tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77041374302146364522024-03-13T08:05:54.785-07:00Luciano's WorldJust where i can express all those thoughts, pressing needs n what-nots..........................hope you ll have a nice time here XoXoLucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-50138821588482812392013-01-10T01:04:00.000-08:002013-01-10T01:04:50.084-08:00HAPPY NEW YEAR<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I know is late but I’ll
still say it. Because I want to and because I can. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How was the holiday? I’m sorry
I’ve not been commenting on blogs or replying comments, I was busy juggling
weddings and family and village life. Speaking of which, how was the “village”?
(For those that went) Mine was awesome and I got two proposals (yelsss, two
guys asked me to marry them) well, they didn’t really ask me, they asked my Dad
but you know………….. Its still a proposal right? Yeah? I thought so too. So don’t
be surprised if I get shipped off to Malaysia or become a Mrs. to Uche in <span> </span>Alaba………….my Mum is kinda in a hurry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So here is the concluding
part of the EYES OF THE EAGLE story:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I
stirred the tea again, all the time looking over my shoulder to see if Ola was
coming. Mum had brought the potion for me and explained how to use it. Just one
drop……………it sounded simple enough. Ola hardly ate at home anymore but I had
begged and persuaded him to eat breakfast. I heard his footstep and quickly
stepped away from the tea. He sat down and I almost burst into tears, how had
we gotten to this point? We used to be perfect. He stirred the tea a couple of
times and looked at me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">"Aya
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track). I felt an inner glow; could “baba's” potion be working so soon?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">"My
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">"I
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">"What
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
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to turn me into a dummy"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">"My
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">He
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I
was holding my wrapper in one hand and my bag in the other as I ran to Mum’s
shop. In one breath, I told her everything that had happened. Mum stood up and
started pacing the shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">"Temi,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">“What
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">“Point
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because your father wanted me to and now that he’s dead, I don’t owe him
anything"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">"So
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in my family"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">"Of
course Temi, I had to get you out of the way for my daughter to come in. Now,
she can be Mrs. Ola Akanki, wife of the CEO, A&A group of companies"
she clapped her hands and gave a small laugh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">"But
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">"Some
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picked my daughter and left Ola’s house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I
looked at Ola again. No, there was nothing to discuss. I picked my purse and
walked out of the restaurant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">*Oh, and my 2013 (January)
crush is Flavour. His “Ada Ada” is currently topping my playlist and when I play
it I dream of dancing while carrying palmwine and looking for Mr. Right (Igbo
engagement things) definitely not anyone in Malaysia or Alaba. Have a fabulous
year people</span></div>
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so sorry I’ve been MIA for sometime. Life has been crazy and I mean CRAZY. I know
God is in the process of doing great things in my life, I just need the grace
to be patient. Your kind words and prayers are appreciated. Thanks to everybody
that yabbed and checked on me, una do well *side eyes Priscy , Dayor and Tizzle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So
I finally met a blogger. Yayyyyy me!!! I met the awesome <a href="http://twinkleglow.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tamie</a> and I had a
wonderful time. She’s great, super fun, lovely, wonderful……….infact, I don’t have
enough words to describe her. It was great seeing you Tamie and I can’t wait to
do it again……..Pizza is still on you.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A big thank you to <a href="http://mindshde.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sugarspring</a> for giving me the
versatile blogger award. You can check out my answer <a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-five-blog-awards.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In case you missed the part I and 2, check <a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-eyes-of-eagle.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-eyes-of-eagle-ii.html" target="_blank">here </a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
two minutes of Mum doing her dance, a short man emerged from the groove of the
tree. I blinked twice; it was like I was living some Nollywood movie
experience. Mum had stopped dancing and was paying homage to the man. I looked
closely at him, his hair was dreaded and he wore cowries in them, he tied a red
wrapper around his tiny waist, painted the visible part of his body with white
chalk and completed the appearance with a horn he held in his left hand. He
smelled like the faint version of the bush we just passed. I tried to guess his
age, he should be around thirty two, not that old so why was Mum calling him
“baba”?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Baba”
finally sat down and Mum motioned me to do the same on the wood beside the
tree. I wanted to scream there’s no way I’m doing that but Mum shot me one of
her looks and I sat down. “Baba” stretched out his left hand and Mum dropped
One thousand naira note on it. After some minutes which “baba” spent muttering
some incantations, he finally spoke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"Mama
Temi, what can I do for you today?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">What!!?
So this man speaks English? And was he not supposed to know why we were there?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mum
explained immediately what was going on in my life. Mum exaggerates a lot and I
correct her most times but that day, I just sat there and watched her turn Ola
into a monster as she told “baba” her story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
what seem like ages, “baba” finally listed the things we needed to buy for the
potion that was going to restore Ola’s “sanity”. I watched in disbelief as
“baba” said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“A
python egg, two strands of hair from a mother gorilla, twenty four gallons of
red oil……………………………………………………” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
couldn’t hold the scream this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"Where
on earth am I supposed to get those?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mum
smiled and gave “baba” some money. She told me to get up and we left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">We
were hardly beyond earshot when I bombarded Mum with questions……………..”Is this
man for real?” “Is the potion going to work?” “Where was he going to get those
things?” Mum was gentle in explaining that powerful men like “baba” have their
means and that he had been tested and trusted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
know that my friend?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Which
one?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mama
Kofo”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“The
one her husband just died?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes……………..when
her husband started cheating on her, I brought her here and that was the end”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
looked at Mum with fear, could the end mean Ola’s death? I wanted to ask more
but I kept my thoughts to myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">We
had passed the smelling bush and I asked Mum again…….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"Mum,
are we not going to wait for a bike?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"Bike
ke?.....no ......we trek"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"WHAT?!!!"</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-695713960504530412012-10-10T03:36:00.000-07:002012-10-10T03:36:38.684-07:00THE EYES OF AN EAGLE II<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">It
was a sunny day when we left for Ekiti. I had told Ola I was going with Mum for
a wedding in our hometown. He had murmured something about taking Yvonne to my
sister's place before I left. Lara, my only sister lived on the other side of
Lagos. I hate dropping my daughter with her because she picks up bad manners
every weekend she spends with her. I am three years older than Lara and we have
nothing in common. Dad used to call her the prodigal daughter. She dropped out
of school after three years and even when Dad set up a business for her, she said
it was too much work. Lara however was Mum’s favorite……..the one she pampers
and doted on. I had no choice but to drop Yvonne with Lara, it was a better
option than being involved in one of the many Lagos housegirl/nanny horror
tales </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yeeee........”
I screamed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mum
looked back from her bike and shouted at me...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What
is it Temi?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mum,
these potholes are breaking my waist and this bike man is not driving carefully
at all.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mum
did her legendary "hmmnnnnmm” and told me “sorry”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">We
were on our way to “Baba's” place. I had left my car at the junction after
paying a boy Five hundred Naira to watch it, I thought it was outrageous but
Mum said it was cheap. Mum said we had to take a bike from there because the
road was not motorable. I hate bikes……….a lot so Mum thought my complains were
because of my pronounced hatred for bikes and not because I was feeling
uncomfortable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mum
always thought I was the spoilt one. She blamed Dad for pampering me so
much.....she blamed me every time something went wrong, always saying I messed
it up with my "spoilt" life. Mum had strongly kicked against it when Dad
was about sending me abroad to study, saying it would make me more "big
headed" but Dad had sent me anyway and when I came back Mum had sworn I
wouldn’t get a husband………………not with my uncultured way of life. When I brought
Ola home, she was surprised and immediately told Ola how I’ll soon be bossing
him around but he had stayed anyway and we had lived happily.......until now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"Are
we not there yet?” I shouted again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mum
didn’t even answer me this time. She just pointed at the big tree in the
distance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"Mum!!
Are we going to meet a tree?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"Shut
up Temi. You don’t talk much around here"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"But
Mum, you said we were coming to meet “Baba”"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I’m
sure Mum would have slapped me then if she had been close enough. She gave me
her "shut the hell up" look and faced away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
bike men stopped and I was partially grateful because my legs were killing me
already. I jumped down from the bike before protesting that we were not at the
tree yet. Mum paid the bike men while explaining that we had to trek the rest
of the "sacred land".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
was too tired and angry to argue, I just hoped the visit would be worth it and
followed Mum as she made her way down the narrow path. I had to swat flies away
with my bag a thousand times. The smell was horrible.........it was like lots
of animals or humans died and decayed thereby giving the flies a merry
gathering. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mum,
Mum......why did you bring me to this kind of place?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is
it not for your own good?” Mum asked with unmasked disdain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
swallowed hard and put my hands on my ears; even that did little to reduce the
noise of the flies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">We
finally got to the foot of the tree and Mum started a dramatic dance. Before I
could decide if she was alright or not she started singing....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"o
ye gods of the earth, o ye princes of the trees, I hail thee....."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
stood watching her, my jaw open and my eyes popping out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">****Tomorrow is my birthday!! Please don't forget to forward all gifts, cakes and cards. Thank you. Shoutout to Chinny, Honeydame, Che, Sisi Yemmie, 9ja great, PET project and all October babies. We ROCK!</span></span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju8id-fjERtJ0sHMaFs4sMOfp6ohG0jJkVk4FShdC9hTCXwloJvXBOIa7Rh4wAocSLTqH2bc6qH70rWMTwLXeTbffbSwtrWOAmeJDTm_7pD6xo0cAlT_3o-QMKSi5yZCj1uYt3UhSXKZ8/s1600/images2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju8id-fjERtJ0sHMaFs4sMOfp6ohG0jJkVk4FShdC9hTCXwloJvXBOIa7Rh4wAocSLTqH2bc6qH70rWMTwLXeTbffbSwtrWOAmeJDTm_7pD6xo0cAlT_3o-QMKSi5yZCj1uYt3UhSXKZ8/s1600/images2.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I sat there and tried to decide what I felt for the person sitting opposite me. It wasn’t pity and concern was far from it. He had just disrupted my almost perfect evening. I was trying hard not to loose it all………..I’d been holding it together for so long.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">He looked at me again and started talking......that same story I’d heard a million times…………….. How much he loved me and how he couldn’t live without me. I stifled a yawn, checked my watch and told him I had to go. I wasn’t being rude, I really had to go. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I had gone to the restaurant just to catch up with Angela, my friend and I was having a swell time before Mr. “Stalker” showed up and like he always does spoiled my perfect time. Angela just sat there, watching the drama unfold, not saying anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">It had not always been like this, I used to be a quite considerate lady who loved her man, her family and minded her business. Mr. “Stalker” used to be a caring man I called my husband. We used to live in a little house with our lovely daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I know you are wondering how things took a dramatic turn and I am now the ice queen and he’s the one begging.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">August 12, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">10PM<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Ola wasn’t back yet. I’d been sitting on the couch all evening, waiting for him to come home. I just persuaded Yvonne, our three year old daughter to go to bed. She had been reluctant, it was Ola who always tucked her in bed every night but I had done my best and after 30minutes of endless stories she had dozed off.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I had tried all his phone lines but they were switched off, I called his friends and they confirmed he had left the office but they didn’t know where he was. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I’d had a very hectic day at work and I was dozing off when I heard the knock.... I opened the door and my husband, as drunk as he could ever be staggered into the room. I was angry and I told him so. We had a fight, exchanged words and later slept in different rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">My husband did not sleep at home throughout that week. He always had an excuse. I told my Mum about it and she told me to endure, that no marriage was rosy so I endured..........I endured the late nights, the forced sex, the fake smiles………. I endured it all, even the slaps and the kicks. I never told Mum about it again but she knew.......she saw the sadness in my eyes. She saw the bruises and the red marks. That was when she took me to “baba”. She said “baba” would solve all my problems and make my family perfect again. I protested at first, I had not wanted to spread it around town that I was having problems in my marriage but Mum had insisted; she assured me the man lived far away from Lagos, in another state and that no one would ever find out. I was still very reluctant but when the beating became unbearable I decided to go with Mum to see “baba”. No greater harm could come from it I thought.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p>*<i>To be continued</i></o:p></span></div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-89805216097595135322012-08-08T04:44:00.000-07:002012-08-08T04:44:19.300-07:00THE OTHER GIRL<div style="text-align: justify;">*clearing cobwebs* yes, I know, I am a horrible blogger. I am sorry for leaving for so long but I have really really really been too <strike>lazy</strike> busy to update. I am here now and I really really (don't mind the number of "really" I type, its for emphasis) hope you guys are not too angry with me (which means nobody will read or comment on this post which will make me very very sad). </div><div style="text-align: justify;">You know I'm not good with apologies, I am really trying my best here..........</div><div style="text-align: justify;">OK then, thank you for forgiving me, you guys are the best!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">*waving at my new followers* welcome lovely people, thank you for following my <strike>boring</strike> awesome blog.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX83YFnqFyBMMMDQcYcwJxdw3ZfJv-cAUZN9tZmF6jgPMA7c6NdVmHIjXsFMHv_Jr7LW4gAu_qlRJDXx_CAX-YJBJFnuqQmemhwNqMSfo5jFK2FOrA1VCrcFxQttYTCPjl-KZaNYkrBt0/s1600/jealous.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX83YFnqFyBMMMDQcYcwJxdw3ZfJv-cAUZN9tZmF6jgPMA7c6NdVmHIjXsFMHv_Jr7LW4gAu_qlRJDXx_CAX-YJBJFnuqQmemhwNqMSfo5jFK2FOrA1VCrcFxQttYTCPjl-KZaNYkrBt0/s1600/jealous.jpeg" /></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Tee is my prince charming, my baby, my boo. He’s everything the romance novels I’ve been reading since primary school described. He’s tall, dark, handsome and sweet. If you are part of the people that still wonder if the “butterfly in the tummy effect” is real, please wonder no more. It’s as real as the sky is blue. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">So I had given up on love after so many attempts. I thought there was no such thing as prince charming and butterflies and happily ever after……..those only exist in novels. I was so wrong.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I love Tee, he loves me……I was living the dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I took my bath as I sang “just the way you are” the fifteenth time. Tee makes me giddy. I will be seeing him soon. Its Saturday, the only day in the week we spend alone, away from all the stress and drama of work and family. The only day that makes my weekdays bearable. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I looked at my reflection in the mirror and smiled.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“I love how you paint your face” he would say</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“duh……its not paint, its makeup”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“what’s the difference?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“I don’t know, I just know it’s different”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always say and he would continue teasing me.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">One last look at the mirror and I was out of the door.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He opened the door and smiled at me…..the captivating, endearing smile and my insides turned to jelly. He still has that effect on me, one look into his eyes and the butterflies threaten to jump out of my tummy. It’s been 2 months; I’m supposed to be immune to his charms now.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">There’s this thing about Tee; he knows everything. He knows what I want, when I want it, how I feel…………..everything. So I was not surprised when I got inside and saw all my special delicacies served in a mouth watering way.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“What’s the occasion?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Just celebrating you”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><em>Now who said I can’t be happy? Who said I’m not the luckiest girl in the frigging world? Who said……………………….</em>.I can keep asking the questions but he was saying something.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“You’ve brought so much joy into my life these past months……………” I was no longer listening. <em>Who said you have to die to be in heaven? I was there already.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I was smiling…….no, grinning like a five year old.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We ate and laughed and joked and had a wonderful time and then it was time to go</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">As I was about opening the door, he pulled me back and held me close</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“There’s something I need to tell you”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“You love me. I know”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I pulled him closer and kissed him</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Yeah I do but that’s not it……….you may need to sit down”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s too soon to propose, isn’t it? Yeah, I thought so too. I’m saying yes anyways.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“I love you and I can’t live without you”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Huge smile</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“But last year, my parents arranged for me to get married to a girl……”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WHAT!?</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“We are not married yet, we are just engaged…………… and she's coming over next week”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I felt weak. All the butterflies died and they are secreting a very toxic poison in my system. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Why are you telling me now?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Because I don’t want to lose you, I still love you”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Tee is my prince charming, my baby, my boo and right now, I feel like putting a bullet through his head.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">*I saw this <a href="http://sawaleh.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/even-now/" target="_blank">story</a> somewhere and it made me cry. You should read it</div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-40254896881109677792012-06-19T08:38:00.000-07:002012-06-19T08:38:41.012-07:00TEMPTATIONS IV<a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/08/temptation.html" target="_blank">Part I</a><br />
<a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/09/temptation-ii.html" target="_blank">Part II</a><br />
<a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2012/03/temptations-iii.html" target="_blank">Part III</a><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Akpos rose, I rose.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">With my fakest smile I said “hey Tessie”. She totally ignored me.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“I said what are you doing here? So this is the friend you’re “going out with”?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“Tessie, can you stop shouting and sit down? Let’s talk about this.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">He was angry but it makes him cuter. The whole incident was becoming funny, albeit in an embarrassing way</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“Don’t tell me what to do you idiot”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">I glanced at Akpos and said “Did that bitch just call you an idiot?” (With my eyes)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“You know what? You’re a spoilt brat Tess and I am tired of putting up with your rude life and constant drama……………….</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">I came here to have dinner with a beautiful lady (I blushed) and to tell her she makes all the difference in my life”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Akpos took my hands and said “go home baby (what? Me? Baby?) I’ll call you”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Tessie let out a high pitched scream like a wounded cat and started shouting her head off</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">I looked at her and felt (fake) sorry for her. Now she was calling names and drawing attention. I picked my purse, walked around the table and kissed Akpos…………straight on the lips (he kissed me back). Then I walked out ………….this time, I remembered my practiced catwalk and side smile; not as if it mattered anyways……………………………………….I was walking on the moon.</div>*I don't know how to say this, I don't even know what to say.................my heart is heavy and everyday I cry......for those kids, for all the people on that plane, for the people the plane fell on their house(s), for the people that go to church on Sundays and can't make it back home, for the people whose lives are destroyed everyday. I cry for Nigeria.Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-20362631255505425282012-05-21T04:15:00.000-07:002012-05-21T04:15:31.594-07:0044 QUESTIONS + LIEBSTER AWARD<div class="MsoNormal">First, I’ll love to thank <a href="http://toinlicious.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Toinlicious</a> for giving me the Liebster award. Here is a little something about the award: "This award we’ve discovered is given to bloggers who inspire you and have less than 200 followers. The Liebster Award takes its name from a German word meaning 'Beloved, Dearest or Favourite.”</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thanks honey, I appreciate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ymQqC3JJd9L9z_BbwxSCv4nk2OCt-O0BuvgC2Y6eLY4hSeJdaBgLJO0bssUQlbwR906Y9IJgamyopvpEO99xsSgOc1MkmuNlGZCZ-Y2VZot38PN_QJl7jveXeRlEwAJbdYzTtHz78pIT/s1600/Liebster+Blog+Award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ymQqC3JJd9L9z_BbwxSCv4nk2OCt-O0BuvgC2Y6eLY4hSeJdaBgLJO0bssUQlbwR906Y9IJgamyopvpEO99xsSgOc1MkmuNlGZCZ-Y2VZot38PN_QJl7jveXeRlEwAJbdYzTtHz78pIT/s1600/Liebster+Blog+Award.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The rules:</div><div class="MsoNormal">1. Link back to the person who gave it to you and thank them. </div><div class="MsoNormal">2. Post the award to your blog. </div><div class="MsoNormal">3. Give the award to 5 bloggers with less than 200 followers that you appreciate and value. </div><div class="MsoNormal">4. Leave a comment on the 5 blogs to let them know that they have received this award.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Okay, I’ll be giving the award to:</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://mstizzle.wordpress.com/">Mstizzle</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="http://cherrychatter.blogspot.com/">Cherry chatter</a> </div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="http://isetfiretotherain.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chinny</span></a></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="http://madamchiso.blogspot.com/">Cee</a> </div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="http://lifeinstagesdoz.blogspot.com/">Daughter of her king</a></div><div class="MsoNormal">Now to the elevens. Thank you <a href="http://a9jagreat.blogspot.com/">9ja great</a>, <a href="http://madamchiso.blogspot.com/">Cee</a> and <a href="http://cherrychatter.blogspot.com/">cherrychatter</a> for tagging me and <a href="http://rappingonamelody.blogspot.com/">Rhapsody</a> for daring me. I enjoyed answering all your questions</div><div class="MsoNormal">The rules:</div><div class="MsoNormal">Post 11 random things about yourself</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Answer questions posted by the person who tagged you (please answer Cee’s questions)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Create 11 questions and tag 11 people to answer your questions</div><div class="MsoNormal">Notify those tagged of the game</div><div class="MsoNormal">Notify the person who tagged you after you have answered the questions</div><div class="MsoNormal">No tag backs</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">11 random things about me:</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>I love twins. Will love to have them someday</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>I am a romance freak……..not the typical Nollywood thingny cos I think those are gross</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Green is my best colour…….again, not all shades of green</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>I think “whatever” is the most annoying English word ever</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>I hide out in the toilet. Yes, you read right, whenever am stressed at work I just go to the toilet and stay as long as I want.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>I hate it when people type "k" or “kk” for “ok” in conversations</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>I get bored easily</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>I have a thing for colours. If you see me wearing a red top, yellow shirt, green shoe and pink earing……..just holla at your girl.lol</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>I can stay indoor for a week…………………provided theres constant light and steady supply of food</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>I HATE pets……fish, parrot, cat, dog………..all of them</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>I don’t have a bestfriend</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">9ja great Questions</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1. What's the most important attribute you look for in the opposite sex? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Attitude</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2. What's your passion? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Still trying to figure that out</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3. What would you do if you had a million dollars? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pay tithe, invest, help the poor, see the world, shop</b>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4. What do you consider you best attribute? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I am very loyal</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5. When did you have your first kiss? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I was six</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6. Do you prefer someone in suit or casually dressed? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Depends on how you carry it but I like casuals</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7. What's the best book you ever read? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A lot.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8. If you had the opportunity to see any influential person,who would it be? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><s>GEJ </s><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michelle Obama</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9. Do you enjoy PDA (Public Display of Affection)? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">With the right person……..a lot</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10. Comedy,Romance,Thriller,Drama,which of these best describes the type of movies you like? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romance</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11. When exactly would you like to get married and start a family? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Like last year.lol. when I meet the right person</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Cee’s questions </div><div class="MsoNormal">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you do in your spare time? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Read, write, watch movies and mess around with paint</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What one thing are you most proud of? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Myself</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is your ultimate dream vacation? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paris </b></div><div class="MsoNormal">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are you most looking forward to in the next year? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">All the public holidays.lol</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most important thing you are saving up for? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">That’s a secret</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever rescued someone? What were the circumstances?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yes, saw this accident on our way from work and we stopped, took them to the hospital and even contributed to pay the bills</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who influenced you the most when you were a child? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My head-mistress. She had so much faith in me.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who influences you the most now? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My boss</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the most daring or dangerous thing you’ve ever done?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Daring….. Dancing in a competition. I don’t even want to think about it</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What person in history would you most like to meet? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Refer to #8 above</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would you love for your next birthday gift? (I just might surprise you ;) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A cake thank you very much</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Cherry chatter’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Questions</div><div class="MsoNormal">What is the one thing that frightens you the most? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Labour pain</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">What song would you describe as your ‘theme song’ ie a song that best describes you or how you feel about yourself or certain issues?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Kim Kardashian,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the entire Jersey shore cast ( if they were formed into one body with a medusa head of all the cast members)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Nene Leakes; if you had one bullet, who would you shoot? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Not a huge fan of E! but I think I’ll shoot Kim</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">What was the last most outrageous purchase you made? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A shoe</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it best to have loved and lost or is it best to not love at all giving the possibility of heart break? Give reasons. (P:S: No BS sappy and generic answers too) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Its better to have loved and lost cos then you’ll know what its like to be in love and that there’s still someone out there for you</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tattoos or piercings. Which do you prefer and why? (‘neither’ is not an answer) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(fake) tattoo of course………..i have a very low threshold for pain</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Who do you love the most, your brother or your boyfriend? (If married, replace with husband) Give reasons. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Brother. Family will always be there.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Is revenge ever justified? Give reasons. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. Romans 12:19</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Is religion an important consideration in a relationship? Give reasons. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yes and no. depends on individuals and how spiritual they are.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">If you were president for a day, what is the first thing you would do? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Resign. Don’t want any of that s**t</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">What is your first memory of being aware of/attracted to someone of the opposite sex? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I was six and on a play date.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And now to the hardest</div><div class="MsoNormal">Rhapsody’s questions.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Do you love yourself inside out, outside in? (If yes move to question 5) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yes</b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b>If you do not love yourself completely what is preventing your from loving yourself completely? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I believe I love myself completely.</b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Are there external/internal influences that prevents you from loving yourself? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No</b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">what are they? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Are the influences rooted in childhood traumas? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">What do you plan to do about it?</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b>How do you plan to teach yourself how to love yourself as you are and understand that you are enough? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The bible helps and I appreciate myself.</b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>What things do you do for yourself that enriches and nourishes your being?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Read, pray</b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>How do you hold yourself accountable for your poor decisions? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By living with the consequences</b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Are you able to forgive yourself your humanness and move forward without beating up yourself and getting stuck in the, what should have been, if only I had? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yes, I’m very good at moving on</b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b>How do you celebrate you, your uniqueness and authenticity? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ermmmmnn……..do not know the answer to this one. I guess I just pat myself on the back (mentally)</b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>How do you stay motivated, hopeful and faithful to you, your thoughts, beliefs and ideals? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Constantly reminding myself of who I am, what I want and where I want to be</b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b>If you were your own parent what would be the one thing you would teach yourself? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To believe in myself</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">If you are doing that which you wish you had learnt earlier how do you plan to pass the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lessons on to another person who may be stuck where you were? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Showing the person there’s a lot more to life than being dormant</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">If you are not doing it, Why aren’t you? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">How do you plan to implement it into your daily life?</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b>Are you being true to your inner self or are you busy pleasing everybody else? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Right now, the only person I please is me</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">If you are not being true to self, how’s that working for you? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Are you happy? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Considerably</b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">How do you define happiness? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">An inner feeling of peace</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Am sure almost everybody is tagged already so I’ll just tag: </div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://thankgoodnessforthegoodones.blogspot.com/">Gnetch</a> and <a href="http://isetfiretotherain.wordpress.com/">Chinny</a> (please answer Cherry chatter’s questions)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-35684563160245089922012-05-03T05:54:00.000-07:002012-05-03T05:54:41.679-07:00ANTONYMS OF A MIRAGE<div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"> </div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><span style="background: white;">So as most of you might have heard, our very own <a href="http://atilola.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ilola's </a>first book is out. I am so excited and happy for her. The book is a must read and has enough ingredients to keep you turning the pages. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjatv8XZsKAODjbqVCav49UJnXmEVyqmxUfgCJ5P-3JQfYD8W4Dpr0I0zSPbp4egGFCMSzuQsO5mP487b06YkF6DdxOu3sbqRIiCMXFF7Jn4ZWBYjke8o7l9E6VrF5HSsWiNsUBOeaz7_PU/s1600/cover+final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjatv8XZsKAODjbqVCav49UJnXmEVyqmxUfgCJ5P-3JQfYD8W4Dpr0I0zSPbp4egGFCMSzuQsO5mP487b06YkF6DdxOu3sbqRIiCMXFF7Jn4ZWBYjke8o7l9E6VrF5HSsWiNsUBOeaz7_PU/s320/cover+final.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><span style="background: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><b><span style="background: white;">Below is a preview from ‘In My Pocket’ </span></b></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><b><span style="background: white;">‘Goshe – A short form of Shokolokobangoshe</span></b></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><b><span style="background: white;">Scenario 2</span></b></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><b><span style="background: white;">Mummy Bobo:</span></b><span style="background: white;"> <i>Olowo ori mi</i> (owner of my head), how was that favourite food of yours that I made for you? I am sure you enjoyed it. I have come to tell you about Bobo, your son. He is about to write his SSCE exams. The other day, I heard my senior wife bragging to her cousin that kola, her son, made all his papers two years ago because he is hardworking and brilliant. She then said she is sure Bobo will do the opposite and fail woefully. <i>Olowo ori mi</i>, please, don't let my enemies laugh at me. I know you can help me get the exam questions on the eve of every exam paper. This is the only way Bobo will be able to prove her wrong and shut her mouth forever. Daddy Bobo, you always say you love me more than my senior wife and if you really mean that, you will not let her have the last laugh over me.<br />
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<b>Chief Goshe:</b> Woman! Woman!! Woman!!! I have always warned you about this Bobo of a boy, but you will never listen to me. You spoil him too much, I hope he won't be the source of your downfall in future. Anyway, I will give you what you request, after which he will go to the UK to start his foundation course. You better warn your son to buckle up now, because there is no way I will fly over to meet David Cameron to organize exam papers by the time he gets to the UK. A word is enough for the wise. For now, the exam questions are not a problem. I have the education sector IN MY POCKET!<br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><b><span style="background: white;">Scenario 3</span></b></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><b><span style="background: white;">Oloyinbo:</span></b><span style="background: white;"> (Getting up from his two minutes prostration, which Chief Goshe acknowledged by massaging his head with the sole of his left foot, he then starts hailing loudly) Baba Goshe, Baba mi, you will live long, your enemies will not see their children. Anyone that says it will not be well with you, it won't be well with them too.</span></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><span style="background: white;">Baba mi, the time has come. I need your help seriously. It’s time for the councillor election for the local constituencies. As I told you last year, I intend to contest and since I have adopted you as my political father, who else will I run to but you? Baba Goshe, don't worry about my credentials. The minimum requirement is the SSCE result and I have already sorted that out with some boys and now have my results. All I need now is your backing and support. Baba mi, I am in your hand now <i>o</i>.<br />
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<b>Chief Goshe:</b> Oloyinbo, my nephew, see your mango head like that of my father. You want to run for councillor, hmm? I thought you were joking when you mentioned it last year. I hope you know the implications of what you are doing? The politics of our time is not for the lily-livered at all. You have to be on your toes at all times. Be ready to make friends and enemies, be ready to do anything to protect your political career and even your life from political detractors. It’s a dog eat dog world and make sure you are ready for all the consequences. You should have just accepted the business I offered to set up for you, but you youths of nowadays have been bitten by the get-rich-quick bug. Since you insist, I will help you. I will take you to a meeting tomorrow, where you will meet some powerful people. But know this one thing, you must not, in turn, bite the fingers of these powerful people, including mine, when you win. You will have to dance to their tunes. Otherwise, the ground will have no choice but to reject you.<br />
After tomorrow, your victory is a done deal. Even if you don't contest, you have won! It’s a done deal, I have the electoral system IN MY POCKET!<br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><b><span style="background: white;">Scenario 4</span></b><span style="background: white;"><br />
<b>Sisi Peperempe:</b> (After a steamy sex session) Honey boy, cookie crumble, sweetie, darling, sugar! I need your assistance <i>o</i>. You remember my youngest brother, Dodoyo, he's in Anti-graft commission’s custody. He was arrested last week <br />
(Kissing his fat filled pot belly). They said he posed as a minister and defrauded some companies. You know the story of my family and how Dodoyo and I had to see ourselves through life by all means possible. He's the only family I have. We have gone through so much and he doesn't deserve jail time or to lose all he has worked for. (Pouting her lips, with permanent red lipstick on) Baby boo, you must help Dodoyo or else ehn...<br />
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<b>Chief Goshe</b>: Sisi Peperempe! C'mon, rest your little head. Why are you worrying yourself over nothing? I am disappointed in the way you keep worrying and emphasizing on this issue. After the three years of us playing this 'love game', you still worry about these little things. Before you start your rants again, don't worry I forgive you. I guarantee you that it is settled. Give me a maximum of two days, Dodoyo will get out of custody and all his frozen assets will be returned. Plus the anti-graft commission, plus the person that created the anti-graft commission, I have them all IN MY POCKET!<br />
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<b>Scenario 5</b></span></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><b><span style="background: white;">Mr. Sinwonje:</span></b><span style="background: white;"> (Smacking his stomach during a meal of Suya and bottles of Lager beer at a popular elite club in Abuja) Chief Goshe, what are you going to do about this latest development now? I think Mr. President is serious about this power thing this time around <i>o</i>. If those Japanese people dare sign that contract of the electricity overhaul in this country, that line of business is over for me <i>o</i>, and you know that </span></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><span style="background: white;">Baba mi, the time has come. I need your help seriously. It’s time for the councillor election for the local constituencies. As I told you last year, I intend to contest and since I have adopted you as my political father, who else will I run to but you? Baba Goshe, don't worry about my credentials. The minimum requirement is the SSCE result and I have already sorted that out with some boys and now have my results. All I need now is your backing and support. Baba mi, I am in your hand now <i>o</i>.<br />
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<b>Chief Goshe:</b> Oloyinbo, my nephew, see your mango head like that of my father. You want to run for councillor, hmm? I thought you were joking when you mentioned it last year. I hope you know the implications of what you are doing? The politics of our time is not for the lily-livered at all. You have to be on your toes at all times. Be ready to make friends and enemies, be ready to do anything to protect your political career and even your life from political detractors. It’s a dog eat dog world and make sure you are ready for all the consequences. You should have just accepted the business I offered to set up for you, but you youths of nowadays have been bitten by the get-rich-quick bug. Since you insist, I will help you. I will take you to a meeting tomorrow, where you will meet some powerful people. But know this one thing, you must not, in turn, bite the fingers of these powerful people, including mine, when you win. You will have to dance to their tunes. Otherwise, the ground will have no choice but to reject you.<br />
After tomorrow, your victory is a done deal. Even if you don't contest, you have won! It’s a done deal, I have the electoral system IN MY POCKET!<br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><b><span style="background: white;">Scenario 4</span></b><span style="background: white;"><br />
<b>Sisi Peperempe:</b> (After a steamy sex session) Honey boy, cookie crumble, sweetie, darling, sugar! I need your assistance <i>o</i>. You remember my youngest brother, Dodoyo, he's in Anti-graft commission’s custody. He was arrested last week <br />
(Kissing his fat filled pot belly). They said he posed as a minister and defrauded some companies. You know the story of my family and how Dodoyo and I had to see ourselves through life by all means possible. He's the only family I have. We have gone through so much and he doesn't deserve jail time or to lose all he has worked for. (Pouting her lips, with permanent red lipstick on) Baby boo, you must help Dodoyo or else ehn...<br />
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<b>Chief Goshe</b>: Sisi Peperempe! C'mon, rest your little head. Why are you worrying yourself over nothing? I am disappointed in the way you keep worrying and emphasizing on this issue. After the three years of us playing this 'love game', you still worry about these little things. Before you start your rants again, don't worry I forgive you. I guarantee you that it is settled. Give me a maximum of two days, Dodoyo will get out of custody and all his frozen assets will be returned. Plus the anti-graft commission, plus the person that created the anti-graft commission, I have them all IN MY POCKET!</span></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><b><span style="background: white;">Scenario 5</span></b></div><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mr. Sinwonje:</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> (Smacking his stomach during a meal of Suya and bottles of Lager beer at a popular elite club in Abuja) Chief Goshe, what are you going to do about this latest development now? I think Mr. President is serious about this power thing this time around <i>o</i>. If those Japanese people dare sign that contract of the electricity overhaul in this country, that line of business is over for me <i>o</i>, and you know that means you will also lose your regular cut. Hmm, Goshe, this is not good news at all. That is my major income-generating business and I use it to keep body and soul, Princess and Priscilla together. Imagine that this whole country, Nigeria, will not need generators or diesels to make their life easier. This is serious disaster. I will do anything to make it fail….<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span> <b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Read the rest of this and a lot more when you get your copy of Antonyms of a Mirage</span></b><br />
<div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You can also view the trailer below<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZjeqJKliqYc?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="yiv1106027517msonormal"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span></div><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-18063014838363643492012-04-19T01:55:00.000-07:002012-04-19T01:55:20.603-07:00BLOG TOUR: SOCIAL PUNK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="p1" style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">After playing God for six years with the world he created, he couldn’t control any of his subjects, none at all. Over the years, he had watched them evolve and become the sum of their own choices rather than the sum of his; and for that, he regretted ever giving them life.</span></div><div class="p1" style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">A small, blinking red light from just inside his eyelid reminded him of the news they sent him earlier that morning. The company had cancelled his funding and would shut down his project within three months. According to them, the project cost too much and took up too much space, and the inconclusive results couldn’t be published reputably, now or in the future.</span></div><div class="p1" style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">Six years of his work, tens of thousands of lives at stake—and he could do nothing to save any of it. He bowed his head, letting his chin rest on the rim of his breakfast smoothie. The smoothie reeked of powder—crushed pills—but he supposed he had better get used to it. He wouldn’t be able to afford the luxury of real food after they canned him.</span></div><div class="p1" style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">He closed his eyes and called up the camera view of one of his favorites, number 3281. She fascinated him; he couldn’t deny it. When he had designed her, her pre-teen rebelliousness lit fire in her eyes. <em>A survivor</em>, he’d thought. He’d meant for her to have it all—to grow up, to get married to the love of her life, and to have a beautiful family of her own someday.</span></div><div class="p1" style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">But he had only given her sadness so far. Instead of creating a strict father, he had given her an abusive one. Instead of creating a loving boyfriend, he had given her a friend who could never love her. And instead of creating a strong, proud mother, he had given her a meek one, who watched the whole thing unfold and did nothing about it.</span></div><div class="p1" style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">He looked at his last and final creation sitting in the chair across from him—his own son, not awakened yet. The law forbade him to have any children of his own, so this boy would substitute.</span></div><div class="p1" style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">But he had done the unthinkable with this creation—he had bestowed on it his own thoughts, emotions, and decision-making processes. He’d given the boy his own mind, his own physical characteristics, his own wants and desires.</span></div><div class="p1" style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">He had never done so with any of the others because of the dangers of investing too heavily in any one of his subjects. But who could he kid? He had not stayed objective thus far, watching some of his subjects more closely than others, wishing for the happiness of some at the expense of others. He had become an abomination, a monster of his own doing, who had created subjects only to watch them suffer.</span></div><div class="p1" style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">He couldn’t forgive himself; not now, not ever. His eyes lingered on the vial that sat next to his breakfast smoothie, that he’d stowed away for the day when they destroyed all his work, his entire world. He would save it, tuck it away for now, for as long as he could protect them. When things spun out of his control, he would drink it and end himself the way he had ended them.</span></div><div class="p1" style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">In the ancient stories, gods frequently gave their sons as gifts. Now, he would give his son as a gift to her, number 3281. So she could be happy in her last months on earth, before they destroyed her with the rest of them.</span></div>*The above excerpt is from <a href="http://proseonfire.com/" target="_blank">Monica Leonelle</a> new book "Social Punk".<br />
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<span style="color: #898989; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Monica Leonelle is a well-known digital media strategist and the author of three novels. She blogs at Prose on Fire (</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://proseonfire.com/">http://proseonfire.com</a><span style="color: #898989;">) and shares her writing and social media knowledge with other bloggers and authors through her Free Writer Toolkit (</span><a href="http://proseonfire.com/free-writer-toolkit">http://proseonfire.com/free-writer-toolkit</a><span style="color: #898989;">).</span></span> <br />
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<h3 style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">Links to Purchase the Book:</span></h3><div style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #898989;">Amazon: </span><a href="http://monicaleonelle.com/SocialpunkA">http://monicaleonelle.com/SocialpunkA</a></div><span style="color: #898989; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Barnes and Noble: </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://monicaleonelle.com/SocialpunkB">http://monicaleonelle.com/SocialpunkB</a></span> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #898989;"><br />
</span></span>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-2016037381253028742012-03-26T01:18:00.000-07:002012-03-26T01:18:14.255-07:00TEMPTATIONS IIIFor, <a href="http://toinlicious.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Toinlicious </a>,who prodded and almost punched me to come back and clear the cobwebs. xoxo<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Akpos<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ibrahim was driving me crazy.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">I was singing and giggling and doing all sort of stupid things as I prepared to meet him for dinner. He had called me and said he’ll like us to meet and talk and I had been daydreaming about the perfect evening we’re going to have.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Jenny gave me her sixth crazy look of the evening. I ignored her.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“Are you sure you’re alright Lin?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“And how’s that your problem Jen?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">She rolled her eyes and walked out of the room.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">I applied the last touch to my makeup (I have to make a fine impression; with Tessie and all in the picture), practiced different smiles and finally decided to go with the “cool calm side smile” (it’s my best). Another look at my watch and I still had forty minutes to kill. With the kind of entry I was planning, it was important not to get<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there before him, its best to even arrive like ten minutes late (blame the traffic) so I went to seek Jenny out</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“Are you sure you’re doing the right thing?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“You mean a single girl going on a date with a single guy she kinda likes? Yes, totally right”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“And if the single guy has a serious relationship and his friend who wants to date you is actually the one that introduced you?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“I’m sure you’ve seen better dramas Jen, just let it go”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“Sure, whatever”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Why was I even wasting my time with Jen when my prince charming would be waiting. I baptized myself with perfume and after saying goodbye to Jen, left the house.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">* <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">He stood up when he saw me and the whole room stopped. The guy is gorgeous. My practiced catwalk, smile and handshake flew away in one second.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“Nice to see you again Linda”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">It took me a moment to respond, I was busy taking in the perfection standing before me</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“Linda?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“Oh…….its won – wonderful to see you too”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">My life should be a movie right now.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“What will you have?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“<s>Just you mister</s> anything”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Then I heard someone from behind me</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“Honey, what are you doing here?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">I turned. It was the queen bitch; Tessie.</div>*please, has anyone seen Che? seriously missing her around here*<br />
And in case you missed it, <a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/08/temptation.html" target="_blank">here</a> is the part one and <a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/09/temptation-ii.html" target="_blank">two</a>.Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-6584823137108904782012-02-20T23:58:00.000-08:002012-02-20T23:58:12.462-08:00BABY MAMA 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir5toJjefm6_08JKt9JJ7jyjcOWuc7IvhjrinKzkbL082s7QsszaG03erWi30FI2VXpKZ89aqVP2Mn8y-Wr9_PyAKNyjQBYAh-SyONLSnlj4jsbWLYUJdyrTi1I1zppfMMPSg-ywdiw7s/s1600/girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir5toJjefm6_08JKt9JJ7jyjcOWuc7IvhjrinKzkbL082s7QsszaG03erWi30FI2VXpKZ89aqVP2Mn8y-Wr9_PyAKNyjQBYAh-SyONLSnlj4jsbWLYUJdyrTi1I1zppfMMPSg-ywdiw7s/s1600/girl.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I remember clearly too the first letter I wrote to somebody I don’t know. It was the letter to my child, the one I was to abort. I wrote it the morning before I went to see the doctor. It was short but I hoped he/she understands.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"Dear Yvonne/Kelvin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Mummy loves you but right now mummy cant keep you. I know it’s hard but I need you to understand. Grandpa won’t understand and grandma would blow a fuse. Mummy would have to drop out of school and work as a sales girl. It would be so bad cos mummy doesn’t know daddy and you will be deprived of all the good things. Please know that I love you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Yours always</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Mum. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I was at the address, clutching the <s>N</s>5000 in my hand and looking like a person just sentenced to death. Doctor Steve(as I latter found out was his name) opened the door and gave me the usual silent treatment. I swore in my mind never ever to have sex again till I’m married. Dear God, please, just don’t let me die.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"I saw the way that doctor looked at you yesterday, is he you boyfriend?" he said as he turned to face me when I closed the door behind me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The alcohol smell hit my nose and I tried hard to keep a straight face.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"No, I don’t know him"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He nodded and started bringing out the things he needed. I sat down at the couch nearest to me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"You are a very beautiful girl, no wonder you are pregnant"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I cringed and swore again not to have sex.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He came close to me and I could feel his alcoholic breath on my face. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"Where’s the money?"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I quickly stretched out my hand with the money in it. He took it, starred at it for a while and tossed it on the center table</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"I could do it for free you know, just let me play with you a little"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I started shaking my head, saying no, I was imagining another pregnancy on the one before.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"I’ll get pregnant again"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He laughed, a mocking laugh</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"No, I’ll take care of all that....." he started grinning as he grabbed my breasts and started pulling me close.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I struggled to get away but he was stronger than me, I kept struggling and kicking with my little strength. After what seemed like 10 minutes, he overpowered me and stripped my clothes and just as he was about to strip my panties the door bell rang. He left me to open the door</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I grabbed my clothes .......and my money as I ran out, speeding past the guest. I stopped running when I put as much space between me and the house as possible. I was sucking in air rapidly when an elderly woman grabbed my hand and pulled me aside......</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"Don’t you have a mother?"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I looked at my stomach to see if it was so obvious I was pregnant. I looked at her again, a confused expression on my face</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"Go attend to your flows daughter" She said and gave me a disapproving look</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I looked down and saw bright red blood flowing down my legs. I sat down on the road and started laughing</span></div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-73702676381083506662012-02-13T00:05:00.000-08:002012-02-13T00:05:31.837-08:00THE WINNING STORY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilNygtwLfQo-LhrJRCBRGdzPyGDcFTk3mzfji_jzz4YwHiNm8HP8YQ3_zoy73mrghFCZOWuW2RarqwQFpqInAeOgGAz-1bSPakLzeKBxkHRotEifPKF-qj0h-nz0bBMZDM7jjYkjcENM/s1600/pray.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilNygtwLfQo-LhrJRCBRGdzPyGDcFTk3mzfji_jzz4YwHiNm8HP8YQ3_zoy73mrghFCZOWuW2RarqwQFpqInAeOgGAz-1bSPakLzeKBxkHRotEifPKF-qj0h-nz0bBMZDM7jjYkjcENM/s1600/pray.jpeg" /></a></div>So I won the second prize in Dianah's place "write 'n win" competition and i just want to bring the story here so that you guys can read too (I am nice like that.lol)<br />
Many thanks to Dianah for the cash prize, i got it already and NO, i am not sharing....except maybe with one person. Lets get to the story already, shall we?<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He stopped and wiped his face with the back of his hand. After gaining his breath back, he bent down and started pushing the truck again. This is how he lives, how he survives, how he feeds his wife and two kids, how he sends his children to school. This truck-pushing business is his job.Ike stepped under the shade to hide from the scorching sun; he knew Mama Bisi would not scold him like other women who do not allow truck-pushers to stand under their shade.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"How market?" Mama Bisi asked.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Fine o, we thank God" he replied.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He bought "pure water" from mama Bisi and promised to pay when he collects the money for his delivery. This was his first round; he had come late because his youngest son was very sick. He shook his head and dismissed the thought from his head. He had to concentrate; he would think about Chike later. He tore the pure water and finished it in one gulp as he continued pushing the truck towards the warehouse.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ike delivered the goods to the warehouse, collected his money and was heading out when he heard shouts from the next shop.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Fire.....fire!!"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ike ran to the shop. He thought about his sick son, he should take his earnings home immediately but he couldn’t leave the people in the fire.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He ran inside.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He felt the cool breeze before he saw the fan swirling above him. The bed he lied on felt unfamiliar and all his body ached. Where was he? He tried to move his body but the pain was too much.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You are in the hospital sir……….please don’t try to move…….” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ike looked at the kind nurse as he began to recollect the previous day happenings. He had ran into the burning building and immediately sighted a pregnant woman, she had been too weak to stand up and it seemed like she had gone into labour. He couldn’t see well through the thick smoke. He groveled till he got to the woman and carried-dragged her outside, almost choking from the smoke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ike sighed and reached to touch his pocket but all he felt was sore skin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“My money, where’s my money?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am sorry sir but we didn’t find any money…………..we were trying to save you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He broke down. Why had he done it? Why had he risked his son’s life to save a stranger? His friends had always said his kindness would be his undoing………..he had laughed them off and told them doing good everyday is his way of life. Maybe they were right. How would he explain to his wife that his good deeds cost him the money for their son’s treatment?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amaka, Ike’s wife was smiling when she entered her husband’s ward.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Amaka, I am so sorry, they said they can not find the money I wanted to bring home for Chika’s treatment…………..I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had it, it was in my pocket…………I’m sorry”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amaka smiled as she held her husband’s hand</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Its o.k. my husband. The woman you saved delivered a set of twins and you don’t have to worry about Chika’s hospital bills, it has already been paid for by the woman’s family”.</span></div><br />
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Please checkout the first prize winner on Dianah's <a href="http://www.dianahsplace.info/" target="_blank">blog</a>.........................that story is AWESOME.<br />
*ermmmm, sorry but the picture is totally unrelatedLucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-91146196676500947922012-01-18T23:47:00.000-08:002012-01-18T23:52:56.189-08:00I AM BACK!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinPLAyYdwhTEIWv9HKmgmGKPcMYKmpxyJEVJuG5uBSMDoBvsaGdKIPXzWTWeOI_MeeDaPMcNWn5E_x16PbvGjfVsy1tYI9tRPiZ5HcnPDIrY4rK1tuHjnlv1bCzYzpmdgHMBdO_QxYGU/s1600/bck.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinPLAyYdwhTEIWv9HKmgmGKPcMYKmpxyJEVJuG5uBSMDoBvsaGdKIPXzWTWeOI_MeeDaPMcNWn5E_x16PbvGjfVsy1tYI9tRPiZ5HcnPDIrY4rK1tuHjnlv1bCzYzpmdgHMBdO_QxYGU/s1600/bck.jpeg" /></a></div>*clears throat* I don't know how to do this, I just hope you understand. *looks at written piece* Ermm....I am very sorry for being away for this long, I was caught in the xmas/new year/ subsidy/ strike drama. I have missed this space and everybody here. Special thanks to everybody that checked on me..........(Toin, Che, Priscy, Honeydame, Mstizzle) Thanks for all the messages, wishes and concerns. Shout out to my new followers; I am fully back now and thanks a loooot for following, you guys made me smile. Happy new year to everybody. Let me now get back to writing great stories for 2012.<br />
Pheww.......that wasn't easy o.lol.<br />
By popular demand, the story for today is BABY MAMA (Part 2). In case you missed it, the part 1 is <a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/10/baby-mama.html">here</a>. Enjoy.<br />
N.B: if you've not forwarded my xmas/new year gift, please do so.lol<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 63.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I remember clearly too the first day I went to a grown man’s house alone. I dragged my legs on the road. I stopped and starred into space and continued again. I’m sure people who saw me that day would have thought I was going mad. Maybe I was, it was a hard decision. Uncle Jo had told me not to do it when he dropped me off yesterday, he said he would explain to Mum and Dad but I had said no. Its better this way, how do I start explaining to my parents that I don’t even know the name of the boy I am pregnant for? Yeah, it was Tessie's birthday party and as my best friend, Mum had allowed me to sleepover. Tessie’s brother came home with a lot of friends for the party and they kept daring us to drink. I said no, bearing in mind Mum’s stern warning about the dangers of drinking alcohol but I gave in latter, when I saw Tessie didn’t die after two bottles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 63.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">He said his name way Paul, Peter, Peace.....I really cant remember but there was a “P” somewhere, all I remember is that he said my body was sweet like honey and I followed him to the bathroom. I can’t even remember what the sex was like; it was over in one minute after which he gave me two tablets. I hate pills so I threw them in the toilet and flushed.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: dotted windowtext 3.0pt; border: none; margin-left: 63.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: dotted windowtext 3.0pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Uncle Jo had threatened to tell my parents if I went through with it but luckily, he had gotten an urgent call from his family to come over. It would all be over before he comes back.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-10759796606797678832011-11-30T23:26:00.000-08:002011-11-30T23:26:49.560-08:00THE RIGHT ONE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqmLvhHeLtIqSVyObGBA5xp41r0KYIQbOR-zD9scCuA3fWoNd_W8gC6hMiEKbL_POUjbDdLm1Gnp_vqvG940-xhbvYfraVLasTHEBmK0frR8j4XnQy5Rm77X2zJbXErMiYGMM44UJunsY/s1600/wedding-ring_300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqmLvhHeLtIqSVyObGBA5xp41r0KYIQbOR-zD9scCuA3fWoNd_W8gC6hMiEKbL_POUjbDdLm1Gnp_vqvG940-xhbvYfraVLasTHEBmK0frR8j4XnQy5Rm77X2zJbXErMiYGMM44UJunsY/s320/wedding-ring_300.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I looked deep into his dark sparkling eyes, it always seems like they hold a mystery and everytime I try unraveling it I just end up smiling and shaking my head. I am in love with this man. He read my mind and smiled at me...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“I love you too babe.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">His smile does wonderful things to me and his mere stare sends my heart racing like a pumping machine (whack comparison I know but you get my drift right?)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">We were relaxing at the lounge of a five star hotel in Dubai. He had told me earlier that week that he had a surprise for me; I knew it was going to be something great because he hardly disappoints. He knew I had wanted a trip to Dubai again but I hadn’t expected it so soon. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">When he came to pick me, he had a mischievous smile on his face and when I asked him where we were going <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he told me he didn’t want to spoil the surprise.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So here I am, having my best birthday, in Dubai, with the man I love. Life doesn’t get better than this. We had explored all the fun places, got back to our room and after cleaning up decided to grab a quick dinner before going back to our room.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The waiter came and took our orders. I was busy teasing him about how many admirers he got just today when the waiter brought our food. I opened my plate and saw a box. I was planning all the “grammar” I was going to speak to the waitress before it dawned on me that it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">might</b> be a ring inside. I looked at the waitress.......she was smiling sheepishly. I looked at him......he was on his knees.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Marry me Lucy. Life would be incomplete without you.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I know some of you are already planning how to make it to my wedding. I’m sure <a href="http://toinlicious.blogspot.com/">MY SISTER</a> is about ordering her gown now, and some are even about to write long congratulatory messages, not forgetting the “aso ebi” people. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><strong><em>Please continue.</em></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I will, I will, I will marry you; I’ll be the mother of your children........ *waterworks*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And then somebody started ringing a bell.........it didn’t stop.....it kept ringing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Somebody tell that person to stop that rubbish!! Don’t you know it’s my fab. moment?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It still kept ringing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Stoooooooooopppppp!!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And I woke up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The ringing was from my stupid alarm.</span></div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-40923777187702132902011-11-09T05:09:00.000-08:002011-11-09T05:22:22.945-08:00JUST ANOTHER MONDAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0Vl9BAA1Z-WhE3WhE4HOwGfUNWreo-m2ljE6H8D3w1Tv2dotW8Y1HJnnT3TXfcO9utTM8WAFhjjK-5wkLF0n_PJjVMMrhFPrBgu8sDkyXak6Ko2M56Baac3DSEjTF94cXOsmqi-9JJM/s1600/mon.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0Vl9BAA1Z-WhE3WhE4HOwGfUNWreo-m2ljE6H8D3w1Tv2dotW8Y1HJnnT3TXfcO9utTM8WAFhjjK-5wkLF0n_PJjVMMrhFPrBgu8sDkyXak6Ko2M56Baac3DSEjTF94cXOsmqi-9JJM/s1600/mon.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate Mondays. I hate waking up on Monday, getting ready for work, getting to work, having to do Friday’s left over work, checking out everything and mostly, I hate having to do the stressful Monday site checks. I’m not a lazy girl, I just prefer doing my job in comfortable places when its most convenient.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This Monday, I was bored. Yes, bored. Is that possible? Yes. My boss just went on leave and I was pulling my weight by sending the others to site with a stern warning to report everything to me. I was just beginning to get comfortable when I heard the fire alarm. I ran outside, everybody was there already then the Safety manager came and gave one speech about how they were checking/testing some fittings and we can go back to our offices. I hissed………………….almost everybody did.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I got back to my office and continued the scrabble game I was playing………………….I must win this one. I heard somebody shouting outside. I stood up to check it out but changed my mind and sat back down, maybe it’s just another person testing his voice. Dare opened my office door and peeked in (I take knocking seriously and I was about giving Dare another lecture on office etiquette)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Lola, you still dey here?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Where I for dey?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“You never hear?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“the false alarm?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“No”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">He closed my door and left. Yeah, I have a thing for “aproko” and Dare is my feed. When he starts acting funny like this, it means he wants me to find out. I followed him. Everybody was gathered at the reception……………..starring at the screen of the TV. I couldn’t see past their heads so I just tapped one of my colleagues.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“wetin happen?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“boko haram just bombed Aso rock”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>DISCLAIMER: this is TOTALLY a work of fiction.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">*Lucy here** I'm so sorry for being away this long, my computer has been on a seriously stupid strike. i think it needs deliverance.lol. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Which of my stories will you really love to read? I know I owe a lot of part twos.................which one should i post first?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/10/baby-mama.html">Baby mama</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/09/be-my-wife.html">Be my wife</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/09/temptation-ii.html">Temptation</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-heart-wants_05.html">What the heart wants</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://lucianochinwe.blogspot.com/2011/09/mommy-dont-cry.html">Mommy don't cry</a></span></div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-80175304914746800832011-10-25T05:18:00.000-07:002011-10-25T05:18:35.194-07:00WEEKENDER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpvUFJlJuaTehmC-2AtZHBzaCFE7QqH26ZESoH9Bsz6egh5C5WvGsnFfHsN53JVsdhrAg5pVvEMjbBJn__IkYmFTD9VXBQxLD-KT9ndqBert4XLRWZnByOSfKGLLHWPLE9Ee3n5zRJ-Qs/s1600/wkend.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpvUFJlJuaTehmC-2AtZHBzaCFE7QqH26ZESoH9Bsz6egh5C5WvGsnFfHsN53JVsdhrAg5pVvEMjbBJn__IkYmFTD9VXBQxLD-KT9ndqBert4XLRWZnByOSfKGLLHWPLE9Ee3n5zRJ-Qs/s1600/wkend.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: -.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Linda was getting irritated now. She glanced around, checked her watch and pushed her hair from her face. She moved her bag from her left to right shoulder.<br />
It’s been fifteen minutes now and Desmond was not showing up. Today meant a lot to her, that was the only reason she could wake up at 5am, in order to beat traffic and take such time to look good. She wanted to put a face to the name, a personality to the voice she's been hearing for close to one year. She dialed the number again.<br />
"Where are you?"<br />
"conoil"<br />
"I’m actually at conoil"<br />
Linda looked around again. She didn’t see any new or familiar person. Though she has not seen him before, she could tell how he looks.<br />
"I can’t see you"<br />
"which conoil are you?"<br />
"In front of UBTH"<br />
"you passed UNIBEN?"<br />
"Yes"<br />
After a long description, she dropped the call. With the previous night and early morning rain, she was supposed to be cuddled up on her bed still lazying around on a saturday morning but Desmond had asked her to come to Benin so that they can see so she had entered the rain and arrived at Benin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: -.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">A car parked in front of her and there he was, smiling at her. She took him in.............white shirt, white smile, cute face, firm build.........that was all she could see. Just her kind of guy. She made a "not bad" mental note and entered the car</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: -.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Desmond pushed the straying hair from her face and touched her cheek<br />
"I’m glad you came"<br />
"me too"<br />
They were lying face to face on the hotel bed. He has wanted to see this girl; the girl he talks to for minutes everyday, the girl he knows so much without the face. He wanted to see if she’s real or its just some voice over the machine. He tucked back another hair and cuddled her closer.<br />
He had come to Benin for his friend's wedding and asked her to come. He looked at her again and sighed, wishing life was this easy.<br />
"You know I’ll like to kiss you but I don’t want to jump on you"<br />
"yeah, kissing me will really be jumping on me"<br />
They talked late into the night and eventually slept off.<br />
* * * *<br />
The sound of somebody moving woke Linda and she opened her eyes. He was still holding her and he was so close. He hadn’t touched her through out the night, she was surprised.<br />
"Good morning"<br />
"good morning, hope you slept fine"<br />
She moved closer and she could feel his breath on her face. She felt his mouth on hers and she kissed him back. A kiss that left her wanting more.<br />
* * *<br />
"It’s really nice of you to come"<br />
"tanks for a good time"<br />
"so we'll see, we re still in Nigeria"</span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">"Yeah"<br />
"bye" "bye"<br />
Linda entered the cab. She looked back and he had already crossed the road. She closed her eyes and smiled.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><strong><em>Specially dedicated to KAYCEE. Happy birthday dear, thanks for all the joy you brought to my life.</em></strong>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-37831868416057529712011-10-18T00:54:00.000-07:002011-10-18T00:54:06.612-07:00BABY MAMA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggkdvDBunUXyyv7Plq91pBJfP78sK19PnOGdqoS39XJkwKCvONNy-LrTaeGOkCp4TqH5QrBhs4-Zhbzw6TmSwKhLAA_PoqHlNVWkjUTKtCIf4rZ97NGchJKMb4KaVHkNNIeSsnjxiHTsM/s1600/girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggkdvDBunUXyyv7Plq91pBJfP78sK19PnOGdqoS39XJkwKCvONNy-LrTaeGOkCp4TqH5QrBhs4-Zhbzw6TmSwKhLAA_PoqHlNVWkjUTKtCIf4rZ97NGchJKMb4KaVHkNNIeSsnjxiHTsM/s1600/girl.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I remember clearly the first time I went to the hospital alone. I stood for a good ten minutes at the gate before I went in. I was scared. So scared. I was biting my nails and looking down. I had insisted Momma shouldn’t come with me. My reason was that I was big enough to take care of myself; after all, I was sixteen…or will be on my next birthday. I had also insisted not to go to Uncle Jo’s hospital. Uncle Jo was my Dad’s friend and has been our family doctor since I can remember.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I had to wait in a long queue to take the card and I had to sit after then to wait for my turn. I looked around……..I saw mothers, old men, old women, nurses…………..they were all so comfortable. I didn’t see any sixteen year old girl.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Miss Clarisse?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Yes Ma”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Your turn”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I bit my lower lip, straightened my skirt and followed the nurse.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The doctor was busy writing when I entered. The nurse motioned me to sit and closed the door.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The doctor finally looked at me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Clarisse”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“What?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Are you not Clarisse?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Oh yes”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“And you are 18?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I nodded</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He stared at me for some minutes, like he was trying to make up his mind about something.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“So what is wrong with you?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“I have been……..”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Somebody knocked</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Come in”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It was Uncle Jo. Appears he knows the other doctor that’s off duty. He chose to sit down a little before leaving.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Baby, are you alright?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Uncle Jo calls me “baby”. I just nodded and smiled. The doctor looked at me and motioned me to continue.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“I have been having serious menstrual pain lately”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He asked me some questions, prescribed some drugs and I left the office. I was waiting at the pharmacy when Uncle Jo passed. I stood up and ran back to the doctor’s office. I didn’t wait for his “come in”. I entered and stood there till he looked up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I think I’m pregnant”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He gave me that look again, the screening look.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“You think or you are?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I hesitated</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“I am pregnant”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He started writing again. After standing there for 2minutes without him saying anything to me I decided to leave. He gave me the paper then.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Be there 9am tomorrow…………..with N5, 000”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I nodded and left the office. I didn’t even wait at the pharmacy for drugs. I just walked out.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Uncle Jo was leaning against his car, waiting for me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Linda, are you pregnant?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I was pretending I didn’t hear him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Linda, you used a fake name, fake age, fake address……………does your mom even know why you’re here?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I broke down</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Im sorry uncle Jo. I don’t know……………..I don’t know what to do…………..please don’t tell mum”</span></div><br />
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**SPECIAL THANKS TO <a href="http://apenandaheart.blogspot.com/">Naija4lyf</a> and <a href="http://relentlessbuilder.blogspot.com/">The relentless builder</a> FOR GIVING ME THE VERSATILE BLOGGER AWARD. Im feeling sooooooo versatile. Thanks a lot, i appreciate it.Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-90663533740512671792011-10-11T00:59:00.000-07:002011-10-11T01:34:04.539-07:00ITS MY BIRTHDAY.............YAYYY!!!!<div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">After my father was safely seated inside my car, I closed the car door and went to the other side to make my call. Though I’m still a child, I did not want my father to know I still act like one.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">He picked on the third ring.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘hey baby, how are you doing and how’s life treating u there?’ I am very close to my fiancée, a fact I must mention. No day passes without him calling me numerous times so when I was the one calling him he was surprised.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">My name is Linda, Linda Cokers (don’t blame me, ask my dad) and I have been through a lot, I have come a long way (that’s putting it mildly) so the pomp and glare I enjoy now is well deserved. Well, that’s another story for another day, back to the present.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“What sup Queen?” Queen, that’s what my fiancée calls me and every time he does, I remember the first day I saw him, the picture of perfection…………….but I’m not gonna divert or start another story so I was saying it feels so good when he calls me that ( I wonder why queen Elizabeth is not always blushing)</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“So why are you calling? Is everything ok?”</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘There’s something I need to tell you’ I said</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“What happened, what is it?” it was very obvious he was scared, if I was in his shoes, I will be but I was not in his shoes cos I already have my own shoes.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I knew my fiancée would be making a wild guess, what are you thinking?</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">a.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I just found a condom in your suit pocket and I’m leaving you</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">b.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">My father just had a heart attack</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">c.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am down with fever</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those of u who guessed a, b or c, move to the top of the class. Those of you who guessed none of the above are promoted to the next class.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘This is the deal; I am pregnant for you and its two months old. What are you gonna do?” okay, so I didn’t exactly say that, what I said was;</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Baby, we are having a baby. The doctor said I am two months pregnant’</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Silence…………………………………………</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Hello’</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Silence………………………………………….</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Are you still there?’</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Silence……………………………………………….</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now I am the one getting scared.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">At last he spoke:</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“my Queen, I’m on my way to the airport, I’m leaving with the next flight, you need me right now and I cant but just be there”…………………</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who says its not good to have a fiancée?...........**on my way to the airport****</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And if you are wondering about my Dad, he only came to visit and he’s not having a heart attack. (At least, not yet)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia9R1GdwxMu8RietaXxfebp4zFbpquuMtk1j0ADqbAg-7RQGIF_vwEq4WXRjH4gbyQRDfKBESbtI0etVRH1tjq6JAS_O4djNRuQz_TeMI153HMAMo1EtnhjilGXYxxi7802xJstu9xBWc/s1600/lucy+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia9R1GdwxMu8RietaXxfebp4zFbpquuMtk1j0ADqbAg-7RQGIF_vwEq4WXRjH4gbyQRDfKBESbtI0etVRH1tjq6JAS_O4djNRuQz_TeMI153HMAMo1EtnhjilGXYxxi7802xJstu9xBWc/s320/lucy+002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -27.0pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">*Lucy here**………… today is my birthday and the picture is me with a lot of help from photoshop.lol</span></span></div><span style="background-color: magenta;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">please note; the story above is JUST a birthday story, not my personal life.</span></span></div><span style="background-color: magenta;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">Don’t forget to send my gifts and cake.</span></span></div><span style="background-color: magenta;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">Its @bigangelada on twitter and Luce-lue ‘adanne Michaels on facebook</span></span></div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-20020109096971061112011-10-06T01:45:00.000-07:002011-10-06T01:45:01.414-07:00FIRST (FIVE) BLOG AWARD(S)<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">I felt like hitting my phone on the wall. i hate some kinda calls e.g someone calling me and saying stupid things when i dont even know what half the thing is about. It left me feeling bad and sleep wasn't coming so i thought to check my blog. No worst harm can come reading blog posts right?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">So i checked my "comments" and there it was.................................Myne Whiteman with the Versatile Blogger(VB) award. I went to bed with a big smile and a joyful heart. Thanks a lot Myne.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">Dont mind me, thats just me trying to make everything into a story.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">Myne........Yeah, the great author and blogger gave the the Versatile blogger award and im saying a big thank you. Myne writes great stories and if you've not been visiting her <a href="http://www.mynewhitmanwrites.com/">blog</a> you are missing a lot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">Priscy gave me the VB award too. I love going to her <a href="http://apysworld.blogspot.com/">blog</a> cos i always find interesting, great, entertaining and inspiring things. she gives great advice too. Thanks a lot dearie.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">Chinny also gave me the VB award. Hmmmm..............I don't even know where to start on this one. you need to see her <a href="http://isetfiretotherain.wordpress.com/">blog</a> to decide. She write fabulous stories...............they are not just fab., you will enjoy reading them. I promise. plus shes my sister. yes, shes Ibo.lol</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">Toinlicious dearest gave me the VB award yesterday and mehnn!!! I did a full "shoooo...........na me be this?". I love this babe. Yeah, you read right "LOVE" and you gotta check her <a href="http://toinlicious.blogspot.com/">blog</a> out and you'll be falling right in love too. thanks dear.XOXO </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">And now the one that makes me go "gaga"..........."Naija great'......... I was so happy i was doing "OMG OMG OMG" for three inutes. Like seriously. Thanks a loooooot. I really appreciate. If you are a Naija great, you just have to see his <a href="http://a9jagreat.blogspot.com/">blog</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">And to everybody that has been reading, commenting and peeping.lol....................I say a big THANK YOU. Special thanks to my "followers", my heart swells everytime i see you guys. And thank you to "you" too........you know who you are.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">Phew!!!! never wanted to make it this long.....................forgive me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">So 7 things about me:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">1. I type a lot of things to post as comment and then delete them and post just one line</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">2. I have a phone purse......its a purse i put my phones and earpieces. People find it fuinny when they see a wallet and a purse inside my bag.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">3. I love my boyfriend.......................a lot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">4. I love travelling. Mostly road trips so i can see the details.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">5. I take pictures of random things.............ranging from the skyline to the girl hawking banana.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">6. I am a hopeless romantic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">7. I dont have a BB.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;">And the 15 blogs are.......................(yes, im still going to give you even if you've gotten)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://pweetytales.blogspot.com/">kitkat's tales</a> (fab stowies)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://aseni.blogspot.com/">Aseni</a> (great diary)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://ladyngo.blogspot.com/">Lady Ngo</a> (a little of everything)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://naijamuminlondon.blogspot.com/">Naija mum in London</a> (bestest mum)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://rappingonamelody.blogspot.com/">Rhapsody pheonix</a> (one word.......blessings)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://littlemissgastronome.blogspot.com/">Modern African cuisine</a> (proper kitchen/mouth watering guide) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://teehem.blogspot.com/">thoughts, jumbled</a> (my favorite poems)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://atilola.blogspot.com/">@ilola</a> (its addictive)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://sarahofili.wordpress.com/">Sarah ofili beauty blog</a> (everything about beauty)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://simplymsnana.blogspot.com/">diary of a shallow black girl</a> (just love this one)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://isetfiretotherain.wordpress.com/">rambling of a diva</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://toinlicious.blogspot.com/">Its toinlicious</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.mynewhitmanwrites.com/">Myne Whiteman writes</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://apysworld.blogspot.com/">Priscy's world</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://a9jagreat.blogspot.com/">An Eccentric Naija</a> </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9HmKEE_Bo_vBFk1xcD5FCBYgvlt0AuW08KWntvG1xczOLPw0aCH4lJTMSLx5hMSaHe2qSoPYxNCYZSGt8aomMmmmm9GFJySB3GttIeLJ-9VuO8s4uPaN-ERdHzRBLiJW9YDTxN6BjcM/s1600/versatile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9HmKEE_Bo_vBFk1xcD5FCBYgvlt0AuW08KWntvG1xczOLPw0aCH4lJTMSLx5hMSaHe2qSoPYxNCYZSGt8aomMmmmm9GFJySB3GttIeLJ-9VuO8s4uPaN-ERdHzRBLiJW9YDTxN6BjcM/s1600/versatile.jpg" /></a></div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-47893913562760193502011-09-26T01:03:00.000-07:002011-09-26T01:03:46.375-07:00LOVE FOR TWO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtN-Jb3iShkOCvw3gLVyRqNAot-yIrHIFUa-8pmt-usmD5EqYGb72eN8dLIRcXwIVho6jPu5-_ODsq1aBMDLcM6uGl5-DExaK-DJ3fIn-U9jLVAs2zFgn0Iaj7zGYH6MIsky4nQg_Tajw/s1600/rrr.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtN-Jb3iShkOCvw3gLVyRqNAot-yIrHIFUa-8pmt-usmD5EqYGb72eN8dLIRcXwIVho6jPu5-_ODsq1aBMDLcM6uGl5-DExaK-DJ3fIn-U9jLVAs2zFgn0Iaj7zGYH6MIsky4nQg_Tajw/s1600/rrr.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Tinuke looked around the deserted canteen and immediately lost her appetite. She had been very hungry but looking around her now, the only thing she wanted was to leave. The serving girl came to her table, gave her a look down and asked:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“wetin you wan chop?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Tinuke eyed her and stood up, picked her bag and left. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Outside the canteen, she spotted O.J; the guy who has been following her around since last week. She made a u-turn and walked towards her department. O.J had seen her at a birthday party the week before and she now regretted telling him her department. Sometimes you just have to watch how nice you are. She made a left and there he was, standing right in front of her. She was fed up and she showed it. O.J gave a smile and said:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Baby, why you dey run from me now?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">One thing that gets her angry was his stupid smile, the way he talks………always speaking pidgin English, another was his pride. He always boasted he knew everybody that matters in and outside the school and if she should say “yes’ to him, she wont need to read again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“I not running, I’ve just been busy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She was trying hard now not to shout at him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“baby please, try and share your love with me now”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This man doesn’t just understand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“No be only you I go share the love with, go find people join” Tinuke scoffed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She turned and stormed off.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">**************</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Tinuke walked briskly towards the gate. She hated leaving the campus this late. She had just wanted to finish the last chapter of the textbook; she never knew it would take this long.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She would start jogging when she gets outside, no need jogging from here. O.J pulled up beside her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Make I help you reach house”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Tinuke wanted to say no but she thought about how many minutes jog she would be saving herself and entered the car. She said hi to the four guys sitting at the back and faced front.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">One of the guys hit her with something and the next time she woke up, she was lying naked on a bed in a dim room with the four guys and O.J wearing only their boxers. O.J spoke:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">‘you say make I go find people join me to share the love……………..na them be this”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Tinuke screamed, shouted, begged and cried as the five guys raped her. After, they dropped her along the road.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Blood dripped down her legs, she couldn’t stand. What was she going to tell Mia and Ada her bestfriends? What was she going to tell Laide who had waited for her all these years? What was she going to tell her mother who she promised not to fail? Her life was over…………..over. She fell on the road and fainted.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">**************</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Tinuke woke up the next morning in the hospital. Somebody must have found her. She blinked back tears as last night’s memories started coming back. The doctor came in and started reading from a paper; he didn’t look at her. The only words she heard before she fainted again were:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“HIV positive”</span></div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-22089927756916103052011-09-19T01:23:00.000-07:002011-09-19T01:23:35.364-07:00MOMMY DON'T CRY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu_pHpjNofGXn9GMAyhTUum8Q2bUr7cH7SZu_ilpHe0npjSuK09o0SYY9cRmtbno6yyWUQ83slCvIoA8UPu6QeqsnzNfiYHL5H-jJn8BVEQCTXX10fNINTEMpQolMpIrBBeDvkhqRfWco/s1600/default.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu_pHpjNofGXn9GMAyhTUum8Q2bUr7cH7SZu_ilpHe0npjSuK09o0SYY9cRmtbno6yyWUQ83slCvIoA8UPu6QeqsnzNfiYHL5H-jJn8BVEQCTXX10fNINTEMpQolMpIrBBeDvkhqRfWco/s1600/default.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Mommy looked at me and said:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Linda, just make sure you are not a second wife and don't ever marry someone that will get one……..do you understand?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I nodded. I didn’t understand. All I understood was that mommy was always crying in the kitchen and when she hears <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mama Nnukwu</i> coming she wipes her eyes and told me stories. I loved the stories but I hated mommy crying.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I opened my eyes and heard somebody shouting. I checked the clock on the wall, It was 2’oclock in the morning; I was just learning how to tell the time. I sleep-walked to the living room and it was mommy. I was surprised; mommy never shouts. Daddy and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mama Nnukwu</i> were throwing out her bags from her room. I ran to mommy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Mommy, why are you shouting?” I didn't even notice the tears running down her cheeks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She looked at me and she appeared strong, like those superwomen I saw on TV. I’ve never seen her that way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“You won’t understand <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nwa</i>” (that was what mum calls me when she wants me to stop asking questions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I clutched mommy’s wrapper and when she picked her bags and started leaving I was with her. Daddy pulled me back and I started crying………………I wanted to go with my mommy. I was struggling to get away from daddy’s grip when <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mama Nnukwu</i> locked the door and daddy gave me a hard slap. Daddy told me to go back to sleep and like the 5 year old I was, I obeyed.</span></div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-47462707223836948832011-09-12T00:59:00.000-07:002011-09-12T00:59:13.083-07:00TEMPTATION II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhunZ2Z-J5Ym-w050B1iykcaZbd7iZAyay3tEWJmIFGSIE1EpLAwQHK7C-u1JZ0ylDAAOCUXXln9aofOc80ejY9E_v51_-NX8MytVSC3B0B6A3MqPSzoq_iw2jU6gUgVclsmSROa4doxRA/s1600/new.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhunZ2Z-J5Ym-w050B1iykcaZbd7iZAyay3tEWJmIFGSIE1EpLAwQHK7C-u1JZ0ylDAAOCUXXln9aofOc80ejY9E_v51_-NX8MytVSC3B0B6A3MqPSzoq_iw2jU6gUgVclsmSROa4doxRA/s1600/new.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I could tell Akpos was looking at me. Don’t ask me how but his gazes were boring holes in my skin. I suddenly became self conscious, my cloth felt too tight, I dabbed at my face with my handkerchief, I became aware that my hair was falling across my face (which I hadn’t noticed till then) I tucked it back, shifted on my chair and kept watching the movie and making a serious effort not to look Akpos’s way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Now I’m sure I hate Tessie. She was all over him with: “baby, you want some juice?” “You know I love you” “that’s my sweetheart”. I was boiling and trying so hard to keep it in check at least because of Victor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">At last, after a much failed attempt at conversation, Victor decided we should leave. Tessie still had a stupid grin on her face and I still had an overpowering urge to wipe it off with a slap. I caught Akpos looking at me then and almost missed a step.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Victor, its really nice you checked on “me” (I noted that………..”me” not “us”), please do it again (a glance at me)….and its nice meeting you emm……..Linda” (of course, the pleasure is all mine)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Same here” I said taking his hands. He held it a second longer and released it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Tessie was not hiding her hatred anymore, she barely looked at me, hugged Victor and like a robot, turned and stormed off. Akpos saw us outside and waited while we entered the bus. He patted his friend and gave me a bow and a left eye wink.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I did not talk to Victor throughout the drive; I just told the driver where to drop me (not my house cos the last thing I need is a stalker)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I got down from the taxi and said “bye” “and please, don’t call me that much again” who was I kidding? I was just entering my house when my phone started ringing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Please Victor, you need to chill”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“I’m sorry, can I call you back?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“No, you can’t and I’ll appreciate it if you stop calling me”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I dropped the call……………………….I stopped and checked the number…………..08134……that was not Victor’s number. I didn’t save Victor’s number but I know it is 08034…..I hit the redial.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Sorry, I thought its somebody else and this number is not listed on my phone”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Yeah, thats because I stole your number”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Sorry but who are you”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“My name is Akpos, Akpos Ibrahim”</span></div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-16757305981096018232011-09-12T00:46:00.000-07:002011-09-12T00:46:54.576-07:00BE MY WIFE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3swDhn1VsZxRoyqBiOStMbeMgoijkgmK6paySnXW4IyzIYDi-YskGBFWsiI0GKmf0SpYc6G8vklIUaOqUmg3OiADcoDBNr8EqR1E5yogrEXmBl9CYyd9hF7aU-Hl2NwvF3D1HC8yy2c/s1600/ppp.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3swDhn1VsZxRoyqBiOStMbeMgoijkgmK6paySnXW4IyzIYDi-YskGBFWsiI0GKmf0SpYc6G8vklIUaOqUmg3OiADcoDBNr8EqR1E5yogrEXmBl9CYyd9hF7aU-Hl2NwvF3D1HC8yy2c/s1600/ppp.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I woke up with a wild start, so it was just a dream…. It’s been a while since I got married but the thought of the first fourteen hours of that day, even in a dream still brings back the frustration felt I know you want to know and a few brilliant ones will be guessing. Alrighty, I’ll squeal it, just this once and never again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Desmond and I or me (choose your choice, English can be quite complicated) have been friends for close to two years. We met somewhere ( I told you I wont squeal again) and we became friends and we were so close. I was still struggling to be a graduate then and Des (as I fondly call him) was struggling to be a Maryland big boy (you should know what that means)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So it was that I was shuttling between Lagos and Benin. Des and I were practically dating, we were in love but we were acting all matured about it. We talked about lots of thing ranging from sex (when we are not having it) to girlfriends (for him) and boyfriends (for yours truly), parties, routines…………….everything.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After two years of what you can call a hot romance, though not totally so Romeo and Juliety, Des called me one weekend and asked me to come over. Now I must sing a little praise of myself, though I may not be another Jennifer Lopez, so unlikely, I am still beautiful. If u like queen Latifah in set – it – off, I’m your girl. Asides that, I can be useful around the house, it comes with a long time of doing it yourself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So I was in Lagos with the first bus and I went straight to Des’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>house (I had a spare key), let myself in and made myself very comfortable, to me that means, a cold bath, chocolate brownies and a bottle of something sweet</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Des came home around 8:00pm (considering Lagos traffic, that’s good time). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘how’s it going?’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Okay, so he didn’t really say that, what he said was:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Hey you, watz up, how’s your trip?’ but coming from him, that was a very cold welcome. It was either a hug, a kiss, or both but this day, guess what he gave me………………….. Your guess is as good as mine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So I asked him why he called me and I was thinking: a booty call, laundry call or just sight seeing, well, you can guess again……………..</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We’ve been friends for sometime now and I feel you should be the first person I will tell” I was really all ears, this might be interesting. ‘ I met a girl and we are good together, we have chemistry’ (I made a mental note to check the dictionary meaning of chemistry) ‘and my mother loves and adore her’ I know I didn’t tell you I met Des’s mother but I did, it was during one of those crazy vacations when you look for anywhere to go and Des’s mother was throwing a party so I went and she appeared to like me a lot but maybe I was just reading her smiles…….</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At this juncture, I was painting a picture of the said girl in my mind, if you’ve seen Lord of the Rings you may guess again. Its not as if I was jealous or something. Ok, maybe I was a little bit jealous. I loved him, I thought we had a future together but the only future I see now is him in a black suit and a miss thing in a wedding gown, now she’s throwing the bouquet, and I’m catching it. Very funny I almost laughed out loud.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All these while Des has been blabbing about his wife and all that, I only noticed him when he brought out an engagement ring and was saying something like ‘Linda, I know you have a good taste, if you like this, I know 75% of ladies will do too so what do you think, is it ok?’ IMAGINE THE GUTS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I will strangle you and then there will be no proposals, no engagements and no wedding” okay, I didn’t really say that, what I said was: “it’s perfect, she will love it” What can I say, I’m just a good hearted gal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After the meeting, I was too shocked to talk; I just gave an excuse and went to bed. Big girls do cry, I cried so bad I was seeing butterflies on the ceiling or maybe they were there. I woke up the next morning, packed my bag and decided to be decent and bold enough to say goodbye. I knocked on his door the first time, second time, no response and I concluded his fiancé came in and they were having early morning sex……..**disgusting** I turned to leave and saw him behind me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“if you are getting married, stop sneaking up on your ex” didn’t really say that, what I said was</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“good morning, im just about leaving”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Linda, you didn’t even ask me who the girl is.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Okay, I know its not my best friend but why go through the stress. I told you I am a good girl so I asked “sorry, it escaped my mind, who’s this wonderful girl?” a dead man would know there’s sarcasm in those words but maybe he is deaf cos he kept smiling</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Linda, all I told you last night were true except for one’ where are the guessers? Did you guess the part about chemistry? My guess exactly…………… ‘I ve found a girl and she’s all I need…………………………’ this is so not the Lord’s Prayer, you don’t have to say it everyday. WAIT!!!!!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Linda, you are that girl, please marry me’ and he was on his knees with the ring, that ring I would have bewitched if I had Merlin powers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Those of you who guess I fainted passed this course, I woke up with his lips on mine and I didn’t mind the early morning sex after all………………………………</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So much for a proposal. Don’t ask me what happened next cos I ain’t telling</span></div>Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-18102469655374531722011-09-05T00:59:00.000-07:002011-09-05T00:59:52.212-07:00WHAT THE HEART WANTS<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“The heart wants what the heart wants, even that which is worst for it”</span></i><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSwZxdRNqSavgq1VDwRHU3NZeWlyZv0JSmroKvZI5lK-Btp37k5AKIppEXW88BxTZocHAcUyOCumlacZkBv0les3qM01mCEbOzn4yD45sRFMpH_04eZgmbvIDvKWLTLT5euePVrH4EtCo/s1600/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSwZxdRNqSavgq1VDwRHU3NZeWlyZv0JSmroKvZI5lK-Btp37k5AKIppEXW88BxTZocHAcUyOCumlacZkBv0les3qM01mCEbOzn4yD45sRFMpH_04eZgmbvIDvKWLTLT5euePVrH4EtCo/s1600/images.jpeg" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">She saw the flashes and heard the clicking sounds. She was not there, her mind was far away. She plastered her best smile on her face and turned whichever way they wanted her. She felt so sick she wanted to throw up, she wished she could sit down so she won’t faint. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Finally, someone led her to a chair and arranged her gown around her. It was sparkling white with hand sewn embroidery. No cost has been spared, right from her ring to her shoes, the décor, the food, the venue…………….it has all been well synced to the last sync.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Congratulations Nita, you are so lucky”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">She smiled again, a cynical smile</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Thanks a lot”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">She watched the lady walk away and closed her eyes. She knew Ekene was there, she could smell his perfume.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“How are you feeling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wifey</i>?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Im fine…………………just taking it all in”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“It’s your wedding, our wedding, you should enjoy it”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“I am, I really am”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Okay, let’s go see some people”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">He helped her up, straightened her gown and kissed her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“I love you Mrs. Ihioma”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Me too”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Ekene was one of the best guys she knows. Loving, caring, God fearing, generous……………..in fact, he was everything that comes with the perfect man package. Everybody, including her very choosy aunt said she made a good decision by marrying him; only she’s not feeling like she made a good decision.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">She saw him again then and her heart started racing. She was holding Ekene’s hand and he looked at her cos she stopped walking.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“You okay?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yeah…….sure”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Why did he come? Why did Ekene invite him in the first place? Was he not supposed to turn down the invitation?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Ibrahim walked up to them then, his dark eyes boring holes into her, he still had his good looks, he now keeps his beard, maybe after Mohammed or some great prophet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Congratulations Ekene…………….Nita, I wish you all happiness”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">She swallowed; maybe it could clear the lump in her throat. Ekene was obviously in a chatty mood</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“I never thought you could make it Ibrahim, so nice of you to come”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“I couldn’t miss it. It’s not everyday you watch people snatch away the ones you care about”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Nita was feeling uneasy now, Ekene still went on talking</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Hope u will stay around so we can talk later</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Sure thing”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">He looked her over again and strolled off.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">*******************************************************************</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Ibrahim, why must you do that, why must you say such things in front of my husband?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Don’t worry your pretty head baby; he thought I was talking about him”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Why did you come?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Cos my friend invited me”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Cut the crap and tell me why you are here”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Ibrahim looked at her, pulled his chair closer and took her hands. She snatched them away. They were sitting by the pool in Ekene’s house. It was their wedding night and Ekene was busy saying “thank yous”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“I can’t watch you leave like that”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“What?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“I know my parents said a strong no cos of the religion and tribe but now they don’t care. I made it clear I’m not going to marry anybody that’s not you”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Nita blinked thrice and pinched herself to make sure she was not dreaming.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Nita, cant you see, we are meant for each other”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“But I just got married”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Elope with me”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">He brought out two visas and flight tickets.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Elope with me Nita; let’s go build a happy home for our baby”</span></div><br />
Lucianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012994261394980556noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704137430214636452.post-45483164442278352742011-09-05T00:56:00.001-07:002011-09-05T01:12:17.345-07:00BESTFRIENDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZpcOfpgBswtck41hrhVnY-cBe0IMMHWEtQg2M9z9gKG4vruEfqLOR4v_xp2Jmpr8mgqZjOV2mdWdo42836TsTJs7QdbUZOUHLp5IhItJj-ThBbaHvSmdSgZPqxeNHUgl9Vjwe42muPc/s1600/bff.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZpcOfpgBswtck41hrhVnY-cBe0IMMHWEtQg2M9z9gKG4vruEfqLOR4v_xp2Jmpr8mgqZjOV2mdWdo42836TsTJs7QdbUZOUHLp5IhItJj-ThBbaHvSmdSgZPqxeNHUgl9Vjwe42muPc/s1600/bff.jpeg" /></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Lily opened the door and immediately stopped. She didn’t know when her books dropped to the floor and her mouth dropped open. She was looking at them, Efe and Angela, almost naked on their bed. She felt like doing a lot of things………….screaming, hitting him, killing her……doing anything but her legs could not move. It was as if her body decided not to obey her mind’s command.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Don’t stop on my account”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">She wasn’t even sure they heard her. She picked her books and left the room.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Lily knew going to her other friends place will be adding more insult to her already broken heart. She just sat under a tree and wept for as long as she could. When she got tired of crying, she picked her books and went back home. Angela was not there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Angela had been her roommate and best friend since they both got admission to the university and they’ve been close ever since. They share clothes, secrets…………..everything. they sometimes follow each other home during holidays.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Lily met Efe during her second in school. He was a cool handsome guy and it wasn’t long before they started dating. They broke up three months into the relationship because Lily thought Efe was cheating and Efe thought Lily was cheating</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -58.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">She ran into Efe two months ago and they were on their way to starting the relationship again only for her to see him in bed with her roommate. She shook her head and blinked back the tears. She sat down. She was going to wait for Angela to come back.</span></div><br />
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