When Arrogance Clash

CHAPTER 2

                Cedrian pov

The sound of annoying birds singing wake me up, signalling that It's already morning, another meaningless day. But I have no choice but to wake up before granny starts yelling, that old woman is always full of yelling energy in the morning. If my ears want peace today I better start off and head to the stream.

I get my containers, shout out my greetings and head out but I make a turn and decide to visit my friend Carlos first. Him and I disagree on everything except for making babies in poverty.

As soon as I enter his compound, he spots me and shouts out “Hello Ced?” 

“Hello Carlos, what's for the morning??” I reply.

“Guess who tried to seduce me yesterday?” he asks with a grin on his face.

“Anita,” I reply

He eyes me weirdly “How did you know?” he asks with a surprised face. To which I inform him that she had tried to seduce me too some two days ago.

"That useless lady is unbelievable! And I almost gave in but then I remembered your grandfather's words. Man, are you sure your grandpa was not a wizard???” he asks jokingly.

We both look at each other and laugh out hard, Carlos and I have been friends since 1st grade and it was around that time that my late grandpa started instilling hatred for ladies in us. Everything he ever said about women was negative, one would think he was in the closet or something.

We would sit all night with him and he would tell us horrors about women and how they had derailed his progress in life. I agree he was a bitter old man, but the man had facts and was good at imprinting fear. I remember the first time I slept with a young lady named Sofie, even though I had informed him that had used condoms. The old man scared the life out of me and went on about horror stories of expired condoms, condoms breaking, unwanted pregnancy, Sofie being pregnant for someone else and pinning it on me, I couldn't sleep for a whole month.

He only dropped it when I promised to stay away from girls. Now here we are, the old man is dead but we are still living in fear of women.

“Guess who I met on the bus yesterday?” I break the silence.

“Who???” he asks curiously.

“Ben the nerd, he has a wife and kid now, can you believe it??” I reply.

“Seriously?? he looked like he was going to be some pilot or something,” Carlos replies

“No Carlos, you should have seen him, he was practically bragging about reproduction, he even asked me if I had a woman in my life.”

“hahahaha hahahaha,” Carlos laughs

“Dude, that nerd was the genius in our class and now he is fathering babies??? Who are we dude? I think we should just go with the flow, soon people will start thinking that we are a couple,” he jokes out 

I look at him in dismay, “Carlos you are not serious??? This is peer pressure talking, come on, escort me to the stream before you start getting weird ideas.”

“I'm serious dude, this is why I almost gave in to Anita, I think babies are calling me.” he replies

“Shut up!! Carlos,” I shout out.

We reach the stream and we find Sofie and her friends washing. Speaking of the devil, she walks up to me, “hello Ced, long time?"

Without even being signalled Carlos foolishly moves away and starts a conversation with another girl.

“Hello Sofie, what's up?” I reply.

“I know what we can definitely get up,” she says while looking at me like I'm some sort of food.

I roll my eyes in disgust, this woman is disgustingly unbelievable. Ever since my grandpa fed me stories of expired condoms I have never looked at Sofie the same way, I see her as my “almost got trapped”. Just looking at her makes me want to puke. 

“I'm not in the mood for such talks” I inform her.

“I do not know why you like to play hard to get Ced, time is running out. A lot of young men are approaching my father for my hand in marriage and soon I will be taken,” she urges me.

I can not believe the audacity of this woman, she is so irritating, “Your friends are dreaming of becoming nurses or teachers but your dream is to become a baby making machine? Are you serious? Go get married! I do not care and it's definitely none of my business,” I reply angry.

“Ced why do you say such bad words to me,” she says while trying to hold back the tears.

“Listen Sofie, I'm only being honest here, my dream is to get an education and marry someone educated as well. Someone who knows something about birth control. I do not want to marry someone who will bear children like a chicken in this tough economy,” I make emphasis on the last part by spitting on the ground.

She stands there speechless and lost for words.

I move towards Carlos and I tell him that it's time we take our leave.

“What did you say to Sofie?? she looks like she is about to vomit, you shouldn't be hard on her, sometimes your words are enough to cause a miscarriage,” Carlos says while laughing and we both laugh.

We visit some of our old friends before we finally retire.

As soon as I reach home, granny begins throwing containers at me, “where have you been the whole day? I have been looking for you, your cousin Leshia is here.” She shouts out.

“What on Earth is she doing here?” I spit out, I quickly enter the house and there, seated on grandpa's favorite chair is the devil herself, the main reason why I cemented all of grandpa's horrors about women being the destroyers of progress.

She is lucky that she is female otherwise I would be beating her a*s all the way back to the states.