KATE'S DIARY (episode 4)

Creme de Larry

Sitting up from my bed with a warm smile on my face, I massaged my eyes after the long bone fixing stretch I just had. Uuh... It felt shady waking up to the strange  feeling of protection in the air. For the last few days, my boyfriend Eddie had been staying with me for some shady reasons he couldn’t freely tell me and each time his story was  shady it usually wasn’t good and i preferred the ‘the less you know the safer’ format. So i didn’t push it since i was
actually enjoying his company given that he never usually spends more than a night in my house. 

Eddie was still asleep while i was making breakfast and getting ready for school. Since he never leaves the house for any reason -no matter how important the subject might be- I usually have breakfast and lunch prepared when i won’t be home early. But toady was Friday and on Fridays, school wasn’t always as hectic and task-inclined as was other days so i was going to be home early enough to make lunch, so i just hooked up breakfast, kissed my boyfriend goodbye while he was still in bed, weak from last night, and headed out the door.

I took an unusual long bus to school because i wasn’t in much of a rush; needed the long ride to cool off a little. I was somewhat in school just in time for the one lecture we had; but a little late though so had to sit in the back with my friend Esene, the only Calabar girl I’m friends with. 

While in class, instead of listening, we discussed this guy ‘Larry’. Larry is a mixed race hot boy in my department; not really our level, he was in his finals, hot fresh boy born in the U.S, with a lot of wealth to flaunt. Every girl in the campus eagerly wanted him probably because anytime he was around the block, he was effortlessly conspicuous. 

According to Esene, Larry in a prior engagement the previous day, invited her over to his house. Esene was so lit up about the invite and honestly, so would any other ‘hot-girl-wanna-be’ like Esene. She was in such an imaginable position of a crib invite from the freshest cream de la cream kid on the block. I on other hand was keen about it. I wanted to tag along but didn’t want to verbally ask her though. So i chilled out and anticipated the good gesture of a tag along invite from Esene. Was this “Larry” all that? Yeah! He was. Believe me. 

Unusually, the lecture ended earlier than it was supposed to. Other days, this lecture would have gone on until 1pm but today, it ended by 11:30am. And since Larry asked Esene to come by 2pm, we needed something to kill time. 

So we headed for the canteen. After a deliberate waste of time subsequent to having lunch, it was 15 minutes after 12pm. Esene started pressuring suggesting we start going to Larry’s house thinking that it didn’t really matter whether we went there earlier than invited. 

To a point, I gave in to the pressure and agreed blankly to the rather unreasonable idea. I just wanted to be a close friend to the guy every girl on campus wanted. And if breaking a little somewhat insignificant rule of invitation would put me in a close position with this guy, baby i will break all rules. After all it could be called arriving fashionably early, what harm could befall an early bird? Huh? 

So we grabbed  our handbags and stood on our heels, walked up to the school gate and boarded a taxi. 

After we told the cab driver our destination, he started a tittle-tattle tale that i relatively found interesting while he was taking us there. 

He said that from our school gate; more girls have been taken to this same address than any other hot spot in town. Funny enough, the Hot spot he had in mind was hotels and hang-out joints and this address which supposedly beat other hot spots to the number of girls that visit it was a domestic home. Now that is some interesting but crooked theory. And some of the girls that came out from there ended up in the hospital. 

As soon as those thoughts went through my head, i immediately had a double mind. I couldn’t utter a word. Rather, I gave Esene a ‘lets-change-our-mind-now-and-stop-right-here’ look. 

She understood my hint in the look but instead of regarding the warning, she began convincing me that the whole story was the kind of tales folks made up to drag successful people’s name through the mud. 

I was rather put in an enigmatic state than think straight or even remember my boyfriend was home waiting for me. 

For the rest of the ride, my mind was  blank. Within minutes, we got to Larry’s house. 

It was more of a mansion; Huge and grand. As Esene paid the cab driver, my jaw dropped at the magnificence of this edifice. Picture Will Smith’s arrival to the bell-air in the show, The fresh prince of bell-air. While I wondered how a student could afford this kind of place, Esene reminded me that the building was Larry’s parent’s and since they all lived overseas, he had it all to himself. 

After we were buzzed in through the gate, we got to the door where we were welcomed by a handsome man who was shirtless and moderately muscular in his build. He had a Louis Vuitton belt clutching a glock to his waist as his jeans sagged.

The sight of that sent a shock waves through my nerves, bringing up images of past experiences as a mild warning. But evidently, this had a totally different effect on Esene’ as she was annoyingly excited from admiration of the guy’s handsomeness. 

She instantly started up a convo with this guy who didn’t say anything in reply. 

we walked into the sitting room, damn! it was a scary sight. Two boys with powdered noses sitting and starring at us with a minimal heap of that powder on a glass table in front of them. That was cocaine! 

I stood shock to my marrow starring at these guys as they stared back speechlessly. Were they even expecting and kind of visitor? My mind wondered holding Esene’s hand tight on purpose to send the message ‘this is not good’ to her. 

Just about then, Larry appeared smiling, walking down the stairs leading to the living room towards us looking cute and sexy as his bare light skinned abs with dark curly hairs lined across his chest with his firm arms holding two glasses and a bottle of wine. ‘’you’re an hour early”. Damn! Larry is cute! But the atmosphere didnt encourage much exhibition of admiration plus it wasn’t a place regular girls like us should be. 

I looked at Esene’s already terrified face as Larry planted a magical kiss on her forehead which surprisingly snapped her back to her exciting mood again as if everything was alright. 

Larry handed us the glasses and poured the wine into it as Esene introduced me to him. He encouraged me to relax and feel at home. And magically, i stupidly felt at home in a room full of drug junkies and narcotics. He further offered some coke to us; Esene refused without hesitation but the adventurous part of me already before now had always wanted to taste cocaine just to see how it tastes and feels. So i took a shot at it and inhaled three lingering snorts of possibly undiluted cocaine. 

It was just seconds and it hit me; damn! Coke acts faster than marijuana. I was already half way high and needed to cool off. 

So i headed for the bathroom for a head splash of real cold water with my filled up glass of wine. 

As i walked into the bathroom i was struck with a strange kind of dizziness that made me trip over nothing and spilled my drink more than halfway. 

I continued carelessly relating a strong grip onto any physical object that could aid my balance. I finally made it to the ceramic basin. I poured the remaining drink down my gullet, turned the handle of the water faucet and took several splashes of water on my face

I didn’t feel any better as my head got heavier and left me dizzy; i then sighted the shower just beside me. At this point i wasn’t myself; the only thing my mind could find was my present state. I could do anything to make me comfortable at this state. So i started taking off my clothes after i turned the shower on. 

I stood in my bra and panties as the cold water from the shower hit my head and sent a cool chill to my nerves. I heard Esene scream happily; she’s probably having fun my mind relayed to me. I stood still under the simulated rain for about three minutes. 

Just as i thought i was getting myself i started feeling insatiably horny. I have been drugged with either ‘Spanish fly’ or ‘ecstasy’ my mind quickly analyzed within the brief consciousness the cold water rendered. 

I walked out of the bathroom with my clothes dragging by my fingers to a sight that brought me back to earth.

Larry and two of his friends were sexually all over my utterly nude friend; Esene as the forth guy was taping them with a video camera. What the fuck is going on? My lips uttered with an audio-less voice. From the looks in Esene’s eyes, she was highly drugged because she finished her drugged glass of wine and probably took more. 

I on the other hand couldn’t help even if i was sober but although i wasn’t that horny, i had cocaine in my system and its effect was gradually coming back. 

We needed help from the outside. But who am i to call? The police? Hell no! I was guilty of illegal drug use. And i couldn’t call my boyfriend because he was already in trouble i couldn’t leave the house. 

I was still battling these thoughts within myself as my high started coming back intensively, plus Larry and his friends already saw me. 

I had no choice but to call my boyfriend. But then again, I didn’t want to cll him because he was going to get mad and the whole save-our-soul call would end up in a verbal altercation. So i decided to text him. 

I was already high again so i leaned to the wall as i typed ‘drugged in Larry’s house’ forgetting my boyfriend had no idea of who Larry was or how he could get to the address. 

Larry noticed i was about doing something implicating so he walked fast to hold me back, but i quickly with my last strength and sanity sent the text before he could make me. 

As Larry drew close, i was getting hornier off the ecstasy or Spanish fly whichever i was drugged with. I swiftly dragged him close dropping my cell as i sexually pull myself into him with my hands on his genitals; we started making out there and then. He had his hand all over and inside me like a gynecologist. This particular memory i wish i can delete. 

Making out with Larry, i was so stoned on cocaine; i dropped on him. He allegedly tried to pull me up but his friends called his attention to where the fun was really at; Esene was madly horny and to an extent was into the who drill. And she was being taped; i don’t know if she got that or liked it. But hell; who knows? She might as well be as high as i am. 

Moments later, i was lying weak on the couch looking at Esene face directly with a blur vision. I stared hard and the picture of Esene’s face was getting vivid. She wasn’t enjoying what was happening to her. There was resistance in her face; it was more like ‘the spirit is not willing but the flesh terribly weak’, the drugs were fading and Esene was getting back to herself and it wasn’t looking good. 

I was getting a clearer picture of what was about going down on me although i was high i knew it wouldn’t be good. I knew this time Eddie wasn’t coming to my rescue like he did when i got into trouble at a picnic and i wasn’t at this point strong enough to put up even the tiniest resistance. So like my boy friend usually jokes “if you can’t stop the rape, picture the sexiest celebrity you crush on and enjoy the ride” I’m gonna put up with anything that comes today. 

At least although these guys weren’t on protection, it wasn’t as life threatening as my previous encounters. 

It was my turn; i laid insatiably horny and high trying to put up a resistance in my mind. 

But as soon as i was stripped i couldn’t help but to grab one of the guys and start kissing him. The camera was just turned on when a gun shot was fired outside the compound. Eddie! 

It was him; how he got here, i couldn’t figure but i just knew it was my prince in shinning amour. 

But nevertheless it wasn’t gonna end good because to the sound of that gunshot, Larry and his friends ran inside emerging with rather heavier weapons. 

I was scared for Eddie not knowing he had friends with him. Larry and friends were busy loading up guns until they started hearing multiple gunshots coming from farther distance none stop towards their house. When the possibility of defeat was noted, diplomacy was the wisest thing they could think of as Eddie stormed in with a ‘pump-action’ gun. 

Without much hesitation, Eddie took the offer of two hundred thousand naira Larry offered at the spot. At that point though it was ridiculous.  I was disappointed in Eddie. Is that how cheap he considered me? He should have killed those bastards but of course, i was too stoned to utter those words. 

Eddie quickly gathered me and  Esene’s things along with the bag of cash while we distotedly dragged along, higher than a Colombian junkie. 

It was until we got outside that i noticed the other gunshots weren’t of Eddie’s friends. It was rather the guys he has been hiding from for the past two weeks now. I don’t know the details but He somehow owed them money which he instantly paid back from the money he got off of Larry. 

I started putting the picture together. 

It was a relief for Eddie to quit hiding from the mob but the state he saw me when he stormed Larry’s house wasn’t where a guy would want to see his girlfriend. As soon as we got home, I had a long bath and was slowly getting back to myself, Eddie gave me the remaining money from what he stole from Larry, broke up with me and left with all his belongings that was in my house. I cried all night and it left me with a severe headache.