A right to remain silent

'Bob, says Steyn. I've never seen or heared from Janine for a while now.Especially over the weekends. This love of us may be coming to an abrupt end.'

"I've heared your rhetoric before,'he replies. "But everytime I ask you to ditch her, you both accuse me of being jealous and stiff. Many a girl around here does a lecturer at his or her staffroom over weekends. Your girl may not be an exception. You better take care of her or she'll soon find herself ostracised from social gatherings by most people.'

"What do you mean by when you say she may not be an exception?'

'Where I come from, there was this girl. Agewise we could for argument sake say she's below twenty nine years of age. She's a good friend of mine and as you may now, most ladies panic when they're aging. None of them want not to reach the age of thirty still single. Twenty nine years is then their barometer.'

'You're way too slow to get to the point. My beer is getting cold.'

'She used to sleep with one rich, famous lecturer at my former University. She woke up on morning nauseous and in her room. He was nowhere to be found. She didn't mind till she saw blood on her sheets. Since she didn't ask for it, she was well aware that what had happened to her was date rape.'

"Shit!'

'She thought raising alarm about her would make people suspicious of her intentions because they were according they, lovers. She decided to wash off all the evidence which might have help the police in stringing bits and pieces of her ordeal together.''

"Stupid!''

''Do you think Cole bonks my girl?''

""Why not?' She's scared to tell you about their little secret.Like most of them, she's clearly head over heels with petty material things she buys her, bills she foots because you're too poor to provide for her.''

''Yuck. I know I'm supposed to show some solitude in all of this but, I'm beginning to feel nothing for her.I once found them all lovey dovey inside his vehicle.They both smelt of fish. When I ask  them what's going. They pretend to have had playfully massaged each other with fish oil. Even a kid couldn't believe the shit they were telling me. I asked her to accompany me home. The smell on her body was still there and made many an adult disgusted. I asked her to wash it off. To I, it was clear they had made love. She asked me to make love to her and I declined. She then unwrapped the towel from her waist and ran to the police station half naked. I got arrested and spend eight hours in police cells over a false statement she gave them. The trick called me and apologised a day later when she heared I was tired of her shit and was preparing to head back to campus.''
''Doctors says a woman's inner skin must have a tear or two to create a strong DNA case against a sex perpetrator. A judge must then be in touch with reality facts and understand victims of rape's health state in order to conduct a thorough conviction.''

''You've said it all. Do you watch criminal programmes?''

"A lot.''

A knock on the door.

Both of them chorus: '' Come in!''

A figurine almost falls on the floor. Her clothes and hair is all messed up. Upon close investigation,it is her.

Steyn begins to cry.

They pick up the pieces and drive her to hospital on Bob's vehicle.

The doctor inspects her and calls the police to hand them her DNA samples. The culprit is nowhere to be found. He arrives at the campus early Monday morning in high spirits and plainclothed police officers pounce on him. The crowd is cheering them on.

They read him his right; You have a right to remain silent,you have aright to make a call to your lawyer,attorney or anyone else you feel would be of assistance to you in this mess you find and have put yourself in,you have a right not to contact the victims or their families in any other way and a right not to hinder us in the execution of our duties.

''Yippee!'' celebrates Chloe. The bastard has been arrested.''

"It's too premature to cork champagne,'' Bob warns her. Your friend is still to convince the judge that she's truly a victim of crime.Knowing her all too well, she may have sliced her wrists in order to blackmail him to succumb to her otherwise, never ending needs.''

''Why are you like this?''

"I don;t know. Just come over here and give me a hug.''

At  Steyn's apartment life is fun. He and his estranged girlfriend are all cuddly in bed.

"I still can't believe you pulled this one all too well, my love,'' he tells her.

'When I made up that fish story,' she replies.''I was pulling a wool on his eyes. He then started thinking that you and I are fools. I asked him for money to go do my hair he refused, I asked him for a night time out and he declined while mentioning his live in lover's name. I lead him on and just when he thought he could've his cake and eat it, I became violent. No one would know the whole truth except when I decide to act clever on you. Isn't it nice?'

'It is, my love.''