Chapter 4: The New Fling.
By the time Stephano got home it was already past midnight and Griffin was dead asleep. He had classes the following morning and didn't want to get late..This came as a relief to Stephano as he did not want to have to tell him what had just happened. So he went aged and slept.
The following morning in a rash,Griffin forgot to wake Stephano up let a lone even ask of whatever made him come back home so late,he had morning classes and didn't want to get late .Stephano on the other hand was dead a sleep it was clear that he didn't want to come to life he hugged his pillow between his legs and placing the other pillow on top of his face completely covering his head..his blanket dangled from the bed a small hem hooked to the edge of the bed held it from completely falling down.
Griffin quickly freshened up as it was already 6:30am and he was to be in class in an hour ,having no time to make breakfast and in the midst of avoiding the bad traffic along the Highway he sprang out of the house and ran right for the public transport. He did not have his car with him as it had been involved in an accident and apparently injured a middle aged woman...turning into a police case and as a form of punishment from his dad since he had been driving under the influence from an overnight party,he refused to bail his car out and it had been in police custody for weeks now...Griffin's grand mother managed to bail him out of the cell but she to had to let him learn his lesson despite his constant pleadings with her to let him have his car back... they confiscated his credit card and drivers licence leaving him at the mercy of whatever little money the felt would push him through the week...so this put him in a situation he wasn't used to a d that is had to mind his spending as well.
The day was just as any other day but something felt rather unusual about this particular day...Griffin could feel a strangely nice vibe in his atmosphere some good energy was all around him but he couldn't lay his thought to what it was really about.
He then boarded a Matatu to school ,going to sit at his favourite spot on the Matatu next to the window right at the entrance near the conductor..to his displeasure it was already taken, he had to go find himself another available sit before the Matatu got full as it was the rash hours, in the process brushing shoulders with other passengers... the vehicle started moving, he wasn't ready and had no firm stand so he found himself falling to the floor .. no one dared laugh at him as they were all to busy trying to get to their work place and others to school to add he wasn't the only one who fell down... some other two guys were also gotten unprepared thus making the fall to.
'so much for the nice feeling I had a while ago,'
he mumbled as he got up and grabbed a sit for himself ...otherwise he would have to stand through out the entire trip in case he missed it. He wanted to sit at the window but it had already been taken to, so he grudgingly sat next to the person who had it. He then reached for his handkerchief from his back pocket to brush of the dust he'd collected on his pants and bag pack when he heard a soft voice saying "Pole!"
"Thanks, " he replied not even taking a look at the person whom he heard telling him that as he was too embarrassed to even look at the other passengers in the Matatu.
Anyway its not unusual for passengers in a Matatu not to look at each other especially coz its public transport. so he didn't bother taking another look at at the person consoling him,The other passenger next to him likewise weren't as concerned with the issue and continued facing the window, outside the Matatu. After a few minutes or so ,Griffin seemingly satisfied with the dust completely off his pants and clothes he reached for his phone from his back pocket, he placed his bag down between his legs and swiped the phone lock open,.On impulse he went straight to his WhatsApp messenger app and scrolled to the status section..he put his headphones on and started viewing several status from his other contacts constantly chuckling with every swipe on most of the memes posted there.
No one seemed to mind him anyway as its also not unusual for most people especially in this internet and social media era
_where social media is more of life than life itself_.
He then decided to take a selfie feeling a bit more handsome than usual, posting it on his social network status,it was inevitable that the passenger sitting next to him would also be captured by the camera ,this stranger was zoned out from thinking to much ,lost in thought,uneasy and also agitated when the traffic started to pick up so didn't notice Griffin taking a selfie, Griffin also had not paid much attention to the one sitting next to him so he didn't notice he'd captured his sit mate to, as he solely concentrated on his image on the photo,he went ahead and post it before going offline, Scrolling back to his music playlist he opened a folder that had some nice pop songs snoozing off as he waited the traffic out.
Having not had enough sleep the previous night this short nap was quit good it took the conductor waking him up as he'd already reached his stop otherwise he would have woken up past his destination and this was solely because the conductor had been collecting bus fare from the passengers and on reaching Griffin's sit it was more than likely he wouldn't have passed him..
"Ooya! Bro get up and pay your fare!'' the conductor called rather roughly,
Griffin was startled waking up, he took out some loose change from his pocket asking
"how much please?"
The conductor laughing sarcastically looked at him amused
"bro are you kidding me u have used this route more times than you go to the toilet for pit's sake now pay your fare and stop messing with me," he retorted rudely.
Griffin looked around praying and hopping so much he'd not passed his stop,sighed in relief seeing the Matatu had stopped ,he then handed 50ksh to the conductor sprinting out of the Matatu just before it started moving again...the passenger next to him had alighted a bit earlier than Griffin had woken up from his nap...
Again on impulse after getting off the Matatu he checked his notifications,to his surprise in only thirty minutes his status had gathered a multitude of views most of the viewers sliding in into his DM with various hash tags and others reposting his post using the hashtag...
(#new girlfriend)
others complimented him on his wise choice and good taste in ladies...others called him a king fisher and all sorts of flattering comments that inflate the egotist masculinity in men.
Notifications kept flooding his as he couldn't quite understand what was happening,he went offline once again ,wanting to get somewhere quiet and read them slowly and comfortably in addition the school's compound had so many students and bumping into anyone while distrusted on your phone wasn't a good experience for anyone so he put his phone aside and rushed to class.
Just as he was signing in on the class attendance register, Caleb patted his shoulder playfully raffling Griffin's short dreadlocks,
"Damn Bro! whose that fine lass you had and where did you get her from, is she a freshman in the school ,how come we have not met her yet coz damn she's hot...!"
"Yes and what course is she into what is she majoring in,where did you leave her by the way I can't see her?"
Austin asked looking around as he pushed Griffin around playfully harassing him in attempts to squeeze information out of him.
"wait a minute guys what are you talking about,which girl are you saying?"
Griffin asked completely clueless of whatever his friends were all about .
Just then Fiona walked right passed them for the register book she seemed pissed but tried her best to hide her emotions.. It was pretty clear that she did not like what she had seen on Griffin's status and the rest who reposted Griffin's post and tagged
(#New mama in town)...
others writing (#siz-in-law)
and so in and so forth. it was barely a month after the two had broken up and the news had spread all over campus like wild fire. Griffin was quite popular as the guy that wore black most of the time others finding his style really weird as others really digging his sense of style and his cool laid back demeanour...Fiona was the vice chancellor's daughter so their relationship was a big deal being that they both came from wealthy families thus being very popular around school and their relationship landing tittles like that of 'Power couple of the school' for that time they were together thud it was inevitable that everyone found out of there relationship's demise.
In a second Fiona's presence in class made the atmosphere awkward and hot for everyone. Griffin took his sit entirely indifferent to the whole situation... He had no idea of what the whole class Wa bubbling about.
It did not take long before the lecturer came in and the lesson commenced.
Fiona could hardly concentrate on the lesson it was hard enough that the whole school knew about their relationship status, she also had to share and attend the same class as Griffin and now the issue with the whole school trying so hard to rub it on her face that she had been replaced by someone better , a 'prettier mama' than she was didn't make things better .
The message downed on her hard in an unusual and unexpected way as she was on her way to school when she got a text from Mwikali her best friend who harmlessly asked if Fiona had heard of the new news...curious she asked Mwikali what the news was about and when mwikali noticed that Fiona had not yet viewed Griffin's status she was hesitant to tell her anything. Knowing Mwikali very well she suspected that somehow it had something to do with Griffin.
she then went to her WhatsApp account and on to Griffin's post only to meet a rood shock...
"spending the rest of my life...me"
was the caption under Griffin's post with a fine lass sitting next to Griffin.. the picture was very insinuative to.
This is how she got the news Peter on some of their friends also sliding into her DM asking if she was been aware of Griffin's new Fling and him moving on too soon and others asking if she even knew the girl as some of her very close friends suggesting that it was probable that Griffin had been seeing this girl even during the time Fiona and Him we're together as it didn't seem logic how fast he'd moved on.
She was forced to switch of her phone feeling bad enough as she had a lot of trouble getting over Griffin. This wasn't easy for her...they all seemed to be conniving and working together to ruin her peace.. that's how she really felt at the moment.
"Miss Wangenye Fiona could you try and be a little more attentive in class or mind you telling us what's holding your thoughts, it could better inspire the class for the new project that am about to give you. Have you something new that the class can learn? " Brigitte asked as she lowered her glasses with her right index finger looking at her through the space left over the spectacles.
Brigitte was known to be quite interactive with her students but also very strict with her lessons. She tought sculpting and this was something she took very seriously and personal.
"If you want to earn a living as a sculptor u have to be very canning and driven to, these jobs are scarce and the few sculptors around ought to be good at what they do,You see life as well is like this piece of moulding clay plasticine.. it's what you make of it that really counts it might be dust but the more you work on the Clay the more profound it becomes.. it gets harder with time but constant moulding turns it into the best experience ever..." she continued teaching as she rolled the small piece of clay in between her palms.
Fiona just stared at her agreeing with her but finding it hard to believe it herself, had the madam also seen the news that was trending in school as she seemed to be speaking to her situation?
"Hey Griffin could you please assists me issue out this booklets I have a project I need done by all of you by the end of the week. The school shall provide the materials but I need you guys to be creative to," She added as she handed out the booklets to Griffin..
Griffin went ahead and did as he had been requested., he had no problem whatsoever handing them out to any of the students not even Fiona.
All that while Fiona had been low ,wondering if the madam had done this on purpose or it had just been coincidental, she still loved this guy to and she wondered how he to could have moved on so quickly as if the one and a half year they had spent together meant nothing. she was besides herself with much hurt as she watched him walk around the lecturer hall and finally stopped at her spot, starring at him right at his face as she tried to find herself in his dark eyes.
"Hey.. you... hey.... Fiona my arms are getting sore and tired please take the booklet,you are making me feel awkward to, what's it with the stare anyway?" Griffin whispered asking.
Apparently Fiona had been staring at him not noticing that she had him stand hands stretched out holding the booklet for almost five minutes.
Fiona felt embarrassed thus she apologized turning her face away.
He then walked passed her to his sit, Fiona being the last one to get the booklet.
They were assigned partners and their project commenced, later after their class was over they were dismissed and
having no other class for that day he decided to live but he still didn't get a chance to check out his phone,He still had to rash to the police station to check on the formalities on how to get his car back.
This issue stressed him a lot .
On the other hand at around 11:30am Stephano was still dead asleep he then got up and as expected he was all alone in the room with Griffin long gone. He went ahead and took a shower since he had to go check on Maya's Car .
It seemed as if he had forgotten all that had happened the previous night or had he really?
His head hurt him so much seems he had a hungover cause he suffered a very sharp migraine. He then after a while and spending time cleaning up suddenly remembered Maya causing his heart to bleed so he went a head and brought his G-bag of weed and rolled some of it smoking his worries into clouds of smoke.
Just then he heard a knock from the door Griffin barely knocked and so he knew right away it couldn't be him.
He got up from the Sofa and rushed to the door his eyes scarlet red.
"Hey what's up nigga,"
Reagan greeted squeezing his way into the room since Stephano had covered the entrance blocking him from access as he piped through the half opened door to see who it was .For a while he was taken a back, he didn't expect Reagan and did not know how to handle the situation... whether to start apologizing or just go with Reagan's mood...
They had been friends for so long and somehow it crashed him that a life long friendships would be ruin all in a second just cause of what a big jerk he'd been towards Maya.
"Hey you are so quiet I just greeted you,what's up bro!"he continued
" Oh forgive my manners I guess I'm too high at the moment " Stephano apologized as he squeezed the lit blunt on the ash trey..
" what can I offer you we have milk, tea, some strong tea and bear it depends "
"we'll am okey and surely but not in a bad way i don't trust anything that comes from you I'd take sole if it came from Griffin," he then chuckled as he continued "Only Maya understands you coz non of us get you better than she does, you see the last time she got so messed up on your account after mistaking your bottle for hers so naaah am good...I also can't risk getting high on your 'strong tea' hehehe, guy you know you really are amazing coz you get to mix almost anything you consider edible,"
Stephano gave a tight smile as he went ahead and dropped himself on the sofa letting off a heavy deep sigh.
"So how is Maya ?" Stephano asked pinching the bridge of his nose as he laid on the sofa with a frowned expression as if trying to get over a bad head ache, he then stretched his legs trying as much to keep calm. he'd been so nervous the entire time not knowing if Reagan had info on what had happened between Maya and him.
" well she's fine I guess... she came home in late last night and I guess she got a cold from staying out so long at night.. anyway that's what she told us as she was in an awfully bad mood...she also told us that her car had broken down and that she got late waiting for a cab....,"
"Is that all she said to you guys?"
Stephano asked nervously.
"Yes that's all or is their something else cause she seemed to avoid more questions from Sameer and i going right ahead to her room, I could feel something was not right but well she's a big girl now I couldn't insist so we let her be. thank goodness dad was not around otherwise she would have been forced to speak up knowing our dad..she got off the hook..."
Stephano was astonished ,he didn't understand why Maya did not tell on him to her brothers she didn't even hint in them that he was actually behind and at fault for whatever she was going thru.
"so did she go to school today?"
he asked
"no she didn't even get out of her room today I don't know if she is feeling better but well Sameer sent me on an errand and I saw it fit to come see you as I was passing by. I also came for my flash drive...those movies Griffin put in his and gave me weren't as interesting as I thought... so im also giving back his drive.." Reagan continued as he got up and walked towards the door , "can I please have my drive coz I still have to be at work in an hour"
Stephano picked up the drive from the wall unit and handed it to Reagan taking Griffin's drive back
"Thanks Bro I have to take my leave now,"
"Oya wait there I hope it doesn't have any virus coz the last time we lent you that 64GB flash you...." Stephano complained...as Reagan cut him short
"Chill its fine trust me and of it's not I will get you another one,,I gat you bro I gat you" Reagan assured him tapping him on his back to calm him down....
"okey then send my regards to your sister, hope she gets well soon," Stephano added as he closed the door seeing him out.
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