There was silence on the other end of the line. Clearly, she was having fun with her childhood friend and had completely forgotten the doctor’s advice.
I felt a bit tired. Just then, an empty cab approached and I was about to hang up when I heard Karen say, “I’ll come pick you up now. Don’t go anywhere.”
Before I could refuse, she hung up the phone. I had no choice but to continue waiting.
But an hour passed, then two, and she still hadn’t shown up. I checked my phone and came across a post on her childhood friend, Leon Wright,’s social media.
[Holy shit! Found a giant cockroach at home! Luckily, my big sis, Karen, came in time and cleaned it up! Ahh, she’s super awesome!!]
The accompanying picture showed Leon hugging Karen, who was wearing an apron while cooking. My eyes were drawn to a clear lipstick mark on his cheek.
Leon always said he treated Karen like a buddy, yet he acted intimately without restraint and Karen treated him specially as well.
Once, when I was seriously ill with a fever, I asked Karen to make me a bowl of porridge but she complained, saying men shouldn’t step into the kitchen. Yet now, she was willing to cook for her so-called childhood friend?