STORY TITLE: Trap
AUTHOR: Kelvin Jasi
CHAPTER 2
About a month later, Charmaine had an issue with one of our lecturers. He asked Charmaine out, but she politely told him she was in a relationship. The relationship stuff was a recurring problem for Charmaine because she was so beautiful.
With whom she was in a relationship with? That I did not know. She had been turning people down. Students and lecturers alike. But Dr Kuma was not a regular guy
In Dr Kuma’s vocabulary, there was nothing like ‘NO’. Dr Kuma’s frustration of students in the campus was an open-secrete. Open in the sense that everyone knew about it, but secrete in that you dare not speak out.
He belonged to one deadly fraternity, so everyone was afraid of him. Female students were worst hit. Any male student who dated a female student Dr Kuma was crushing on had no business with graduation in that school.
So after lectures that day, Dr Kuma asked Charmaine to see him in his office. On getting to the office, he told Charmaine to see him in his hotel room. It was there Charmaine told him she was in a relationship.
“I am Dr Kuma. No one says ‘NO’ to me. We run this campus. If you go to heaven, you’ll see me. If you go to hell, you’ll also see me. We rule everywhere.”
“I know, Sir. But I can’t. I have a boyfriend and I can’t cheat on him. In fact we are getting married as soon as I’m done with my academics.” Charmaine explained.
“Are you referring to that refract waiting for you outside? Can’t you cheat on that penniless thing? Anywhere, my people told me that you two are dating. But what can he possibly offer you? Where will he get the money to maintain this beauty?”
“I’m sorry Sir, I can’t. I have to go”, Charmaine said and left the office and the man began to rage.
She met me outside and we left. She did not say anything on the road and I did not bother to ask about how the meeting with Dr. Kuma went.
When we got home, she played the recording of what happened back then in the office.
“What can he possibly offer me?” Charmaine furiously asked. “I can comfortably pay his salary for more than 10 years with ease”, she added. “Nonsense!”. She hissed as she went into her bedroom.
On hearing that Dr Kuma’s salary can be comfortably paid by her, my spirit left me. I started thinking about my life. Charmaine had been the one feeding me for a long time. I had nothing left with me. If I did not meet Charmaine, truely I would have dropped out from varsity.
I sat on the couch and replayed the recordings. My main big question was on where Dr said ‘his people told him I was dating Charmaine’.
‘Who are his people?’ I asked myself
I did not want to be frustrated by Dr Kuma. I would have no one to pay my fees should I have any additional year. I prayed for God’s intervention. I spent that evening at Charmaine’s house
At around 8pm, after having my dinner, I went to my place. When I got home, I met a notice on my door: “YOU CAN’T EAT YOUR CAKE AND HAVE IT”.
I was so hell afraid. I quickly drew the attention of other tenants. They all swore to have no knowledge who had planted the note on my door.
I removed the notice and tore it. I called Charmaine and she assured me everything would be alright.
Charmaine was not easily moved by threats. And I did not know much about her family. I could not sleep well that night
I thought about who Charmaine was in love with, because I had never heard her mention anything concerning her boyfriend. So who could she possibly be faithful to?
I arrived at her house quite early the next morning. I found Charmaine on the couch on a phone call. She handed me her phone after she ended the call to check the last SMS she got.
I opened her message and saw it. It read: “YOU CAN’T EAT YOUR CAKE AND HAVE IT”.
“This is the same thing I got yesterday on my door”, I exclaimed.
“Yes. I got the message this morning”, she said.
“So what’s the meaning of this?”, I asked.
“I don’t know. Maybe we should wait a bit. We will know sooner or later”.
“Did you try calling the sender?”
“You can’t call because it was sent as a Bulk SMS”, Charmaine replied pushing her long hair back.
“Bulk SMS? How many people received it?” I asked frowning my face.
“I don’t know. Don’t let it bother you. I know what to do. Go to the kitchen and make something for us. I don’t want to be late for lectures today.” She said and heaved a little sigh.
When we got to school that day, the first lecture we had was Dr Kuma’s. At the end of the lecture, he gave an assignment and asked us to submit the assignment to his office.
We were not allowed to submit by proxy. I entered his office in the company of Charmaine and two other female students.
Fifteen minutes after we left his office, I got a call from our course rep that Dr Kuma was looking for us.
“Us? Me and who?” I asked the course representative.
“I guess you and Charmaine”.
“Why?”
“I don’t know. I’ll suggest you meet him at once”, the course representative said and dropped the call as I turned to Charmaine.
I told her who was on call and what he said. We agreed to meet Dr Kuma at once. When we got to his office, we met the other two female students.
“Good morning Doctor. According to the course representative, you called us”, I said.
“Yes. Did you pick my phone from this table?”
“No Sir. I did not even notice any phone on your table. Maybe you should check your car.” I responded innocently.
“But I saw a phone on this table when we came in”, said one of the female students.
“They haven’t left this office since then. In fact, they were arranging your scripts when I noticed that my phone was missing, and ever since then no one had come in. I used her phone to call my line and I was told it’s switched off. That was when I called the course representative to inform you. So since no one has entered or left this office, I wonder where my phone would be”, Dr Kuma queried.
“We have no idea where your phone is”, I said.
“Maybe you do. Just hand over the phone and I assure you no one will hear about this”, Dr. Kuma said.
“Sir, check again. Check your drawer”, I said.
“We have checked everywhere in this office. Can’t you see how scattered this place is? You can check by yourself”, Dr. Kuma said with shivering lips.
I dropped my school bag and swung into action. I checked everywhere in the office, yet there was no phone. I checked the bags of those girls, I saw nothing.
All this while, Charmaine did not say anything. And I was sure she did not take the phone. Besides, she did not like android phones.
Just then, Dr brought out a diary from his drawer, collected a phone from one of those girls, and dialed a number.
“Good morning Security Officer. This is Dr. Kuma. Please come to my office immediately, I have a case here. Thank you”.
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