A CRY IN THE DARK

A CRY IN THE DARK

She lay in the dark fighting to hold back tears, but they trickled down her bubble cheeks and made their way to her cleavage. She kept on crying as memories of her encounter with her boss this afternoon replayed in her head. It's not like it's the first time she is having this encounter but today's own broke the camels back she thought to herself.  She tried to clear her head but it's filled with conflicting emotions, she rose her head from her tears soaked pillow but the headache still lingered near worsening her heartache.

Should I quit the job? Many a times she had asked herself but the falling Nigerian economy and the ever increasing level of unemployment will frown at it,  considering the fact that she is the first born and the parents barely fed trying to see her through university, so a lot of responsibilities where bestowed on her being the first so she had managed to hang on to the job, swallowing much of her bosses attitudes, passes and confrontations but today's own was the height of it all.

She managed to make it to her wardrobe, raised her pile of clothes to bring out an old file, dusted it and searched through,to find a resignation letter which she had written few weeks after accepting the job. She was reading through it amidst the tear when her mind flashed back at the incidence that led to her writing the letter......She had walked into his bosses office to harken to his call, when he ushered her in and offered her to sit on the settee next to him. He made to reach for the wine glass when she asked what all these are for, she was referring to the bottle of choice wine cooling in the ice bucket and two wine glasses finely positioned on the table facing the settee. The boss pretended he never heard her and popped the wine and stylishly filled both glasses to the brim with the sparkling wine, handed her a glass which she declined and the boss looked at her sternly and licked his lips and muttered slowly, I have always liked you right from the first day. That was why I employed you ahead of other people that applied. When you started working here, no matter how hard I tried, I could not keep my eyes off you neither could I get the thoughts of how your skirts hugs your hips and how your gluteal region wobbles each time you make your way to door after talking with me in the office... You are happily married with children she hushed him, unhappily married he bluffed, that is why I need to find my happiness and comfort in you. She could not wait for him to finish before she made her way to the door but not without leaving behind a sentence " I am so sorry boss but you picked the wrong lady. My conscience,belief, principles and religion will not let me, please sir find your happiness in another lady.

The boss made it to the door before her, held her hands and told her it's no one but you, I'd rather have you or no one else will besides it's not subject for discussion or you find yourself another job. She was trying to comprehend her bosses words when he dragged her closer and started suffocating her with kisses, she clinched her teeth but that did not deter the randy boss who kept on kissing off her lipstick and squeezing her firm breast like a released prisoner who was denied conjugal rights during his long incarceration. She managed to disentangle herself from his tight embrace and ran out of his office to the hall way closing her buttons and adjusting her clothes, she barely made it to her office before she burst out crying and that was what she spent the rest of her usually busy day doing."..................