Before The Dawn of The Reaper Part 2: Nightmares of The Past

My body wanted to stay at home and continue trying to write and hope I eventually forget about the text, but my mind was walking towards a different light. "I will just ask what he meant by the text and leave, I won't even enter the house, I am in full control" I continued to argue with myself in my head as I pulled through the Monday morning mainland traffic. An Hour later, I drifted into a familiar estate in Isolo, I hadn't been here in 3 years, not much seemed to have changed. I parked in front of my destination gate, seated in my car for the next 2 minutes in a furious war with my mind trying to decide whether to enter or not, should I drive away and leave? What am I doing here? I was sweating profusely despite being in a fully air conditioned car. Finally, I put the keys back in the ignition and set to just drive away then I heard a tap on my passenger seat window. I snapped to my right and saw him there, smiling the same murky smile, that looked like a mixture of a grin and slightly avoiding bursting into laughter. I rolled down the window and from the driver's seat I was engulfed in his entire masculine aura "Folashade, leaving already? Or did you come here to see someone else?"... I gave a stuttering response that I do not even remember as events of the past flashed before my eyes, events that proved for all the right reasons why being here was bad idea.

 Odun Williams, the name brought so much back. Remember how as a teenager we all had that one person we always thought we would eventually end up with? Get married to have kids and all that fairytale bullshit? Well as a teenager that person was Odun Williams. We attended the same secondary school and started dating briefly after high school. He was witty, fun and intelligent and was at that time perfect for me. Which made it an easy decision for me when I decided to lose my virginity to give it to him. Everything was perfect for a while until education split us, while I gained admission into University of Lagos, He gained his at Obafemi Awolowo University. The realization that we were going to be two states apart devastated me, I was drunk with teenage love at that time and could not believe my luck. When school started though, we found a way around things, he occasionally came home to see me and I sometime did the same too, it was stressful bit, but worth it. Nothing is never too much for the one you love right? A few months went by then the real changes came. Odun was not from a rich family so to speak, but money was never an issue between us. My parents are very comfortable and i was very self-sufficient, so I never had to ask him for anything.  But I started receiving really expensive gifts from him, he came to see me in grand styles, having a Cab hoist him around Lagos, going to the most expensive restaurants on the Lagos Island and the best hang out spots. I actually liked the feeling having a boyfriend I could bank on for extra cash, not like I needed it but it was a good feeling. I had no reason to date older men like most my mates, my boyfriend was "big" enough a boy. I didn't feel the need to ask him about his "changing levels" for a while until one Saturday in my second year he told me he was at Moremi hall's gate. I came out and saw him in his usual relaxed demur, but there was something else in his eyes, a hint of excitement he was struggling to hide. He kissed and hugged me and asked me to close my eyes that he had something to show me. I couldn't even guess at that point he had already surprised me so many times in the past few months nothing could shock me anymore. I led me across the car park then asked me to open my eyes. I opened it and saw a black 2010 Nissan Murano Jeep and asked "Guess who owns this baby?"

   "This is your car?" I asked sounding more shocked than happy. "How did you afford this? Where did it come from?, Where did you get the money?" He looked at me, his ear to ear grin wearing off and replied my questions with his own rounds of questions "Are you not happy for me? Do you think I stole it? Or why are you quizzing me like a police officer?" I walked over to him motioned closer "Baby, I didn't say you stole it and I am not accusing you either. It's just that I know you, well enough to know except you are doing something new I don't know of yet, you couldn't have bought this off your pocket money. I also have been to your house, there are usually 3 cars In the compound and this one is not one of them, you told me yourself one of those 3 cars don't even work at all, so just tell me where this is from and lets dump this topic" he looked at me still, the frown on his face still didn't dissolve he inched away a about a foot and spoke with a renewed vibrancy and energy in his voice, "what do you mean I couldn't have bought this? And what is all this yammering about my house? If you think I drove all the way down here to have you ungratefully disrespect me and treat me like dirt, then maybe I'll see you some other time. Good day, Sade."......... To Be Continued 

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