Quickly, I wiped the tears off my face. In my mind, I was trying to do a mental run through one of the messages I got from Prince. I remember they were just two. But were they messages laced with romantic undertone? I could vaguely remember that one of them had something like that while the other was just an ordinary message anybody could’ve sent to me.
“Who is this?” MD barked, looking up from the phone.
I trembled slightly but hid it well from him.
“Who is the person telling you he is going crazy for you since he set his eyes on you?” he fired at me, his voice hard and angry.
“He is…he’s just…..” I tried to find the right words.
“He is who???” MD shouted at me, his entire frame quivering with anger.
“MD, you are shouting at me…” I said to him calmly, trying to buy time to compose myself and find the right words to tell him.
“Of course, I will shout at you!” he shot back at me, his eyes crimson red with rage.
“I will even shout down this entire house if you make me any angrier than you’ve already done!” he’d continued. “I just asked you a simple question and I need a straight forward answer, who is this idiot saying that he has gone crazy for you?”
I tried to smile. It was supposed to be a smile that would hide my discomfort and feign confidence but I wasn’t sure if it achieved that for me in that instance.
“So, you can be this jealous, MD?” I said, my voice trembling slightly. “Thought you no longer cared about me, didn’t know I still matter this much to you.”
“Anita!” MD screamed at me, “don’t push me…don’t test my patience. Who is this idiot sending you messages?”
This time, I lost the nerve to smile any further. The smile on my face instantly faded away.
“Okay, take it easy, MD, listen, it’s the same man that’s been calling me….the same Prince I told you about.” I answered nervously.
He was speechless for a few seconds. “You mean the same man has been all over you already, within just a few days that we had little disagreement? I can’t believe it.”
I shook my head frantically in disagreement. “No, MD, it’s not exactly what you’re thinking. Yes, the guy is just a toaster, he wants to have a relationship with me, but that’s all, no more, no less!”
