BETTY: onihaxy, there is something I want to tell you, but please, wait till I’m back from Abuja,
ME: huuuuh, betty, why not now dear?, you know I hate suspense.
BETTY: just be patient, when I return, I will tell you everything.
ME: is it related to my dream?
BETTY: just wait till then.
ME: ok dear
*****what could this girl want to tell me?, can this be true?, haaaaaa, it seems bimpe was right!!!!, what could the suspense gist be all about ooooooooooo??********
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On thursday morning, I left home for work as usual. I got to my desk in the morning and resumed work. My heart was filled with worries, fear and anxiety as I became uncomfortable on my seat. For some moments, I would just stare into the ceiling and soliloquies with account packages on the table unattended to, at a point, I was shedding tears and I don’t know it, the fear of “is this how I will loose betty?” filled my heart and I couldn’t concentrate on anything. My temperature was raised immediately .
At around 10am, I got an envelope on the notification of my system. It was a message on my microsoft outlook, I opened it and discovered that it was a message from funmilayo which says “onihaxy, see me in my office immediately”. I got scared and I was so worried. From the history of funmilayo that I was told about, I heard that she is very dangerous and bossy, she is rude, arrogant and deadly, she doesn’t send for staffs anyhow and every of her subordinates feared her as she can fire anybody, I also heard that whenever she sent such mail, its either she wanted to fire someone or she wanted to serve someone a query. Immediately, I pinged my team-lead on bbm to tell him that funmilayo sent for me, my teamlead replied with a “surprise” smiley and he told me to summon courage and answer her.
I suspended what I was doing, stood up from my seat and went to her door, I knocked and she told me to come in and I entered.
ME: good morning ma.
FUNMI: ***raised eyebrow*** ma?, minus 5k from your salary this month.
ME: **scared*** I’m sorry, good morning funmi
FUNMI: better, how are you?
ME: **still scared and worried*** i am fine
FUNMI: you can have your seat
ME: ***pulled the visitors chair and sat down*** thank you
FUNMI: ***held her pen with one hand, hitting it against the other hand with her glasses adjusted and she was staring straight into my eyes**** onihaxy!!!!!!!
ME: ****scared with my heart beating heavily****** Ma!!!
FUNMI: ***pulled closer to her desk*** I have been going round, observing all the new project staffs and also going through their targets. I found out you have been doing well and also exceeding targets, keep it up
ME: thank you
FUNMI: however, I have been observing you through the glass since morning, I noticed you are behaving unusually funny today. What happened?
ME: nothing ma.
FUNMI: ***smiled*** your girl dumped you?
ME: no
FUNMI: anyways, I know you are suffering from an emotional trauma. That is why I called you.
ME: **silent***
FuNMI: look here onihaxy, everyone has one or two issues battling with them, maybe your girl dumped you, your wife gave birth or whatever it may be, the moment you get to the bank entrance, you just have to drop every emotions at the gate, enter the compound and concentrate at work and after work, you can pick your problems from the gate and return home with them.
ME: yes ma
FUNMI: here in this bank, it is either 100% or zero, we don’t tolerate errors, there is no way you won’t make errors when you combine your emotional problem with the work on your desk, you can never concentrate. I’m telling you this because I can see you have been working hard, if any error is detected in your work, you are gone, is that clear?
ME: yes ma.
FUNMI: ok, you can go back to your desk.
ME: ok ma.
I left funmi’s table and returned to my desk. It was difficult for me to concentrate on my work so I had to put on my earphones and play music from my phone. At break time. I stepped out to meet my other team mates at their office to catch fun with them in order to overcome my worries. I was surprised that the news had went round that funmi sent me a mail to come to her office.
“What happened onihaxy?”
“Wetin you do funmi?”
“Na wetin she tell you?”
“She don sack you?”
People began to ask me several questions and I told them that she sent for me to come and eat lunch with her in her office, I became a celebrity instantly as it turned to a topic of discussion till the end of the day.
I got home after work that night. I heard my shower and had a chat with bimpe and betty at the same time. I begged betty to tell me about the suspense but she still insisted that I have to wait till she is back from abuja. I was also chatting with bimpe till I excused myself to eat dinner.
After the dinner, I was preparing for friday’s work when my phone began to ring. I checked the screen and it was bimpe.
ME: hello bimpe,
BIMPE: hi onihaxy, how is work today?
ME: fine, and yours?
BIMPE: good
ME: ok
BIMPE: I will be off duty this weekend, can you come around please?, I want to show you something and also give you plans on how to get your girl back to you.
ME: ****silent***
BIMPE: onihaxy, you aren’t talking, hello!!!!
ME: I’m just scared, are you sure you aren’t setting me up or planning anything funny?
BiMPE: anything funny like raping you abi?
ME: ****laughed***
BIMPE: ***laughed tooo****
ME: ok, let me tell betty about it
BIMPE: haba onihaxy, why will you do that now?, just let her travel while we make our own plans. You will pay me for my services oooo.
ME: ok, I hear.
BIMPE: alright, I will be expecting you in lekki on saturday.
ME: ok.
****chai onihaxy!!!!!!, can bimpe be friendly or dangerous this time?
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On my way to work the following friday morning, betty called to inform me that she and her brother are on their way to the airport going to abuja, I felt bad as I bid her farewell in a 12minutes conversation, I got to the bank and resumed for the day’s work.
We always have team connect sessions every fridays where members of each team would come together between 7:10 am to 7:45am to discuss and deliberate on various challenges facing the team and each member and how to tackle them.
Before the commencement of the connect session, I was on my seat when funmilayo entered the room, the 6 other staffs and I who use the main floor greeted her as she entered the room, she just waved at the air with a straight look on her face saying “good morning everyone”, when she got to the entrance of her office where my desk is located, she stopped, looked at me with a grin on her face and said “good morning onihaxy, how are you now?”, I looked at her and replied “I’m fine funmi”. she hit her hand on my desk and said “So how are you? Hope you have settled the issue with your girlfriend who was giving you a concern yesterday?” , I smiled in silence as I don’t know what to say, she looked at me and said ” it good you are now back to your normal self, be a good boy and don’t forget what I told you yesterday”. I replied “Ok ma”. She then cat-walked into her office and banged the door.
When I raised up my head, I saw the other 6 staffs looking at me in amazement and the mouth of two of them was widely opened. The lady at the extreme corner gave me a sign to come with her hand waved at me, As a senior colleague, I obeyed her, stood up and walked up to her. Before I reached there, two other ladies there had drew closer as if I was been summoned.
” Are you related to funmi?”
” Is she your sister?”
” Are you guys living in the same area?”
The 3 ladies whispered to me simultaneously at the same time, I just smiled and replied “not at all, I met her here as my boss when I resumed this job, that’s all”. The lady who called me said “nawa oooo, its so rare to see funmilayo stopping by at a junior staff’s desk to chat with him or her, or calling a junior staff to her office for conversation. even we wey dey here for over two years, she had never acted this way to any of us before”, I just looked her and smile. The other ladies said “maybe their spirits just worked together”, the third one said ” maybe funmi likes him”. I just looked at them and smiled as I stood up and walked out of the floor to attend the connect session, ***chaiii, women and gossips sha******
I got to the meeting and the news of funmi inviting me to office for lunch the previous day was still trending among my team-mates, I had to quickly correct them before they put me into trouble “Abeg oooo, she only called me for an assignment ni oooo, no be for lunch ooo”. We all laughed over it and everybody returned to his/her desk after the session.
At the closure of the day, I had a long chat session with betty as she told me that she was already in Abuja, bimpe also called to remind me of my visitation on saturday the next day. I tried calling and chatting segun to update him about bimpe’s invitation but his number wasn’t reachable and messages weren’t delivering ” Ooooooh, as I couldn’t reach segun now, what should I do ooooo?”
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Up till saturday morning, I still couldn’t reach segun on phone to update him on the latest invitation, and at the same time, I was so eager to know what bimpe wanted to show me and how she planned to help me get betty back to me. I sat down on my bed that morning and began to think and make strategies.
“Wetin dey do segun’s phone sef?”
“Can’t I even take decisions on my own?”
“Let me do this on my own this time”
“I won’t seat close to bimpe when I get there”
“Infact, I won’t eat nor drink anything”
” I will avoid any body contact”
“I won’t even smile at her sef”
I was on my bed doing rehearsals when my phone began to ring, I checked the screen and it was bimpe, I picked the phone from the bed and received the call.
ME: hello bimpe
BIMPE: hi dear, good morning, how was your night?
ME: fine thanks. What about yours?
BIMPE: fine and cool
ME: ok
BIMPE: so when are you coming over?
ME: ***silent for a while**** any moment for
now
BIMPE: ok dear, what will you eat? so that I can start preparing it
ME: anything nice.
BIMPE: ok dear, leave home early because of traffic
ME: ok
BIMPE: that reminds me, since you stay in mushin, why aren’t you using fadeyi brt lane to cms and you take lekki bus from there, or why do you prefer oshodi route?
ME: really?, I never knew there is another route apart from oshodi route.
BIMPE: **laughed*** try this one I told you, its very fast
ME: alright
BIMPE: ok bye ***hanged up***
I stood up from my bed, thought for some minutes and contemplating on whether to go or not, I tried segun’s number and it was still unreachable.
I just made up my mind to go and stay out of trouble. I went to the bathroom and had a shower, I dressed up and asked my neighbours about the fadeyi-cms route, I was told its the fastest and that fadeyi brt bustop is even closer to the house and just a five minutes trek.
I dashed out of the house and went to the bustop, I saw a fan-milk ice cream bicycle and purchased a N200 own, on getting to lekki, I purchased pop-corn and wanted to give them to daniella. I took a bus to bimpe’s bustop and I arrived at her house by 10:20am.
I knocked on the gate and the gate-man opened the gate for me to enter the compound. He told me he could recognised my face but he still wanted to call his madam to confirm if I should come in or not and I told him “no problem”. I sat down on a bench beside the gate, the gate-man used an intercom located beside the gate and he made a call, he asked of my name and I told him, after about 4 seconds, he ended the call and told me I can go inside.
I stood up with the nylon bag I carried and went to the door, I knocked and few moments later, I heard a sound behind the door and later, it was opened wide, bimpe appeared behind the door on a short mini gown with her fresh laps revealing underneath and a seductive smile on her face, I can’t just help it but to glance at her from her head to her toes and from the toes back to her Laps as I entered the living room with smile on my face also.
****chai!!!, even though I walk through the valley of seduction…………..*******
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