Mary go round

I have seen beautiful ladies in my life time but Mary Martins surpasses them all. She is tall and drop dead gorgeous with an hour glass shape. She is a total package, a ten over ten. Plus, she is very intelligent and has practically worked in every department in our office, from HR to IT and then Accounts. Who does that? This girl is wired in a weird way. Everyone loves her, well, everyone except Ebuka. He claimed to know her from way back so he knew ‘stuff’ about her.

Ironically, Mary related very well with Ebuka and he acted nice around her but he became a villain as soon as her back was turned. He seized every opportunity to run her down and it wasn’t long before some our colleagues started to believe the things he said. He called her, “Mary go round” because all the “ogas at the top” have all taken turns with her.

He told us that Mary was “a two faced bitch…a nymphomaniac who slept with men for favours. How could anyone explain why the MD melted like butter on hot toast when he sees Mary, how is it even possible for one person to move round different departments in a company? Why does he call her, “Double M? Which right thinking boss calls his staff with endearments if there are no strings attached? He argued.

How Ebuka knew these things about her baffled me.
Soon enough I noticed how most of the ladies withdrew from Mary while the guys flashed her fake smiles and pretended to be nice. She would walk into the staff lounge and sit by herself at lunch. If people where throwing funny looks at her, Mary was either blind or she just pretended not to notice them.

There was a vulnerability about Mary that didn’t quite fit the picture painted by Ebuka. I wanted to know more about her and there was only one way to find out….join her for lunch.
I enjoyed her company. (Damn this girl was fine like six people). She was a well of knowledge and I enjoyed listening to her. She literally weighed her words before speaking so that when she opened her mouth, she spewed out so much wisdom. I looked forward to having lunch with her every day.

Then the teasing started from the guys. Office rumour had it that Mary and I were friends with benefits. (This had Ebuka written all over it). I even heard them call us, “Mary and her little lamb” but I ignore them.
Mary and I became quite close and I decided to ask her if she was in a relationship, her response was shocking. She wasn’t in a relationship and had never ever been in one. (That was hard to believe). But..she had a confession though.

You can’t imagine how shocked I was when she revealed that she had been secretly crushing on me for over three years. MD was even aware because he caught her starring at me several times and would call her Mrs Muyiwa, but because he didn’t want to give her away he coined the name Double M. Wow! Double M was actually Mary and Muyiwa.

She told me how close she had come to dating Ebuka when they were younger until she found out that she was a bet. Ebuka wanted to have sex her to score some points with his friends. He never stopped making sexual advances towards her and she keeps turning him down.
She admitted that she knew about Ebuka and his big mouth but had decided to let things slide because he had a sick mother and six siblings to take care of, these were the things she thought about each time she wanted to take action against him.

Mary got him his job. She recommended and vouched for him even when he wasn’t qualified for the position.
As she spoke, anger welled up inside Muyiwa. This girl had a good heart. Ebuka didn’t deserve anything from her. If she’s going to be my woman, I owe it to her to deal with Ebuka once and for all