A Calabash Never Sinks

Jomo then began, “It was last Monday that Tamika came to my house for a visit and complained that someone broke into her car.  After I helped her to clean her car, we went in and started talking.  I felt that my one year relationship with her had not been very fruitful for me.  Within that one year we had broken up and made up twice.  She claimed she was a virgin and so we were not sexually involved.  Despite the fact that there was suspicion that she saw other men, I stayed because I was not looking for a wife anyway.  I began to see other women with the hope that she would be ready for me someday because she was the one I wanted for a girlfriend.  On that day, I tried and she refused my advances so I had to tell her the truth from my heart.  I told her that since I had been dating her; all I ever came across was bad luck.  I had not gotten a decent job, had not won a political student office, was not sexually involved, had not won any intramural game, and had not had a 4.0 GPA like the last three fruitful academic years.  I was not trying to blame her but I felt now that after graduation, it was time to move on and achieve bigger and better things.  She was very upset and she got up to leave.  I escorted her to the door of my apartment building, and as she walked away she told me to watch my back.  I did not think much of it except I felt a breeze of freedom coming upon me.  That night when I returned from the library, my cousin, who was visiting told me that my father, who lived five states away, wanted me to call immediately.  When I called my dad, he asked me who Tamika was.  I was shocked because my dad had just arrived from Africa a month ago, and I could swear he had never heard of a girl called Tamika, and he did not know that she was my girlfriend.  My father then went on to tell me that Tamika’s mother called and she claimed that I raped Tamika earlier in the day.  He went on to say that he did not believe Tamika’s mother because he did not give birth to a son that would do such an inferior thing.  I then convinced him that all was well, and that Tamika was upset because we had broken up.  It was not even up to two minutes after I hung up that Tamika’s mother called me.  She told me the same thing my father had said earlier, and she added that Tamika’s father had called from his home that they should have me thrown into jail.  She also added that Tamika’s senior brother was coming from out of town with his friends to shoot me down, and she had to make him stay in the house by threatening to have him arrested if he left.  At this point, I began to wonder about all this drama over the sex I never had with her.  What if I had been sexually involved with Tamika or slept with her once that night?  I then told her mother that nothing happened in my apartment.  The mother and I both agreed that she was supposed to be a virgin, and I made it very clear that if she was truly a virgin before she came to my house that day, then she left my house a virgin because I had never slept with her.  I even made it known to the mother that apart from cleaning her car for her that day after she told me that someone had broken into her car, I also escorted her out when she was leaving.  She then said that they were going to investigate and that if they found anything relating to rape that I would be arrested.  I then told her to go ahead and if they really found anything, they should let me know because she must have done it to herself.  It has been a number of days now and I have not heard from them.  Thanks for coming.”