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#amspeakingfromthegrave: Monicah Kimani
‘…what the hell? Does he mean that Jackie is not home at this time? Gosh! Where could she be? Or did she go out drinking with another man after I offended her? Is she going to make sure that she revenges to me by making sure that she spends the night out?’ His mind ran with frustrations. He looked at his watch and realised that it was almost midnight. Jackie had never been this late not unless they were together partying and in most cases she would keep insisting that they go home early. Insecurity grew in him and pain cut deep across his heart but tried to compose himself so that the gate man could not see the defeat in him. He did not want him to suspect that there was anything between him and Jackie. He had to maintain his ego and superiority as the head of the house in front of this man whom to him was just a mere watchman. He wiped his eyes and pretended to be rising from a dead sleep and changed his voice to that of a drunkard and said to the gate man, “Ohh…nothing to worry about. My wife is coming. I have just left her behind in a meeting with her relatives”. He flashed out his phone from his pocket and then teased to the gateman shouting, “Na wewe unamuulizia bibi yangu kwanini? Kwani huwa unamtaka?! Eeh!?..” Frightened, the gate man moved back saying, “Apana! Sio hivo mkubwa. Unajua ni usiku na…” J interrupted him and shouted at him threatening, “Toka hapa kabla nishuke hapa! Rudi huko kwa gate… MWIZI WA KUMA WEWE!!” The gate man now frightened ran back to his cage at the gate without turning back. He had never seen him angry like that before. J watched him in the side mirror and composed. He was angrily that Jackie was not home at that time but on the other side he was amused. He was going to use this as a golden opportunity to play his defence. He thought and decided to act fast lest she came and found him there at the parking. He took the bag, hanged it at his back switching on his phone, jumped out of the car, banged the door, looked at his clothes on the stains and walked straight heading to the house…
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