The Series Of My Life - Season 2 - Episode 14

4 years ago

The Series Of My Life - Season 2 - Episode 14

Epi 109

Baby Am Here Now

Four hours later, I stopped at the Bremen
central station. It was already 5 in the
evening. The camp gate usually closes by
6pm. I walked to a mall near the camp and
saw some campers coming out. I stopped one
of them and asked if she knew Jennifer Ebot.
She said yes and told me that she was inside
the mall.

I wanted to walk into the mall and surprise
her but on a second thought, I felt that she
could be in there with Emmanuel or even
another guy. Walking up to them could hold
another surprise for me.

But what if I walked up to her and saw her
with another guy? Sure they were not likely
to be kissing inside the mall.
I made up my mind to bear whatever I saw
in the mall. I opened a locker outside the
mall and kept my bag inside it, then I locked
it, took the key and went inside the mall.
I saw a lean figure bending down towards an
Ice cream flat refrigerator. I was coming from
the back. She was admiring the big ice cream
since she had no money to buy it. She had
purchased a pack of cheap chewing gum.
” You can have the ice cream if you want”
I said from behind her.

She jumped up in surprise and stood there
looking into my eyes as if I was a ghost.
She stretched her right hand and touched my
left hand.

” Its ok my angel, I am not a ghost, I am
not dead yet” I said.
” You look very skinny Angel, did you get
sick” I said.
She didn’t say a word. She just stood there
and kept her gaze on my face. I moved closer
and hugged her. Her eyes had started to
water again. The tears had formed and it was
only a matter of seconds before some memory
triggered its easy flow downwards.
” don’t cry please, I am here now. I have
missed you so much and I couldn’t wait until
tomorrow” I said.

She was struggling to keep the tears away
from falling freely. I entangled myself from
her and picked up the biggest ice cream in
the Refrigerator. I held her hand and walked
slowly out of the mall. We paid at the
counter and picked my small bag from the
locker.

”You are not going to sleep in the camp
today. I hope you have your ID card with
you” I said.

She nodded as we moved across the road to
wait for a bus back into the city center.
” I hope you won’t get into trouble for
sleeping outside the camp” I asked.
She said that people slept outside the camp
after their interviews but always returned every
week to pick up their weekly allowances.
She herself had done her interview over two
weeks back and she would have been coming
to Berlin ever since then but the ugly incident
happened before her interview.

We got to Bremen Vegesack area and found a
hotel. I paid for two nights and collected my
keys.

Apart from wanting to see Jennifer again, the
Bremen trip was a nice get-away from
Berlin. I had felt that some dark cloud was
encroaching me in Berlin. Whenever I was in
doubt, I usually stopped dealing or traveled
out.

We got to the hotel room and opened the
door. It was better than I had thought. It
had a large bed with white silk sheets. A
towel, paper tissues, a small fridge containing
some becks beer. ( Becks was a Bremen
local product. Every german city had their own
beer).

I dropped my bag on the bed, turned around
and planted a long kiss on Jennifer’s lips.
She didn’t respond fully. I felt she was still
not convinced that I had forgiven her.
I sat her down on the bed and opened the ice
cream we had brought from the mall. There
was a plastic spoon that came with it. I sat
on the bed and carried her to sit on my laps,
then I feed her the Vanilla cream like a
baby.

She looked so hungry and Sick. Her face was
going pale. The blood on her face seemed not
to be flowing. I was almost scared too.
Jennifer was dying slowly and yet she had
been crying on the phone and probably off the
phone too.

After the ice cream, I removed her Pullover
and Bra. I bent down and pulled out her
trousers and underwear. She watched as I did
all that and when she was Unclad totally, I
removed all my clothes too and led her to the
bathroom. It was time to give her a hot bath
like I used to do back in Portugal.