We returned to the gathering and the vehicles just in time to see the driver closing the bonnet or whatever it's called and wiping off the oil and stuffs off, as everyone piled into the vehicles
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I guess Onome's aunty was too busy running around to pay close attention to her or any of us considering her panic that she does not want to risk us being at the beach alone in the dark of the night,in a couple of minutes probably about 15-20 we had said our bye byes and were on the road,in order not to arouse an unnecessary suspicions probably more to do with our conscience we sat apart and we were soon speeding along the expressway on our way to the mainland.With the hold ups and little delays we didn't get back to the mainland until about a couple of minutes past 10 pm,so we were all shattered and tired and got dropped off one at a time me being dropped and Onome's friend before her..I was so tired from the endless walking and strolling on the beach to the "exercise" me and Onome had indulged in So I went straight to bed as soon as I got home, missing the night devotion and telling my mum I was feeling feverish (baba GOD forgive me o) as I was dozing off I heard the buzz of my phone signifying an incoming text message and when I picked it up to check it was ONOME "DAT was mindblowin..won't mind s'more"with a winking emotion/icon at the end of the text...although I was tired I still managed to text her back "really"......wonder when though with a smiley wink.... Then she texted back with ........wonder when.....making a devil face to end the text,as I finished reading that text she sent another one saying goodnight citing tiredness and we started to exchange all the lovey dovey goodnight texts..
I woke up the next day being a Sunday very tired body riddled with aches and pains all over both legs and my left arm which I could hardly lift up with a great effort..this made my mum believe me more that I was really feverish although she was puzzled as to why I was not running a temperature.In my mind, I was wondering if this was GOD's way of punishing me for what we did the day before and even lying to avoid the night devotions,praying in my mind for forgiveness of my sins..I continued resting as everybody else went to church and after sleeping about three hours more I felt better and raised myself up to the kitchen as I was famished hungry to the extent that my hands were shaking ...normally I hate eggs and bread but that was all I found in the kitchen and what we had most Sundays anyway like the rest of NIGERIA ...even at that I was surprised I could finish three fried eggs considering the most I had even if I have to was two eggs finished making the eggs as I poured milk in and all the tomatoes onions and all that..after I finished eating I watched tv for a while and started texting ONOME out of boredom,telling her how it was her fault I could not go to church she said she was in church but would call me in a bit which she did like 25minutes later.
In most churches especially the old school ones the whole family went inside and sat in the same place but in the middle of the service while they are pre occupied with the preaching, We tend to sneak out with the excuse that we were going to ease ourselves, or any other excuse and then hang out at a corner or outside the church with other girls and guys gifting. This was the time guys approached girls they had been eyeing for a while or when friends from different schools managed to catch up on what has been happening,parties so this is what ONOME did that Sunday after sneaking out she called me back and informed me, as we continued gisting I noticed she was listless a little bit nervous and apprehensive wondering what the matter was I kept asking her over and over but she assured me that she was ok and we continued talking about general stuff really, still the feelings persisted and I asked her again this time I cajoled and asked her nicely mentally wondering if it had anything to do with the day before.. eventually she heaved a huge sight going silent for a couple of seconds as though making up her mind either to tell me whatever it was, as she went quiet my heart beats thudding and pumping against my chest and rib cage..eventually she asked me if I remembered her telling me that her parents planned to send her to the United Kingdom after secondary school and I answered yes I did,well her dad called from Abuja and informed them that he had decided not to take a chance with her studying in Nigeria ,due to the bad experience they had encountered with her brothers studies ,contending with strikes and all sorts.
The big news was that her dad had decided and had already put plans in motion for her to do a couple of months in college abroad for A levels and then university,at the same time her dad was being sent to a military academy in the same UK for an officer's management course, she had known about it since the week before but the excitement of the beach gathering and how much fun we had on the day prevented her from informing me. When I heard this news it seemed as if the whole world stood still..I quickly rumbled through the five stages of grief .....denial,anger,bargaining,depression and then acceptance all in a space of seconds as the news and the impact dawned on me, it was my turn to pause on the phone as she repeated my name a couple of times with no answer from me then asking if I was still there and I replied in a dull and sad manner..she tried to comfort me as I asked her about the details like when exactly and all that.
MY weekend which started really nice and got better by Saturday has turned out to be the worst within a couple of seconds due to the devastating news I had just gotten from ONOME.
Even though we continued chatting for about 15minutes more about general stuffs including our plans for the week,the cloud of the sad news she has just imparted to me was hanging over our conversation and both of us were just trying to make light of the situation no matter how much we tried our camouflage was not working.All pretence discarded now she turned the conversation back to the main issue which was her impending journey abroad asking me rhetorically how she was going to survive not having me with her and me at a loss on the right reply to give after talking about this for several minutes more we concluded that she will give me much more details as time went on and further added that she will definitely find out more definite news between the new week and the upper week especially once she told her mum how much it was feeling sad and needed to know more details.I promised to arrange a date for the weekend for us to meet and talk things over properly,hopefully she would have gotten more news and we could then work things out and fashion out a solution with that she hurriedly told me she had to return back inside the church as all the other guys and girls were going back in meaning the sermon was almost over.
As i dropped the phone,i sat back in the settee thinking about this news watching the tv but not registering or paying attention to anything being shown deep in thought….i was thinking asking myself how i was going to survive not having my first love in my life before now i had no emotional ties as such with all the ladies i have been with especially considering the situation in which we had gotten together besides our connection started and ended with sex and nothing else but Onome was the very first girl i had gone out and chatted up,the first girl that had rejected me repeatedly and i had still being in love with and the first girl i had really and genuinely being in love with..
Warri no dey carry last...btw do u love her still?and if u do,whr does cute bliss stand?
ReplyDeletegraphy you just dey support your sister na wa for you o she still has a special place in my heart although we have lost touch now you suppose know cute bliss is my present and future nau
DeleteGraphy dis your question really needs an answer,over to you nubian
ReplyDeleteyou are my one and only now the only queen of my heart no rival
Deleteeyaaaa nubian ... kpele oooo ... lmao ... so you really fell inlove ??
ReplyDeleteno be small thing o,because of the girl i catch malaria sef lol
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