WEAKER VESSEL

There is a popular saying that “women are the weaker vessel but” ………Today I want to celebrate my girlfriend; a woman who stood by me against all odds. We impoverish gossips in our ears, which made us stronger than the average. Who could have thought it would work between both of us? Two good players destined to meet and couldn’t beat each other to the game thus choose to calm down else…..

It was a friend’s house party exactly five years ago. I was new in town thus the capacity to lie was great. I was anything I wanted you to believe I was. Nothing can be verified about me. I wasn’t just recent I was also loving and jovial. I was that man a woman wanted to listen to. I don’t crack jokes but never a boring moment around me. My height isn’t that intimidating but that was the least you wanted your boyfriend to be. A little athletic, and an intimidating accent……. An accent you can’t really place because it belongs to no known tribe or country. I was all around the party, moving from one spot to another like I was the host. I stopped over at balcony as I saw a lady sitting at the edge smoking a cigarette mostly men smoke. I walked up to her and initiated a conversation, and that was how I got stuck for the next 24 hours. My name is Josiah and my friends call me the chief reverser. It wasn’t that I needed to change all forward movement to backward but I can change everything around you without being part of it. You will get to know more about me as we progress. 

Boma needed someone new. Not a regular face in town who knew all her escapades and can confirm her expertise thus I was a good catch. She heard about the party and was told some new dudes in town will be attending. She projected herself like an enlightened bad girl. A fantasy many men crave for. Her carriage was heavenly as her body structure was magnificent. Her curves were perfect for the cloth she wore and a lovely perfume will kill the smell of the cigarette in seconds. We sat for a while on the balcony and in ten minutes I was smoking a stick of cigarette (a habit I quit six years ago). I wasn’t intimidated but I was confused. I was thinking to myself if I being the headmaster of this game was meeting my match or a grand master today. I wanted to stand up many times but the smile kept me sitting.

It was at the point of giving a toast that my friends noticed I haven’t been in circulation. I was kept at the edge with a conversation I never intended it would last. Kelvin peeped into the balcony and called me to come give the vote of thanks and toast thus I stood up to go. She called me back and gave me a kiss with a “don’t stay too long, don’t wanna miss you”. That was the shortest toast I ever gave in my life. I was straight to the point and in less than five minutes I was in front of my future to the best of my knowledge. The house was getting scanty and it was time for us to go. We both drove to the party, so the parking lot was the departure. I thought to myself if I should initiate a sleep over, but it seems to me that will be too fast. We had walked together to the parking lot with a second and third kiss with a bye when she called me that she couldn’t find her car keys. We searched for these keys as we went back upstairs. Searched in-between the chairs and under the tables but we didn’t see the keys. The only option left was for her to come pick the car tomorrow. So I can drop her at home. 

The complains started getting me bored, from the fact she wouldn’t like her spare key to be somewhere she doesn’t know to the fact that leaving the car at my friends place will alter her movement tomorrow. I calmed her down all the way home and when we got to her house, she ushered me in like it was my right. I was seated on the couch as she was trying to put on the air conditioner and set the TV channel to whatever channel. Asked me if I cared for a drink which I declined then she slowly moved towards me as she opened her legs across my body and buried a long kiss. I dipped my hands into her hair and felt a metal there. She stopped and said just leave my car keys there. The only way to bring you home was to declare it missing. The rest of the night was a royal rumble. We tumbled ourselves thoroughly exploring every opening in our bodies. Protection was misplaced and like wild animals we delve from two rounds to round four. It was eternal and if asked I will want this again. 

I woke up in excitement but I had to rush home else my cousin will be late for work. I came in his car. We drove to my cousin’s place together and took a cab to my friends place to pick her car. We got home and sleep was a necessity then her phone rang. Her cousin was coming to her house for the weekend. Her name is Genevieve. That’s the woman I cannot do without……… and the woman I am celebrating today.