OUR E-FRIENDSHIP (3)

I tried calling the number it was off. I tried searching for him on Facebook, it’s like he blocked me. I just accepted my fate, maybe he was not the one for me.

I showed Dara the text, before I could say Jack Robinson, Dara said, “Oh goodness! I am trying so hard not to say, I told you so” and burst out into laughter.

I just asked, “Dara, why don’t you just wish me well?”.

She came to where I sat in the room and hugged me and said, “Oh no, Sis! I love you and I wish you well. Don’t worry a better guy will come along, trust me”.

I just pretended to smile and hugged her back.

Smith never called or contacted me. It took me 2 months to forget about Smith.

4 months after the-Smith-incident, by then I assumed he had gone to Germany, I had a 7a.m. lecture. While waiting for the lecturer, I quickly got on Facebook, I saw a notification, from my school's Discussion

OUR E-FRIENDSHIP (2)

I began to plead, I told him I was really sorry, and that I did trust him but I just felt that seeing him with other people around at that time wouldn’t just feel right. After about a minute of silence, he said, “baby I forgive you, I have taken back everything I said to hurt you, but please don’t do that again”.

I breathed a sigh of relief, he added me again on Facebook and we had chatted for 3 hours, before I finally slept off feeling like a burden had just been lifted from my chest. The next day, I called him as early as 8am and asked if we could meet, he said he had a lot of his family and friends to see. That we could meet by 4pm. I went to school that day, so excited. When I told Dara, I was going to meet Smith that evening, she just said, “Whatever!”. Next thing I heard was that we had a fixed class from 4pm to 6pm. What??? I thought to myself, “Dara is the class representative, I bet she will help me on that”. When I approached her, she said, “Hehe! That lecturer may give test oh, you better attend”.

“But I have a date with Smith”, I replied.

“Has he set a venue for the date?”

“No. But he is going to”

Dara retorted, “Okay, if he loves you like that, tell him to come here to school and wait for you and pick you up after the lecture”.

I didn’t feel that was right, but

OUR E-FRIENDSHIP

I logged into my Facebook account and saw “one new friend request”. I checked up the guy’s profile, his name was Smith George and from the profile I realized he was doing his BSc in London and his family was based in Germany, bla bla bla.

Well, I accepted ;-) The guy was very cute from his albums.

We began to chat, our e-friendship grew by the day. It was from there I got to know he was born in Germany, raised in Nigeria and went back to Germany when he was 10years old. He told me about his family, that his father worked in Nigeria and that he retired before leaving for Germany, his mum owned a clothing line called Farshun in Germany, he was the last born in the family of five, the third boy and from all he said, they were well-to do. I told him about myself too….but since we never met, I was careful not to let out too much information. I never asked him for his cell number but he got mine. He used a Blackberry and said I could text him anytime of the day and he would receive it.

Two months after, he told me he had just finished his BSc in Imperial College, London and was coming to spend 6 months in Nigeria before going back to Germany. I was super excited. He finally got to Nigeria

I TEXTED YOU, GURL!

Mabel, Edikan and I went to the administrative block to register for the session. While we were on the queue, I was just asking Mabel, “chic, were you high last night?”, she turned, looked at me and laughed.

Just then, one neatly dressed guy walked up to Mabel, and started 'chyking' her. I pretended not to hear what they were saying, but Mabel was just smiling and laughing. Then it got to Mabel's turn...she went into the office to register. Omo! This guy saw another fine chic, went to the gurl and started 'chyking' her too...asked for her contact. I was like, 'whaaaat!???? Na wa oh'.

I quickly pulled out my fone, went to my Whatsapp and typed in Mabel' profile, 'he is chyking another chic oh'.

She replied, 'seriously? Hmmm....'.

And I typed, 'this guy na wa oh, even after chyking you ' and pressed the SEND tab.

She then replied and said, 'which guy?'.

It was my turn on the queue so I didn't reply the message, I went inside the office, while Mabel came out. Few minutes later, I was done with registration, and Edikan went in. I came out to meet Mabel arguing on the phone with someone, I just waited while wondering what happened. Immediately  Mabel dropped the call, I asked her what happened, she said, 'hmmm....that was Derek, he is asking me who 'chyked' me this afternoon, I told him no one, then he asked me which guy talked to me last, so we started arguing. I am thinking it's Edikan that told him about the guy that 'chyked' me".

I asked, "why would she do that?" 

Mabel replied, "you know Derek is her cousin na".

"shuo, cousin ko, cousin ni".

Just then, Max came strolling by, and I just thought, arrrghhhh...this nerd, this guy! and before I could spell, ANNOYING backwards, Max shouted 'hey Christy'. I excused myself from Mabel and Edikan; who just joined at the spot we stood, and went to meet Max. Max just went on bla bla bla, with his boring gists. I got out my phone and typed on Whatsapp, 'this guy is always so boring', pressed SEND to Mabel. I noticed her type with her phone but she didn't reply my msg. After I finally got rid of Max, I went back to Mabel and Edikan.  Mabel said, 'Yoohoo! He let you go so fast..sup?', I replied, 'is that why you didn't reply my msg?' 'what message?' 'come on, I am sure my messages got delivered on your whatsapp' 'oh that! I thought I told u' 'That? Is your phone bad?' 'Nope, I forgot my phone in Derek's car when he dropped me at home last night'

'whaaatttttttttt???'

10p.m. the Previous day:

“Hey babes”

“Yes dearie”

“How are you na?”

“Just fine oh”

“I went out with that guy yesterday”

“which guy?”

“the one we met at the mall, that his elder brother was trying to toast you na”

“Okay, Okay! So how did it go?”

“Well, I enjoyed the date”

“You went to his house?”

“Yes, oh! But it was just a date, nothing more”

“Did you guys have sex?”

"*shocked* Mabel, if you are high, better go to bed :-D. You know me better na”

“Did he touch you?”

“Okay, Mabel, that’s enough…shey you have gone clubbing again with that your alcohol-addict boyfriend called Derek. Goodnight, we’ll talk when I see you in school tomorrow”.