BOTHERED BY HER

By 10 pm that Friday night, Michael found him self in front of Matilda's residence in Wuse, Abuja. She lives in a bungalow with three of her friends and he knew for a fact that those ladies desired him.

However, he was not interested in any of them. With that in mind, he waited in his car for her to come out of the house. He still did not know why he was keeping her around since he did not really like her that much.

Matilda opened his car door herself whilst rolling her eyes. All she has ever dreamt of is to be Mrs Oladokun and she intends to see that dream come into reality.

Together, they drove over to his house. She tried bringing several conversations as they drove but as usual, the ill mannered man kept shut. She had always thought his mother did a terrible job in raising him as he was too arrogant to be tolerated. But she had never voiced out her displeasure.

Michael knew his mother had gone to bed for the night and he was sure his daughter was also fast asleep.

Coming into the house, Matilda as afore time giggled as she held unto his arms as though she was his late wife Laura. He had often wondered what was making her so happy.

As soon as they stepped into the house, he saw her! Right there, sitting at the edge of a chair was his object of obsession all day. She was frowning and he wondered why he noticed. But her frown was not only what he had noticed. She wore a white coloured night dress. He could have swore he could see the shape of her breast wrapped in a dark coloured bra and the fullness of her hips. Her hair was neatly packed and he knew if he walked closer, he could smell her cologne.

Instantly he had a strong erection and began to do the multiplication table to get her out of his mind. Unconsciously, he remove Matilda's hand from his arm and walked into his living room.

Matilda was upset and noticed Jenny. Seeing that she was not a familiar face, she asked Michael "who is this?" Pointing at Jenny as though she was an insignificant creature. Her hand gesture offended him.

"This is a new member of my house staff. She is the new nanny for my daughter" Michael explained.

"what is your name?" Matilda asked rudely. "Good evening sir, good evening my ma'am. My name is Jenny Ma'am and I am also the new cook.I was waiting to serve you dinner sir. I didn't know you would be retiring this late, neither was i pre informed that you would be coming with company." He smiled at the way she spoke and it was as if he encouraged her to speak further.

"However, since it is late and judging by the way you keep your physique I'm sure you're not eating any piece of carbohydrate in the night, so there is the option of fruit salad sir. Should I serve it right away?"

Michael watched as Matilda's eye shone brighter, gazing at Jenny with her pristine demonstration. Whoever this girl was, she ain't no local maid. She was in her world of class and he was ashamed to admit that he liked it.

"What the fuck? Who are you to deny him food? Judging from which physique? Rubbish, go and serve us food, bloody house help" Matilda fired at Jenny.

"What's with the language? You are aware Jenny is right, this is past 11pm and no person bothered about their health should eat this late!" Mrs Bose said as she descended the stairs. It startled every one.

"Oh grandma I thought you were asleep already. Good evening ma" Matilda greeted frowning at Jenny at the same time.

"Good evening Matilda. How's Your family? by the way, as I was saying Jenny is right. It is wrong to eat heavy very late in the night. As a matter of fact, I have to applaud Jenny. she has very wonderful etiquette that we have to learn. She ought not to have said anything but she was concerned about our bodies".

"Yes Grandma" She grunted her reply.

"Please should I Prepare the guestroom since the cleaner is not around sir"

"Guestroom for who? hey I am not a guest. This is my boyfriend's house and I sleep in his room."

Immediately Jenny's face fell. Michael did not know what entered into him until he found himself asking her.

"Jenny what is it? You can voice out your displeasure". He said looking away almost immediately and scratching his head.

"I almost said the same thing. Jenny what is it?" Mrs Bose asked feeling bothered.

"Everything is alright sir and thank You Mrs Bose. But I would like to ignore it, since I am not her biological mother, but I have a 12 year old that I am meant to care for. I do not want her to think that it is okay for an unmarried man to take a woman who is not his wife and be in a room overnight. She has imaginations and that is not too good." Jenny said.

"And so fucking what? Does she not know about sex at this age or do you think, she has not fucked once?" Matilda replied in fury. It was already too late to recoil her words back as Michael and Mrs Bose flared up.

"Never in your life, mention the "F" word and my daughter in the same sentence. As a matter of fact, I don't want to see you here right now. Jenny tell Stanley my driver to take her home" Michael thundered and walked upstairs.

"Grandma I did not mean it. I was just careless in my speech." Matilda said kneeling down.

"I think you should go home. Michael is right and Jenny has a point. This is a Christian family and I think Stephanie should be raised the right way. Goodnight Matilda" Mrs Bose walked upstairs.

With her pride on the floor, Matilda stormed out of the house to the car already opened for her. She however had marked Jenny as her enemy for life. As soon as she marries Michael, Jenny will be fired and Stephanie will be sent to a boarding school outside Nigeria.

Jenny walked into the kitchen, packed the fruits in a tray. She took it upstairs alongside a plastic fork and two bottled water.

Michael opened his room door before she could knock. He could still see from her eyes that she was displeased with him. But he wondered why does her displeasure bother him.

Without any word of appreciation, he banged the door shut with his foot after collecting the tray. Two hours, later he was unable to sleep, so he strolled out of his room to check on his daughter. When he opened her door, he saw the most beautiful sight he had ever seen in year's.

Stephanie was cuddled in Jenny's body sleeping like a baby. Jenny had wrapped her up, like she was the mother of the child and both of them was sleeping soundly.