The First Time

06. New Beginnings

TIMINI'S POV

Finally, she was asleep. I could hear her snoring from the floor near the bed.

Breathing a sigh of relief, I stood up from the bed and used a duvet to cover her small body. She had fallen asleep after hours of yelling and arguments.

It was 4am now and I didn't sleep a wink. I spent the whole night listening to her complaints about Mrs Yetunde and trust me it wasn't a pleasant situation. At least she was asleep, for that I was grateful for.

Laying on my back, I stared up at the ceiling, breathing in and out deeply. We had come to an agreement and decided it was best if we parted ways. Well it was more of my suggestion.

After a series of apologies and crying on her part, she finally gave in and said she was going to pack her bags and leave the next thing tomorrow morning.

I felt like s**t for making her cry and getting myself involved in this mess but there was nothing else I could do at the moment. I couldn't take any more drama and she deserved a better person than me.

Staring into space for what felt like hours, I drifted off to sleep.

DEBBIE'S POV

After hours of sleeping, I woke up curled under the covers. The air was chilly and I let out a shiver. My mum must have come in to turn the AC on when I was asleep.

I groaned when I remembered that I forgot to wash the plates she asked me to. I was going to get into trouble tomorrow morning for not doing it but I wasn't even in the mood to stress over that right now.

My hands searched under the duvet for my phone. Feeling it, i grabbed it and turned it on. It read 1:42am and I gasped. I slept throughout the day, for more than 10 hours straight. I guess I was that tired after all.

My thoughts got interrupted by the buzzing sound from my laptop on the side table beside my bed. I thought I shut it down before sleeping. Strange

Hauling myself to a sitting position, i picked it up and placed it on my lap, squeezing my eyes together to get rid of the sleep. Displayed on the screen were series of Marvel superheroes and I shook my head, an amused look contorted on my face.

No matter how many times I warned my younger brother Melvin not to use my laptop he still did. He was already back from school while I was still asleep and thought it was the best time to use my laptop without me knowing. I smiled and proceeded to turn it off when my eyes met the tab with Timini Peters.

I felt a sudden rush of adrenaline and my heart felt like it was on fire. Oh God not again. The sad feeling I had before falling asleep came back flooding in and I felt sick to my stomach. His perfect girlfriend standing right next to him and he wrapped an arm around her slim waist.

Rolling my eyes, I exited the page and turned off my laptop flinging it on the spot beside my bed. I wasn't going to think about him again. I turned off the Air Conditioner with the AC remote and snuggled back into my duvet, trying my hardest to get him off my mind. Few minutes later and succeeding a bit, I dozed off.

TIMINI'S POV

I walked into my office with a cup of black coffee in my hand and bags under my eyes. I had woken up not earlier than 6am with the sound of Eva packing and I pretended to be asleep and waited for her to leave before I stood up to freshen up for work. My head was throbbing right now and my eyes were heavy.

There was an abrupt knock on my door and a head peeked in. 'Good morning Mr Peters. How was your night?' i heard my personal secretary Lydia ask. I nodded my head back at her and placed the coffee cup on the table, taking off my suit.

She knew better than to keep talking from the rough state I was in so she entered into the office and closed the door behind her. Smiling brightly she sauntered over to my desk.. what was that? Why was she walking like that? What was the thing she was doing with her hip? I breathed deeply too stressed to solve the mystery to whatever she was doing right now. Maybe she was doing that thing called 'Cat-walking' that women did. If that was it, she wasn't doing a good job.

Sitting comfortably on my plush leather chair, I crossed my legs together and asked. 'What do you have for me Lydia?' My attention were focused on the stack of documents on my table.

I opened one up and waited for her to speak.

And waited..

And waited..

And what seemed like hours later, I raised my head up and there she was staring and smiling. I looked down her body when i noticed she had moved too close to me for my liking without me even noticing. How did she do that? Her smile brightened when she probably thought I was checking her out.

Sighing and closing the file, 'What do you have for me Lydia? I'm asking again.' I asked sternly and her smile faltered a bit before she cleared her throat, adjusting the exposed neckline of her shirt.

'uh.. uh I'm sorry sir. I.. I wanted to give you this.' She leaned down to my table and more of her cleavage was exposed for me to see. Placing the documents on the desk, she bit her lip and smiled shyly.

'Thank you. You can go now.' I responded politely.

She nodded her head and twirled the strands of her hair with her fingers. It was an act most ladies seemed to do when they were around me.

I focused my attention back to the documents in front of me when I heard her say again.

'Um Mr Peters..?'

'Yes?' I hissed.

'Sorry, I just wanted to inform you that your younger sister is back from school and she called the office this morning complaining that she couldn't reach you. She asked to tell you that she'd be back home.. ' She checked the time on her wrist watch, 'any minute from now and ....' A loud knock sounded on the door and it opened, revealing a very excited teenage girl. She squealed and I felt a sudden burst of strong feeling, it was my kid sis.

Standing up from my seat, I smiled brightly. 'Good timing Sharon.' I said and she chuckled jumping into my arms and squealing.

'Brother Timiniii!' She let out a little scream. 'I missed you so much big bro.' She shrieked and pulled back, looking up at me with a big smile on her face.

'I missed you too kiddie.' I admitted, ruffling her hair and grinning.

Lydia left us alone and Sharon took her seat on the chair in front of me squeezing her face in a funny way.

'When will you stop ruffling my hair like that. I'm not a kid and I look like a mess now because of you.' She complained, setting her bag on my table.

'Maybe when you start having grandkids, I would.' I joked and she chuckled, shaking her head.

'So when did you get back from school? And why didn't you even call to let me know you were back?' I asked, taking my seat.

' I arrived home yesterday morning and yes, I called but couldn't reach you. I even had to call mum multiple times before she finally picked and she said you weren't using that number anymore or something so I just decided to come here this morning. And guess what? I'm spending a week at your place.' She winked and chuckled.

'Haha very nice. Don't just scatter my whole apartment with all these your makeup products like you always do and take away all my hoodies.' I pointed a finger at her. ' I know you took the red one to school because I've been looking for it since you left and you know it's my favorite.'

She threw her head back and laughed loudly. 'D.. don't say that. Why would you just accuse me like that. I didn't steal your hoodie jor.' she said in between laughs.

'Okay I'd act like I believe you.' I winked and we both laughed again. Relaxing on the chair, i studied her face with mocking eyes and my mouth twisted into a humorless smile.

She had grown chubbier than she was before and had a lot of acne scars on her face. She looked like a typical 17 years old teenage girl.

'Why are you looking at me like I've grown two heads Mr man?' She joked.

'Trust me, what you have grown is fat cheeks. Look at you, what are you eating in that your school? I thought people that go to boarding school always come back home lean?'

'Wó forget o. I've been spending mum and dad's money well. I cannot kill myself and there's a day student that I send to buy provisions and some other things I need so, boarding school is not really that bad. For me.' She shrugged and I nodded.

Now to the critical part, what about those skanky teenage boys. I hope they aren't disturbing too much?' I sneered. I knew most of them were going to be all around my sister. She was beautiful, she took mum's looks and tall, curvy figure.

'No sir! I always tell them my brother is a soldier and most of them just stop talking to me afterwards.' She smiled.

I gave her a relieved look. 'That's my girl. You are too young to date boys anyways.'

She rolled her eyes. 'Yen yen yen! When you were my age, you were busy shagging girls and I can't do that too abi?'

'Shag? What the hell is that??' I asked horrified.

'You can't tell me you don't know what shag is ??' When she realized I had no bloody idea what that meant, she sighed, 'Shag is a British slang for s****l i*********e old man.'

'Hmm. Wonder where you heard that word from missy.' I joked, stroking my beards and squinting my eyes at her suspiciously.

'What? Everyone knows what shag means except you mister!' She mocked.

'Well, that's their problem and mind you, I wasn't shagging girls when I was your age. I was busy with my studies.'

'Well that's you o book worm.' She joked and stood up. 'See Brother Timini I'm going to your place o. I haven't eaten yet and I want to rest. I've been up all night with my phone. That thing is going to be the doom of me.'

Standing up, I walked up to her and hugged her again, this time tightly 'Okay lil sis.' 'Its so good to see you again and thanks for coming to spend some time with me. I needed someone to keep me company anyways.' I admitted.

Smiling cheekily, 'Wait wait, is your girlfriend Eva at home. Please tell me she's not. I'm not about to go and deal with her s**t right now. She'd be busy forming aunty for someone.'

I chuckled, looking at her amusingly. 'No, Eva and I broke up.'

'What?? Wait what?? Really? What happened?? Ok ok I'm not gonna lie bro but I'm glad you finally came to your senses. That girl is not the one for you. She's just not IT. Let me be going, we'll gist the rest when you get back home.'

I nodded.

'But are you okay? Like.. '

' I'm fine Sharon, thanks sweetie. I would discuss the rest with you when I get back home okay? Mrs Yetunde is at home, I'll call her now to make the guest room and whip up something for you to eat.

'Yes big bro.' She hugged me one last time. Then slung her hand bag around her shoulders. 'See ya!' She waved and jogged out of the room.

'Tell Musa to drive safely please and take care of yourself okay?' I shouted after her.

She brightened up my day in minutes. I shook my head and smiled.

I slumped back into my seat and proceeded to get prepared for the upcoming meetings.