Day 36 - David's side of the story

"Teresa I need to know the truth."

I had finally managed to get a chance to be alone with Teresa. We were staying in separate rooms at a small run down guest house, about 100 meters from the small health center where I had come back from the dead. I had been discharged a day earlier. According to the African medical guy, only my will to live had kept me alive because I had apparently lost a very huge amount of blood. Whatever he meant I knew that it had something to do with Teresa. The woman who was now slipping out of my hands even as I watched.

We were seated at the rather pleasant garden at the back of the establishment under a grass thatched umbrella-like structure. It succeeded in keeping away the heat.

The smell of the fresh wild flowers from the small garden in the vicinity was strong and pleasant. The garden was hardly cared for and looked wild and unkempt. Still it more than made up for the poor facilities in the guesthouse.

"Can we talk about this later?" She said, trying to play her usual games on me.

“This won’t work Teresa. I have a right to know and I would like to know now. Quit playing games on me.”

“And what gives you that right? We had a contract remember.”

That remark stung me. My heart felt like it was butter and a hot knife was slicing through it.

“So I’m really just wasting my time here am I?”

“You probably are,” Teresa said coldly.

“Well, I’ll tell you one thing. Whatever it is you are keeping from me had better be worth it. I have information that you’ve been convicted as a pickpocket or something.”

That got her attention.

“W-who told you that?”

“Never mind.

“You had no right checking on me like that.”

“I think I do Teresa. You can be sure of one thing, I may be a dump guy who signed some stupid contract. But I’ll get to the bottom of this, if it’s the last thing I do.”

“How dare you. You have no right. You’re just a junkie.”

I stood up, seeing a new side of Teresa that I had never seen before. A side I didn’t like at all. “Well this junkie saved your ungrateful ass, remember?”

I turned and walked away, feeling emotions I had never felt before. At least as far back as I could remember. It was always me who had rejected the women. Now a woman who I had feelings for that I didn’t know I was capable of having for any woman, had finally put her cards on the table. She had revealed her true nature.

As I limped away headed for my room, I heard Teresa apologizing behind me. But it was too late. I was no longer interested. I was done with her. As far as I was concerned it was all over.

Despite everything we had been through together, it was all over. And what a fool I had been. Never again, I vowed to myself.