Chapter 14: Desperate Measures
Gift applied the portion exactly the way the man had asked of her and prepared herself to wait and see the effect of the portion.
Sam started acting strangely towards her. If she hadn't known better, she would say he was afraid of her but it was not possible or was it?
After two days of this strange behaviour and nights when he refused touching her but glued himself to his side of the bed, Gift was sure it was the handiwork of the portion the old man had given her.
She felt that the time had come for her to grab the opportunity and leave this enslavement which was her relationship with Sam.
She woke him the second night and was surprised at the way he woke with a jerk.
'What is it now?', he asked.
'I want to talk to you', she said.
'At this time of night? Your timing is impeccable', he said sarcastically.
'We are not working', she began boldly.
She felt if she could endure a night of passion with a dirty old witch doctor, she could face anything.
'We are not?', he asked not comprehending what she was driving at.
'We are not and I want out', she said.
'And what have you been waiting for? Why are you still here?', he queried.
'Sam I am serious. I am calling it quits with you'. she said.
'And I have never been more serious in my whole life. You are welcome to leave. After all, we are not married yet, so there is no case of a divorce'. he said.
It was almost like a dream. She could not believe that she had her freedom back.
The next day, while he was in his business place, Gift packed all she owned and went back to living with her parents.
Her parents' disapproval of her actions and continued animosity towards her caused her to go live with a friend of hers who was living alone. A girl of easy morals and like the saying goes, 'birds of a feather flock together'.
Gift was already acquiring a taste for free, uninhibited sex and living with her kind of roommate, she found that she had lost control and didn't even want to control her perpetual urge for sex.
She had even gone on several occasions to the 'dirty old witch doctor's for sexual gratification.
It was as bad as that.
Her parents tried to talk to her and remind her that she was from a good and moral family and her actions were causing them shame.
They could not lift their heads up anymore.
She promised to behave better which was the same promise she had made them on many other ocassions like this one but continued with her promiscuous life like her parents knew she would.
Her parents became old with grief. Their consolation was the joy, they got from the behaviours of the other children they had.
Since then Gift had lost every sense of propriety. Her life mission seem to be to get laid any time she so desired it.
She came back to the present and remembered that she wanted to pay Desmond a surprise visit.
She grew wet anticipating her night with him. He always had that effect on her.
was the seeming forbidden nature of their relationship or was it something else? Perhaps chemistry?
In any case, she just didn't care as long as he continues to see and satisfy her. Gift had decided to leave Samuel and she knew she could not do this alone without help from someone who had knowledge of how to counter fertish practices . Sam had taken her to alot of places she never thought she would go to . To places where marine powers were being used and other such places. He had been determined that Gift would not leave him to go back to Felix so had taken precautions by taking her to these places to wipe her memory of Felix and the love they had shared. He also asked Gift to bring all the photographs she had of Felix and the snap shots she had taken with him. All these, Gift submitted to the witch doctor who burnt then in a fire while chanting incantations. The snapeshorts they had together were torn first in a way that the two of them were cut of and it was symbolic of their being separated. Sam had even gone further to try and kill Felix in a spiritual way by just invoking his spirit and killing him like a chicken but Gift would have none of it. Against his will, Sam speared Felix's life. Afterall as Gift had convinced him, 'i am now with you and not with Felix and he won't have me now that I have been with you. So there really is no need killing him except you want me to leave you because I can't stand you soiling your hands with someone's blood'.
Sam reconsidered but that was when he felt the need to wipe from her the memory of her first love. After about a year i of living like this Gift was fed up and with the help of someone she eventually left him and though he did not succeed in marrying her, Sam felt that he had had her to his heart's content and had succeeded in separating her from Felix. A feat many men had desired but had not been able to achieve. He had shown Felix who the boss was. Even if they reconciled he reasoned, there could never be trust and what was love without trust?
After Gift left Sam, she started going from one man to the other. She could not be satisfied sexually. Once she finds any one attractive, she would ask the lucky man to sleep with her. If any male looked at her with the least bit of interest, she was all the person's. She lost all shred of self control and decency. It was almost as though she was on a sex mission to sleep with as many men as she could possibly sleep with. It got worse. She started having affairs and one night stands with Felix's friends. Felix being an extrovert had many friends male and female alike but he specially had two best male friends with whom he shared his secrets. Desmond and Lawrence. Desmond was a fair young man. Very hairy. His chest was like an animals because it was a bush of hairs. Alot of girls had fallen in love with him not just for his good looks but because of his manly hairs. He had been introduced to Felix by Lawrence who was The first best friend Felix had. Lawrence was tall, dark in complexion and very handsome. When the three of them walk along people always said that they looked good together and that they had hand picked one another.