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**Continuation**

In most countries in the world, turning 18 is really a big deal, because it signifies the transition from being a mere teenager to a matured one which in other words can be termed 'Adulthood'.

What makes the '18 years' issue more special is the fact that the person officially earn the legal right to vote and be voted for, apply for a drivers licence and most significantly purchase and consume alcohol.

But here in my beloved country, Nigeria, it isn't quite the case, as a matter of fact, its far from the case.

In Nigeria the things that are meant to make it special are not significant anymore, take for instance, voting? We all know there are two political parties in Nigerian, namely PDP and 'others' and ironically, PDP always wins so why bother voting? Also the alcohol issue, I recall stealing bottles of beer from the fridge at home and going to the backyard to drink it at the age of 14!. So with all this facts, the 18th birthday of an average Nigerian isn't such a big deal, but thanks to friends and love ones mine was so much of a big deal.

I loved the surprise party and how special they made me feel, but what I couldnt quite get was why they made me run round the whole Port-harcourt in search of 50k;
'Was it really that necessary? Or wasn't that alittle bit extreme?' were questions that ran through my mind as I retired to my bed very early in the morning after the party.

***

'Find light in the beautiful sea
I choose to be happy
You and I, you and I
We’re like diamonds in the sky
You’re a shooting star I see
A vision of...' were the lyrics of Rihanna's diamonds track that woke me up the next morning around 11:30am.

I reluctantly opened my eyes only to see Sandra by my side playing the song from her phone, it was quite shocking because I couldn't remember going home with Sandra, or maybe I was drunk and didn't notice.

We both had our cloths on so we probably did nothing, or so I thought.

'oh! The birthday boy is up' she said on noticing I had woken up.

I just replied with a smile.

'So hope you slept well?' she continued.

'Yea, I did. Ermm, I can't really recall what happened last night tho, did we..?' I wanted to ask if we had sÈx or anything like that, but;

'Oh! No no oh!, nothing serious happened, although we cuddled alittle' she interrupted.

'Hmm, funny to think I can't recall, you guys sure knocked me out yesternight' I replied.

'we sure did' she paused to smile at me then said; 'me show you something'

She stopped the Rihanna song that was on repeat and switched to her videos and played one. In the video I saw a guy who looked exactly like me running round the club and tapping all the girls ässes, I busted out in laughter but I couldn't recall when that happened so didn't know who exactly it was.

'who is that drunk pervert?' I asked.

'who do you think it is, look at the outfit clearly' She replied, obviously trying to hold back the laughter that was piling up.

I looked at the top the guy wore and it looked exactly like one of my 'Hackett' polo, or wait a minute? It didn't just look like, it was it, I looked at the polo I had on and it was exactly it! I was the 'drunk pervert' in the video.

'wow, I did that?' I asked

Sandra could not hold back the laughter anymore so she bursted out loud and I joined her in laughing at my stupidity.

'Wetin be that one na?! so because una don wake up now, nobody suppose sleep again for this house?' Tayo who had slept on the floor blurted out as our laughter had disturbed his sleep.

'Tah! Sharrap there! Do we look like your mate? For your info am now 18!!! Durrr' I replied trying to tease him.

He just ignored me, grabbed his pillow and left the room for us. I assumed he was going to continue the sleep somewhere else, whocares anyway?

When he was gone, I realised Urch wasn't in the room neither, just I and Sandra, so I assumed it was the right time to ask the questions that had been bothering me.

'can I ask you some questions?' I started.

'Yea, sure. Anything' she replied.

'Ok, why did you guys make me run round PH in search of a money that wasn't needed, wasn't that just unfair on my part? You got me worried, i even thought I was going to loose you'

'Oh; I'm sorry about that. It was actually Tayo's idea, all I wanted was a small surprise party held here in you house but Tayo had other plans. He convinced Urch to come to school yesterday and ganged up with Amaka to pull this off'

'Hmm, you still haven't answered my question, I asked why, not who had the idea?' I replied not really satisfied with her reply.

'Oh, he said he wanted to show everyone that you can go to extreme miles for the ones you care for' she replied with a shy smile, knowing fully well that I would have given an arm for her if asked to.

'hmm' was all I could say.

'Is that the only question you wanted to ask?'

'Nope, have you spoken with chidinma?'

'oh!, her? Ermm... Yes' she replied in a weird way.

'why do you sound this way?' I asked.

jackbauersballs: It is a crying shame that a character-deficient, intellectual-invalid such as mynd44 has been foisted upon this section as moderator...

A person who resorts to sending illegally editing peoples posts and sending threatening pms...A self-conscious reprobate with mush for brains, who has assumed the demeanour of a god simply because he was made a mod...

May God help us all if you amount to anything more than literature mod in your pathetic life...

chai! Where did I keep my dictionary **searching**

LMAO.. I find this very funny, for some very strange reasons.

princetaab: pls look into having a personal blog, so stories will be easier to read and comments can be well spelt.

thanks but I dont think I can manage a blog for now.

datblaqgurl: Like serzly? 18th birthday?

lol, age! They say, is just a number.

gandyluv: micheal r u stil a student

yup.

Ghyft: thnking dat dis whole story was created by sum1 gives me d feeling dat i cnt b dat bad either, i love ur page....its thrilling,captivating,it kept me transfixed. THUMBS up

thanks dear, you should give it a try.

Omololamide: this is a bad place to stop a story now, Mr Chistar, suspense is so unfair...... ha ha ha........what I'm i gonna do now..............crying!!!

hehe, oya dry your eyes, I've updated

Neduzze5: WHEN WILL I LOVE SOMEONE??

the day you let your self be loved.

dheddie: please don't get it twisted...I mean no harm o...infact,never mind cuz I can see ppl ready to roast me cuz I asked for d link...jes ignore n pretend I never asked for it

I guess you are offended, and am sorry, I meant no harm, just that after the recent 'issue' almost everything looks suspicious.

**Continuation**

The car was as quiet as a grave yard as non of us knew what to say or what we shouldn't until I broke the silence;

'where exactly are we going?'

'The hospital is at Akpor' The doctor replied.

'hmm, ok. Why was she transferred by the way? I thought UPTH was the best hospital around here?' I asked.

'Err..ermm, UPTH handles normal ailments but Sandra case is a complicated one so she was transferred to a specialist hospital' The doctor replied.

'Hmm, ok' and then I kept quiet, until we stopped by a quite popular hotel/club at Ozuoba, named 'Dazeys suites and lodges'.

'and why are we stopping here?'
I asked totally confused, and I began to sense something suspicious about this whole transfer thing.

'Our rent expired almost two months ago, and the quit notice we received expires today, so I'm sure the caretaker has locked up the door, so I want to book a room for I and Sandra, you know she doesn't like sleeping at hospitals' Amaka explained.

'hmm, what if she is in such a bad condition that she can't leave the hospital?' I asked.

'Then I would have to come back alone, I'm booking now because I don't know when we would come back and they have few rooms'

'Hmm, ok.. Lets rush in a book quickly' I suggested and leapt out of car.

'Ok' They both replied in unison.

As I and Amaka made to walk into the hotel, the doctor stayed back and just before we opened the door of the hotel reception I looked back at the doctor and saw he making a call. That made me more suspicious, I tightened my grip on the nylon bag where the 50k was, just incase of incasities.

As I opened the door and walked into the reception of the hotel, the light was turned on and.
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'SURPRISE!!!!!'

Over 20 people screamed at the top of thier voice.

I turned to Amaka to ask her what the hell was going on but she was magically no longer by my side, and turning the other was I saw Sandra walking towards me.

'I thought you were sick, and at the hospital?' I asked still not getting what exactly was going on.

'Yes, I was sick, but now am better. What you have done for me today is never going to be forgotten' She replied with a wide grin, and then peck me on the cheek.

She then dragged me to the front of a table with a cake placed on it, boldly written on the cake was;

'HAPPY BIRTHDAY 2 YOU'

I immediately understood it all, it was October 24th!!! Which was my birthday, my 18th birthday for that matter.

'How the hell did I forget it so badly? Well, there comes a time in a mans life when birthdays wouldntt mean so much to him, and besides, my thoughts had been occupied all day with Sandra' I pondered.

They sang the Happy birthday to you' song and then urged my to make a wish.

I had a quick thought to figure out the best wish, and then silently wished that more moments like that would come my way, then I blew the blew the candles on the cake.

After that people started taking turns in wishing me good tidings, everyone that I had ever cared for was present, even Urch, Chidinma and strangely Ify too.

I was too happy to get annoyed and besides, I assumed they were all part of the plan.

Tayo the party rocker then screamed 'Lets go into the club and have the main celebration!!!' on top of his voice.

We all went to the club and it was empty, which only meant it was reserved for us, I couldnt suppress the overwhelming feeling of being so cared for, that I nearly cried out of joy.

The Dj started with a slow song and then skillfully scratched it before changing the song to Flavour's shake track;

'Mr Flavour on the microphone' the whole club shaked as everyone screamed, including me.

Sandra sought me out and gave me her backside to rock, I gladly accepted the offer, who wouldn't ?

We danced for a while and I got tired of her yänsh so I left and slided into the back of a random chick who I didn't care to see her face.

Tayo and Urch came over to where I was and dragged me to the VIP section without even caring to know if I wanted to go or not.

A bottle of champagne was placed in a small bucket which was filled with ice, I was asked to do the honours of popping it and take the first sip before the bar could be open to all.

Everything was happening so fast and I was so excited to think about what they made me go through all day in search of money for Sandra.

I popped the bottle and took the first sip straight out off the bottle, and thus the bar was opened. Everyone, except we at the VIP section rushed straight to the bar and bombarded the bar-tender with drink orders, although mostly beer.

We had our own separate drinks served by staffs of the hotel, strictly assorted wines and basically all those expensive drinks.

When we all had a glass of wine each, Sandra stood up and proposed a toast;

'To the good life, and specially to Micheal for being there for each of us at one point in time'

We all clinged our glasses saying 'cheers'.

The rest of the bash went on well.

'sweet 18' I thought.

TO BE CONTINUED.

Hehehehe! Neduezze, you are a case. Are we allowed to answer questions pertaining to us?

[quote author=Mynd_44]I hope she will be sharing only the link and not the contents[/quote]hmm, thats a thought. I hope so too. , it is well.[quote author=Mz_Chistar]Chistar, this thing you are doing is not fair, you would build up to a climax and when you reach the climax and have all of us undivided attention you write 'TO BE CONTINUED' , its not just fair atall.[/quote]:p its a suspense strategy and you were warned.

[quote author=Miz_Sammy].[/quote]done ma.

dheddie: Okay,I don't want to be selfish abt dis...I need to tell ppl of dis great work...I need d link so i can paste it on ma TL both facebook and twitter#waiting..

thanks babes, this the link https://www.nairaland.com/1343906/complicated-love-story

Chuksemi:
Why didn't anybody tell me when this thread was started

Lol, if i punch you eh, you that have been here from the start .

**Continuation**

Port-harcourt, host to a roughly estimated population of two million people, including Nigerians and foreigners. It is one of the most industrial city in Nigeria and also generates a ridiculously large quarter of the national revenue.

It is also in itsself one of the richest city which also acts as a home to a long list of rich and influential people in the country and irrespective of all this grande features of the city, no one, not even one soul could stop me on the way and loan me just 35k, nothing more. Aren't all the occupants of the city not just heartless?

Don't judge me for thinking that way, but at that moment that was how I felt, as I walked out of the hospital, I kept on wishing one out of the hundreds of people I passed by would stop me and without asking much question, just give me 35k.

My best friend was sick and was at the verge of losing her sanity in less than two hours all because of 35k, so don't you dare Judge me for thinking that way.

I got home and told Tayo the whole story and he offered me 5k to assist me and said I shouldn't bother paying back, it was a weird thing for Tayo to do but I didn't bother asking questions, I just gladly and thanked him until he begged me to stop.

So 20k down, 30 more to go and no hope of getting it.

I looked at the time and it was already 11am. I became really desperate and scrolled through my phone contacts, hoping I would see a number I could call for assistance.

They were all useless at that point in time except one, Ify.
Hope you remember her? The sèx freak? Economics tutorial? Bold5 and Iphone girl?.

I dialed he number reluctantly and she picked up instantly;

'why are you calling me?' was the statement she used to replace 'hello'.

I wanted to just hang up since it all seemed like a bad idea but didn't because I had no other option, Urch who would have given me up to 100k if I asked hadn't resumed and Tayo had helped the best way he could, and I had no other friend who could help instantly, so I just swallowed my pride;

'I need your help so badly'

'why would I want to help you when you didn't help me when I needed you?' She asked coldly.

I nearly said; 'would you just shut up and hear me out!' but I swallowed my pride once again.

'Hmm, am so sorry about that and I promise to make it up to you, but I need your help badly now!'

'what is the problem?'

I took a deep breath and nearly cried at the thought of asking a girl for money, but composed myself and said;

'I need a loan from you, I promise to pay you back before this week runs out'

'Oh! So its money you need abi? You want to use it to flex one of all those your girlfriends? Well I can't help you, goodbye' and she hung up on me.

I was speechless, just then Amaka called again and asked;

'Micheal where are you, we don't have up to 12am anymore, they say by 11:30am, it might be too late?

'what!! Ok, am on my way right now!' I hung up and left for the hospital with the 20k hoping they would take it.

I got to the hospital and met with a doctor, or rather, a guy in a lab coat, he didn't look like a doctor in anyway but I refused to ask much questions since Amaka said he was one.

We both begged the doctor for over 10 minutes, at a point I nearly laid on the floor and kiss his feet just to show how desperate I was. He finally took the money and said, he would use it to buy a drug which can suppress the parasite for about 8hours but then I would still pay the full price of the deposit which was 50k, ignoring the 20k.

I thought about this and gave him the money, I had hope that 8hours would be enough for me to raise the 50k, afterall I had scammed someone off more than 300k before, so 50k would be nothing, or so I thought.

I didn't bother waiting to see him give Sandra the drugs, the funny thing is through out all this time, I hadn't seen Sandra face to face but I assumed she had been admitted and placed in one of the hospital wards.

The next 5 hours was next to fruitless because after calling both my enemies and friends I could raise only 10k, which wasn't even up to quarter the requires amount.

I went back home and just sat down on the floor, I hadn't bathed all day nor eaten thus my body was failing me and getting weak, my eyes started turning me or maybe it was the earth that was spinning faster, I wasn't sure.

Just when I was about to call Amaka and tell her there was no hope, I saw a light at the end of the tunnel.

I remembered I had a relative in PH who could help, my aunt.

I called her immediately to know her where about, and she was already at her home in Mgbuoba, I told her I was coming and hung up.

The time was already 6:45pm and I had about just one more hour.

After much lies and stories my aunt gave me the 50k reluctantly.

I thanked her and went straight to the hospital only for Amaka to tell me they had Transferred Sandra to another hospital, the doctor offered us a ride to the hospital.

The time was 7:40 when we left UPTH.

TO BE CONTINUED.

**continuation**

I got to taxi cab, where I hoped to get to ride straight to UPTH, but just asif the devil didn't want me to go to the hospital, the park was strangely scanty and the explanation I got from a random person who I saw seated under one of those ridiculously big umbrellas was that one of the members of thier committee had kicked the bucket so they were taking the entire day off to show respect.

I paused to think about another means for me to get to the hospital and the only substitute way was I had to trek for about twenty minutes before I can get to the main express way, where I would see a ride, I didn't think twice before I started the journey.

Fortunately for me, as soon as I got to the express way, a taxi stopped at my front to offload a passenger, I simply entered the taxi and it zoomed off.

During the short trip to the hospital, I kept on asking myself what would have gone wrong that required my presence so urgently, but I had no idea, so I had to patiently wait.

We got to the busstop of the hospital and I alighted from the taxi and paid him about #200 for a #50 journey, without waiting for my balance I ran into the hospital.

While on motion, I brought out my phone to try and call Amaka to get her exactly location, just as it rang and she picked it, I got to the reception and and saw her so I ended the call.

'Micheal, I'm so glad to see you'

'yea yea, what's wrong with Sandra?' I asked in no mood to exchange pleasantries.

'Micheal, I don't know oh, I woke up this morning to see a white foamy substance coming out of her mouth and she was shaking like a fish out of water'

'she had convulsion?' I asked, since that was the only explanation I had to her description.

'Yes that's the word the doctor used, they also said that her malaria was now chronic and if I hadn't rushed her to the hospital now, it might have affected her brain too and made her to start acting weird'

I had never seen a case when someone infected with the malaria parasite convulsed, but I had seen a case when the wires in someone brain starts to spark because of malaria.

I'm not a doctor but I had read an article concerning it somewhere, It stated that it happens when someone has the malaria parasite in his blood stream but refuses to treat it and then after a while, the parasite suppresses for a while, then he is bitten again by a mosquito and once again, he doesn't treat it and it suppresses too. It would get to a point the body won't be able to fight off the malaria parasite and then give up, that would most definitely lead to what is termed as 'chronic Malaria' and it can also lead to insanity. It happens rarely, but it does happen. I thanked God she hadn't lost her sanity.

'So is that the only problem?'

'No, they said we would need to pay a deposit before the proceed with the treatment, all they have given her now is something that would slow down the rate of the parasite from eating up her system'

'hmm, Like how much are we talking about now?'

'50,000 Naira'

My heart skipped a bit, if 50k is just a deposit, what would be the full price, I wondered.

'50k for what?!l I asked again.

'hmm, they even said its because she is a uniport student that they are charging so low, had it been an outsider, they would have take 70k as deposit'

At this point I started to wonder why they had to call me and not her parents to send the money, asin where do they want me to get such money at once?

'hmm, all I brought from home was 20k and I had even used about 5k out of it already' I lamented to Amaka.

'hmm, maybe you should ask your friends for a loan, she promises to pay back as soon as her parents come back from London'

'Oh, her parent travelled?' I asked.

'yea, since last week'.

That explained it all, Sandra had a kind of family that was in dispute, so asking from her uncle's and aunt''s wasn't an option.

'how much time did the doctors say we have before it gets worst'

'they said we have till 12pm'

I looked at the wall clock at the reception and saw it was 10:05am already.

I didn't know where the hell I was going to get the remaining 35k but I said;

'Ok, give me about an hour, I would be back wit the money' and I left the hospital hoping that manna would fall from heaven.

TO BE CONTINUED.

[quote author=wondaboy_romeoo][/quote]sorry, but can't answer your question here on the thread. Hope you understand?

datblaqgurl: I'm a follower of kemmystry's page on fbk, n i feel ur pain..Itz really not ha fault, d story was posted by an admin of d page....

So nw wen una don cari us come nairaland finish, una no go post d story again??

Micheal or chistar or worefa, berra do fast...

Yea, I understand, she has already explained it to me.

mister josh: Bro Chistar do fast post o, u'v got some new fans frm fb dat r earnestly waiting

thanks bro, I just posted.[quote author=temi_K9]*washes face* No sleep till I read an update I swear![/quote]lol , oya I've updated, so you can have a good night rest now. *winks*.

**continuation**

'you said she did what?' Sandra asked rhetorically with a tone of jealousy and probably anger.

Her voice sounded so shaky and was strangely low, I assumed the malaria had really eaten deep into her system.

Concerning her question, I don't know if she intended for me to observe the touch of jealously and anger in her tone or not, but I did notice it, and I couldn't understand why she jealous and angry at me so I simply asked, carefully selecting my choice of words;

'why are you sounding angry?'

'Angry? Why would I be angry that a girl kissed you when am not your girlfriend anymore'

I could sense sarcasm on her reply, but choose to ignore it and just change the topic;

'so am I forgiven?'

'You did nothing wrong. Its just that things are not the same as the were before, we don't see much and hang out anymore, we don't even share personal things anymore, and don't say you just did, because you and I know you wouldn't had told me all those stuffs if I wasn't sick and you wanted to cheer me up alittle'

Her reply made so much sense and was the gospel truth, but I didn't know whatelse to say so I just apologised and promised to change.

We then gisted for the next few hours, catching up on old times, until it was really late and I had to go to my house.

I had barely closed my eyes in an attempt to sleep when my phone rang to notify me of a text message.

The text message was from Chidinma and it said;

'Those two weeks you spent at home during the holidays were the two worst weeks of my life, I was so lonely and missed you so badly. Merely seeing you this afternoon made my whole day. Anyway, am about to go to bed now, just thought I should let you know. So So sleep tight and don't let the mosquitoes bite. And make sure you dream about me. Remember someone cares.'

I fought the urge to call or text her back because I didn't want to sound desperate and besides, silence speaks louder than words atimes like this.

I slept off hoping I would dream about her.

***

A research by the Micheal Odoh school of lazy people and spoil kids had shown that the most pleasurable time of a regular night rest is at the early hours of the morning, lets say around 7am if you are an early riser and 8-9am if you are a late riser, just like me.

So when my phone rang consistently for over five minutes the next morning and I refused to wake up to pick it, my simply excuse was I needed to catch that pleasurable early morning sleep.

Also, I was having a wonderful dream, not about Chidinma oh, but the dream featured Kim Khadarsian and Adele, while I and Kim were setting up the camera which we intended to use to video or own personal sÈx tape, Adele was trying to do some voice training, since she was to give us a sound track with one of her songs.

I was determined to atleast see Kim pull off her cloth and expose her two over ripe oranges and her VJ which i expected to be shaven, so I just refused to wake up until Tayo got involved.

'Micheal! Your phone dey ring oh' He screamed at me.

I was still determined not to open my eyes or think about another thing, less the dream fades out, but Tayo was in a good mood and so he gave me a heavy slap at my back thinking he was doing me a favour.

At this point, I lost the battle and opened my eyes and rained curses on him because he tapped me just as Kim unhooked her bra.

I reluctantly looked picked up my phone to see who the monkey who because he can't sleep, didn't want me to sleep too.

Firstly, I saw 21 missed calls and I was like;

'What tha fûck!! 21?? Who does that? Why can't people just use thier brain? I didn't pick the first three times and your sense didn't tell you I either don want to talk to you or I'm busy?' I pondered.

Just then the phone rang again, and to my greatest surprise it was the least person I expected, it was Amaka.

I picked the call immediately and out of an overwhelming curiosity I skipped the pleasantries and asked;

'What's wrong?' I just knew something was wrong.

'Micheal, Sandra is at UPTH now and she really needs you now'

'need me?' for what? What's she doing there this early?'

'Just come now, and you would get all your answers' And she hung up before I could reply.

I didn't even bother brushing or cleaning up, I just wore a jeans and a shirt, which I later found out I wore inside out, then I literally ran to the hospital, hoping for the best but prepared for the worst, but what could really be the worst?

TO BE CONTINUED

DaFuck!!! Ewww!!.. LWKMD!!, irritating ending, but really funny chapter in all. STILL YOU FLOW.