CHAPTER THREE
The evening came again, this time it did not rain but the weather was quite cool, with his suit in my hand, I decided to go to the particular place I sat the day before, perhaps he might also be as desperate as I to come look for me. I waited eternity and no one showed up. Like seriously? Was that going to be the first and last time we will ever see? Will he not come for his suit? Did he not feel the chemistry between us? Or was I the only one that was feeling what I was not supposed to feel? It was 10pm and still no sign of anybody coming, the light has been restored which made the whole admin basement a little bit bright since poor maintenance culture will not make the people in charge fix all the bulbs and switches. I decided to wait another hour hoping he will show up, there was no him not any sign of him showing up, I got tired and sick and decided to leave. Unconsciously, I decided to follow the path we took the day before, maybe I will come across anyone like him but it was all to no avail.
Out of anger I entered the room around 11:30pm to sleep but I met something different. The room was quite fuller than expected.
“Sorry I did not inform you earlier, my friend Feranmi will be staying here for the weekend” Alice said reading my mood, if only she knew my anger was not about her not informing me of any visitor but of Femi that did not show up.
“No problem, let her feel at home, I am cool with it, let me know if you need me for anything and where is Tobi” I asked her.
“Shey that one, na one guy come visit her and they have both left since then”
“Oh okay” I said as I settled on my bed. I was damn hungry and needed something to take urgently to keep my digestive system busy. I searched through my cupboard and found nothing interesting to eat, not that there were no foodstuffs but my appetite was nowhere to be found but after searching and searching I eventually settled for cornflakes.
As I placed Femi’s suit down to concentrate on how to sleep to avoid repetition of the previous day, Feranmi screamed from Alice’s corner. The whole room was brought to a halt to know what was wrong.
“Where did you get this suit from, how did it end up in your hand” She said as she came closer to my corner to lay hands on the suit, an attempt I rejected immediately challenging her of why she will want to do something of such.
“Well it belong to a friend of mine, why did you ask?” I finally said.
“Alice, come and see me see trouble o, come and see Anthony’s suit that I bought for him as his birthday gift last year” She said. Now the whole thing was getting more interesting, maybe I was about to know Femi’s where about.
“Well, I don’t know anyone with the name Anthony, the suit belong to Femi, a new friend I just met” I said.
“I knew it, Anthony has been cheating on me, because we still saw this evening and I was requesting for his all white attire against our next date. Damn it!” She uttered out of frustration, jumping to conclusion.
“You are kidding right? Perhaps you are mistaking because this belongs to Femi.”
“Okay can you just call Anthony and let us clarify” Alice said intervening in the ongoing argument. She kept giving me signal to calm down indicating that Feranmi can be abnormal sometimes.
“Anthony where are you?...good…please come to Moremi basement now let us see, it is very important…okay thank you, I will be there now” She ended the call. Everything was looking like drama before me and my heart was pounding faster as we were all set to go and meet Anthony. I was having mixed feeling, perhaps Femi lied about his name and I might just be about to lose another man. I did not know how I was feeling until we reached downstairs at the basement.
“Hi good evening, what is so urgent that cannot wait till tomorrow” the handsome young guy said. In my heart I was praying he will be Femi and then I will unleash my own madness and a scene will be created at the basement.
“Oh no! is this why I am here? Feranmi, you could have just told me online now, it was Femi that borrowed the all-white attire for an attire yesterday but he left in a hurry for home this morning because he was called that his mother is dead. I have the shirt and trouser in the room. But he told me he will get the suit for me when he comes back that he had to give it to his girlfriend because of cold” Anthony explained. But wait, did I just hear girlfriend? Well that did not really bother me but the part that he just lost his mother.
“Ehn? You mean even Femi has girlfriend? That poor for nothing asshole?” Feranmi said and out of anger unconsciously I cautioned her to watch her mouth.
“Oh sorry, ehn, pele, you are the girlfriend, very obvious” She said and burst out laughing hard. I totally ignored her and went to meet Anthony to find out about how I can reach Femi, I was shocked to hear he did not have a phone of his own but do borrow phones to call home when need be, but after much plea, Anthony gave me direction on how I can get to see him. He gave me his number and promised to call me when he is back.
“But seriously are you his girlfriend?” He asked and proudly without hesitation, I answered.
“Yes, any problem?” I asked in return.
“Oh no problem at all, just wanted to satisfy my curiosity that is all”
“Okay then. Thank you for the kind gesture” I left very embarrassed at the same sad and in the deepest of me, happy. From every evidences gathered so far, Femi must have come from a very humble background. All of those had no effect on me but how he must be feeling at that point. I have never lost a close relative expect the grandparents and so I could not really figure out how he will be feeling, I went back to the room with a broken, divided and happy heart. Alice pleaded with me to ignore Feranmi’s previous actions which I just ignored.
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