In the morning, when he called
Esther, she was justifiably mad but he managed to smooth things over. Then he
asked her to come to his place with a couple of her clothes and some feminine
products. She grew incensed and said she had no intentions of spending the
night with him. That made him angry. “Contrary to what you might think, not
everything is about you or sex, Nana.” He said to her. She would have just
gotten angrier had he not had the common sense to tell her a bit of the problem
he was faced with. She suddenly grew understanding and helpful when George told
her what the problem was.................
*************
Esther got to his place about an hour later with the needed
items. She handed them to Laura for her to see how best she could improvise
with them. She and George then left Laura alone and set out towards the Spintex
Road to find some breakfast for the three of them. Along the way, George filled
her in on the missing pieces of the story he wasn’t able to give her on the
phone.
They decided on some kenkey and a tin
of sardines for their breakfast when they got to the street. Heading back home
to George’s place, they held hands as they unconsciously do now, whenever they
were walking together. With their earlier disagreement of the morning
forgotten, they talked about any number of things. And all was alright in the
world of George and Esther even in the face of the unfortunate incident
touching their lives at the moment. When they got home, Laura placed a call
from George’s cell to her family to assure them she was alright and put them
out of their misery. It was then decided that a family member would come and
pick her up at Coastal as soon as possible. By 1pm, George’s cell rang,
informing them that whoever was on their way to pick Laura up was already at the
Tetteh Quarshie Roundabout.
A little over thirty minutes later,
Pokua, Laura’s sister pulled up at Coastal in a salon car. From the car’s
number plate, it was obvious it was registered in 2010, making it three years
old after registration with the DVLA. The car’s condition however showed
impeccable grooming. It was a well looked after car. The sisters hugged each
other tightly for quite a while and after the hug, Pokua spent some time
checking her kid sister all over as if to make sure she was really okay as she
claimed. After she was convinced of her sister’s wellbeing, she turned her
attention to George and Esther standing close by. Laura quickly made
introductions. After the introductions, Pokua fell into a hugging spell and
hugged both Esther and George twice over, all the while mumbling her gratitude
to them for her sister’s safety.
Watching the two sisters together, it
was evident from their manner, especially Pokua’s public display of affection
that they weren’t Ghanaian. They might look Ghanaian and even have Ghanaian names
but Ghanaians were just not that showy with their affections. Added to that,
their American accent just put a cinch to the theory that they were Yankees,
born and bred.
Pokua suggested she took all of them
to lunch but the couple declined and said maybe some other time and that they
thought Laura should really get home as soon as possible. They watched the Toyota
Corolla 2009 model speed off towards the direction it had come from. Since both
George and Esther had things planned for the day they decided to part ways and
meet in the evening. Laura did call George to thank him once again for his help
when she got home and she sounded so different from the girl he’d met. She sounded
perky, much like her older sister.
A week after the Laura incident, George and Esther had a
classic fight about something as trivial as George failing to call Esther back
after he’d missed her call. By the time the fight was over, it was uncertain
whether it was about the unreturned call, George’s overall attitude or Esther’s
stance concerning sex before marriage. The subsequent days following the fight
were spent with each of the parties refusing to be the one to break the ice and
seem weak to the other. Esther spent her days getting mini heart attacks every time
her phone rang, with the expectation that it was George and her heart fell each
time she found out it wasn’t. George spent the same number of days waiting
Esther out, and knowing she would end up calling anyway. It was on one of these
days that he had an unexpected call. When he picked the call, he realized it
was from Pokua.
************* Till next time! *************
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