Until You

EUNICE ANSAH-AGYEMAN

UNTIL YOU

EPISODE 5

Early the next morning, Naa Shika stood on the balcony alone looking at nothing in particular. It was the first time they had not made love on a special day like his birthday.

Even when they had shared a bath, none of them had reached out for the other as they did in the past and somehow that unsettled Naa greatly.

Nii had showered hurriedly when she joined him and had left without a word to her. That was a first. And by the time she was done bathing, Nii was fast asleep or pretending to be. He had curled up on his side of the bed far away from her.

Naa had not made any attempt to gloss over what had happened.

 

She, on the other hand, had had trouble sleeping and when her brains started to heat up from all the tensions around her, she had retired to the balcony with her phone as a companion.

She had stretched on the reclining chair and read her worries away. She had fallen asleep on the balcony and when she woke up, sunlight was already streaming in.

After watching the sunrise and looking at the variety of birds file past to start the day’s routine, she stepped inside and changed into her gym gear.

Nii seemed to be enjoying his sleep so she left the room after retrieving the swipe card from the drawer and headed for the gym. She stopped at the huge aquarium at the reception to the suites and spent some time looking at the beautiful fishes swim their way around without a care in the world.

 

As she watched the fishes, it dawned on her that she was depending too much on Nii for her happiness. She knew from past experiences with friends, and some articles she had read, that it was not the best to depend so much on a man. She had to be in charge of her happiness. To find some sanity in this whole quagmire of emotional distress, she had to make new friends and find alternate schedules and activities to break away from her over-dependence on her boyfriend.

She resolved from that day to work out her happiness and put her emotional heart on check. If iron bars needed to be erected around her heart, she would do that. If having male friends to interact with would help to alleviate her pains, she would do that.
If it called for flirting, yes, she was game too… anything to stop this pain, this distress, this incurable destruction of her soul.

 

When she entered the gym, there were about ten strangers already there. She felt tired from the lack of sleep but she gratefully stepped on the treadmill and soon she was grateful for the relief the exercise brought to her.

It was when she made to move out to the spa that a school mate entered. This was a guy she grew up with and went to the same schools with. They had been great friends but had to part ways when she started dating Nii. Apparently, he was in love with her and seeing her with Nii was something he could not bear.

He had transferred to another school for his sixth form but eventually ended up in the same university and reading the same course. He had been best friends with Nii back then. Now, their friendship was a bit strained even though he had not told Nii about his true feelings for Naa. Thankfully for him, his parents had moved out of that neighbourhood around the same time and so their friendship had been reduced to a few calls now and then.

 

“Hey Malon, look at you! It’s been ages since I saw your handsome self,” Naa said as she flew into his arms.

They embraced and would have separated had Nii not walked in just then.

Well, this was what he did not see anything wrong with!
Well, time to test how he would react if the tables, as it were, turned! How would he walk in the shoes he had forced her to walk in all these years?
With mischief playing in her mind and facing Nii, Naa tightened her grip on Malon and kissed him on both cheeks and sealed her performance with a peck on the lips just to get at Nii.

 

It was just a brush of lips but Nii’s fury was instant.

He held Malon by the shoulder and tore them apart, his face filled with riotous rage. As Malon tottered unsteadily, Nii raised his hand and would have given Malon a big slap if Naa had not pushed him away.

“What’s the matter with you, Nii? I thought you didn’t see anything wrong with a girl kissing a guy she was not in a relationship with!”

“You are my woman and you ought to show me some respect.,” he grated furiously down at her.

Naa raised her eyebrows then with a quirky twist to her lips.

“Really?  I’m your woman?  Really?”

 

“And what kind of dumb question is that?  You want to kill me, is that it? What the hell has gotten into you anyway, Naa?”

“Oh, spare me the sentimental bullshit, Nii!” Naa cried with all the pain in her heart coming to the fore. “The last time I checked, you were kissing another woman with careless abandon and when I complained about it, you made it look like I was just looking for trouble. I bet you were thinking of respect for me when you kissed Korkor yesterday!”

Realizing he had been caught between a lovers’ fight, Malon made to walk away but Naa begged him not to and apologized for using him.

She seemed so hurt and tearful that Malon didn’t know what to do. He looked from Nii to Naa and saw the tension that seemed to be robbing them of their happiness.

“You two should leave me out of your squabbles and fix whatever is eating you up. This is the last time you use me as bait in your stupid fights, Naa.”

 

“Yes, sir, ” Naa said, throwing him a salute in an attention stance.

They all laughed even though the laughter was strained.

“I’ll be in the spa in case you are wondering where I went. And Malon, it was good seeing you up close. You’ve been distant for a long time,” Naa said over her shoulder and wriggled her waist crazily as she stormed out of the gym.

Suddenly, she felt the first stirrings of the iron pillars forming in her heart. An air of craziness was building up in her, and it was beginning to excite her.

When they were alone, the two friends apologized to each other and walked to the treadmill section of the gym and mounted.

 

When Naa Shika got to the spa, she picked the gold card and walked to the booth indicated on the card.

She normally did a normal massage of lower back and legs, but today she took a deep breath and turned towards the exotic massage parlour.

Time to ante up the game a big, just a little bit!

The instructions were pinned to the wall and as she skimmed through, she pulled off her clothes. Stripped to only her panties and bra, she wrapped the huge fluffy white towel provided around her.

Finally, she stepped into the steam room which was standing directly opposite the booth.

 

She was out a few minutes later and laid face down in blindfold on the only massage bench in the booth. When she was comfortable and ready, she pressed the bell just as was indicated.

A few minutes later, she heard movement as someone entered the booth.

The masseur, of course.

His hands were warm as he applied the essential oils on her back.

He massaged her expertly from her neck to her calf and she found herself relaxing under his expert touch. It felt so good she almost fell asleep.

 

Then, she found those strong hands at her side as he turned her over to lie on her back. He applied the oils and started working from her feet and moved slowly up as he massaged her legs, the space between her thighs and the space just above her hairy citadel.

When he got to her navel, he felt her body vibrate from the touch and then he continued to tease her body all in the name of an exotic massage.

For a brief moment, Naa felt the urge to slap his hands away and flee from the massage. This was getting a wee bit uncomfortable now because this was a situation normally considered intimate.

But then, of course, she knew these people were trained to disassociate from the body and be professional in the output. This was a skill, an acquired skill to lessen fatigue, stress, and modulate the body to enhance good circulation and performance.

 

Gradually, she allowed herself to relax and accept the gentle soothing touches of this expert.

He continued to massage her, and just about the time he moved to her breast area, she heard the soft whisper of the door sliding, and then the strong but incredibly sweet scent of Nii’s usual expensive perfume assailed her nostrils.

She knew as she had hope, that he was in the parlour.

With the masseur’s hands hovering around her breast area, Naa allowed a soft moan to escape through her lips for Nii’s benefit.  

“Hey, you fucking bastard!” she heard Nii’s astounded shout as he dashed into the booth and shoved the masseur badly and violently. The guy’s head hit the glass wall and he screamed in pain.

 

Luckily, there was no cut.

“What has come over you, Naa?  Are you trying to murder me on my twenty-first birthday? What’s the meaning of this, Naa?” Nii jabbered almost incoherently as he grabbed Naa’s shoulder and jerked her up, and then he ripped the eye covers away.

“And since when did getting a massage become criminal, Nii?” she asked calmly as she stared at his tortured face.

“You call this a massage?  Are you kidding me right now?  Why are you being so unreasonable, Naa? Are you going out of your bloody mind? This is so unlike you!” he wailed.

“Unreasonable?  Really?  Get real Nii. You can’t play with fire and not get burnt. You want me to get a life and I’m doing just that. Get over it, Nii. I’m not doing this for attention. I’m loving it. Life is good, don’t you think so?” she asked him calmly.

 

“Stop it Naa. Stop this fuckery already!” he grated in an agonized voice. “I know you are hurt but there is nothing to be hurt about. I’ll choose you any day. I love you.”

“And I’ll choose you any day too. Now that we understand each other, can you excuse me so I can complete the session?”

“Hell no!  I’m not allowing that pervert to lay another finger on you. You are coming with me right now!”

“I’ve paid for the service and I’m enjoying it. You can wait if you want, but I’m not going anywhere with you until this is over,” she said and pressed the bell to summon the masseur who had been forced to exit by Nii’s intrusion.

Nii pulled her off the workstation.

 

He screamed for her clothes. An attendant hurriedly appeared with her freshly laundered gear and handed them over. Nii forced Naa to put them on and dragged her out after leaving lots of fresh notes on the workstation for the inconvenience.

“Ask me nicely if you want me to come with you instead of behaving like a jerk,” she said indignantly and resisted the sudden urge to whoop and do a jig.

“I did that already but you wouldn’t listen. You are coming with me whether you like it or not. You can follow as if it’s by your own volition or I’m dragging you upstairs. You can resist for all I care but it won’t stop me, do you hear? You are coming with me and that’s final.”

 

Luckily, the lobby was empty and so no one saw the fuming Nii dragging his girlfriend of many years by the hand to their suite where he pushed her rather furiously into an armchair.

“What in God’s name have I done to you to embarrass me like this, Naa?  What has come over you?”

Naa looked at him calmly and then turned towards the bathroom.

He grabbed her arm, squeezing hard, and turned her around.

“Don’t you dare walk away from me!” Nii screamed now, his bewildedness complete. “Damn it, Naa! That was a damn fuckery out there! You owe me an apology, to say the least!”

And as she stared at him, in a scene reminiscent of the exact situation that had played out the previous night, with their positions reversed now, she remembered his words, and she cooly delivered them, verbatim.

 

“ “I won’t apologize for something I didn’t do, Nii,” Naa Shika said calmly. “I’ve done nothing wrong. Maybe you should consider what you really want from this relationship.”

He gasped now, audibly, and watched as she dragged her hand from his grasp and entered the bathroom. She shed her clothes as she turned on the taps in the bath and stepped inside.

She started soaping herself as if nothing mattered, and when Nii came in looking frustrated and bashed, she asked him to join her if he felt up to it with a sweet smile on her face.

“Are you like this because you saw Korkor and I…” he began lamely, his voice subdued as if he was just coming to a damning realization.

 

“Don’t flatter yourself, Nii. I’ve seen worse than that, remember?” Naa answered coldly.

Realizing this won’t be the last he heard that statement, he slowly shed his clothes. He entered the bath and stood looking at her for a moment, and then he sighed deeply.

“Look, Naa, indeed I’m sorry for what happened last night,” he said finally and ran his hand through his hair. “I should have known you were hurting, and taken time to address the situation. You’re right, love, yeah… I shouldn’t have allowed her to… to kiss me. Should have stopped her. I guess I understand how you must have felt a whole better now. I’m sorry, Naa, my love. Please, forgive me.”

 

And at that moment, Naa felt the pain stabbing her heart because she had never seen him this shattered and docile. For a moment her love for him peaked, and tears stained her eyes as he gently took the sponge from her and, for the very first time in a while, began to sponge her seductively.

Their hearts reached out for each other, and began a cadence of reconciliation which quickly escalated as passion took over, as it usually did. Soon, the two lovers were pinned to the wall of the bath with Naa’s right leg raised to Nii’s thigh as he stood in between her thighs and rocked her slow and hard.

 

They moaned in the throes of their pleasure, their hearts finding new meaning and depth as they built up slowly and then increased in frenetic abandon as they roared towards that volcanic surge, hitting the crest of joy simultaneously and holding each other tightly.

However, as their hearts slowly settled down after the storm, she knew deep down that something was lost, that some essence had suddenly gone missing between them.

She wondered if maybe, just maybe, those iron walls had begun to solidify in the coldness around her heart. Had she hurt for too long and for too hard? Had the bird sighted the door of the cage for the first time and considering a view of the sky?

There was a change… of that she was sure!

UNTIL YOU

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