As I watched him manoeuvre in traffic, I could not help marvelling at how quickly this Kenyan had picked up things-our language, the layout of our city. He had learnt about my body's sexual responses so fast that he was soon touching me in ways my husband had never discovered in three years of marriage. Probably when I did not get pregnant soon enough he gave up trying to find ways to pleasure me. This Timothee however, only on our first time together had found a very sensitive region on my right shoulder, which he blew gently to make me feel cold and develop goose pimples. He was a master at working my B-cup tits, considered by many women to be too small. He has a way of taking my nipples in his thumb and forefinger and driving me right up the wall with hot pleasure. Never had my husband licked my vagina, yet this stranger dived right between my legs, sucking me to delirium. I never even knew such pleasure was possible!
But it is also a wonder how we also took to him. The first time he had come here it was on a mission trip from their church in Nairobi, presbyterian like ours, but with a very strange name-PCEA. The first thing that struck me was how many old people they had in their choir, people who had obviously retired from where they had worked, some of them retired for quite a number of years judging from the acreage of grey hair. But soon I noticed something else. One of the men, with a little patch grey hair, was taller than most of them, dark-skinned and wearing spectacles. I kept looking at him even when their choir sang in our church. My! And how they sang! It was a huge choir of over 50 voices and which produced such marvellous sound. But I was not alone in admiring the tall one; some of the other women, younger than I, seemed to be looking at him and wanting to talk to him, even though he did not understand the languages we use here. When they left I kept sneaking my husband's camera to see pictures in which the tall man had been captured; I would look and look at him, enlarging his face to see more clearly. My husband also enjoyed looking at the pictures but I have no idea what kept his attention. If only he knew I was pining after a foreign man!
A year later the visit by our choir to their city and church came around. The bus journey would take 24 hours, through neighbouring Uganda until we reached the border of Kenya and kept travelling for many more hours. When we arrived in Nairobi on the evening after we had left home we were all totally exhausted. But the welcoming group took care of bringing our baggage from the bus into the guesthouse where we were staying. I spotted him at once and really had to fight to stop myself rushing at him. They seemed to have learnt our form of greeting with a sideways hug, although it felt a bit awkward with them. But I did not mind a little clumsiness as long I held him to my body. We could only grunt a few words of greeting. The days we spent in that city and church rushed quickly by. On the Saturday they took us shopping and sightseeing and my man was group leader. Some five of us, my husband included, and four from their choir comprised the group. I enjoyed making halting conversation with him, as I was the only one who spoke any English. Soon it was time to go home again. As before I kept stealing peeks at my husband's camera to see how many pictures of my tall guy we had.
And then came the day, one Sunday a month later, when he was there in our church! I felt weak in my knees when I saw him in the row behind us. He was called to the front and he told a long story of how our two churches had become partners and then he sang. I remember nothing of all that, except his tall figure, smartly dressed in a blue stripped suit. After the service, members of the church, wanting to greet him, crowded around him. I immediately made a date with him to come and visit our family. My husband and I took him home and then to a restaurant in Nyamirambo where we had fish and chips. He really seemed to enjoy himself. During conversation, we happened to mention we have not had the blessing of a baby yet. He sat quite still for a moment before he told us about a company from America which made products of very high quality, one of which he felt sure would help us. But I shied away from swallowing strange pills even though he took great pains to explain that they were not drugs and would not alter my body in any way. Then my husband said something that nearly caused me to fall off my seat.
"We have tried so many doctors and traditional remedies that we are ready to try anything. Could you try impregnating my wife?" Nobody said anything for a while. Timothee looked from my husband to myself and said, "Are you two sure of this? Hadn't you better first discuss this between yourselves and then we can talk about it?" Even though my husband in bringing it on me so suddenly had shocked me, I found the idea quite attractive, since my body already behaved differently whenever I was near Timothee. The strategy of giving it some time to digest seemed to be wise so I quickly assented. Two days later we called him to our home.