All Chapters of At Arm's length : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Two weeks already passed by, Kene still didn't pick up my calls or reply my messages.I was already getting fed up.Today being Friday I made up my mind to go visit him later in the evening immediately I closed from work. I was about to enter the bathroom when my phone rang. It was an unknown number, I didn't want to pick up at the first instance. But I felt the urge to pick it, so I did. Unknown number : Hello, Sewa this is Dumbi.Me : Hey Dumbi. Unknown number : I don't know the issue with you and my brother but..... (he paused) I'm not meant to tell you this, but I will.  Kene overworked himself at the gym and I think some muscles were damaged. Come over to his house, and don't be late"Me: is he alright? Has he been to the hospital?  He didn't even reply me before he ended the call. I just hope Kene is okay. 

I woke up feeling hungry, my tummy won't stop rumbling.  Kene wasn't on his side of the bed.  "Is that your stomach?" I suddenly heard him ask.  He was sitting on the black leather couch that was a little bit far from his bed with his ankle crossed over the opposite knee, an HP laptop was on his laps and he was typing away furiously on it. He was wearing the shorts of the pyjamas he called ugly yesterday. We were both matching now. "Yes, when you refused to feed me last night" I accused. "Oh, I actually thought, it was about to rain" he joked.  "I'm hungry " I whined softly, pushing the duvet away.  "Relax, I already got us something to eat" he said still typing  "Hot Yam and egg" he added not looking up "Kene " I called out, trying to get his attention.  "A minu

"Don't come in a bike, an Uber is on its way to your place" Kene said, cutting off the call immediately.Kene wanted me to come over to his house today, I've been spending most of my time with him, but he's still not satisfied. It's either I go over to his house or he comes over to my house. He refused to tell me what he discussed with my dad the day he walked straight into his den. Luckily for me, I heard a few thing, even though I think they said it loudly,  so I could hear. "So how many kids are you planning on having?" I heard my dad ask"As many as possible Sir" I heard Kene reply "Does my daughter look like a baby factory to you?" I heard dad ask him. "But I get to decide how many times I want to score Sir" I heard Kene reply back. "Igbo men, don't stress my daughter too much, you know the pains women experience du

A year later "You have to use makeup Sewa" Uchechi insisted.I look beautiful already without makeup, I don't understand why I had to use makeup again. It was my wedding not her's, and I get to decide whatever I want, whatever I want to do. "SEWA" Uchechi shouted, and I wonder the type of chief brides maid I got myself."The makeup artist is already here, oh my goodness, we're are going to get to the church late" she added frustratedly."I will wipe it off ma'am, if you don't like it" the makeup artist piped in, trying to convince me. No one has ever done my makeup, except from my mum and her own personal makeup artist. I promised dad I won't cry today, and I doubt that. Mum would have happily done my makeup for me, she can never carry last when it comes to her daughter. May her beautiful soul rest in peace. The makeup a

           Three weeks later Kene has been trying to make me feel good and jovial, he made sure the news of me being totally deaf didn't get out. He even spent a lot on me. He got me hearing aids, which were quite expensive, yeah not just one, a dozen of them. Though the hearing aids are incapable of truly correcting a hearing loss, but they are an aid to make sounds more audible for me. I could do without them, but that's only when I can hear things. There are times I can hear properly and at times I don't. But my doctor made it clear to us that It was going to get worse without treatment.I have the Sensorineural hearing loss, it reduces my sensitivity to sound, which the hearing aid can partially accommodate by making sound louder.  Kene is going to be performing a cochlear virin implant on me, not exactly him, but his colleagues are helping out, he won't be able to perform the ope