Sister-in-Campus 22

The time was seven o’clock when Debra lazily turned on her bed and her children were already off to school. Namasaka now a big a boy could wake up prepare breakfast for himself and his sister with the help of the gas cooker so their mother could enjoy her sleep without any worry of disturbance. With some milk in a cup and sugar left in the cupboard Namasaka didn’t have hard time preparing tea quickly. Then he would move to take four maandazis from the shop to share two with his sister. Since they would be taking lunch at school they would see their mother in the evening when they are back. They were now getting used to having Petro around and they longed to come by the shop at that time to spend some time with them. When Petro closed the shop he would come to the house where he assisted the children with their homework. The children were no longer late to finish their homework like before their father’s death when at times they would end not finish it at all. Their mother was happy whenever she came by the door to watch the new relationship being built between her children and her lover come shop keeper. Namasaka who had been resistant towards Petro was finally blending in too quickly.

<< A Few days earlier

There was day he had come home at around lunch time to pick something he had failed to pick in the morning only to find Petro and his mother kissing passionately behind the shop. The two love birds wiped their mouths in shame and tried to adjust to the sudden intrusion.

“So this is why Petro overstays here these days?” Namasaka managed to say looking sad. Debra tried to say something but she couldn’t manage to say anything as her mouth opened and no word came out. Namasaka proceeded into the house where his mother followed him. She managed to get him before he came out, “Namasaka come here”

Namasaka moved to where his mother sat and to his amazement she made him sit on her laps.

“Mama am a big boy now you can’t do this to me, in fact am already circumcised” Namasaka protested and even tried to free himself but his mother held him tightly.

“But you are still my only son” Debra went on. “I want to tell you something.”

“Mum if it is about you and him out there I don’t feel like speaking about it, it is all wrong” Namasaka said.

“These things you may come to understand when you grow up a little older but I want to tell you something about it. I love Petro so much that I can’t imagine my life without him.”

“But mother it’s just four months ago when dad died and Petro is still unmarried you are going to ruin his life”

“Namasaka your dad is now a forgotten case, besides he never gave me the love I wanted from him except when you were conceived and your sister.”

“Mum let me go I don’t want to hear any more of it” Namasaka said and this time his mother let him go.

In later days Namasaka behaved like an alien especially to Petro and when he found him with his mother he simply passed by them like wind. It was when he found Petro helping his younger sister with homework that he felt cornered a bit. He too needed help with homework so he sat beside them and waited patiently for homework help.

Now today >>

Debra felt slightly disappointed seeing an empty bed side just like when Daudi her husband was alive. But she replayed the events of the previous night and smiled to herself especially she found she was didn’t have anything on herself. It had rained and that gave her a reason to chain Petro onto her bed for the first time. He was slowly dancing to the tune of her music without much resistance as before, what now remained was to make it a routine. She slide out of the blankets and dressed up slowly.

Petro had left her bed at around 5am to his finish his sleep in his hut because he was not accustomed to waking up from someone’s bed. He didn’t care much on whom he met on the way as he hurried back to his father’s compound. In some way he seemed like a night shift employee coming from work because that was the time that most of them came back home. He opened the gate slowly and walked stealthily into his hut taking care not to cause any commotion as he did that.

“Baba Petro did you hear that?” it was his mother asking her husband as she turned on her bed. The old man simply murmured something and went back to his sleep. He didn’t appreciate being shaken earlier than when he wanted to wake up. Certainly he had not heard anything and was not interested in it at all.

* * * * *

Kalos’s phone was ringing again with Eunita’s number something which he found to be unusual since she never called him twice for any ‘appointments’. He picked up the call amidist the panic that was slowly eating him just to hear Eunita saying she was heading to the university to pick him since she was losing her mind over him with each passing moment something that made Kalos crazy and worried at the same time. He wanted to stay longer with Stacia because to him he believed it was going be the last time with her.

“Stacia” he staterd as soon as he had hanged up the call.

“Yes babe” Stacia said as she turned to face him.

“I want to tell you something very important” he went on.

Stacia just nodded and watched him eyes closely and feeling secured seeing her reflection in his eyes. She knew it was just one of his pranks that nothing serious was going to come out of his mouth despite the calmness he was buying as he started to speak to her.

“I want us to stop seeing each other” he announced to her.

“What?”

“Stacia I want us to stop seeing each other!”

“Is this meant to be a joke or something serious?”

“Am damn serious about it.”

“I hope it it’s for a short time since it’s exam time”

“In fact it is for good”

Kalos stood up and began dressing up slowly as he looked out through the window. He felt he was doing the best thing ever in his life but on the other side he felt he was being unfair to Stacia. Stacia like many ladies would do refused to believe what she was hearing. She woke up from the bed and sat next to him. She leaned on his shoulder and looked up to him.

“What did I do to deserve this Kalos?” she asked him. Kalos kept quite as he continued to dress up slowly. “Look at me what is it that I am lacking that a normal woman does not have?”

Just then Eunita sent him a text message: “At the gate, where are you?” He got up and stood facing the window with Stacia hugging right from behind giving some pleasure in the process which he was frantically trying to ignore. Someone started to knock the door as they were still in that position. He turned and hugged her as a knock went on.  Since she was not willing to let him go he put her aside and went for the door. As he turned the keys to open it she quickly pulled a dress that was on her bed to avoid any embarrassment from whoever was knocking at the door.