Chapter 4

Toun: gist me now, what happened?

Me: forget that guy dear

Toun: but you said you are heartbroken, or were yoy lying as Abayomi said?

Toun: Talk to me jare, is Acho threatening you?

Me: this is not about Iheanacho, it's about Timi.

Toun: what about Timi?

Me: Those computer science guys that want to sponsor our election insisted that kofo shouldn't be our campaign manager, they insisted on Timi as one of the conditions for sponsorship.

Toun: eeeeeyahhhh poor kofo, and she liked the position o…she is a hard worker.

Sometimes I wish I could tell angels to help me slap stupidity out of some people, this poor girl didn't know kofo was working harder on her boyfriend.

Me: true, very hardworking girl..such a pity.

Toun: what will you do now, have you guys been keeping in touch?

Me: no, I try to avoid all contacts. There was a time I could have done juju for that guy to die

Toun: is it that serious?

There were a couple of things I didn't tell anybody, including Toun and her boyfriend Abayomi. The only thing they knew was that Timi and I were no more in a relationship; they even believed I called it off though I told them it wasn't so. Everything was okay, I was having the time of my life, all my prior relationships were shit compared to Timi. He was wonderful and always seemed to get me, we were the envy of a lot of people, including my igbo colleagues that felt I was blind. Then he just called me one evening and told me we couldn't see each other anymore. I though he was joking, one of his expensive jokes that everybody knew him for, so I ignored him. Only for me to go to his house and he insisted that it was so. I kept asking him what I had done wrong. Did he hear anything…did I disrespect him, I even called his siblings…all to no avail. After somedays of no word from him I got angry and decided to forget about him, but it was impossible. I saw Timi in everything, I deleted his number but I had it stuck in my brain. I threw away the PS2 he had gotten me for my birthday. A month later I went to him and was on my knees…I begged him to forgive me for what I knew not, I cried on his floor…it was unbearable. He just stared at me, he didn't utter a word, until I stood up, dusted my skirt and left.