The Roommate Episode 4 © Eunice Ansah-Agyeman
The birthday party turned out to be the best Mina had ever had as Sebastian gave her one surprise after the other.
The food was of top-notch quality and the music, incredible.
Everyone was having such a good time that time seemed to have stopped.
Sabastian drew everyone’s attention by beating his glass with a teaspoon and asking them to gather around for the cutting of the cake.
When everyone gathered around the designated table, the cake was nowhere to be found.
And before anyone could utter a word, the huge door opened and two smartly dressed maile waiters entered with a huge and most beautiful cake ever.
The gathered crowd parted to make way, as Mina’s Twentieth Birthday Cake made its way to the designated decorated table.
The cake was a sight to behold when the waiters set it down on the table and adorned it with her favourite flowers.
It was a simple yet the most exquisite mould of art and love anyone present had ever beheld.
It was made in Mina’s favourite colour, hot pink and was shaped like a ring in 3D.
The simple words, Happy 20th Birthday, Mina, made from a lighter shade of pink adorned the work of art.
Then, everyone gasped, Mina included when they saw the diamond-studded gold ring on a small area with white icing. The ring and the cake shared the same shape, only one was bigger than the other.
Tears of joy streamed down Mina’s cheeks as she turned to the man who had brought her nothing but joy since their paths crossed.
Without a second thought, Mina threw her hands around Sabastian’s neck and kissed him as if their very lives depended on it.
“Do I take that as a Yes?” Sabastian queried when they broke free from what seemed like an attempt to break the Guinness Book record for the longest kiss ever.
“Yessss, Sab! I will be honoured to be your wife.”
Without further bidding, Sabastian removed the one-of-a-kind ring slowly, kissed it three times and slid it onto Mina’s finger as the crowd cheered.
Julie-Anna felt numb all of a sudden and then she felt angry, an anger she had not felt before and could not even tell why she was so angry.
Thus, she was the first to leave after the birthday song was sung and the cake cut and shared for all to have a taste of its delicious humbling taste.
As she walked the short distance to the executive hostel, she felt Sabastian’s way of loving was too beautiful to share with just one person. For the very first time in her life, she wanted to be loved the way Sabastian loved Whehelmina, and for some reason, she knew it was a kind of love that was unique to Sabastian.
She decided, by the time she reached the room she shared with her coursemate that she wanted Sabastian’s attention and she was going to do all she could to get what she wanted.
Getting him, even as a side chick, will end her financial worries and she would enjoy that feeling of being truly loved for the first time.
She went through the drawer beside Mina’s bed and took out the set of keys she knew had Sabastian’s set of house keys on it, changed into one of Mina’s beautiful dresses and left in a hurry seeing a chance to put her plans into action.
Forty minutes after the cutting of the cake, the curtain on the party was drawn, and knowing he had had quite a lot to drink, Sabastian agreed to allow Wendy’s boyfriend, Shebert, to drive them the short distance to the executive hostel.
“Are you leaving me alone, tonight of all nights?” Mina asked, reluctant to let Sabastian go.
“You know I cannot stay. First, there is the roommate situation, and second, you know I have to travel at dawn to my father’s home town for the second memorial service and the reading of his father’s Will as he instructed. If you come with me, I will not be able to wake up early and as the only child of my parents, I don’t want to be late for my father’s memorial service.”
“It’s not like I don’t understand, I do. Just that I wish to spend the night with you.”
“I’m not trying to reject your company, my love. Right now, you need your beauty sleep because of the headache you have, and there will be other days, I promise I will make it up to you.”
Grudgingly, Mina consented, kissed Sabastian goodbye, waited for his requested ride to arrive and watched him leave with a somewhat broken heart.
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The car carrying Julie-Anna pulled up a few meters to Sabastian’s house by her instruction. Knowing there was a back door he used any time he came back home late in the night because one of her sexual partners lived adjacent to Sabastian’s house, she walked briskly to the gate, tried it and when it yielded, gave a soft laugh.
She tiptoed to Sabastian’s door and tried it and she was very relieved she did not have to use the key she took from Mina’s drawer.
Relieved, she placed her handbag behind the door and scribbled something, faking Mina’s handwriting on a piece of paper and leaving it at the entrance of Sabastian’s door.
She was very sure that if Sabastian came back, he would come alone due to the conversation she had picked up when she heard him talking on the phone with the driver who was taking him at dawn to his father’s hometown.
Scared and excited at the same time, she waited and a few minutes later, she heard the main gates opening with the security men welcoming their young master back home.
Julie-Anna looked through the window with a view to the main gates, and when she was convinced he had come alone, she peeled off her dress, left it on the floor right before the entrance and waited.
Sabastian hesitated at the door when he saw the note, picked it up and shook his head in disbelief after reading its contents.
“Stubborn Mina,” he said, turned the door handle and entered, talking at the same time.
“How did you get here before me, you naughty little angel?”
“Shhhhh,” Julie-Anna said from behind him in the dark, and before he could say or do anything else, she was all over him, caressing, touching, and within a few minutes, he was naked, fully erect with Julie-Anna bent over in front of him, as he hammered her slippery jade gate with such desire, lust and a hunger brought on by the quantum of alcohol he had consumed earlier in the day at the party.
To be continued…