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Money Maker

  3 AM!!! 3AM!!? 3 AM in the morning? That when that sweet snooze starts and one goes limp from some deep sleep. You don’t want to move. WHO WAKES YOU UP AT 3 AM IN THE MORNING? It could only be Tony. Here he was. Drunk, rugged and roughed up. Worse still he had come with a taxi all the way? Guess who had to pay? 1,500 shillings for the trip, then another 2,000 shillings to his home. Thank you God there was some money in the house. Worse still he ate all my food from the fridge. He had gone to university, completed. He had done some work. He got work before me and I graduated before him. He was doing alright for himself, paying rent, buying his food, enjoying life and leaving me alone. I don’t know what happened, but I have a feeling he thought there was money, so he didn’t need to work. He started acting like a mad man, jumping over cars, shouting at people just two feet away from him, screaming, rolling around in the dirt, waking people up at 3 am to pay his taxi fare and steal t

Friend zoned

To say I was expecting it to happen, would be a true statement. I knew you liked me. I knew you wanted to be with me. I knew that you had a thing for me. I knew you wanted to be with me. You already were with me, but you wanted more. You wanted to listen to my intimate stories while we cuddled. You wanted us to send each other silly and romantic messages. You wanted us to share each other, but most of all be in love with each other. You wanted us to stop calling each other best friends and become a couple. I pretended not to see it. I pretended I did not notice your feelings. The way you hugged me. The way you touched me. The way you looked at me. The way you were always eager to listen to my stories. You liked me. You adored me. In your eyes I could see that you were planning our future. All I had to do was accept your proposal and ask you out. I did not want us to be together more than friends. I wanted things to remain as they were. I thought things would be weird and awkw