Damage Control.

"Why are you so upset about her sleeping around when all you wanted was sex in the first place? Were you looking for a relationship with a virgin?" Ken asked in confusion when Pete kept glaring at him angrily.

"That I wasn't looking for a relationship with a virgin doesn't mean I'm interested in being the topic of discussion on different breakfast tables all over Lagos this morning! Even my own mother heard of it already. What were you thinking taking me to that godforsaken club and hooking me up with someone like her for crying out loud?" Pete snapped at Ken angrily, making him raise both hands in surrender.

"Fine! I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking. Maybe I didn't think things were going to go this far... Or maybe I just felt you wouldn't care about all of that. I was wrong." Ken finally admitted making Pete sigh wearily.

"Yes you were very wrong!" Pete hissed angrily.

"But how did mumcy find out about it? Did Bel.. Ella tell her?" Ken remembered to call her Ella before Pete since he didn't want to start explaining why or how he had given Ella a separate name from the one every other person was calling her.

"Ella didn't get the chance to tell her, since Ella came running here to hear from me first. Apparently mumcy knows everything that goes on in Lagos, especially with her children." Pete said as he rubbed his eyes with both hands. It was barely One in the afternoon, yet he felt like it was more than twenty-four hours already since he left Kim's house.

"But you had fun last night, admit it! When last did you get laid?" Ken asked making Pete glare at him, while Ella hissed as she walked into the living room.

"I thought you said you were giving us privacy?" Pete asked when Ella walked past him to pick up her purse and car keys from the couch.

"Just came in to pick my car keys, I'm going out with Kathleen and Amanda..."

"Why? Where are you taking them to?" Pete asked curiously.

"You do realize that she lost her clothes in the fire and would need new clothes, right? I'll be taking them to my house so she can pick some clothes, will be back soon, and hopefully your friend would have left by then." Having said that Ella walked away without sparing Ken another glance.

"What's up between you and Ella?" Pete asked, since he noticed that Ken had remained quiet the whole time Ella was talking. He remembered the way they used to banter and tease each other years back before he left the country, so what had changed?

"Does it look like anything is up? She is doing her thing, and I'm doing mine." Ken said with a dismissive shrug when he noticed the way Pete kept looking at him suspiciously. He still didn't know what he had been thinking that night with Ella... He had crossed a line he never should have crossed, and that was against the bro code of conduct. Pete would be very mad at him if he knew he had laid his sister.

"So what was that about the caretaker living here?" Ken asked to change the subject.

"There was a fire outbreak at her house while she was babysitting Amanda last night, and she has no where else to go so I offered her my boys quarter.... What? Why are you smiling like that?" Pete asked with a frown when Ken kept grinning.

"That's how it starts you know? I won't be surprised to see her coming out of your bedroom in the nearest future." Ken teased.

"What's wrong with all of you? How can you think I'll get involved with someone as churchy as she is? She isn't even my type. You won't believe she was dedicating my house to God a while ago." Pete said with a shake of his head.

"Churchy girls are badder o! That was how I met one girl in church, she was even a chorister. When she handled me in bed ehn! Believe me, I almost cummed air." Ken said with a chuckle, reminding Pete of his experience with Kimberly the previous night.

"Do you have any idea why Kim turned out that way?" Pete asked out of the blues, taking Ken by surprise.

"Is there a reason people like sex? Isn't it just like alcohol or marijuana addiction?" Ken asked sounding indifferent about it.

"I suppose so. It must be embarassing for her to be known for something so immoral. I was supposed to have lunch with her, but at this rate, I'm not sure I want to be seen with her in public anymore. I'm glad she doesn't have my phone number... What?" He asked when Ken winced.

"She does have your number... I gave it to her last night just before you arrived at the club. I'm sorry." Ken said apologetically.

"You're awfully apologizing for too many things today, don't you think?" Pete asked, his disappointment obvious in his tone.

"Yeah. But you don't have to take her call or meet with her of you don't want to. I'm sure she isn't going to mind since she likes sleeping around and must be used to men avoiding her by now. So just chill." Ken said with confidence.

As though to shame him, Kimberly chose that very moment to call, and because Pete didn't have her number saved on his phone, he took the call immediately, "Pete Howells on the line..."

"It's past noon already, when am I seeing you?" Kimberly asked, making Pete look at Ken in alarm. Ken quickly understood the 'Save my soul' look in Pete's eye and shook his head for Pete to disconnect the call.

Pete placed the phone on loudspeaker so Ken could hear what she was saying, "I'm with Ken, I hope you don't mind hanging out together?" He asked, making Ken scowl at him.

"Oh! I thought it was a lunch date? Three is crowd, you know?" She asked, sounding clearly displeased at the prospect of someone else joining them.

Pete coughed at that, "Lunch date? No. It's just friends hanging out together. The more the merrier." Pete said, making Kim roll her eyes.

"Whatever. Where am I meeting you guys then?" She asked making Pete look to Ken for help.

"The mall." Ken whispered back.

"Let's meet at the mall in Ikeja... Maybe we could see a movie and hang out then." Pete said before disconnecting the call.

"What's your plan? Why do you want to meet with her again?"

"Since I don't have the heart to treat her like every one else, the plan is to bore her to death. Girls like Kimberly likes bad boys who loves to have fun, so when she sees I'm not her type she will leave me alone." Pete said confidently.