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Onome's tales....episode 7

The following week, Friday precisely, it was raining cats and dogs, and the usual Lagos flood was battling for land ownership with the sons of the soil, so many people had their shoes in their hands as they waited for buses at the bus stop ,Onome was not left out , as she went to make her hair, she was busy trying to get back to the hostel and didn’t realise her phone was ringing all the while ,she finally got to the hostel  and recalling all that had happened the weekend before she decided to go home for the weekend, she knew Mrs Sylvia was a bit  suspicious . As soon as she picked her phone to call her aunt and tell her  she was going to be home  for the weekend and saw Alex’s missed calls, she immediately called him back;

Onome: Hey

Alex: hi, have been calling like forever

Onome: so sorry , went to make my hair and got to the hostel under the rain, didn’t even have an idea my phone was ringing

Alex: awwww…sorry dear, was just told by my boss that I have training in Lagos; I’m actually coming with my boss.

Onome: wow! So when is the training?

Alex: it starts on Monday. I would love to see my baby

Onome: same here, but my aunt is already suspicious, so I have to be careful

Alex: so? Onome I mean well for both of us, I can come see your aunt if you wish

Onome: wow…ermmm ok!

Alex later got introduced to Mrs Sylvia , the relationship was no longer a hide and seek game, the two love birds kept on dating, three years later , Onome was in her final year, she got too busy with project and all sorts, in fact sometimes she used Alex’s name to get away from home to be with other friends, Alex in that same year had to go to the UK for his masters, Onome wasn’t sure if she could cope without Alex for the next one year ,she was really sad, but Alex reassured her of his love and also pleaded with her to wait for him that he would definitely come back for her , but Onome was really scared about Alex not coming back again or coming back with another girl, she had so many things running through  her mind.

Alex : I would come back for you

Onome: I know, I’m just scared

Alex: of what?

Onome: a lot! What if you come back with another girl? What if you get a job there and don’t come back?

Alex : I  am not coming back with another girl and yes if I get a job there , I will come and take you there,.

Onome: I love you baby

Alex : I love you too……and by the way even more  than you think

Onome: *smiles*

A month later Alex left for the UK , Onome was still working on  her project, Coincidentally , Onome had same project supervisor with Mimi , so they always get to meet often even when they don’t want to. One Wednesday morning they were both waiting for their project supervisor (Mr. Lanre) , Mr Lanre was in a meeting with some lecturers in his office, so his secretary asked Onome and Mimi to wait a little, as Mr Lanre was busy at the moment, so both girls sat patiently opposite the secretary , Mimi started the conversation;

Mimi: see how she said the *at the moment* same way MTN will say * the number you have called is not available at the moment *

Onome: lol….you are just a silly girl

Mimi: so how’s our Alex?

Onome: did I hear you say ‘our’?

Mimi: hahahahahaha….relax jor

Onome: he’s fine, he called yesterday

Mimi: so when are you going to visit him?

Onome: babes!!! Relax…he’s in the UK for his masters ….to study not play! Moreover he just left some weeks back, I had better get done with school and go for my NYSC, He will be back soon .

Mimi: I know, but you know what they say, life isn’t a dettol advert, if you don’t take care of your man, sweetheart, another woman will!

Onome: (looked at Mimi like she was sizing her up and finally got hold of her words) not to worry , mine would be like dettol advert…silly!

Mimi: just saying

At this point the secretary beckoned on  both girls to come see Mr Lanre

Mimi & Onome: Good day sir

Mr Lanre: Ehennnn… (adjust his chair ) how are you girls doing?

Mimi& Onome: fine sir

Mr Lanre looked at their work, Onome was in chapter four while Mimi was in Chapter five, Mr Lanre asked Mimi to go ahead and start putting her work together, as hers was certified okay, he turned to Onome and said ‘I am not pleased with your work , take note of the corrections I am making , write it again and bring it back tomorrow, you can see your mates have started typing their project work’

Ok sir…replied Onome.

As soon they left Mr. Lanre’s office, Mimi said to Onome;

Mimi: Looks like you want to stress yourself

Onome: How do you mean?

Mimi:  trying to write this project all by yourself is tedious, just give that office assistant five thousand naira, he would give you a project of your choice from the Head of department’s store and then you can just copy and paste….finish

Onome: I knew it

Mimi: knew what ?

Onome: you were too fast with your project, I knew there was more to it .

Mimi: I am just advising you as a friend

Onome: Thanks but I had rather I do it myself

Mimi: whatever.

                                    

Onome's tales......episode 6

Alex had a thousand thoughts in his head seeing Onome in his bed, Was this too easy or does she like me this much? And then he said to himself; ‘a man got to do what a man got to do’.

The next morning he got Onome breakfast in bed, (every girl loves breakfast in bed right?) she was a bit shy about last night, but whatever right? .Few minutes later Mimi’s call came in and the conversation went thus;

Mimi: hey babes sup

Onome: I’m good

Mimi: I just saw your aunt in church now, she said she wanted to speak with me after service, she asked after you though and I told her you couldn’t come to church because you had headache, I think she wants to come see you after service, so make yourself available, because I wouldn’t know what to tell her since you have a lot of things to hide from me.

Onome: Jeezzzzzz! Anyways thanks. But I’m  not in Lagos at the moment ,so I can’t really be in the hostel after service, but tell her I just called that I will be  attending the next service so I won’t be in the hostel.

Mimi: Where in the devil’s starched caftan are you? You are only jeopardizing your safety by not telling anyone about your movement.

Onome: Ok easy! I’m at Alex’s place

Mimi: you mean you are in Portharcourt? Wow, I see. No wonder you have been hiding this from me, I advice you call your aunt yourself, I do not want to be involved in all of this nonsense.

Onome: whatever , I will take care of this, it’s my situation after all .( ends the call)

Alex: who was that ?

Onome: it’s Mimi

Alex: oh how is she? Did she know you were coming here? Because I know Mimi loves to travel

Onome: (Smiles) Oh yes, she’s being quite eventful.

Alex: ok.

As soon as Alex left for the bath, Onome put a call through to her aunt, telling her she would be attending the next service and that she feels better now, Mrs Sylvia was comforted to hear from Onome herself and asked her if she would love to see the family doctor ‘Dr Francie’ Onome declined, saying she was very fine and that if there is need to, she would let Mrs Sylvia know.

Four hours later , Onome was getting ready to go to the airport , but couldn’t find her ear rings, she searched everywhere ,Alex decided to join her in the searched as the earrings seemed important to Onome at that moment , in the process of searching  Mr Muktar’s complimentary card f ell off, Alex picked the complimentary and saw Mr Muktar’s details, he screamed ‘ Onome! Onome!!’

Onome: what is it?

Alex: ( breathing hard as if trying to recover from a shock ) What in God’s name are you doing with my manager’s complimentary card????? I need answers now!

Onome: Please calm down

Alex : just answer me!

Onome: we boarded the same flight yesterday, I was sitting next to him and we got talking, he gave me his card

Alex: and you of course gave him your number?

Onome:Oh please ! I didn’t, as a matter of fact I thought I had thrown the card away

Alex: you thought? Ok there is no point thinking anymore(Alex destroys the complimentary card and went ahead to check if she already stored  Mr. Muktar’s details on her phone, but she hadn’t). You don’t even know that man, he has four wives already only if you are willing to make his fifth wife

Onome: Please don’t be ridiculous! If I had interest in his advances you would have found his details on my phone, why are you acting like a child?

Alex: acting like a child? omG ! I’m finished! Choose your words carefully Onome, I could be nasty sometimes.

Onome ignored him and went on to search for these earrings that has brought her troubles, as soon as she found them, she went to Alex and told him she was ready to go to the airport.

Alex: we just had a misunderstanding and you want to go leaving it just like that

Onome: I need to leave, like seriously I’m not in the best frame of mind right now

Alex: Ok . I’m sorry I reacted that way, but you won’t blame me , would you? If you were in my shoes I’m sure you had do more than that.

Alex hugged Onome and they made their wayout of the house to the airport .

Onome arrived Lagos in an hour and then headed for the hostel, she saw Mimi in front of the hostel as soon as she got down from the taxi,Mimi had this ‘You are just a liar’ kind of expression on her face, they managed to exchange pleasantries ,just as Onome was trying to settle in she got a call from her aunt;

Mrs Sylvia: Onome

Onome:  Good afternoon aunty

Mrs Sylvia: What is good about the afternoon young lady? You were not in church like you said where were you?

Onome: Aunty I was in church

Mrs Sylvia: You are still lying to me! Ok what’s the name of the pastor who preached during the second service?

Onome: I have forgotten his name

Mrs Sylvia: Since when did you start lying to me? Do not joke with your health, you have to go to the hospital, I know you don’t like taking injection, I am on my way to your hostel, we have to go see the family doctor or better still any clinic close to your school

Onome: Aunty I am very fine you don’t have to bother

Mrs Sylvia: Onome leave me to bother, after all it’s my time and money.

Onome knowing all that has gone under the bridge, rushed to the school clinic for a test, a pregnancy test precisely, it was confirmed negative, now she felt very comfortable going to any hospital with her aunt and she went back to the hostel to wait for Mrs Sylvia, all thanks to Lagos traffic, Mrs Sylvia couldn’t make it to her school in good time, on getting to Onome’s hostel she took Onome to the school clinic, as soon as they got there, the cleaner popularly called Edet met them at the entrance and  said;

Edet: Aunty you come back?

Onome: (didn’t say anything, just smiled)

Edet: I think say them give you your test result na

Mrs Sylvia immediately asked Onome what test she had come to do before now, Onome told her it was just a test to know if she had malaria

Mrs Sylvia : Ok.

Mrs Sylvia in her heart could tell that Onome was lying to her , she then made up her mind that she was going to make her do a pregnancy test and she would go in with her to see the doctor, the doctor immediately recognised Onome when she got in, but being a professional he just didn’t say a word about her been here in less than an hour ago, the test was carried out and they confirmed Onome was okay and not pregnant . Mrs Sylvia decided to pay for Onome ‘s cab to the hostel while she waited a little to see Edet

Mrs Sylvia:  ah my brother , how body

Edet: nka madam body de inside cloth oooh

Mrs Sylvia: you bin see my pikin for here today

Edet: yes na, e never reach one hour when she commot na him make me surprise say she come again

Mrs Sylvia: ah no problem she nor do all the test when she suppose do the first time when she come, which kain test she do

Edet: nka madam I nor be doctor or nurse so I nor know, I just see say she follow those women wen them tell say make them bring their urine come, so I know say nor be malaria sha, you be woman you go fit know why dem dey tell una make una bring una urine

Mrs Sylvia: hahahaha , hands him a N1,000 note, thank you my brother

Edet: nka madam you do well oh, God bless you.

Onome's tales.....Episode 5

Mimi has  being avoiding Onome, but Onome didn’t seem to bother about Mimi giving her attitude, she braced herself up for any BS Mimi might want to bring on, In class they sat poles apart , tongues were already wagging ,as this was quite unusual, they both had a common  friend  ‘Halima’ who was the quiet one, Halima noticed her friends were not even in talking terms  and made efforts to know what the matter was, she at the end of the day was able to make peace between Mimi and Onome, but Onome knew this was not finished as Mimi seemed to be jealous that she had Alex…an attention she never begged for!

Three days later Alex called Onome;

Alex: hey, sup

Onome: I’m fine, how are you and how’s work?

Alex: cool. What’s your weekend like?

Onome: Well…. I usually go home on weekends, a strict instruction I must adhere to, else I will have my aunt to contend with.

Alex: What if I ask you to come to Portharcourt?

Onome: LOL… That’s a joke right? What excuse will I give my aunt for not been at home?

Alex: c’mon babes, you are smarter than this, just tell her something…..anything

Onome: No problem, would think of something

Alex: Have you heard from your mum?

Onome: Yes , spoke with her yesterday, she is doing fine, my brothers are equally doing fine.

Alex: OK. How about Mimi?

Onome: sure she’s fine

Alex: Ok, would book your ticket right away and send you the details, ermmm…….. I don’t mean to be rude, but have you travelled by air before? If you are not comfortable you can come by road.

Onome: hahahahahahahaha, you sure think I’m still a village girl! Yes I have.

Alex: (He seemed to appreciate the sense of humour in her answer) Ok. Would send you the details in less than 30 minutes

Onome: would be expecting it, take care.

Onome immediately put a call through to her aunt to tell her she needed to stay back in school to study for her continuous assessment the following week, Mrs Sylvia without doubt believed Onome and told her it was okay by her. Six minutes later Alex sent a text message to Onome which contained her ticket details to Portharcourt the following morning which was a Saturday. Onome refused to give Mimi a clue as to where she was going, Mimi was curious; she however decided to ask Onome;

Mimi: Are you going home for the weekend?

Onome: Yes …I need to go have some rest

Mimi: Ok, will pass by the house on Sunday after service for lunch*winks*

Onome: LOL>>> that wouldn’t have been a problem, just that my aunt said we would be going for her friend’s birthday party, so we would not be home.

Mimi: awww…. Okay then, my regards to Mrs Sylvia

Onome: she would hear

Mimi felt Onome told her the truth and decided not to bother about her. Saturday morning came and Onome was at the airport, she remembered once upon a time how she feared to travel by air, she smiled and said to herself ‘Onome you are going places’! In another 30 minutes Arik air was making flight announcements for Onome’s flight and passengers made their way to the counter to be checked in. Onome was seated beside a dark slim guy who was about 6ft tall , he exchanged pleasantries with Onome and also made an effort to introduce himself( for the records; Onome is just a beauty you can’t ignore, no matter  how hard you try , she’s got a good height , nice complexion ,infectious smile…..nice legs  that defines her figure more appropriately , her curves are a perfect example of a true African beauty)

Muktar: hi my name is Muktar

Onome: Onome…it’s a pleasure (shakes hands)

Muktar: Going for the weekend in F(P)ort Harcourt? (in his hausa accent)

Onome: ooooh yes…. Need to go see a friend (Onome actually loved how he pronounced P as F…#SMILES)

Muktar: waoh you have friends in F(P)ortharcourt! That means we would always bump into each other, I am most of the time in F(P)ortharcourt for one business or the other, here’s my card

Onome collects his complimentary card

Muktar: hope you would give me a shout some day

Onome: Of course I would *smiles*

The Flight attendant gave the safety tips to passengers and they took off.

Onome arrived Portharcourt at about 8.45am and called Alex, who was equally waiting for Onome’s arrival at the airport. She in no time found Alex and they drove off to a nearby eatery where they both had breakfast , and afterwards went to Alex’s house where she got comfortable, later in the afternoon she went out with Alex to see a friend  Tami, Tami is Alex’s colleague at work, he’s quite a funny character and an easy going guy, they had a lot of fun, of course with Tami it’s never a dull moment, they got back in the evening very tired, it was then Onome asked for her room;

Onome: waoh I think I love portharcourt

Alex: *smiles* so will you be visiting often I guess?

Onome: Yea well, if I’m invited. I’m so tired right now, I think I will have to go take a shower and then retire to bed, meanwhile, where is my room?

Alex: (trying to convince himself that Onome did not just ask for her room, ignored the question).

Onome: hey…where am I going to sleep?

Alex: Onome you will sleep in my room, c’mon mehn what are you been so uptight about?

Onome: wow wow wow…..why are you yelling at me?

Alex: I know you just want to have a fight so you would have a good reason to sleep in the visitor’s room, but I won’t let that happen (moves closer to Onome as if to make his point clear looks sternly at her and then calms down, lifts her face up to his, kisses her so passionately, and after a few minutes, withdrew back and said to Onome

‘Well to your left is the visitors room, the corridor opposite leads to the master bedroom, let me know if you need anything’

Onome: thank you

Alex stayed back in the living room watching his new favourite channel EbonyLifeTv, he  never seems to get enough of this channel, but started feeling sleepy after a while, all the while he was just wondering how lonely his night would be, he at some point  began to feel bad for inviting Onome over, but like they say ‘SHIT happens’. He turned off the TV and headed for his bedroom (the master bedroom) as soon as he opened the door, to his amazement he saw Onome lying in his bed……………./

ONOME'S Tales.......episode 4

 

As soon as they got into the restaurant, Onome looked around and was marvelled by the interior decor, it wowed her ,she was lost looking at the art works on the wall, until  a petite man who is the supervising chef  approached them, smiling and then ushering them  into the inner chambers  meant for the VIPs,   as soon as they took their seat ,Alex and Onome went through the menu, and he asked; ‘hey, what would you like to have?’

Onome: I don’t know, was looking out for white rice and vegetable

Alex: are you kidding me? White rice and vegetable in a Chinese restaurant?

Alex laughed so hard that Onome felt embarrassed, Onome has never been to a Chinese restaurant all her life, it was so amusing that Alex forgot about being a gentleman, noticing that Onome’s countenance had changed with the way he was laughing, he immediately cautioned himself and said;

Alex: Ermmm, babes I’m sorry about the way I laughed, just couldn’t help it. We can go to a nearby eatery and get you white rice and vegetable …that’s if you don’t mind

Onome: No, it’s okay…I would love to have this experience, at least you won’t have to laugh at me another day.

Alex: (realising she was really hurt, he decided to be nice) Okay then I could place an order for you, if that’s cool

Onome: Yea…sure

Alex ordered for  Broccoli without the sauce, as he wasn’t too sure if she would like it with  the sauce alongside Chapman and smirn-off   ice( with some ice cubes)…..Onome was able to eat it  and was glad , they afterwards  went to silver birds galleria to watch a movie, It was also her first time of going to the movies, but because Alex had laughed at her while they were at the Chinese restaurant, she decided to compose herself and play along , they watched a Nigerian movie, Alex had to decide on their watching a Nigerian movie ,because he wasn’t too sure if she had be comfortable watching a Hollywood movie with her level of exposure. The movie finished after an hour, thirty minutes, Alex all the while was thinking it’s going to be a busy night as he was expecting to have some, On their way out of the Galleria, he asked if they could both go to his hotel room and relax a little before he goes to drop her off in school, Onome refused and insisted on going back to school, Alex at this point felt disappointed but went on to persuade Onome;

Alex: Why? C’mon babes I don’t bite

Onome: I know, but I just haven’t slept outside my hostel before and it’s a little bit weird doing that when I’m just getting to know you.

Alex: I understand, just give me a benefit of doubt

Onome: Look…I’m adult enough to know what you want, but please let’s be reasonable here, this is our first date.

Alex: You’re thinking I’m gonna touch you?

Onome: hahahahahaha (laughs)! I’m thinking we are gonna be having a vigil

Alex didn’t expect Onome to turn him down, but he took it in good fate and went to drop Onome off in school.

Two days later Alex got an urgent call from his office in Portharcourt and had to go back, he left without a word to Onome. Onome saw Mimi in class that day and decided  let her in on all that had transpired between herself and Alex….Mimi laughed so hard that until tears rolled down her soft beautiful cheeks ,well contoured ,giving way for her dimples to show the sexiness that suffices anytime she cares to laugh or even give a smile….. it was always priceless! The only statement she was able to make at the end of it all was ‘ yay! You can fall hand sha’. She asked Onome; has he called you since then?

Onome: No

Mimi: hmmm….he must be so disappointed in me….will call him right away

She picked her phone and dialled Alex’s number; he didn’t answer his calls until after the third try

Alex: sup Mimi

Mimi: I’m good

(Onome whispers to Mimi….’put it on speaker’ but  Mimi ignored her )

Mimi:  Are you still in town?

Alex: NAAHH…. I got a call from my office so I had to cut short my training and return to Port harcourt.

Mimi:  how was your date with my friend, hope it went well?

Alex: Mimi please don’t even go there….

Mimi: hey…what happen?

Alex: C’mon she must have told you

Mimi: No! As a matter of fact, I’m yet to see her

Alex: Well I wasn’t really happy, but I think I like her a lot , most especially her naivety

Mimi: You Alex, like a girl a lot? Hmmm that’s quite unusual, thought your heart was made of gravels

Alex: (laughs) well yea, but there is always that One girl who makes a player hang his boots and I think I’ve met her.

Mimi: (shifts afar from Onome  and whispers to Alex on phone) hmm are you sure you don’t just want to have fun and be done with? She is just a local breed oh, she’s being in the village, infact this is her first time of leaving her village, all thanks to Unilag

Alex: C’mon babes, we all are villagers, aren’t we? I came from a village too and so I like her none the less,  I f I feel she’s too much of a villager ,  I will polish her before she embarrasses me, I will make her a city girl,yea…my kind of girl, Please Mimi just let this be!

Mimi: No problems, just felt I should let you know, since I was the one who introduced her to you.

Alex: thanks though! Oh yes about our date, she really showed the village aspect of her ,by asking for usual things in an unusual place, well I’m sure she will learn with time, yet to call her though.

Mimi: Ok, enjoy! Just make sure you have fun!

 (Mimi ends the call and moves back to where Onome was waiting).

Onome: Why did you have to move far away to talk to Alex? That was uncalled for; anyway I hope he isn’t angry with me?

Mimi: He is, why did you choose to embarrass him during your date?

Onome: Me?

Mimi: No, me!

Onome: You mean I should have followed him to his hotel room?

Mimi: was that too much to do? He`s a rich guy Onome, you don`t even have an idea of where he works….OMG!  This is an opportunity most girls would die for!

Onome: See Mimi , forget the fact that I just left the village, by the name Onome you should know my roots ,your only grace is having being brought up in Lagos, I know my Onions and for starters I really don`t care where he works, at least for now, he`s just a friend so why are you taking all of this so far !

Mimi: Oh really…let’s see how this plays out!