Tuesday, 9 October 2018

THE GIRL BEHIND ALL HIS STORIES (CHAPTER 2)





Doyin’s Perspective
It’s been three days and I didn’t hear from Jade, she hadn’t been online, it’s like she was off the radar. And what this meant was that I was back to my miserable life of trying to fill the void I feel inside. There was nothing fun to do, nothing at all. Ever since she left me, I have distant myself from everybody which has made it hard for me to reconnect and get back into the game, I wasn’t even sure if I was fully prepare to be in the game.
I strolled through my phone just to find the picture of her and her new boyfriend, the guy she left me for, they looked happy and that was nauseating. I mean how could she be happy and I be miserable? Karma isn’t real, if it was she should be suffering and should be going through the hell she put me through. But there she was happy and I am here with the thought of her tormenting me.
“hey shey you will turn up tonight?” Daniel said bringing me out of my self-harming thoughts.
“what turn up?”
“the one happening at the club tonight”
“errr… are you going?”
“yes na”
“em I don’t know…”
“come on na, let’s go together”
“errr.. okay sha”
“so we will be leaving by 11:30”
“we will sha order UBER”
“of course na”
“okay na”
“okay see you later”
As he walked away, I was beginning to get excited, this was my first step to recovery, who knows what might happen tonight, at least I should be able to get it on with a girl, get a little action after god knows when, that’s if I am lucky.
Okay fast forward to the night as I was preparing for the night, a message from Jade came in
“hello”
“heyyy, where have you been” I immediately replied
“I just fix my phone; it was spoilt”
“eyah pele”
“I want to buy a new phone but my father doesn’t want to answer”
“lol”
“so how have you been?”
“me I’m just there jare… you?”
“I’m alright… I just got a message from my EX who was complaining that I broke his heart by choosing another university apart his own school”
“hmmm… is that why you guys broke up?”
“yes, he said if I did not choose his school he will break up with me… oloriburuku somebody”
“lol… so what does he now want?”
“he says he wants to get back together”
“so?”
“so… nothing na, I can’t be with someone like that, I don’t even know what I was doing with him before”
“lol... issokay”
And in that moment Daniel’s call comes in…
“hey nigga come outside I am in front of your hostel”
“but it is raining” I said staring at the down pour
“come down joor, the UBER is waiting”
“so I will enter rain like this”
“oga come down joor”
I took a deep breath, as I made it out of my school hostel and made it into the down pour, running as fast as I could while simultaneously wiping my dripping face, I got to the UBER soaking wet, which made the whole night more exciting, this is a beautiful start to what might be a wonderful night.
“heyy you still there?” I sent Jade a message
“yep” she replied
“sorry I took a while to reply, I was under the rain, I am on my way to the club”
“oya turn up” she replied with the dancing emoji
“lol, my friend actually forced me, I am not really a party person”
“naso, be lying there”
“lol, it’s the truth joor”
“if that’s your story”
“WTF, LMAO”
“so that means you won’t be having my time tonight” she said with a winking face
“no na I will have you time na” I replied as I walked into the club, the rain had stopped and my clothes were now a little dry
“but you gonna be in the club”
“like I said before, I am not a party person, so I need you to keep me company”
“I hear you… so what do you want us to do now?”
“let’s play truth or there” I sent those words without even thinking, the line is too cheesy and I was beginning to worry how she was going to take it 
“okay, oya you start”
“okay, dare”
“ehn?”
“truth or dare… I choose dare”
“oh okay… I dare you to tell your EX that you still love her on your status”
“ha!!! You are mean ooo, it’s okay”
“sha do it” she urged
This put me in a bit of a dilemma, because my last relationship was pure evil and I couldn’t even talk about my Ex without my heart having a mini earthquake. Everyone knew I was the loser in the relationship and putting that on my status will just look sad. So I decided to use a girl I had a fling with in secondary school whose name was patience, we weren’t in contact and this wouldn’t cause anyone any harm, so I wrote “patience I still love you” on my status.
“done… truth or dare” I replied Jade
“okay… truth”
“okay tell me something about you that you haven’t told anyone”
“I cut myself”
“I don’t get”
“I take blade and use it to cut myself”
“why?”
“it helps me deal with overwhelming emotions”
“okay… dare”
“write “I am gay” on your status and leave it there for five minutes
“my God you are pure evil I swear”
“oga do it”
With a smile on my face, I wrote it on my status, I was beginning to see that she is a little bit crazy and I was loving it. I waited five minutes then removed it from my status, before I get flooding with judgmental questions
“done, truth or dare” was my next message
“dare”
“okay take a carefree picture, of how you are looking right now”
“okay, sending it now”
And within seconds, I received the picture message, it was her with braids all scattered covering most of her face and her tongue sticking out.
“you know this is the closest I am seeing of your face”
“lol, your turn”
“dare”
“you sha like dare abi?”
“it’s what is making this fun na”
“okay send me a video of you twerking”
“lol okay”
I looked around to find Daniel, who was going around begging for a cup of alcohol which to me was pathetic, we weren’t prepared for the club, the price of everything had been tripled and this was outrageous.
“guy I want you to video me” I handed my phone to Dolapo
“ehn…”
“I want to twerk… video me”
“okay? are you high?” he chuckled
“no joor, just video me” I said as I tried to shake my butt to the rhythm of the music. Which prompted Dolapo to laugh hysterically.
I immediately took the phone from him and sent it to Jade accompanying it with a winking face
“lol, you’re a terrible dancer”
“lol, I try na”
“you try what… oga you are terrible”
“issokay”
“okay big boy, I want to sleep, talk to you later, you should go back to your party”
“you are more interesting than this party”
“be whining me”
“I’m serious, I enjoy my time with you”
“me too, oya good night”
“okay goodnight” I said as I put my phone in my pocket and looked for a comfortable place to lay my head.







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Saturday, 29 September 2018

THE GIRL BEHIND ALL HIS STORIES (chapter 1)






(Doyin’s perspective )
 I hated my life, I felt so empty.  I needed something to spice up my life I needed to start feeling, I needed to start living I mean goddamn. So this was what I decided to do, there was nothing that could kick start my life than getting a girl by my side. But considering my past I was still a little shaky, I should be ready for this, it had been a long time since she broke my heart, it had been a long time I saw her, I read somewhere that it takes over 15 to 18 months to get over someone you love. But it had been almost a year and still nothing had changed. I still saw her in my dreams, everything around me still reminds me of her, but I had to be brave, everything had to change.
So here was the plan I was going to get on different group chats to try to meet new people at least that would mark a new beginning to my new journey.
Chatting up new people were never easy, especially the female gender, there were those ones who just act so uninterested and leave it all up to you to stir up conversations, and this was very exhausting. There are those ones who will just leave you on read and not even reply, but if you lucky enough you will find that one person that you guys will just click and everything will go smoothly or in my case three ladies.
There was this particular girl that caught my attention, her profile picture was the one that was captivating, it was a black and white picture in which she had her hand over her face. I immediately slid into her DM and wrote “what’s the purpose of your face?” in which I started to think was stupid but come to think of it I shouldn’t start off with the “hey beautiful” cliché I couldn’t see her face so there is no way I can tell if she is indeed beautiful.
“err… why you asking” she replied with a smirk emoji. Wow and with this first reply she got me hooked, I mean she decided to flow with me
“it’s kind of artistic but I bet it’s just a coincidence” was my next message
“and who told you it was a coincidence” she replied with a rolling eye emoji
“okay then, tell me what it means” I said continuing the thread of the message
“well I don’t want to tell you” her reply made me smile, and just like that all my hard work of getting disgusted by girls who were too full of themselves were finally paying off, I mean this might be the girl that was going to take my mind off her.
“lol” I wrote, which was followed by “tell me about yourself?”
“what do you want to know?”
“well your name, dreams and ambition, how old you are, fears and phobias, weird fetishes, favourite movie, favourite artist and a secret”
“okay my name is Oyeyemi Jadesola, I would tell you my age if you tell me yours, I am cluster phobic and I’m scared of heights. I love the smell of sand especially after it rains, there is something soothing about it, I can’t explain it. My favourite movie is the Notebook, my favourite artist is Adele, well the secret is I am very secretive.”
“wait what is cluster phobic?”
“I am scared of being in a closed place, like now I don’t use the elevator”
“so what will happen if I force you inside an elevator?”
“I will just cry”
“lol… this is serious. So what’s your deal with sand?”
“I know it’s weird but I like it”
“oga oo”
“lol… oya it’s your turn”
“lol, okay my name is Adedoyin Olalekan, I’m 19, I’m scared of chickens not just chickens anything that has feathers and a beak, I just want to be impactful, you know do something news worthy and for my weird fetish sometimes listening to music makes me run, like I might be really tired then a particular song comes on then I start running. Btw I’m always listening to music in fact I’m listening to it now”
“LMAO you are scared of chickens”
“why are you laughing now ehn?”
“it’s funny now, big boy like you is scared of ordinary chicken”
“you are scared of elevators so?”
“it’s not the same thing”
“what makes it different, phobia is phobia”
“mine is a real phobia”
“and mine isn’t?”
“yes”
“woah, you’re a phobia racist”
“LOL WTF”
“you are”
“why are you scared of Chicken sef”
“okay when I was small, my mother sent me to buy something at the opposite house, I can’t really remember what it was. There was a small gutter in front of my house and as I was about to jump it, I had no idea that there was a baby chick there so as I jumped over it the mother hen started chasing me. I started running and crying and the foolish old people there didn’t help they were just laughing”
“so what now happened?”
“I can’t remember; I was like 4 or 5 years old”
“wow pele but it’s still funny”
“why are you scared of elevators?”
“well when I was little, my mom is a lecturer, so we went to the senate building of the school. I wanted to get something for my mother, then I took the elevator. And then they took the light when I was inside the elevator and I was there for over 3 hours. It was the scariest moment of my life”
“wow eyah pele”
“My phone is about to die now I would talk to you later” she replied
“okay love would talk to you later”
And thus ends my chat with Jade, I mean I couldn’t wait to talk to her again. I decided to slow down my chats with the other two girls, they were not really responding and there was nothing I can do about it. But the real truth was talking to Jade just made me not want to talk to anybody else.














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Tuesday, 31 July 2018

God of depression



There is something about staring at the mirror
Something about being given the opportunity to be true to yourself
Or a chance at changing who you are
A chance to practice that laugh
A chance to perfect that smile
Yunno you have to practice that role
They have to believe that you're okay
Life is a movie
And this is your script
Cos most days I feel numb
I get this non feeling
I feel like I am sinking
And that I'm the ship
And the ocean is within me
And I know some I tried to give it a name
Describe this feeling
Some has said it's my fault
And blamed this whole thing on me
But if I could describe this
And you would listen to me
Depression is as big has God
Or they might be the same thing
Cos depression has no beginning and no end
It demands to be worshiped
It is a jealous God
It is all encompassing
It becomes your everything
It own you
And everything you do it's to it's glory
Your mind is its temple
And your emotions is it's Bible
Depression is bigger than the universe
It's like two universe combined
And somehow those two universe of darkness and void found a way to fit inside you
You cluelessly trying to find your way out of it
Trying to escape your own skin
But they say there is always a way out of it
A way out of this deep abyss
And if truly there is
I hope every one feeling this way finds a way out one day

Banji Coker

Friday, 27 July 2018

Shooting star





I am here hoping for a shooting star
But the sky is just blank
No moon
No stars
Just dark clouds
The irony of my life
I am compelled to go for a walk
Only to find a star
And a sickle moon
Well seated in the middle of God big sky
Could this be a sign?
Could this be a life lesson?
Cos I don't still understand the pain I feel inside

Banji Coker