A Long Walk To Nothing

A long walk to nothing episode 33

A ~LONG WALK TO NOTHING~

Episode 33 &34

Donald can’t believe the perfect Liam also has imperfections, he was Wondering what he can use so Alexia would see he is nothing but a two timing hypocritical devil but here he has it, he takes out his smart phone and spreads the paper before snapping it, he stuffs it back and puts it where he found it, so he walks out with a smile in his face, when he got to the packing lot, he finds Liam’s car not there

“This is even better, what could you be up to pretty boy?” He wonders out loud and sl¡ps in his car, he gets out a pen and a paper, he puts the name down and fl¡ps through his phone, on the internet he searches for the name ‘Crissy Leonard’ he nods as he reads more about her notes a few things down, when he’s sure he has all the important information he’s looking for he drives off

“I gotta feeling that tonight is gonna be a good night, tonight is gonna be a good night, tonight is gonna be a good good night” he sings out loud to the song…..
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Liam has not driven far from the office still boiling in anger when he feels his phone vibrating, he picks it up and it’s Alexia, he knows they talk a lot especially when they are apart but he can feel this call is not because she wants to hear his voice because she was with him not long ago, he picks up

“Hey babe”

“Why did you switch off your phone Liam”

“Sorry babe but I can’t explain on phone, I’ll come by, let’s talk”

“Are you driving?”

“Yes….I’m on my way…to…”

“Liam this is important, I need to speak with you can you come now”

“Sorry babe… Later, I’m going to see Richærd”

“No you can’t go an……tuktutuk”

“LIAM” she calls but hears the end of call sound, she’s frustrated…. She dials the number again but he’s phone is switched off……Liam can tell in his bones that he and Alexia are about to have their first big couple fight and he doesn’t know why or what about but he just feels it, he’s not ready for that….he’s a big coward and this is what he always avoids even with Mirabel…. What he’ll just do is catch up with Richie and he’ll go face Ale for whatever it is that she’s calling him for……the drive to Richærds’s wasn’t a long one, after five minutes he’s packed at the gate and the Askari opens, he drives in and packs the car, the Askari runs to him

“Welcome Sir”

“Thank you Bro how are you long time”

“I’m fine sir….”

“Is my friend in,side”

“Yes….He’s waiting for you”

“Thank you” he walks hastily in,side and finds Richærd lying on the couch with cold ice on his left eye

“Glad you came….thought you were coming in the evening”

“How are you” Liam ignores his concern and sits down by his side, he takes the ice and gasped in shock

“Richie….. What, this is serious, let me take you to the hospital”

“No Bro I’m fine”

“You took the bullet for me” Richærd forges a smile

“I’ve always said it, don’t feel too special….it wasn’t for you” they laugh it out and Liam gets serious

“How did it happen” he asks

“I guess I provoked him and we got into a fight”

“You! Got into a fight? Come on tell that to people who don’t know you, I know you Bro you can’t fight anyone but you do say things”

“Only the truths of course”

“And I love that about you so don’t tell me you and your friend Donald got into a fight”

“Well not a physical fight but a verbal one, I must have touched a nerve”

“Even so….it had not called for this”

“Donald thinks I knew about your affair with his ex wife and betrayed him by not telling him which is actually true, but he makes it sound as if you and Alexia started dating even when she was still his wife”

“That’s nonsense, if that nigga needs to vent and hit someone, he should hit me not you, I am the one dating Alexia not you”

“Calm down……you’re my brother and Donald too is my brother, what counts is your happiness….. I have never felt home in Africa the way I feel when you two are besides me plus my wife”

“Talking about Linda, is she aware you’re having a red left eye and a swollen red cheek”

“That’s the reason why you’re here, I didn’t tell her, she has no idea I’m even home so I need to escape…. I’ll be in your house for a few days till when I feel better because the moment Linda sees me like this, we will be answering to assault at the police station….. I don’t want to taint my friend as the bad one”

“Richærd Richærd, do people like you still exist” he smiles

“They are so many of them including you…..I never wanted to say this but I’ve always had this special attachment with you compared to Donald, I’ve always felt like you and I kinda click but I love Don too….in a different way because there are things that he’s good at compared to you”

“Well I’m supposed to feel jealous but I’m not” they laugh and Liam stands up

“So what do we do” he asks

“You’re going to help me pack a few things, and when you’re done we can go, you’ll call Linda on our way….She’ll understand”

“OK no problem” Liam starts to walk away to go and pick a few things for his friend but Richærd calls him

“Can I ask you something?” Richærd says

“You don’t need to ask

“Is there something you haven’t told me?” He asks and Liam comes back

“Is there something you’re not telling me? You don’t sound yourself or even look yourself”

“You know me too well…..it seems like Ale and I are finally going to have the big fight”

“Wait, have you guys been having issues?”

“No but my guts tell me….I’m scared”

“I would want to disagree with you on that but you’re guts are something else, I just hope it’s not really a big fight”

“I hope so too” he gets up and to pick a few things and then Richærd follows behind…..
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“Hello sir how may I help you” the secretary asks

“Good afternoon Miss…. My name is Donald Stevenson…. I would love to talk to one Miss Crissy Leonard”

“That’s my boss but do you have an appointment?”

“Not really, I actually thought I could come and try my luck but please this is very important for me”

“Just a minute please” the girl picks up the phone and dials some number…….The lady speaks on phone after a few seconds, she faces Donald

“I’m sorry Sir, she can’t attend to you”

“Please understand young lady, what I’m here for is very important…. Call her again and tell her it has everything to do with Mr Liam Peters” the Young lady studies him for a while and dials the number again

“OK sir….this way please” she says to Donald who thanks her profusely…. Donald walks to the door to Crissy’s office and knocks

“It’s open come in” Crissy says and Donald pushes open the door, his eyes Land on this pretty damsel who is elegantly dressed in a knee length black dress and a blue scarf tied around her neck, she’s putting on a blue stiletto too, he’s blown away by how beautiful she is….

“Liam must be a fool to leave such an Angel” he thought

“Good afternoon Miss” he says out loud

“Yes….have a seat” she doesn’t take her eyes off him though

“How may I help you?” She asks

“I’m sorry for budging in on you unannounced without an appointment, my name is Donald Stevenson”

“That I already know…go ahead, you said why you’re here has everything to do with Liam”

“Yes…. Everything”

“What about him?”

“I need your help, I desperately need your help….. As I’m talking to you here right now, I’m about to lose my wife because of Liam”

“Liam? That’s not possible”

“It’s very possible and it’s what’s happening…. Liam bent on destroying the legacy I built”

“No with all due respect sir, the Liam I was with can’t do a thing like that…maybe this is a new Liam you’re talking about”

“Well he has, he and my wife are lovers…..not just any random wife, she’s my wife of twenty years, the wife of my youth and now she’s ready to throw everything that we had built away just because of a fling with Liam” Donald let out a single tear and Crissy stands up in shock, she walks towards the window and turns abruptly

“Look Sir, with all due respect, I’m finding it so hærd to believe what you’re saying Right now, are you not hiding something from me” Donald gets up and walks up to her

“Do you want to hear how it all started?” He asks and she doesn’t respond but she walks back to her seat, Donald walks back too and sits

“My wife and I were doing fine, I love her so much and I still do…..we both became young parents to our first born when we were still kids, she was only 17 then we got married, it wasn’t really difficult because I had my own telecommunications company running, she was an excellent mother to our son but then years came and went, we couldn’t get another baby then three years ago coming to four now, my wife gave birth to a baby girl, it was difficult because our son had now joined college and he was almost joining university, my wife now started doing everything wrong I don’t blame her, too many responsibilities and everything…… so taking care of herself especially watching her weight became a problem, it got worse with time…..I decided recently that she should do some workout to burn some calories and shed a few pounds…. Then someone recommended Liam’s fitness center, I enrolled my wife there and she was doing fine….I thought she was until when I was served with a cold divorce papers staring cold at me in the face”

“Oh my God!…your wife did that to you?” She gasps

“She did that?” She still asks

“That and much more, she told me point blank that she loved the cool guy…. I have talked to my wife, begged her and even went like a fool humbling myself and humiliated myself in front of Liam to beg him save my marriage but it seems they won’t just reconsider”

“Noooo Liam can’t do that….my Liam can’t do that” she says under her breath and then speaks

“Now why are you here in my office…. It’s obvious I can’t be of help here…this is between three people and I don’t want to get involved”

“I want my wife back, and I need you to help me, only you can do that”

“How do I do that? Liam and I broke up decades ago and we haven’t even been speaking…. I can’t just walk up to him and say ‘hey Liam, that woman you’re dating…..” she doesn’t finish but stops herself

“You can do something… You have something that can stop him….”

“What are you insinuating”

“When I was coming here, I did my research before and I know a wh0le lot of things about you”

“What things”

“I know you and Liam share a kid together” Crissy goes pale

“Here” he gets out his phone and shows her the screenshot of the letter ”

“The child is not Liam’s”

“Are you sure? Because the letter says otherwise”

“He’s not the Father…. at the time I sent him the letter, I was sure he was the father but I did a test a week ago with the samples I took unknowingly from a man I was with, turns out he’s the father” she says

“Then why didn’t you tell Liam”

“I have been waiting for his call all this while…..I thought after reading through, he would call me but he hasn’t and I thought to myself it was better that way…..”

“Still that won’t change my mind….”

“Excuse me?”

“You heard me, I know you love your man and I love my wife too….lying… I mean a small lie like this won’t be that bad, it’s nothing compared to what they both are doing….you’ll just have to convince him that the boy is his, Liam will not reject his own blood, he loves children…. You will have your man and I have my woman….Liam loves you so much” she looks like she’s falling for this ”

“Do you love him”he asks her

“yes I love him…so much that I regret never accepting his daughter back then, he was ready to settle down with me”

“Then go for it”

“But how”

“This is what we’ll do, you and I will go first and meet my wife, you’ll convince her about the child and we can plan our next move, you have to sound convincing and make it seem like Liam has been ignoring you or shutting you out completely, Alexia loves children so much and I can assure you, she’ll step aside and Liam will be all yours”

“Brilliant ” she says and smiles slyly too

“When Should we start”

“Right at this moment we don’t have time, this is a matter of life and death”

“Then let’s go” she grabs her bag Donald gets up, they walk out as she follows Donald behind

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Isabel stands at Cecilia’s door knocking repeatedly, she’s furious and just wants to get it with her, Cecilia walks hastily to the door and opens it

“Chabela” she’s met with a hot slap coming from her niece

“What’s that for Isabel”

“Why Cecilia, why are you this wicked and insensitive”

“What are you even yapping about?”

“Don’t act dumb with me Cecilia”

“So this is about Eddy, you really like that boy huh!….. Well don’t worry, I don’t have any interest to continue with Donald…. I have a much bigger problem and I would really use your help”

“What are you talking about” Isabel asks

“I want Liam….actually you have come at the Right time, do you remember the time you called me on the phone and said to me that you had found for me the perfect man……well the man was Liam but at that time I wanted something else but now I want your help, I want Liam and you’re going to have to help me…if you really want to have Eddy you will”

“Hahahaha……you want who? Liam forget it witch, Liam doesn’t want you….and I’m glad he doesn’t because you don’t love any one, you’re a pr-stitute….I don’t know what I was doing back then playing matchmaker”

“Watch it young Lady, you’ll not disrespect me….the fact that we both are tangling with father and son doesn’t make us equal”

“No…..of course not, I don’t have to disrespect you because you already did that to yourself….. You broke a Union of twenty long years without thinking of the consequences and now you want to settle down with a young handsome single man……sorry aunty you ain’t getting him…. He is not like Donald”

“All men are the same He’ll come around when he realises Alexia is just a boring fat ass”

“Pity you, not all men are like Donald, the fact that he did what he did to his beautiful wife because of you doesn’t mean that Liam will do the same….he loves her and I’m so happy for her, she got the best all thanks to you and her ex husband”

“I can see you only came here to annoy me but don’t waste your time, you ain’t going to succeed….and by the way, forget about that demon with dreadlocks and tattoos…..he’s not going to come for you”

“Really? Hmm guess what, he is officially my boyfriend now and Alexia will have to accept me because your sins are yours not mine…..I just came here for two things, one was to give you that slap and secondly to tell you that you lost, you’ll neither end up with Donald nor with Liam”

“Get out”

“Gladly…. Chao” she walks out and slams the door in Cecilia’s face and Cecilia gro-ns in pain, she wishes she could just strangle the life out of her niece….
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Alexia who has not been in her best moods for the past few hours is resting on the couch as she tries Liam’s number for the umpteenth time but it’s just switched off

“This isn’t you Liam….. Where are you, why are you acting strange today” she’s still trying to process this and Eddy imposing the niece of that witch on her when a knock comes, she sits up thinking finally Liam has made it, she walks hastily to the door and opens it…..her face drops pale

“Donald please, I don’t have much strength left to handle you again” she says and tries to close back the door but Donald stops it with one hand She abandons the door and walks back in,side, Donald closes the door behind and follows her

“How are you today Ale”

“Please Donald don’t call me that, only one person calls me that and it only sounds right coming from him”

“I’m sorry”

“You better be”

“Can I sit?” He asks and Alexia who is standing doesn’t even respond, she keeps her eyes fixed on Donald who looks all cool and some how happy today

“What brings you to my house? No to your house where I live…..I know that I told you Eddy is fine with you moving back in but if you’re going to do that, you should at least inform me so I can pack out”

“Do you really hate me that much?” She doesn’t reply

“I know Ale… I mean Alexia that I screwed but find a place in your heart to forgive me……that’s not why I’m here though”

“Why are you here then, to chitchat? If that’s the case I don’t have time for it, you can go do that with your wife”

“I don’t want to talk about Cecilia but I do want to talk about someone….. Liam sorry your boyfriend”

“Hmmm interesting, what do you have to tell me about my boyfriend” he smiles

“Just a moment” he says and walks to the door, Alexia’s eyes follow in confusion, Donald opens the door and ushers a very elegantly beautiful looking woman, Alexia looks at her in surprise

“Good afternoon Mrs Donald”

“Miss Alexia please….how may I help” she asks

“My name is Crissy……Crissy Leonard”

“Liam’s ex girlfriend?” Alexia asks in surprise

“I see he told you about me already”

“I asked how may I help you Miss Crissy or whatever you call yourself” Crissy falls down at Alexia’s feet and Donald watches the show so astounded

“Please help me…..you’re a woman and you can understand my pain” Alexia removes her feet from her grip and moves away

“You haven’t answered my question” she says with a straight face and the woman continues to cry

“I thought I could do it all alone but I can’t anymore….. I’m defeated and I give up, I have money, my own business running but this one thing I can’t seem to figure it out” Alexia turns to Donald

“What is she talking about?” She asks and Donald walks to the woman, he helps her to her feet and leads her to the couch

“Please calm down…take it easy” he assures her but Alexia moves closer now

“I don’t like it when someone speaks in parables…..can you both tell me what’s going on?”

“Please Alexia….. Calm down” Donald wants to hold her but she doesn’t want him to touch her

“All I want is for Liam to be a responsible Father and take care of his son….that’s all” Crissy says

“His son?” Alexia asks

“Yes Alexis he…”

“Shut up Donald, I wasn’t talking to you” she pushes past Donald shoving him aside and sits down next to Crissy

“Liam and I have a child together and he….”

“Does he know about it?” She cuts her short

“Yes….I sent him a letter not long ago…. Didn’t he tell you?” She asks

“Did you speak to him about it?”

“I’m sure the letter reached his office….. I couldn’t face him, neither could I send him a text or even email because I….”_Alexia gets up, she looks around and grabs her car keys, without putting on anything on her feet, she grabs the keys to the entrance door and walks to the door

“I’ll be back” she says without turning to face them, she walks out and locks the door up, the journey to her car is a tag of war…..her legs are going to give way for herself to fall to the ground but she’ll not allow it…..since he doesn’t want to pick her calls and decided to switch it off too, she’s going to face him in that office and he has to tell it to her face why he is worse than Donald……..

To be continued

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