AgathaI didn't realize when my phone was ringing as I was lost in my thoughts. It was when one of my colleagues tapped my shoulders that I was dragged back to reality. I startled, practically jumping away from her and also ready to bolt if I turned to see that it was Martin Oliveira. Well, thank goodness it wasn't him. Eyeing me suspiciously, she pointed to where my phone was charging. “Your phone is buzzing all over the place and it's giving me a headache. Answer it or throw it out, I don't really care. Just make it stop.”With one glance from my head to toe and in a deep frown, she looked away from me and went back to arranging her locker. One of my other colleagues, Sarah, walked up to me with a concerned look on her face.“Are you okay, Agatha?” she asked.I looked up at her and tried to pass a reassuring smile her way but it was a failed attempt. There was just too much going on in my mind and in my life at the moment and I felt very unsafe. Sarah was perhaps my only friend,
Agatha Six years ago… It has been a dramatic couple of weeks; Lennox has agreed to divorce Diamond and had suggested we get married. Which means that Lennox and I are to be married after I put to birth. He said that we were going to get married after the divorce had been finalized. But this meant other things to me. I was elated, for sure, but I knew that I had to find a way to tell Martin, my lover or if you would prefer to call him my boyfriend, that I was getting married to another person which inevitably meant that we couldn't see each other anymore. I paused for a moment, while putting the jewelry around my neck. How was he going to take the news? Martin wasn't one to handle shock well. He liked to see it from a mile away so to string this on him? That wasn't good. But if it was just a shock, he would get over it. It's not as though the shock that came from my news of getting married was going to be that bad, bad enough to kill him. I wasn't even worried about him dying.
Agatha Six years ago… I have always been seen as the villain in the Lennox and Diamond story; our parents favorite between my sister and I. But as the saying goes, everybody has their demons. And my greatest demon was/is Martin Oliveira. Of course he hadn't made me spread my legs for Lennox to insert his dick inside of me. Frankly and honestly, the first time was a mistake. But the second time, the third time, the fourth time, and all the times after that wasn't. Lennox was an amazing lover, but Martin just knew the right buttons to touch to drive me over the edge. Perhaps because he has known me longer, in ways that Lennox would never have thought about exploring if he wasn't dead drunk. But who was a better lover didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Who has power, influence? Who could turn my sorry life around and make me respected in the community? That was definitely not Martin so whatever we shared was something that ought to remain in the bedroom only. Perhaps I didn'
Diamond“There's goes my only opportunity to get Mr. Carter to be sacked from being school principal,” I said when the call with Agatha ended. Sighing in defeat, I threw myself to the couch, beside Rebecca who was dying to tell me the deeds about her day today with Karl. I was really interested in how they went from being sworn enemies to now spending the day together and acting enjoying it.“Come on, Diamond, don't sound so dejected. Just because Agatha doesn't have the contact, which I do think she does, doesn't mean you can't talk to other people who might have it.”I had already told Rebecca what transpired between the principal and I earlier today and she was fuming as much, probably even more than I was. Rebecca was once in a feminist group which turned out to be an extremist group. That was when she backed out. So she may seem chill, but once she notices where women's rights are being trampled upon, or she senses any form of discrimination against women, she would swoop in lik
KarlJust as I reached the inside of my car, I heard my phone go off once. Then severally, as though so many notifications were going in all at once. But my mind and thoughts were mostly on what I overheard Rebecca and Diamond talking about. I was going to knock. In fact, I did knock but they seemed so engrossed in the conversation they were having that they didn't hear me. When I stepped inside, I was just about to announce my presence when I heard them say the name, Dr. Tim. Tim did say he was moving ahead with his plans to separate Diamond and Lennox today. Though I haven't seen the effect of this plan. Otherwise, Diamond would be running back to me, realizing what a big mistake she made by choosing Lennox over me again. I didn't get to hear much of the conversation, as I was moving closer, they heard my footsteps and turned around. But I needed to know what Tim did so I picked up my phone to dial him. The phone was still buzzing with several notifications that made me question w
110: Diamond How was I going to show my face to the world after my nudes or sexual pictures got leaked online? This was the million dollar question I asked myself all night and all morning. Technically, it wasn't my nudes but it doesn't really matter that I know that, the whole world thinks it's me. The only person that doesn't believe it's me is Rebecca. There's not much that can be done with that false information flying around. Somehow, I have ended up being the hot topic of discussion in social media apps. Bloggers now have a free pass to write whatever they want about the woman in those photos. Now that I think of it, why does the woman always get the heat? Clearly, there were two people in that picture, even if the face of the man didn't appear in any of those photos, still, I wasn't the only one presumably doing the deed, yet I was receiving all the backlash online. I wasn't exactly popular, my family is. So when they see the name Diamond and they see ‘Caddell’ following nex
111: Diamond“I'm sorry but we cannot afford to have you around for now. You've been suspended…suspended…suspended…The words, the phrases, it kept ringing in my head like a rhyme. The medical director had something to say after delivering the bad news to me; he was probably telling me how sorry he was that he had to make this tough choice, or he was saying he is going to take up my case with the hospital panel to discuss my future here. Either way, I didn't hear it. For a suspension to get overturned, they were going to have to discuss my case, not to actually lift my suspension, that won't be the main topic of discussion. The subject of that panel's discussion would be, ‘is she disposable?’ They would then look at my track record, everything I have accomplished since I have been working here. They would look at the possibility of getting a replacement better than me, not less but better. If they find none, if they see my worth, then they'll lift my suspension. But if not, they'll se
LennoxI was barely able to concentrate on anything for the rest of the day. Diamond and that kiss was the only thing on my mind. Thankfully, I didn't have much to do. I tried to control my headspace during the revaluation of Alicia’s medications and all of my other duties for the day. Even though the hours were practically skipping by me as I reminisced for the better part of the day, that kidd Diamond and I had shared. It took a lot of willpower for me to pull back, and thinking back, I wish I hadn't but it's not something that should be decided solely based on my wishes. A lot of things were at stake right now and I didn't want to make the same mistakes I made in the past again. But the kiss made me realize one thing: I was completely and totally in love with Diamond Caddell. And I never stopped loving her. She's the only woman that has ever tickled my fancy in a way that even I could not put to words. It's like I couldn't get enough of her no matter how much I had her. She had m