Caroline Ordeals

I walked into my one-room accommodation, and sigh dropping my bag on my DVD player.

God knows I hated the hellhole I now live in. I had tried to make the place look a bit welcoming by decorating it with items I picked up from the second-hand store down the street, yet the room still looks awful.

The wall needs painting: my carpet needs changing, the door needs fixing, yet I tried to live without any fear of the unknown.

I had carpeted the ground with flowery blue carpet and partition the room with flowery blue curtains, but now it's all looks old. I just wondered why things just do not last. Most of the things one picks from the fairy used store that is.

My TV stands are at one corner of the room with her DVD player on a stool, I piled my CD on her DVD player. At the other side of the room opposite the TV stood my electric stove and cooking intensities as well as plates and spoons.

These are the only things I have left from my house when the rent had expired and I had no money to renew the rent.

Daniel, as rendered me too, broke to survive. I had sold all my other belongings and used the money to pay for the rent of this hell hole.

I pulled off my cloth and hung it with the other clothes and bag on the wall.

My shoes are at one side of the room; cling together on one another. shoes I bought so expensive now looks like rag just in a few months. while they survived beautifully in an all air conditioning room, they just all go bad in a room without one, and that is the fates of most of my shoes and bags, now I am left with almost nothing.

God how I wished and wait for the day I will do my carpentry jobs so I can lift every one of my things off the ground. Well, that will only come if and when I can get my job back or get me a better one.

The bank where I work had relieved me of my duty temporarily, they promised to call me back once my services are needed, but I know that may not happen so my aunty got me this job at a flower shop, as a production manager. Big job title but little pay that can't even feed me, let alone get me out of here. I sigh again as I began to tidy up the room a little.

Work was tedious today, I had to sell a life flower that the florist had badly produced, the red rose and the white Lilly was ready to give up and only the million stones and the fillers was able to save the looks.

I was surprised I sold it off, even though I will not be surprised if the flower dies off tomorrow and we lost the customer for ever. The flowers was a new delivery, they shouldn't die that quickly, only lf that silly florist had shot the cold room tight.

Just the only day in three month; I had decided to closed early to handle my stuff, and I had to deal with this loss.

"I need to talk to Regina, she needs to keep the cold room cold at all times before I lose this job again," I said talking to myself.

I know Aunty Bunmi will not be happy with me if that happened, she singles handedly pull muscle for this low paying job to work.

I am so grateful that my broke ass is not on the street as Daniel had planned.

Daniel, that someone I will surely kill if I ever had the chance too. I am yet to believe how stupid I can get; given my life savings to Daniel to start what he called our business. How foolish of me to trust him with my money, and believed he loved me and was willing to marry me after proposing to me. Can you imagine it? the mother fucker proposed to me; gave me a grand engagement party, dropped a gorgeous ring on my finger.

God how I foolishly walked on cloud 9, we even picked a date and I sent out invitations only for him to come up with this business idea.

I told him after the wedding but he insisted it better before. He insisted that we may spend too much on the wedding, thereby hindering our immediate start.

I saw reason with him cause I know I do spare nothing when it comes to throwing a party and my wedding party? I need not say.

He promised to take care of all the wedding expenses all I am to do is just throw my savings of eight million into our business as he is going to throw in ten.

I believe him; it was all a charade to get my money. GOD! How I wished I had waited for the marriage before I invested.

My phone rang and I picked it up, checking the id, I saw Lovett, I picked the call.

Lovett is the only friend who had stayed with me after Daniel ruined me.

"Hello, babe what's up Lovett?" I asked

"Fine babe you dey house, wan come see you." Lovett reply

"I dey girl, I dey expect you". I answered and dropped the call.

I moved quickly to finish tidying up the room, I swept the floor in a hurry, presently there is a knock at the door. I walked to the door, open and lets Lovett in.

"Hi babe, what's up?" Lovett asked

I dey o, how about you?.

"Doing good, but babe you need to leave this dump o, and you need to sue that stupid Daniel and get your money back." She said sitting on the floor as there is no chair to sit on, I rolled my eyes

"How can I sue the bastard? I have no money remember, the bank took their job back, now I work only to eat nothing more. I can hardly pay the rent of this hell hole let alone getting a better one." I replied with a heavy sigh.

"Do you know he has moved off to another woman, I heard she is richer than you?"

"Really!" I screamed "that bastard and he is so unreachable his bodyguards won't allow anyone around him."

"That's why he gets away with all that. You believe he is so rich your little money meant nothing to him, but in the real sense he came for your little money." Lovett concluded.

I looked away as the pain dagger through my chest. She noticed my pain and quickly said

" Let's stop talking about what we can't do anything about, for now, I just met this guy and he had this single super-rich friend. I thought to myself why not invite my friend on and he invites his and we go on a double date don't tell me no as always, Daniel is been gone for like one year and some month now, you are single you need to mingle."Lovett finished wearing a very serious face.

"Ok when is this date?" I asked

"Is this Saturday ok?" Lovett replied with a question

"Splendid, but mind you I have nothing new or good to wear for a first date," I said. Lovett rolled her eye

"I will see about that. You just amaze me though, the instant we graduated from school you started working. You refused to date all the rich men we pushed your way to take care of you then you end up with that joke of a man who dumped you."

"Wrong until Queen practically forced Daniel on me you mean to say and practically disappear after what he did taking all the other so-called friends except you. I guessed it's because she knows I can't get back to my feet in a long time."

"That's not true you will be back to your feet soon. We will get you a new paying job and who knows super-rich guy may step in and help." She said empathizing with me.

When do I become a charity case? I looked at her quickly please don't answer that she smiled.

She moved to where I arranged my cups in a tray on the floor, picked up two and walked over to her bag brought out a bottle of one of the finest alcoholic wine and pore for both of us.

"Take dear"

What's the occasion? I asked, watching her, every of her move.

"To a new beginning for me and you." She gave me the cup and we tossed, drank the filled our cups again till the bottle was empty. Come on Caroline lets go grab some food somewhere are you not hungry?" she asked

"I was about to cook?" I replied

"come let's eat out, and please get dressed or do you want to go out in this old fashioned under wares"

She laughed at me

na you know o, I will quickly change. Turn around" I said teasing her

"Why the last time I checked I am a girl, oh I get it you do not want me to see your torn pants." She laughed

"You are mad," I said laughing throwing my pillow at her. I dressed quickly and we both walked out while I locked the door after us.