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TANGLE VII

<p>Episode 7<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi; It was Sunday afternoon&comma; I had just gotten back from church and I was resting&comma; they had a lot of thanksgiving so church lasted longer than it normally would&period; Just then I heard a knock on the door&comma; I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t expecting anybody&period; Kim said she won&&num;8217&semi;t be back till Monday after work so I was contemplating on getting up or just letting the person knock and go until I heard my name and Kim&&num;8217&semi;s voice&comma; she didn&&num;8217&semi;t sound alright so I jumped up and went to open the door&period; She was wearing a face cap and very dark shades&comma; I helped her with her luggage and goodies she brought from PH but she wasn&&num;8217&semi;t her lively self at all and I was a bit confused&period; When she removed the cap and shades&comma; she looked like she had an accident&period;&nbsp&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&nbsp&semi; Kim what happened to you &quest; I asked her trying to properly look at her face&period; She screamed when I touched her chin&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;it&&num;8217&semi;s it&&num;8217&semi;s it&&num;8217&semi;s nothing&comma;” she replied stammering&period; What do you mean it&&num;8217&semi;s nothing&quest; I asked her&period; You come home with your face like this and tell me it&&num;8217&semi;s nothing&quest; Please Kim what happened I asked again&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dodeye please I&&num;8217&semi;m fine&comma; I just want to rest” she said&period; Wait&excl; Did Henry do this to you&quest; She bent her face and started crying&period; Omg Kim he did this to you&quest; He&&num;8217&semi;s such a beast&period; Thank God you came back I said hugging her&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Pls don&&num;8217&semi;t call him a beast&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s not&period; He apologized&comma; see everything he got me yesterday after beating me up” she said pointing to the bag filled with goodies&period; I looked at her shocked to my teeth&comma; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to push it so I told her we will talk about it later&comma; then I heated water for her to bathe then started preparing spaghetti so we would eat&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98&period;1 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1496 " id&equals;"quads-ad1496" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"3000">&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- New ad banner --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-5706332590260650" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1294784859" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Guess what&quest;” Alian said as I picked up the call&period; What&quest; I asked excited even if I knew what he was about to say&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I&&num;8217&semi;m in Uyo” he answered&period; Yay&excl;&excl;&excl; I&&num;8217&semi;ll see you tomorrow after work okay&quest; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tomorrow&quest; What happened to seeing me immediately I arrive&quest; You promised” he said with a baby&&num;8217&semi;s voice&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m sorry&comma; Kim is in a really bad place right now&comma; I can&&num;8217&semi;t leave her&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Thought she&&num;8217&semi;s not due back until tomorrow&quest; I was hoping you will come over and leave to work from here”&period; Really&quest; I said laughing&comma; sorry I&&num;8217&semi;ll see you tomorrow okay&quest; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Okay I&&num;8217&semi;ll wait”&comma; he replied&period;&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;Bubu kitty I said tickling Kim when I realized she had woken up from sleep&comma; I had been distracting myself with my phone the whole time&comma; waiting for her to wake up&comma; couldn&&num;8217&semi;t wait to hear the reason why Henry beat her up that bad and also to speak sense into her ears whether she likes it or not&period; What is it&quest; She said smiling&period; Why did Henry beat you&quest; I asked her&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dodeye&comma; it was my fault&comma; I snooped and questioned him about a conversation between him and one Louisa&period; He hates when I read his chats&comma; I knew it and I&&num;8230&semi;” Kim&excl; I called her and she stopped talking&comma; it is not okay to be hit by anybody&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s not okay for Henry to beat you up&comma; you are not a kid&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t get why you are justifying his actions&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t get it at all Kim I told her&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dodeye&comma; Henry loves me&comma; he does virtually everything for me&comma; he got me this house&comma; he helped me get my job&comma; he buys me gifts all the time&period; If I have to keep up with being hit&comma; then I will&period;” Wow&excl;&excl; I exclaimed&comma; it surprised me that she was okay with being hit&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dodeye&comma; you haven&&num;8217&semi;t loved before&comma; if you have then you would understand what I&&num;8217&semi;m trying to say&period; Henry loves me and that&&num;8217&semi;s all that matters”&period; Maybe I haven&&num;8217&semi;t loved before but I know love isn&&num;8217&semi;t violence&comma; love is supposed to be kind and sweet not tough and painful&comma; I told her&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dodeye I know you are saying all this because you care about me but I know Henry loves me and I love him too&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s nothing you can say or do that&&num;8217&semi;ll make me think or feel differently” she told me and turned her face&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ll be fine&comma; I said&comma; picked up my phone and started replying my messages &period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;jQuery&lpar;document&rpar;&period;ready&lpar;function&lpar;&dollar;&rpar; 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