I was dumb after reading the text. I became confused and speechless at the same time and lots of thoughts began to run through my mind while I was seated on the bed.
“Have I impregnated her again?”
“Have I contacted any disease?”
“What could the test be all about?”
“Hope I had not gotten into another serious trouble?”
“Segun isn’t available to help me on bimpe’s matter anymore”
“Who else do I turn to?”
“Could this be a threat?”
“Or a ploy from her to see me? “
“What do I do now?”
“Now the inevitable has finally happened”
I sat down and I was looking so stupid and hopeless, I thought of how I have been getting into trouble and scandals since the day I met bimpe and I cursed the day I met her. I suddenly lost appetite and it seemed my world was collapsing. I remembered the day I met her, I remembered when I sent a friend request to her, I remembered our first conversations, how I asked her out and how we began the love affairs. I remembered how she played me for a guy back then in akure, I remembered how segun chased her out of my room and how she disappeared from my life in the first place.
I remembered how I was living my normal life until a friend of mine in Niger state lured me into a scam GNLD job. I remembered how disappointed I was when I found out about the job and how I left the venue in anger. I remembered how I was so broke financially and how I tried to find my friend in Abuja until I heard that he relocated. I remembered how I was wandering along Abuja road until I was hit by a car and I found myself on the hospital bed and suddenly, Adebimpe reappeared to me again like a nightmare.
I remembered how I made another more mistake of my life by having sex with her on the hospital bed while I was admitted in Abuja which was the beginning of my scandals. I remembered what happened to my credentials, how we started playing survivor games alongside all the threats. I remembered how I got an alternative to my credentials and how I was happy when I got a job in Ado Ekiti and bimpe disappeared from my life again for the second time until I met betty and bimpe suddenly reappeared again to my life as the wife of betty’s brother. I remembered how I was disappointed when I met bimpe again in lekki. I remembered how we resumed the game of threats we suspended after I got a job at the pure water company in ado ekiti. I remembered how I was shocked the day I found out that I was the father of daniella. I remembered the oath we took and I remembered all that happened after then and I became confused on why bimpe was always reoccurring in my life.
I was like “why is our paths always crossing all the time?”
“Why is it that the more I tried to avoid bimpe, the more I get caught in her web?”
“Why do I find it so difficult to kill the feelings I have for her before now?”
“Now the inevitable has happened, I now have a test result that needed to be discussed about.”
***** TWO WEEKS AGO *******
Betty left my house that Wednesday morning after dropping her car for me with some cash too. My eyes were soaked with tears as we departed at the junction of my street. She told me “onihaxy, it’s likely we might not see each other again till I’m back from abroad”, it was as if the world was collapsing, it was as if a special part of my body was been removed, it was as if I was sentenced to jail, both of us couldn’t hold back our tears as we hugged each other at the junction for several minutes before she stopped a cab and boarded it to her house while I stopped a bike to my place of work because I was already late.
I got to the bank and I was feeling so weak and emotionally depressed. I was just moody right from the moment I entered the bank and throughout the connect session, my mind was far away from all the discussions that was made during the meeting to the extent that I was called by my team-lead to give a suggestion concerning a particular work flow and I didn’t know I was been called until a lady sitting beside me tapped me. My team lead enquired about the reasons for my absent-mindedness and I just cooked up a lie for him. We finished the connect session, returned back to my desk and my emotional problem continued. Funmi was coming from outside and I didn’t even noticed it, she got to my desk and greeted me as usual but my response was so dull. She walked pass me and went to her office while I continued with my job and target for the day with several thoughts flowing through my mind.
“How do I cope with betty’s absence?”
“Will I ever get to see her again?”
“Hope my rich rival won’t take her away from me?”
“She truly loved me and she has done a lot for me”
” I wished I was also born into a rich family, her father wouldn’t have despised me”
” I wish I had enough money or a fat salary, I would have sponsored her education myself”
” I just pray I won’t end up loosing her”
” I think I have really hurt her by cheating on her”
“I think this is the right time I stop everything between bimpe and I”
” I think this is the right time I concentrate fully on betty”
“Betty gave me a job, a car and cash”
“What else do I want in another woman?”
” I think its best I take a fast decision on bimpe before it’s too late”.
I continued thinking and reminiscing about my life, about betty, and about bimpe and I was doing my work at the same time until about few minutes past twelve when I got a message notification on my outlook mail, I opened it and it was from funmi and it read “onihaxy, see me immediately in my office”.
I was shocked and nervous. In the history of the branch where I work, anytime funmi send such a mail, it indicates nothing but “trouble”. I dropped what I was doing and I stood up from my desk and proceed to her office with the look of fear on my face. From the look on the face of my co-staffs on same floor, they were surprised to see me wearing that kind of look walking to funmi’s office which was unusual and I knew they must gossip about it. I got to funmi’s door, I knocked and I entered.
FUNMI: onihaxy, have your seat.
ME: ** drew out the chair and sat down** thanks funmi.
FUNMI: so tell me onihaxy, what is wrong with you?,
ME: **scared** nothing is wrong with me, I’m fine.
FUNMI: **pulled closer to her desk, placed her elbows on the desk and looking straight into my eyes** onihaxy, it seems you don’t know that I do observe you a lot, I can tell when you are happy , hungry, tired, sick and sad. From your response when I greeted you in the morning, I knew something was wrong, I have also been spying at you through the glass since morning and I noticed that your mind was far away. So tell me, what really happened?.
ME: ***lied*** ok, it was my landlord, he had been disturbing me for my rent and I begged him to give me a little time till month ending that I would pay him when I receive my salary but he wouldn’t listen. I have part of the rent with me but its remaining N30,000 to complete the full rent. He told me this morning that he would throw out my loads if I didn’t pay him this week.
FUNMI: is that all?
ME: yes
FUNMI: are you sure?
ME: yes
FUNMI: you should have told me all these while instead of you worrying yourself about it. And besides, why didn’t you tell me on Friday when you visited me?
ME: my mind wasn’t there and also, I didn’t want to bother you.
FUNMI: hmmmmmmmm.
ME: yes
FUNMI: that’s by the way, there are 8 vacant positions in the bank for permanent contract staff and the management had decided that the 8 people will be selected among the temporary project staffs, so I want to encourage you to work harder and be more diligent. You might be lucky to be among the 8 people, just work harder, the management is watching you.
ME: ok ma,
FUNMI: *** looked me with a frown***
ME: sorry, ok funmi.
FUNMI: better
ME: thank you very much
FUNMI: **brought out a plan A4 paper and a biro and gave it to me*** write your account number there.
ME: ***curious of why she wanted my account number*** I wrote it on the paper and returned it to her.
FUNMI: I will transfer 30,000 to you when I’m less busy, go and use that to sort out your rent and concentrate on your work.
ME: *** happy and surprised*** thanks so much, I really appreciate it.
FUNMI: you are welcome. Just do yourself a favour by going through all the work you did today and do a spot check incase you made any error or mistake so as to correct it on time. If your work is been quality assured and mistakes was found, it might cost you your job as you know that error isn’t tolerated in this bank.
ME: ok. Thanks so much.
FUNMI: you can go now
ME: alright boss
FUNMI: **smiled**
I stood up with joy and happiness filled in my heart, opened her door and went out with a smile. My co-staffs were all staring at me again wondering why I went inside moody and came out smiling.
I settled down and I did a view look up on my works for the day and 15minutes later, I received an alert on my phone indicating a transfer of 30k into my account.
****** FEW DAYS BACK ********
It was that same week that I took the decision and bold step to stay away from Adebimpe and avoid her completely. I planned to start my driving lessons and I began to imagine a new life with my new car.
“Now, I will be driving into the bank premises”
“That rich girl called Amanda won’t oppress me with her pencil camry again”
“I’m sure people will start envying me in that office”
“Infact, there must be a new gossip”
I was still imagining the new life when I got a chat from segun.
SEGE: hello
ME: sege, how far jaree?
SEGE: I’m good. You didn’t give me feedback since last weekend.
ME: no vex jaree. You know I was having a visitor.
SEGE: I know, did our plan worked out?
ME: yes. It did work out. Thanks jaree
SEGE: you are welcome. Onihaxy, the earlier you stay away from that witch called bimpe, the better it will be for you. That woman will bring you nothing but doom.
ME: Thanks boss. That reminds me. I get gist for you sef.
SEGE: hope it’s not about bimpe?
ME: haba, na so you hate her reach?
SEGE: na so ooooo. So what’s the gist all about?
ME: it’s about Betty and funmi
SEGE: what happened to them? , they met each other and fought each other?
ME: funny you. Rara ooo
SEGE: Did Betty found out about funmi?
ME: no joor.
SEGE: then tell me what happened.
ME: two days ago when Betty was leaving my place, she gave me her car.
SEGE: waooooooooh. Nice one, congratulations my guy, you don get car be that.
ME: she didn’t give me completely ooo. She said I should hold it and be using it till she returns.
SEGE: well, the Betty I’m seeing will definitely buy or be given another car on her arrival to Nigeria. A whole multi-millionaire daughter?.
ME: hmmmmmmmmm.
SEGE: so, have you started driving?
ME: no oooo. You know I’m not that perfect yet, I only used to drive baba folake’s old Nissan car within the compound back then in Akure, so I still need to learn professional driving and I would be starting this weekend. And also, I want to get a driver license.
SEGE: that’s cool.
ME: after when Betty left my place yesterday morning, I went to work moody and feeling so sad because I was missing Betty so bad. Funmilayo saw me and she noticed my mood. She then invited me over to her office for questioning.
SEGE: hmmmmmm. What did you now tell her?
ME: I lied and told her I owed a rent and the landlord threatened to throw me out of the house if I didn’t pay my balance of 30k before the weekend. To my surprise, she requested for my account number and later credited my account like 15 minutes later, seriously, I was amazed.
SEGE: she don dey love you be that. Good boy.
ME: I guess so, but I don’t know what to do next. Should I approach her myself?, or wait for her to show more green light?.
SEGE: do you want to marry her?, or keep her as sugar mummy?.
ME: marry kee?, where my betty dey?, rara oooo. Just for the purpose of office goodies. She even told me yesterday that the management was planning to convert few of us to permanent contract staff.
SEGE: hmmmmmmmm. For her to say that, then you must be one of her candidate/slot. Just keep the romantic waves going.
ME: so should I approach her? Or wait for her to approach me?.
SEGE: for now, none of the above. Just keep getting closer to her, keep doing things that will make her love you more, buy take away lunch for her often, send her texts often, visit her once a while, make her see and feel you as someone loving and good. Then let nature decides on who approaches who later.
ME: that’s my guy.
SEGE: don’t drink and drive, always use your seatbelt. It saves life.
ME: funny you, see person wey no get okada wey come dey advise me wey get car.
SEGE: you dey craze ni. I don’t just get interest in car at the moment. I need to finish the house project on my site first.
ME: hmmmmmmm, you be boss oooo.
SEGE: let’s chat later, my babe don arrive.
ME: babe kee?, At this time? 9:40pm?. Is it kike?
SEGE: no oooo. This one is latifat. Na my new catch sha.
ME: segun sege!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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