soaked, shoes off, phone dead just holding onto her bag like it could save her life. Jimmy and his friends were passing by in search of food when Jimmy noticed a beauty soaking in the rain. He paused. Not sure if the beauty is dead or alive. Panicking, he called out to his and frantically rushed towards Jessica. Alex says " Leave her alone, she's only going to bring us problems Jimmy" "sister, sister, can you hear me?" Jimmy shook her up frantically.......... " I......I... don't have a home " she mumbled helplessly Jimmy was deeply touched by the helpless woman lying on the wet,cold ground. " Help me take her home, that's all for now" he said. They carried her to the boda.She was light, too light like she hadn't eaten in days. Alex and Craig helped transport Jessica to Jimmy's home. 11:38PM Jimmy lain Jessica on his small single bed and covered her with his only blanket.His home was a simple room,a single bed,a charcoal stove,a jerrycan of water and food products. He later on sat on the cold floor with his back on the wall thinking about what had transpired in the evening. At 3 AM, Jessica woke up vomiting and sweating profusely. Jimmy have her a glass of water and a basin, no questions, didn't touch her. "I'm so sorry, I'm sorry" she said "Don't be" he said "people do so many things due to situations" she said no more and simply drifted off to sleep while curled up as a child on one side of the tiny bed.Jimmy looked at her closely for what seemed like eternity and then stepped away "Out of humanity" he told himself like he was trying to believe it. In the morning......... Jessica woke up to the smell of tea and bread, sight blurry,head spinning and very hungry. "Good morning,thank goodness you're alive" said Jimmy "I.....I...what happened?" she asked in a timid hesitant voice. Jimmy looked at her for a while " You drank yourself out and bar threw you out so I brought you here" " why?" she asked Jimmy paused for a while" Because someone else once did it for me out of humanity " "Out of humanity" she whispered it like she was afraid of it getting out of her mouth. "Here, first eat then I can take wherever you intend to go" "Thank you" He looked at her for a while and gently smiled. "please eat" She told him about the loan. In pieces. Between sips of tea. 800k loan, now 2.3M. Loan sharks. Jimmy didn't say much, just nodded. When he dropped her off in Bwaise that afternoon he didn't ask for her number. Instead he said "when those men come back,call me on this number." He scribbled his contact on her hand with a pen and left without another word. Jessica thought she would never see him again, she wanted to cry but decided to hold back. ONE WEEK LATER The men came Two in her single room. " One week is over" scar-face said "where's our money?" Jessica had only 90,000shs They started taking her stock, her television and she was terrified.She looked on helplessly. Sobbing like her whole life depended on it. Jessica remembered what Jimmy had told her. She immediately got her phone and dialed the contact. Jimmy came in 20 minutes with all he had as his savings. " Here's 1.1M , that's all we have for now, she'll pay the rest" "who are you?" scar -face asked "I'm her man. You touch her, you answer to me" Jimmy said. The men looked at each other and left. The room fell silent Jessica fell to the floor and sobbed " that was your mother's hospital money" "Maybe" Jimmy sat on the floor next to her. "But that night, I couldn't leave you in the rain and today, I still can't" Outside, it started raining again. Jessica wanted to sob again, he didn't want to become his burden but she couldn't avoid it. She felt both warm and cold in life. Jimmy hugged her and the silence between them spoke volumes only they could understand.