Bad Girls Don’t Love

AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN

BAD GIRLS DON’T LOVE

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EPISODE 14

Rebels!

Rose and Jemima were waiting outside when she arrived.

Rose paid off the driver and led the distraught Aku into the house. They held her as she told her story again.

“I can’t believe this, that Randy did this on the night before our wedding?” Rose said with horror. “Come, let’s go to the Boys’ Quarters. Randy allowed my brother to stay there. He can shed more light on this!”

The three furious girls went to the Boys’ Quarters where Rose’s elder brother, Joe Nelson, was asleep. Fortunately, he had not locked the front door, and they found him in bed with a strange woman.

The empty bottles of alcohol on the floor, the butts of rolled paper, sachets of alcohol beverages, an empty condom pack, spoke of a night of drinks, marijuana and wanton sex.

Rose held her brother’s arm and pulled her off the bed before wheeling him with such power that he crashed into the door and crashed on the floor. He was wearing boxers, and he looked at her with bleary eyes as the girl with him began to scream.

Rose picked up a bottle on the floor, smashed it against the wall, and pointed at the girl’s face with the jagged end.

“One more sound out of you and I’ll poke out your eyes!” Rose said so menacingly that the girl shut up immediately and covered her naked torso with a cloth.

“Adwoa Rose, are you bonkers?” Joe said warily from the floor. “What’s gotten into you?”

Jemima took another bottle, broke it on the wall, knelt, and pointed it at Joe’s face, then she spoke through clenched teeth.

“Stephen Ledi admitted to Aku that you set up Rashid with that whore because you wanted Aku to marry Steve! Why the fuck did you do that?”

“Steve said that?” Joe asked, shocked and suddenly angry. “The swine!”

Rose knelt too and looked at her brother with deadly eyes.

“Joe, you will tell us exactly what happened, otherwise, as heaven is my witness, I will throw you out of our home and disown you as my brother forever!”

Joe looked at her desperately and licked his lips desperately.

“I had nothing to do with it!” he said suddenly. “It was all Steve’s plan. He came to see me and outlined the plan. He sent me to the brothel to meet that particular whore, and we made the arrangements with her. Ledi paid her five thousand upfront, with five thousand extra if she delivered.”

The girls looked at each other with horror.

“Jesus!” Aku whispered. “Did Rashid make love to her?” Aku asked.

“He didn’t!” Joe said with disgust. “The girl drugged him, and I helped her take off his clothes, then she began to feign sexual position with him, and I took the pictures!”

“And Randy?” Rose asked in a terrified whisper.

“And Yao?” Jemima asked and pushed the jagged bottle at Joe’s face.

“What do you think?” Joe screamed defiantly. “Rashid said he could not cheat on Aku, so the girl had to drug him. Well, Randy and Yao Kolo hit the pussies, do you understand? They fucked the whores!”

In the end, the three girls rushed to the main house… and there were tears of bitter pain between them as they tried to console each other.

Aku’s heart was broken, and she called Rashid’s number over and over.

It was switched off!

“Oh, Rash, I beg you!” she whispered. “Don’t do this to me!”

***

Yao Kolo stopped the car in front of the house he shared with his girlfriend, opened the door and got out of Randy’s car. Randy got out from the backseat, closed the door, then they shook hands and hugged briefly. They had stopped over at a drinking spot to ‘break a few bottles’ as it were, and to monitor Rashid and make sure he was alright. It was still raining, and they needed the warmth of a few drinks in anticipation of making love to their partners when they got home.

The boy’s phone was switched off.

The rain finally stopped around midnight, and they left the bar.

“See you tomorrow, bro,” Yao Kolo said.

“Yeah, bro. Greetings to Jem.”

“Sure. Same to Rosie. Sleep tight.”

Randy got into his car and drove off towards home. He called Rashid’s number again, but it was still switched off. He was getting a bit worried, but he prayed his best friend would be okay.

Then Yao Kolo’s call came through.

“Sup?” Randy answered with his Bluetooth earpiece.

“Shit hit the ceiling, man!” Yao said, and he sounded really distraught. “Jem is gone! All her stuff is gone! She left me a note telling me to go back to my whore!”

“Shit!” Randy cried with horror, and just then his phone, operating on low battery, went off.

If Jemima knew about that night, then Rose did too! Jesus, what happened? How?

Randy, heart beating with trepidation, sped home. He had never driven that recklessly. Coupled with that, he was drunk, stressed, and the rain had made the road slippery and dangerous.

It was a miracle that he got home safely.

He jumped out of the car with the engine still running and raced through the porch to the main door. The door opened before he could touch it.

Rose was standing there, the light on the porch shining on her shattered face. Her swollen lips and eyes were evident she had cried a lot, and she was still in a lot of pain.

“Randy Mettle, did you sleep with a prostitute on your bachelor night?” she hissed.

“Rose, my love, I will never ever be unfaithful to you again!” he began with all sincerity, but that was all Rose was waiting for.

She was a hefty girl, huge and tall, built in just the way Randy liked. A woman with enough flesh, rounded, packed, tight, strong. The only girl in a family of four male brothers, she had learned to throw a blow like a boy, and so Randy did not see the right hook coming.

Rose swung with all her power behind it, and it caught her husband flush on the jaw. Randy was lifted off his feet to slam sideways on the porch, and he remained still.

His face was covered with blood from his nose and mouth instantly.

The jealous wrath left Rose’s face when she saw her husband lying like a trampled toy.

“Randy? My lion! Are you alright? Please, love, say something!”

She knelt beside him and turned him, but he was out.

Rose locked the door and lifted her husband from the ground and carried him in her arms to the car.

She drove him to a hospital.

***

Mabel and Ethel Laryea were in the hall, unable to sleep because they were concerned about Akushika.

Just before midnight, Aku walked in like a broken bird.

She was wet, and her hair were hanging in messy strands around her face. Her eyes and lips were swollen from excessive crying, and in her eyes were wide and big misery. She was not wearing her shoes and neither did she have her handbag. Her hands were hanging by her sides, and she walked with the slow gait of a zombie.

Akushika was a broken girl!

“Shika!” Ethel cried with horror. “Oh, my adorable, precious granddaughter! What has that mad Rashid turned you into? God will punish Rashid! Oh, please God, kill Rashid for me!”

“How could you allow that deceitful, unfaithful, dirty Rashid to do this to you?” Mabel asked with sheer anger. “Look at you, Aku! Just look at you! By now he’s probably in bed with another prostitute and you’re walking around killing yourself!”

Aku looked at her mother and grandmother with wide, accusing eyes.

“Look at you!” she said, her voice almost a whisper. “From day one, it has always been like this! The two of you insulting him, cursing him, the only man I ever loved! Simply because he’s a Northerner! Shame on you, a big shame on you!”

Ethel and Mable looked at each other with shock, then Ethel put trembling fingers to her lips.

“Oh, Shika!” she said with tears in her eyes. “We only want the best for you!”

“Rashid is more than the best for me!” Aku screamed, stamping her feet, and then she began to weep again pathetically. “He caught me sleeping with Steve! He came to apologize and plead his innocence, and caught me having sex with Steve!”

“Innocence?” Mabel asked warily. “But, darling, you saw the photos! Rashid – “

“Leave Rashid alone!” Aku screamed, her voice filled with daggers. “If you say one more bad thing about him, I swear I will scratch out your eyes! He is innocent! Steve Ledi confessed to me that he paid the prostitute to drug Rashid and take those incriminating photos! He did it with Joe Nelson! Rashid was right all along! He remained faithful to me to the end, and it was the Steve Ledi you two are always praising who did something this shameful and this wicked to me! And Rashid caught me cheating with Steve!”

“Oh, Jesus!” Ethel cried with horror.

“Oh, God, no!” Mabel whispered. “That’s terrible! Ledi did just a despicable thing?”

Aku pointed a trembling finger at them.

“The two of you have never accepted the man I love. I have been confused, disturbed, in pain, and finally, I did the worst thing possible to the only man that has ever loved me with a genuine heart. If I have lost Rashid because of your hatred, if he refuses to accept me back, then I want you to know that you have lost me forever! I will pack my things out of this house, and you will never see me again because I will disown you as my mother and grandmother!”

Her shoulders dropped, and she began to weep loudly again as she moved towards her room.

“Shika!” Ethel said and tried to hold her.

“Don’t touch me!” Aku screamed at her shrilly, then fled from the living room. “I will never forgive you for this! Never!”

“What have we done?” Mabel whispered with horror.