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EPISODE ONE

This story is based on the real life story of my girlfriends, our relationships, life and our craziness that led to the prefix EX though with modifications.


No copy or part of this work should be reproduced without authorisation from the writer!!!!!!

As we all know that EX is attributed to something that is no longer existing but once existed. My girls stories are plenty, that it can be converted into a book, but before u understand this story, let me take y’all from the top.

Girlfriend number one: Meet Tola, she is a butter, a typical Nigerian babe born with a silver spoon. Wait! I should say ‘silver golden diamond spoon’ her mum is a doctor in chemical engineering and the dad is a minister. She is the second daughter out of two kids, her elder sister is married to a football player that plays for super eagles. The mum, the sister and her hubby live in the states,while the dad is often in Nigeria. Tola did her First degree and masters in the states but comes home occasionally. she is one of my few friends that when am informed that she is headed to Nigeria, I would clear out my wardrobe because the girl is really a friend indeed, if you know what I mean. *winks with my teeth*( if that is possible).

She is 27years and a gorgeous 27 year old at that, she is not facially beautiful like ‘take my breath away kind of beauty’ but she has the right curves in the right places, one might say that she is endowed. She works for an international company, in its naija branch and one would think that she has it all, but there seems to be a problem beneath her exotic appearance, ‘A MAN’.

I met Tola in lagos while I was staying with my aunt in 4th Avenue Festac. She is a good friend but we didn’t really meet on a friendly base.
We met on a Tuesday to be precise, it was the holidays and nothing excites a teenager more than a holiday lesson. I grew up in the east but I was spending the holidays with my aunt who deemed it necessary to chip me into a holiday lesson so that I can socialise a little, those were her words, not mine. Cool aunt you might think.

I have always been an extrovert, but when you are the new girl(especially one from the east), you will be baptised with the introvert's gene.

So, I got enrolled for the holiday lesson which was aimed at helping me pass that year's jamb. For the first week of my lesson I kept quiet, kept to myself and didn’t want to get noticed, but trust the rich spoilt kids to always know how to spot the new students ( I guess it is one of their traits because i can’t spot people who are new in a very large setting with plenty people ), so I guess she wanted to drive a point home to me that she was the queen and owned the place. ( I later figured out that she was threatened because of my so called beauty), so she was a total b*tch to me, played pranks and made my life a nightmare that I dreaded going for the lessons. Things got better when we found out that we attended the same church and she then realised that i wasn’t even aware of my beauty and as such I couldn’t use it against her, we became best of friends and has remained so ever since.

Tola has a boyfriend, a Yoruba guy, Tunde. They had been together for over 8 years, and they had lived together for 2 of those years. It seemed that they were so much in love but there was a little problem – he hasn't popped the big question yet and this was making her sad. In fact she was so anxious to get married that agreed to go see a counsellor. This is weird because Tola isn't one who tells her business anyhow not even to us, her friends. I had agreed to follow her – I initially didn't want to go, but when Tola was depressed, the sun would not rise. The meeting was scheduled for a Friday 3pm, and from my calender, I was free from one, so I would meet her at the salon and we would go from there.”

We got to the counsellor on time and the section began and was going smoothly until the counsellor began opening our eyes or rather my eyes.

After Tola finished naratting everything to him(counsellor).

He asked, 'have u ever broken up with him?'

Tola replied, ‘no, i haven’t, he has been my only boyfriend’

The counsellor continued, "but you want the ring? Since you have been together, has he ever talked about kids, or what his future plans are?"


‘well, he is a work oriented man,the only future he always talks about is the expansion of his company but he will always say the expansion is for us and that when he finally opens a branch in dubai, we were gonna stay there for good’ Tola replied with tears in her eyes.

"How does he see his present situation with u? Are u sure that he loves you?’ the therapist asked quietly.


"He not only love me, he adores me, he is proud of my achievements, he always say that he is happy that he has me, he worships me, and i love him more than anything in the world" she replied with all certainty.


The counsellor kept quiet for a few minutes before asking, ‘ then what are u doing here?’


I was just busy looking from the counsellor to Tola and listening to them speak.

At this point my friend was crying and I knew she was hurting badly but there was nothing I could do to help but I knew my presence gave her the moral support to confess her innermost fears aloud to a stranger

“I want the ring, I want him to kneel and ask the question, I want to jump into the air and scream when I say YES, I want him to put his seed inside of me and watch it grow and help nurture it, I want all of it, is dat too much to ask, I just want his name right after mine, I want to call him MY HUSBAND, THE FATHER OF MY KIDS." she replied and finally gave way for the tears that she has been battling to keep locked up.


I passed her a tissue which she took and muttered thanks as she turned back to the counsellor to give her the golden answers that she seeked.

But instead he said, "he hasn’t popped the question because you haven’t required him to”

At this point I wasn't trying to keep it cool again. Here Was my friend who has bent the rules a few times for her boyfriend and then this therapist of a guy is saying that she hasn't required the ring, what more can a girl do to get that rock. I cautioned myself and asked the counsellor to explain what he meant by saying that Tola hasn't required the boyfriend to pop the question.

He then replied looking straight into Tola's eye,
"check yourself, you do everything a wife does, you clean for him, you wash for him, you cook for him, you sleep with him, you live with him, you bathe with him, so what more do you need? In his mind you both are already married, you made him to get too comfortable with you, he is enjoying all the husband privileges and so he doesn't see the need for a marriage, and if you continue in this manner, he will never ask you to marry him."

Tola bursted out crying.

Thank God, u did not give up. I remain a loyal fan of dis superb story. Ride on ..... D Lord is ur strength

EPISODE 2

Tola was devastated; what exactly does the counsellor by that? What else was she supposed to do? she loves her boyfriend very well and she does all those things to show the depth of her feelings for him.
I consoled her and asked her to put herself together because every problem under the earth has a solution and I bet her problem would be solved if she would apply the ten rules of how to get the ring that the counsellor had given her.

I could still see that she was far from being happy as we both walked to her car and with the way she was feeling, I suggested that I drive the car, she merely nodded as she handed me the car keys. I got into the driver's seat and drove off back to our lives.

At this point I would want to introduce my second girlfriend; meet chinenye, a very pretty young lady, people call her the damsel of the group, she is that which is called a true african beauty( am sure tuface got inspiration from her before singing African queen).

people usually think that she is an ogbanje (ogbanje is a child in igboland who is always loved by all, a child that is usually the most beautiful of all that is born).

As earlier stated chinenye's beauty cannot be disputed( we call her nenye). Nonye has a boyfriend Ben and they are been together for 5year and guess what! On valentine's day he popped the question exactly the same way tubaba asked Annie to marry him, how romantic.

Well, for you to appreciate this story, i will have to take you from the beginning of this seemingly love story.

I met nenye in my second week after securing admission into university of Nigeria, Nsukka. Year 1 students of faculty of pharmacy were supposed to have a lecture and I secured a sitting spot using my bag before leaving the class to take a call; when I returned back to class,I discovered that some group of boys had already removed my bag and occupied my seat.
I tried talking to them about it but they wouldn’t listen to me until nenye called one of the guys( who I later learnt was one of her numerous chykers) and asked him to tell his friends to give the lady’s seat back and like a robot they did. I was impressed, after I said my thanks to her, we ended up leaving the class together and that was the beginning of a friendship which now knows no bounds.
we practically did everything together and then in our 3rd year, we both left school hostel and moved in together after securing an off-campus house behind Zik's flat.

Let me remenber; the day chinenye and Ben met, i was there…………. I think, yeah I was.
They met in the most unconventional way. Chinenye and I had gone to see my academic adviser for one of my numerous problems back then in school. My adviser( mrs B) and I share more than a lecture-student relationship, it was more like mother-daughter relationship, so we were in her office gisting about school stuffs, she was in the middle of telling us how one white man disgraced himself at a convention she recently attended in the states when we were interrupted by a song which indicated that someone's phone was ringing.

It was my adviser’s phone, Nenye and I was still giggling and laughing about the white man when I heard her saying to the person, 'sure come inside the department and tell the receptionist to direct you to my office', with that she ended the call.

Few mintues later, there was a knock on the door and I was asked to open the door for the person.

He walked in, smiled and nodded in acknowledgement of own greetings, then to my adviser, he went and hugged.

From his appearance, he should be within 26-30years, apparently a rich guy judging from his well tailored suit and for God sake he was wearing a lange and sohne designer wristwatch which if am not exaggerating should cost about 500 grand or more.

I drifted back to reality when my adviser made the introductions……. Ben meet my daughters, and to us she said, girls meet my run away little brother and there he was standing in flesh and blood was Ben Odiako, he was the most gorgeous TDH my eye ever saw( not that they have seen many shaa) but the man fine die.

"It is a Pity that I liked them fair", I barely thought to myself before he turned to us and greeted us again and asked us what our names were. In that moment, I had forgotten that I was actually there with nenye and looking at her then clearly showed that she forgot me too.

When I woke up from my daze, I realised that he was talking, nah, he was actually speaking to us and his hand was outstretched, probably waiting to shake ours.

I quickly mustered courage and took his hand into mine. Let me tell you a little secret about me; I have always prided myself to be the akpos ( that is strong head) of the group, never smitten by any guy at all. But even after all these years I still can’t believe that Ben got to me the way he did.

Back to Nenye, the day she met Ben was supposedly the beginning of her existence(her words not mine). I never knew that Ben’s thorns stuck deeply into her skin until she started making efforts to lure me to my adviser’s home.

It all began one sunny sunday afternoon, we had just returned from church and I was too tired to cook. I was just lying down on the bed waiting for the worst to happen when she came to me and said

“babe, see as we dey here and hunger wan kill us, come naa make we go chop for mumcy’s house”

'mumcy' being Mrs B, my adviser.

I was shocked not just from the hunger but also from the fact that Nenye actually suggested that we go out to eat. Nenye DETESTS eating out much less a lecturer’s place.

But I was too hungry to argue, I barely grabbed my bag and ran to meet her as she was already half way across the street calling a taxi.

We got to Mrs B’s place just in time for lunch. The house was just amazing, from the paintings on the wall to the furniture, everything was just classy. You won't need a soothsayer to tell you that there was money in the family. One thing I admired in Mrs B was her impeccable taste, elegance and the fact that she is undeniably classy so I couldn't help but fall in love with her and another thing that did the trick of me falling in love with her was the khloe designer bag she gave me for the previous year christmas celebrations.

Few mintues after we arrived, we were ushered into the dinning and served with white rice and the steaming ofe akwu.
I immediately dived into it that I didn’t even notice that Nenye’s exictement dropped exponentially immediately Mrs B said that Ben wasn’t around but I did notice that she didn’t eat the food that was ‘the reason’ why we came, but I didn’t mind much as that meant that I get more to eat.

She started asking me to hurry that she had an assignment due for submission the next day.(Omo see this babe ooo, we no get food for house and she come see plenty making sense food, come dey do shakara. I said in my mind and kept on teaching the mountain of food before me the lesson of its life).

Thirty mintues later, we were on our way out when Ben drove in and mrs B asked him to drop us off.

Nenye’s excitement picked race and started growing again (this I noticed too) and I had starting linking the dots to make a complete sense, Nenye likes Ben. Ben opened the front seat for me but before I could enter, Nenye was already comfortably seated in the front and chattering away like a chatterbox (which she is normally NOT) so I opted for the back seat.

I kept mute throughout their conversation except when directly spoken to. I nearly screamed out loud, though I muttered “what a slut” when i heard Nenye asking Ben if she could take him out for lunch sometime to appreciate him for giving us a ride home.

"He tell you say he need your special appreciation? Help me ask nenye oooooooo" *just thinking aloud*

But he laughed it off saying that a ride home for two beautiful girls like us was a privilege and honour for him ( guess he is a gentleman after all).

He tried severally to include me in their conversations but I refused; guess am the strong-head after all. I breathed a sign of relief when he pulled his car to a halt in-front of our house, I quickly opened the door to escape because I felt so betrayed that Nenye was flirting openly with mrs B’s little bro, but he beat me to it as he quickly came out of the driver's seat and opened the door for me and then gave me the shock of my life when he said

"would u do me the honour of joining me for dinner tomorrow?"

I was speechless, the only sound my mouth could make was " ME"? Which coincided with Nenye’s own voice which clearly dropped one word "HER"?

After all these years, I still wonder how I managed not to faint because at that point, I wished the ground could open at my command, because if it did, I would have asked it to open and swallow either me or Nenye.( But readers who would you have wanted the ground to swallow?)

I asked myself a million questions at once, why would Ben ask me to dinner if he doesn’t like me?, here I was thinking that he liked Nenye since they had a lot in common and the both of them had been talking all afternoon.
So he does like me, but why? How can he choose plain me over Nenye.
Which man will see Nenye and not have his heart race faster. Is this the popular April fool game or what? If this is a game, it wasn’t funny at all because this is my heart we are talking about here, I was so lost in my thoughts that I forgot that people were actually waiting for my answer, what will my answer be?

Ben, every girl’s dream man just asked me out and is waiting for my answer, what will it be, whatever my answer will be would affect someone, if i say yes, it will affect a friendship that I cherish so much,though Nenye is a lovalable person, her motto is "whatever Nenye wants, Nenye gets" and that part of her is scary, and if i say No, I will lose a chance with a man who is so tushed, so hot, so well mannered, a gentleman, well educated and versatile( if you hear am talk ehh, you go fall in love abi lust, omo see accent) and I think am attracted to him, I closed my eyes and said a silent prayer to God. Then i opened my eyes and gave my answer.

wow thank God u r back I miss my girlfriend's ex

Yippee!

EPISODE 4

"Yes Ben, I guess there is no harm done in me getting a bite with a friend because that is what we are right?" I asked rhetorically emphasing on the 'friend' because I wanted to tell Nenye that it was just a friendly date but deep down I guess I knew that it wasn't

"I would be honoured to go out with you". I replied and blocked my heart that was beating faster than normal and my head that was screaming" You made the wrong decision".

I then turned back to look at Nenye and the look on her face said it all and it clearly said " damn!!! you just stole my man". Oh lord please let me be wrong about what her face said, I thought to myself before she immediately stormed out of the place

Ben and I was shocked at her behaviour, though i couldn’t say i was surprised because I think I expected worse reaction.

I woke up the next morning and she was gone, she did her own share of the morning chores, made breakfast and even ironed my dress for me so I assumed she had gone to school and has eventually put our little Ben incident into the bottomless pit.

I got back from school quite early because the last lecture we had was boring and I decided to skip the class. I made lunch as the hours dragged by hoping that she will come home soon and help me pick out what to wear for the evening.

she got home by 4pm and we started gisting about what happened at school, but after a while, she said to me that she was sorry that she was upset that Ben asked me out and she had no right to be upset but she just assumed that she gave him enough green light to get him to know that she was interested if he was single.
It was just that she hasn’t been in any relationship in two years and then Ben comes in, sweeping her off her feet and she had already designed their wedding in her head, their honeymoon in paris, their 3 kids and their happily ever after and he didn’t even give her a second look and she felt betrayed and alone.

I consoled her the much I could, I advised her to relax, she is a young beautiful 21 year old girl who gets more chykers than anyone I have ever met but the only problem is that she doesn't like easily. Well we made up and she asked me what I was going to wear but I barely stared at her and she just laughed and went to her wardrope and brought a dress which she laid on my bed and said " girl you are gonna rock that outfit and you know the colour makes your eyes pop"
Subconsciously In the process of consoling her, I lost all my exictment for the dinner date

At 6.45pm, I still wasn’t dressed, not because of lack of dress, Nenye gave me an orange gown by D & G that was her birthday gift from one of her chykers in the previous year, and if you must know, the gown rocks and with my gucci boots, I will be drop-dead gorgeous, instead i found myself dailing Ben’s number, I didn’t know why I was calling or what I was gonna say until his rich deep voice answered

" hey dear, the groom isn't expected to see or hear from the bride before the wedding or something bad happens". He laughed at his own joke, his rich baritone voice re-vibrated in his laughter and it was just like heavens to my ears, like OMG I couldn't even talk. I could just listen to him laughter all day without being satisfied.

I was still miles away when I heard him talk again, I guess he misinterpreted my silence because he said " hello dear, i was just joking, wats up?”,

I kept quiet still thinking of how I was gonna tell him that I wasn't going to honour his invite anymore because I can't bear to take the only man that my friend has liked in two years( don't hate me, nenye is a doll, a God sent actually but she has the problem of liking men, it takes her ages to find one who can capture her interest but when she does love, she loves truely and love makes her a better person)

He said again ” dearie, hope you are ready because i have a lot of fun stuff for us. First we will go to' la ville' for a little relaxation over fresh fish then later we would have dinner at grace manor hotels before I would take you home ”

By the time he finished saying all he had planned, my will-power to say 'No' had already left me because I think he was in the middle of saying something else when I cut him off by saying

" you sure do have a talent for planning and am sure you would make a fortune if you venture into date planning for people, where people hire you to plan their dates........."

That rich baritone voice started laughing again and I had to join in the laughter( just so you know, our voices laughing together produced just what can be called 'angelic music that is pleasing to the soul')


"Well, I just might venture into the field if my plan for the first date works on you to make you grant me a second date". He said after the laughter died down.

"We will see about that, well I just called to ask where we are going so that I won't be either underdressed or overdressed, but since you have told me now, I will try and come up with something nice" I lied.


He said, "Well, anything you wear would look good on you because you are just wonderfully made by your creator, you know that right?"

" Hmmmmm, Jonser, see you soon" I said and hung up.

I didn't know what possessed me to hang up the way I did, I guess it was the indirect compliment that he gave me. Not that I wasn't used to getting compliments from the menfolks but hearing Ben compliment me made me all jellyfish inside.

It was after I hung up that I realised that I called Ben to cancel our date only to be drawn further into the date and the guy. Help is certainly needed. Well thanks to the call, I now know what to wear because if not I would have looked so overdressed for the date and would have made a wrong first impression.

Wait a mintue, It just crossed my mind,
could it be possible that Nenye gave me the exotic gown just to help me make a bad first impression by making me look like a desperado?

Nah, it is not possible jor, Nenye is my friend and would do no such thing, the other part of my mind argued and I think I support this one's arguement.

Well, looking at my time, it showed that Ben would be arriving in the next 10mins, I quickly dashed to the bathroom. Having already mentally picked the jeans and the top to go with while in the bathroom, I was ready within 8mins and was just looking at myself in the mirror when he arrived.

Taking a last glance at myself in the mirror, I quickly locked the door and walked towards his car, I had a plan, I was going to have a little nice dinner with him and then I will never see him again, he is meant for Nenye and I would help him realise that.

As I walked to his car, he quickly came out of the driver's side to meet me. I could see the way he looked at me from head to toe before he held my eyes with his, I smiled and muttered my greetings but he still didn't reply, he just kept staring into my eye( see me oo what does he want to see inside my eye), well I was already uncomfortable with his stare that I had to pinch him jokingly to get him back to planet earth.


"Am so sorry for staring, it is just that you look so simple, yet soo elegant, soo innocent yet so sophisticated, you just look stunning, your eyes can make the sun to whistle and the birds can sing of your beauty". He replied as he made his way to open the door for me.

I could only smile at his little poem, am sure he always win any girl he wants with a move like that, so romantic yet so real and simple,' so this is what am going to give up', with that thought I didn't even know when a tear dropped from my eye. I quickly turned to the window and dabbed my eyes with my tissue.

Wow! Eya
more pls

Where are our previous readers, Agybabe
And the rest. This page is boring without you guys. Aunty princesa I see u!!

Hi Harmonyemerald, be rest assured some members of your 'silent follower' like stanjohn57 will always be with you.
But the thread with gather more steam and adrenaline when we get to the episode where we were before the wipe-out!
Don't lose hope, you can do this babe!
Go girl!!!

Harmonyemerald don't worry continue with d writing d Lord is ur strength.

Sweetie, I'm never far away

miss ya

EPISODE 5

Ben took me to all the places he promised and even more because he stopped at CEC to get me what he calls "Ben's special treat" after about three hours, he took me home.

With Ben, time seemed to freeze, I spent 3 hours with him and it seemed like 10mins.

He was such an interesting company, very intelligent and versatile, and his opinion about everything we talked about seemed to be the best.

He told me he was 25 years old, last born of his parents, he just came back from Canada where he had just concluded his masters programme in business administration.

"Am back for good, am back to hustle, just got a job in KIA motors (Enugu branch) as their general manager and getting a house has drained me financially, am more broke than a church mouse,so please don't mind my sweet-looking self(because I know I am), the pocket is drained so please manage what your prince charming has offered you this evening but I will redeem myself at our next date". He concluded with a boyish grin

He was such a man, Ben oh Ben, I just feel that I would be happy with this guy but I can't fight this guilt, Nenye deserves to be happy, so I have to end this before it gets started.

As if he read my mind, he started saying,

"Daisy, I like you, you are simple yet complex, there is something piercing about your eyes and a baggage of shadow like an unhappy past or something but when you smile, you can lit up a room, give me a chance, I want to help you learn how to smile, I want to help you lit up every room you step into, hell no, I want to help you lit up the whole world, just let me.............."


"Please, let me" he added few seconds later when I didn't respond.

Before Ben knew what was going on, like a speed of light, I was out of his car and I didn't stop running until my back was against the door of my room. I stood there for like 10mins and I didn't move until I heard him drive away.

After Ben drove off, I walked to my bed and fall inside and finally gave way for the tears I had been battling with. I sobbed myself to sleep.

The next day, Nenye noticed my moody nature and persisted that I tell her what was wrong.

By evening, I was still in bed, didn't even shower or brush (don't judge me so that you won't be judged ooooo, when your heart is broken, you have the right not to get up from the bed), so Nenye couldn't take it anymore, she insisted that i tell her what went wrong.


Honestly, I wanted to share my problem with her(I needed my friend) but I couldn’t find the words to convey my heart’s turmoil. She kept on consoling me but when Ben’s calls kept coming in and I wasn’t picking, she starting assuming that Ben had to be involved in my predicament and she started swearing and raining abuses on him.
She went on and on about how selfish and mean men were but I couldn’t let her think that about Ben, so I had to lie to Nenye.

Being a writer, it was very easy for me to come up with a story and so I began,

"Nenye, Ben is a good guy and all but the guy doesn't even like me, it is you that he wants, am just not picking his calls because he said he just asked me out so as to make you jealous, and besides while I was out with him, I received a call from someone from my past and it is that call that has made me depressed, not Ben".

When Nenye didn't utter any word, I continued seeing that she was believing my 'folktale'

"The call came from this guy I used to know when I was younger, he is back from China and called to see me". I paused.

"So what is so bad in seeing an old friend that is making you all moody and smelly" she asked as she waved her hand across her nostrils to emphasize her point that I was smelling

"The truth is that am so over this guy,(not that I was really into him albinisio) but the problem is that we were sort of bound to each other"


" excuse me, bound how? When? Where?" Nenye interrupted.

I paused and swallowed before I continued,


"it was a silly thing that I did when I was young, which I will regret for the rest of my days. I had a blood oath taken with this guy, so before I can freely go out with any guy, I would have to end things with him otherwise, any guy that comes into my life will either run mad or die mysteriously and I can’t let that happen to mrs B’s brother whether he really likes me or not" , I finished.

The room was silent when I finshed my story, we were both lost in our own thoughts, one could only hear the sound of our breaths.

Nenye squeezed my hand more out of shock than pity.

"But why are you just telling me this and how will you go about breaking this oath. can't you just go see the boy and talk things over, you guys were kids when this happened and who knows the boy may even be in love with someone else and that maybe the reason why he wants to see you, what do you think?" she asked with tears in her eyes


"I really don’t know how to go about it but one thing I know is that I love you very much, more like a sister I never had, and Ben is a good guy and he obviously likes you, so you will take care of him for the both of us and if you do this, then I will take care of my problem" I replied.

Dear reader, before you go hating me, let me say that part of the story I shared with Nenye was true, there was this guy in my life with whom I really did take an oath with but we agreed that if we lost touch or if we fall out of love with each other within 10 years then we would no longer be bound to each other and as such free to settle with whoever we chose.

His name was Henry, we were barely kids when we met, I was 9 and he was 13 and we were best friends, people called us husband and wife.

We were kids, very full of life, always eager to try out new things and our curious mind lead us into trouble. There was this home video we saw once where people in love had a blood oath to stay together forever and later their love prevailed and I was silly enough to suggest that Henry and I entered the oath but with water instead because I was terrified about licking someone's blood.

Well, Henry's family moved quickly after that and this is the 11th year after the oath, so I guess I am a free lady and besides I was only nine when I did the oath taking.

But let me tell you why I decided to give up Ben for Nenye.


Nenye hardly loves, infact, she hates love, it has been a while since she had any serious relationship and she is this sort of person that when she finally loves, she loves dearly. This trait of hers is very similar to the wolf’s imprinting in twilight, so since Bella couldn’t stop her best friend Jacob from imprinting on her daughter in twilight, who am I to hinder Nenye .

Nenye couldn’t believe I kept my oath away from her but her concern at the moment was how I was supposed to get out of the mess(not knowing that I was already free from the oath but I didn't tell her shaa)
she was already drawing the list of possible oath breakers when the door ball rang.

We both exchanged looks asking each other with our eyes if we were expecting anybody before Nenye asked “who is it?"

we both stared at each other when we heard the voice of the person at the other side of the door, BEN.

what was I supposed to do, seeing him in flesh, apparently neatly shaved, wearing a strong perfume and well tailored suit, can I really turn all of Ben down?.

It would be easy to do it over the phone but standing before him, swallowing hard and absorbing his presence would really make this very difficult, Nenye looked at me and asked if it was okay to let him in, I took one last look at the mirror (my eyes were swollen) before I nodded in affirmative.

Nenye then opened the door wider to accomodate Ben and he walked in.

I walked to the door and greeted him, he responded with a nod and then sat down on the seat very close to where I was standing.

Am sure he was shocked because of my face and eyes and I could see his eyes darken with concern, he just looked at me with those eyes of his and said, “whats going on?”

I swallowed hard before turning to Nenye and with my eyes, I asked her to excuse us. After she left, I pulled out a seat and sat down( because I felt my legs were just too weak at that moment and it could give way anytime soon).

I turned to Ben and started talking

thank u for not giving up. God bless u.

EPISODE 6


After repeating the story that I had just told Nenye an hour before for Ben's benefit,

I then added, ” Ben am so sorry, you are a great guy, I know that and I know that I had to tell you on time so that whatever intentions you have towards me won't be further pursued. And the truth of the matter is that I still love him though we lost contact, that is why I was willing to go out with you but his calls has awaken my feelings which wasn't lost but buried somewhere deep in my heart."

I paused and looked closely at Ben, but the dude was obviously not buying my story judging from the way he was just staring at me without blinking or saying a word, his sexy eyes weren't so sexy now, they were piercing and a little bit judgemental (or maybe that was my imagination).

Not minding his eyes, I continued, "Ben, not being with you will rip me apart for the rest of my life because I can already see that you can treat a woman right but i like you alot not to tell you. we would be best of friends if you will have me.”

"Besides, Nenye is already carrying a touch for you and I can authoritatively tell you that she is very single. And from my expert opinion, the both of you will make an excellent couple" I added when he didn't respond.

Ben was furious, he called it fetish. He doesn’t believe in such things.

"This is the 21st century and this oath whatsoever is so outdated, but I can understand love and if that is what you want, then who am I to stop you"

"You are a great guy and I can jump on you for understanding what love is and how it control our decisions, I pray that you find love soon, what am I even saying, Nenye will answer all your questions and make you believe in this love that I feel strongly"

With that, I walked out of his life as a girlfriend to be and entered his life as a buddy, a best friend if you will say or so I thought.

Three weeks after the whole cat out of the bag event, things were just beginning to get back to normal in my life and I was thankful for that, though Nenye was always asking about Henry and what I have decided to do with him, if I would go back to him or just ask him to break the oath. But she didn't know that last I heard about Henry was that he married one oyibo lady and for the oath, time has broken it for us.

Nenye came back one day from lectures exceptionally happy and this showed in all she did because she cooked, washed the dishes ( something she would never do on a normal day), but I didn’t bother asking because I know that I will still get to know about it sooner or later, but it came sooner than I thought.

After she prepared the meal, she dished out our portion(we normally eat from the same plate,*best friends or what*, you would ask) we were just starting to eat when she said,

"babe, I get gist ooooo"

I nudged her to speak but she decided to play instead

"Guess who I ran into after CED 342 today", she asked.

"Nenye, you know am horrible at guessing and besides it is you we are talking about, the question should be, who didn't you ran into today because you sabi waka naaaa" I concluded before we both busted into laughter briefly forgetting table manners.

"Well, I ran into Ben 0diako around engineering annex, he was just driving out of the building before he saw me and stopped".

"That's good", I responded. "But why so happy?"

" Okay, after we met, he offered to buy me lunch since the sun was so hot and the look on my face showed that I was famished plus my tommy gave me away because it kept making those disturbing noises it usually make when am hungry"

"He took me to CEC shaa and we gisted plenty, he asked after you. The guy sabi talk oooooo, he just dey make sense dey go".

"I kept wishing that he would ask me out and as if God decided to hear my prayers for the first time, just towards the end of the meal, he collected my number and then asked me when I would be free for our second date because as long as he was concerned, we just had our first", Nenye concluded.

I became speechless and was like OMG!!!!, I suddenly lost my appetite for the delicious meal I was ravishing few seconds before.

"what was your answer", I asked her

" Duhh, I said yes of course", that is if it is okay by you, she replied.

I looked at my friend's face, the glow on her face was very evident, she was truly happy and I wish I could be happy for her, truly I wish I could.

I am supposed to, besides I gave Ben up for Nenye and I encouraged the both of them to seek themselves out and now it is happening, am supposed to be thrilled because my master plan is in action in the positive direction.

Sacrifice is not an easy thing, but I thought it was, after-all someone gave up his life for my sins, so giving up Ben was the best thing to do. I get to make Nenye happy and I know Ben would soon fall completely in love with Nenye because she has an awesome personality beneath the exquisite beauty.

All these were going on in my head and unknown to me, tears were already forming in my eyes. I blinked myself to reality and with a smile I encouraged Nenye to go out with Ben odiako.

She was so happy and blabbed on and on, how she would make him love her forever. She didn't even notice that I had tears in my eyes as I told her that I was going for a walk,( who could blame her, she was just asked out and it is Ben Odiako that we are talking about here).

Well, that was the beginning of Nenye and Ben's relationship. Today the relationship is five years and Ben had just proposed.

I was stuck in lagos traffic(as usual) and my phone was blinking furiously, with calls and pings. Nenye has called six times, Tola's calls came in twice. Brian's call just came in now and I had to just pick.

"Hello, Brian, I still dey road oooo, why all of una dey call?" I asked

"Girl, you won't believe it, Ben has just proposed to Nenye", He replied excitedly.

"Wow!, OMG!, no wonder she and Tola has been blowing my phone off, where are you guys now so that when I get home, I will change and come right over"

"Girl, you don't have to change, whatever you have on now will be just perfect, just get your a** to chinese restaurant in Festac and please hurry". He said before he hung up.

Wow, this is huge, Ben finally asked Nenye to marry him. Five years, five years!! and it finally happened, although within those years I still suspected that Ben still liked me because he would sometimes smack my A** or kiss me playfully or make jokes about how I turned him turn for Henry who finally didn't show face.

If you are wondering who Brian is, he is our final girlfriend. This particular girlfriend is a HE and we met this awesome fellow through Tola. I would give you his details and little of what happened to me in the past five years in the next episode, but for now, I have to obey Brian's command and get my a** down to chinese restaurant to pop some serious wine and do some damages because Nenye is officially no more a single lady.

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Now I guess I am addicted! !! No comment.

They can't actually do anything. The post per page is 31 or 32. Until the posts gets up to the required number, it won't move.

Still waiting for where i stopped. Ride on

princesa: They can't actually do anything. The post per page is 31 or 32. Until the posts gets up to the required number, it won't move.

Still waiting for where i stopped. Ride on

Thanks dearie for the insight. Didn't know that. Oya readers comment oooo so that we can move to a new page

on the watch 4 update.....

OHaddy: on the watch 4 update.....

Will do that as soon as we enter a new page.this page is soon long down now

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