Chapter Five {5}

Kunle and Esther chat as they walk to where Kunle had planed for them.. 

They walk for about a minute and the atmosphere is filled with noise, after walking a little longer,  the noise slowly morphs  into loud music blaring from the huge speakers of the hotels club. 

Esther is nervous as this the first time she is actually going to a club.But to attract a guy like Kunle, you need to act like a little bad girl.

For instance... Kunle thinks she drinks but she never has, 

Kunle thinks she has taken a smoke before but she doesn't even know how to use a lighter,  Kunle thinks she has gone clubbing severally before, but that is not the case.... This is her first time. 

A few of the things Kunle is correct about is that; he is her first boyfriend, first kiss and that she is a virgin... The  last part is something Kunle so desperately wants to change about her but Esther would not have that. 

At the entrance of the club... She gently grips Kunles hand and looks at him. Kunle returns her gesture with loving eyes. And she prays from the depths of her heart that he doesn't feel how much she is vibrating. 

The club is lit with blue and red lights. The place is fully packed with love birds scattered in every corner in erotic moods.  Yours Faithfully; alcohol. 

Kunle walks towards an empty seat and Esther follows and takes her sit beside him. A waiter approaches them and asks for their order. Kunle orders two bottles of black label.  Esther so desperately wants to protest but stops her self for she might blow her cover. 

Kunle soon gets bored of sitting so he asks her to follow him to the dance floor.They start dancing and Esther is beyond uncomfortable... For one... Kunle and Esther are like the only couple on the dance floor that aren't twerking and grinding.

To make it worst, Kunles phone rings so he excuses himself and goes out to receive the call... Leaving her on the dance floor with over twenty intoxicated people.... 

Esther had been been standing idly for the past one minute awaiting her boyfriend. But when he does not show up, she decides to return to their seat and wait for him there. 

As she makes to leave, a strong pair of hands hold thigthly unto her bare waist. Her heart stops beating immediately but begins a furious unsettled pattern of beats when the fingers of this cold hands begin to trail around her bare skin and draw imaginary circles on her body. 

She turns around to see a drunk young man about Kunles age behind her. He is not atall bad looking. But Esther would not be this close with any guy if not her dearest Kunle. 

She is desperate to leave the dancefloor as she is not enjoying being victimized by a total stranger and her boyfriend is nowhere to be seen. And the drunk on the other hand seems to be having a little too much fun as his fingers occasionally slip under the band of her crop top and then out again. And so making him not to let go off her when she struggles. 

The contradicting determination of both parties leads to a mild struggle. Esther doesn't know how to handle the situation, one wrong move could bring embarrassment to her and another could cost her alot. As Kunle could find out she is a newbie at a club and most of their relationship is based on lies. 

Tears begin to form in Esthers eyes as realization hits her. Even if she chose to scream or scold him, no one on the dance floor was sober enough to give a solid judgment. And battling a full grown man for freedom from his grip is definitely not a battle she could win. 

Kunle returns into the club and begins to scan the place with his eyez in search of Esther. No sooner had be began his search That he found his girlfriend in the grip of another man. 

She looked as though fighting back tears and instantly Kunle got the message. Anger begins to boil in the debt of his stomach like a pot of hot water. And any wrong move from anyone would cause this pot of anger to tople over and pour on them.  

He makes his way to the dance floor and without much stress, rips his woman out of the hands of the drunk, young man. The drunk attempts to take hold of Esther again, resulting a tight slap  Kunle. 

Although the sound of the slap was so loud, no one on the dance floor heard it as the sound was drowned out by the loud music playing. 

As you would expect from any man, this drunk wasn't ready to be harrased by a fellow man. Causing him to charge towards Kunle. At first, its just a round of slaps but when Kunle had had enough, he became the alpha and beat the drunk so much so he passed out. 

The people around were cheering the fight but Esther was worried sick about her dear Kunle.bas soon as the fight was over, the drunk was left where he had passed out and everything went back to the way it was a few moments ago. 

Once they return to their table, Esther remains silent as she begins to reminisce over what that drunk had been doing to her few moments ago. She struggles to hold back her tears but the river soon begins to pour like a waterfall with steady force. 

Kunle tries his best to console her and she eventually calms down. Their drinks arrive and Esther enters into her own head; 

*should I just tell him I do not drink alcohol or should I just leave the drink?. No!  I will drink it. It's high time I try new things. Drinking can't become an addiction in just one night, and besides brother Derrick wount know I had a drink would he?*

She is drawn out of her little reverie when Kunle snaps his fingers before her eyes. She laughs at his gesture. To show acknowledgement. 

She takes a sip of the drink and continues to chitchat with her boyfriend when suddenly her entire system becomes inbalanced. At first it was disturbing but slowly began to be soothing and relaxing. All the tensed muscles in her body begin to let loose and when this feeling engulfs her body, she is surrounded by darkness.