Chapter 2

The blaring of music from the house was the only evidence that Ryker needed to know that his girlfriend, Sandra was celebrating her party. 

After paying the cab man his fee, he walked towards her apartment with a charming smile on his face. He anticipated the shock on Sandra's face when he opened the door but she was nowhere to be found except for her male and female friends who were either dancing or drinking.

Ryker spotted two of her friends he was familiar with. He was hoping for them to tell him her whereabouts.

“hey, guys” His voice caught their attention away from whatever they were doing. As they spotted Ryker in front of them, there was an instantaneous jaw-dropper on their face. Ryker understood their reaction. Maybe Sandra informed them about his early decision not to come.

"What are you doing here?" One of them with enormous makeup on her face asked with a huge glare. Ryker didn't mind the glare. He was aware she disliked him, a lot and it wasn't her fault. 

Ryker didn't answer her. He simply turned his gaze at Charlotte, the second friend, and asked her "Where is Sandra, Charlotte?"

Ever since he got there, Charlotte carried a guilty look on her face. She was nervous and apprehensive. That was when Ryker guessed something was wrong. Charlotte found it hard to speak up but once again, Ginny, the girl who hated Ryker helped her out "Oh! Sandra, right? She's in her room" 

Ryker could notice a wicked and at the same time plain smile at the same time. 

Like who does that?

Charlotte looked like she was about to reveal a secret or better still confess but the hard glare Ginny gave her made her shut her mouth up.

Ryker simply shook his head and rolled his eyes at the girls before walking towards Sandra's room. He wondered why Sandra kept them as friends most especially Ginny. He got to the entrance and didn't bother to knock. Swinging the unlocked door open, he was thunderstruck to see two pair tangled in the bed. Sandra was shocked to see him because she hurriedly tried to cover up her naked chest with the duvet. 

“What? Why…what is going on here, Sandra?” Ryker asked, a feeling of betrayal building up in his mind. Ryker remembered correctly, he and Sandra had been in a relationship for over a year and now, with what he just saw, his girl was naked in front of a guy who he just realized was Jake. 

“Well well, who do we have here? Let me guess, The Gatewood’s house boy” Jake scorned with so much disdain and Sandra couldn’t help but give a tiny laugh. Ryker was always humiliated by Jake and gradually he grew habituated to it. But this was the highest humiliation he would ever receive. Jake was known to be a womanizer, going out with different sets of girls, American chicks in the morning, Asian in the afternoon, or Mexican chicks at night.

What stunned Ryker was, how did he manage to know Sandra?

Jake stood up after wearing his shoe. He went ahead to kiss Sandra before groping her boobs which made the latter moan. Ryker was furious. A load of bile rushed up Ryker’s throat which he swallowed down forcefully. He felt like rushing Jake with punches till he was out of breath but he couldn’t. He wasn’t ready to be a murderer and also was he not ready to lose his 5 thousand dollars paying job just because of a whore he called his girlfriend.

Jake walked past him towards the sitting room after giving him a long and hard glare. Ryker turned away from Jake and noticed Sandra's attitude. She didn’t even show any remorse even after he caught her cheating.

“You were not supposed to see this, honestly you were not” Sandra voiced out with a cold expression as she was wearing her black crop top. It was clear she wasn’t wearing a bra due to her nipples which were almost poking out of her cloth.

“Why? Oh okay because of the whore you are?” Ryker was not carrying the betrayed look on his face, but inside his mind, it was eating him up.

“Will you shut the hell up, Ryker! Just shut it for a second okay” Her look of anger slowly turned into that of disgust “I can't still hold on to the fact that I Sandra Reeves dated a common house boy”

Ryker couldn’t believe his ears. It was just like he was knowing Sandra for the first time. Sandra was like the perfect girlfriend a guy would ask for, according to Ryker a year ago but unknown to him, she was just a wolf hiding under a sheep’s skin.

Sandra waited to hear from Ryker but it seemed he was lost in his usual thoughts. She simply stood from the bed, catching his attention, and then rolled her eyes as she walked out of the room leaving him alone.

It started dawning on Ryker that it was over between them. Despite he caught her in a grievous act, he still loved her.

Ryker followed her calling her name but she ignored it. She was about to sit with her friends not when he pulled her by the arm and extended the gift bag that was with him the whole time.

“I got you a present”

Sandra eyed the bag for a moment, took it, and then threw it “Are you blind or deaf? Or both? Can’t your wretched mind tell you that it’s over between us”

Her voice was so loud that it grabbed everyone’s attention to them. The Dj didn’t stop the music but reduced it a little. Ryker stood still for a moment. He couldn’t believe his girlfriend, all of a sudden wanted to break up with him. 

Was it because of Jake? 

If it was because of Jake, it wouldn’t be because he was cute. No one needed to tell Sandra that Ryker was more handsome than Jake.

"Damn Sandra, why will you throw away his gift? He could have saved up all the salary he earned for this” Ginny hinted with sarcasm which caused a tiny laughter from the friends that were watching them.

“My thoughts” Jake laughed as he approached Sandra with a red plastic cup “Why in god’s name will you move with such a house boy, our house boy? I mean he’s not different from a pauper living in the street”

“I know” Sandra accepted “I just pitied him as to why I stood in the relationship but I’m fed up with that and that’s why I need someone to take care of me”

Not minding him or anyone, Sandra went for Jake’s lips. Jake lowered his neck and kissed her as if that was not enough. To show Ryker that she was now his possession, Jake spanked her butts which made her moan slightly “Stop it, baby, let’s not make him feel sad than already he is” 

Ginny giggled “Who knows maybe when he clocks Eighty years, he’ll have the chance to spank a lady’s butt,” she said loudly and looked over at Ryker. 

Everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter. 

Ryker felt humiliated. He couldn’t speak. He didn’t even know what he was supposed to say. He had never expected such disgrace to come upon him.

Though he had been trying to make life a bit easy, Life still became hard for him. After managing to graduate from college, No one was ready to hire him for a day not to talk of one month. His interviews proved to be abortive. He got insulted by everyone, including his neighbors and friends. Aside from his grandmother, Sandra was his only hope. It was only in Sandra he found peace but he didn’t realize she was only staying because she pitied him.

Ryker once again looked back at Sandra, at the woman he gave his heart to, the moment it felt like he would never find love nor happiness in life.

He turned his gaze at Jake for a moment, at the arrogance and stupid smirk on his face. He had everything under his bosom while the only thing Ryker had was Sandra. But not anymore. Sandra was going to leave him as well.

Ryker felt like crying but he wouldn’t. he bit back his tears and was done with any more humiliation. He spotted the gift bag that fell beside Charlotte, the very same one Sandra threw away, and went ahead to pick it up. As he picked it up, his eyes were locked on with Charlotte's own just in five seconds and he could tell that she was really sorry for him. But that didn’t matter anymore. All he wanted was just to leave the apartment without being humiliated or pitied.

Then he left, shutting the door behind him. He could hear Jake shouting from within the apartment “Make sure you make dinner before 7 or else mom’s going to kill you” And with that, the guests laughed till he could hear them no more.