THE BEAUTIFUL, THE GOOD AND THE TRUTH
( EPISODE 1 )
( EPISODE 1 )
Toochukwu, I don’t really understand him most times. With his four eyes, he could still see so clearly and distinctively. On that very day, should I thank God he did?
Standing outside the lecture hall, waiting for the second year students to finish their lectures, we kept discussing about the last weekend football games. I was actively involved though a bit out of it because my stomach kept making this ‘kprukpru’ noise. It wasn’t far from an outcry for satisfaction, food satisfaction. I was yet to eat since the previous night. I can be a lazy cook most times.
“Tobenna look!” Toochukwu cut me short to say this.
I know whenever he tells someone to look, he wouldn’t be pointing at any other thing other than the female human person. Most times I wonder what delight he gets from them, even the ugly ones.
“Wetin?” I made my vexation obvious to him.
“Calm down nah, I wan show you my new girl,” he replied.
I wanted to make him understand that calling all of them his ‘’girl’ wouldn’t make any of them his real girlfriend, but I desisted from saying it. Finally I decided to turn and look. Under the oil bean tree was a fair girl who stole my moment. I was still looking while Toochukwu was busy talking to me. I heard him saying something, “”They say that to people like me,” he smiled. “I mean to Casanovas, that the women they mingle with are like buses, you can enter a few to get to but only one particular bus will drop you home.”
I had to withdraw my eyes to look at him and question him properly.
“In essence?” I asked.
“I mean Steph will certainly be the girlfriend you have been telling me to get”
I chuckled a bit and glanced at her once more.
“Let us go and say ‘hi’ to my new babe,” he added.
I would have loved to go with him, but something within me had to reject the enticing offer, if not for anything, to feel the warmth and the softness of her hand.
I laughed shallowly. “Don’t worry man, I am not following you this today.”
My response shocked him, I have never said no to his request to meet a new girl, I am no Casanova, neither am I a taciturn; but right then, it didn’t feel right to me.
He went without me. I kept stealing some looks. I didn’t know what he was telling her, but she was all smiles and laughter. I could see her nice dentition and still, the whiteness of her teeth shone with the sun rays.
Tochukwu pointed at me and said something. She caught me looking at the direction and she waved at me still with a smile. That was enough, I had to mind my business. I brought out my phone to distract myself. There was nothing to do really, and I kept going through my contacts and messages again and again. Finally the year two students were done. I heaved a sigh of relief and decided to give one last look. To my dismay, they were gone, just in a twinkle of an eye.
Tochukwu would want me to get a seat for him and that I did.
“Where went you G?” I asked him when he was finally settled.
“To my lodge,” he said bluntly while trying to wipe off the sweat drops on his forehead with his bright bluish coloured handkerchief.
I wouldn’t want to say a word about them going to his room. I perfectly understood.
Several weeks after Tochukwu showed me his new girl, I had forgotten about her, .......
Standing outside the lecture hall, waiting for the second year students to finish their lectures, we kept discussing about the last weekend football games. I was actively involved though a bit out of it because my stomach kept making this ‘kprukpru’ noise. It wasn’t far from an outcry for satisfaction, food satisfaction. I was yet to eat since the previous night. I can be a lazy cook most times.
“Tobenna look!” Toochukwu cut me short to say this.
I know whenever he tells someone to look, he wouldn’t be pointing at any other thing other than the female human person. Most times I wonder what delight he gets from them, even the ugly ones.
“Wetin?” I made my vexation obvious to him.
“Calm down nah, I wan show you my new girl,” he replied.
I wanted to make him understand that calling all of them his ‘’girl’ wouldn’t make any of them his real girlfriend, but I desisted from saying it. Finally I decided to turn and look. Under the oil bean tree was a fair girl who stole my moment. I was still looking while Toochukwu was busy talking to me. I heard him saying something, “”They say that to people like me,” he smiled. “I mean to Casanovas, that the women they mingle with are like buses, you can enter a few to get to but only one particular bus will drop you home.”
I had to withdraw my eyes to look at him and question him properly.
“In essence?” I asked.
“I mean Steph will certainly be the girlfriend you have been telling me to get”
I chuckled a bit and glanced at her once more.
“Let us go and say ‘hi’ to my new babe,” he added.
I would have loved to go with him, but something within me had to reject the enticing offer, if not for anything, to feel the warmth and the softness of her hand.
I laughed shallowly. “Don’t worry man, I am not following you this today.”
My response shocked him, I have never said no to his request to meet a new girl, I am no Casanova, neither am I a taciturn; but right then, it didn’t feel right to me.
He went without me. I kept stealing some looks. I didn’t know what he was telling her, but she was all smiles and laughter. I could see her nice dentition and still, the whiteness of her teeth shone with the sun rays.
Tochukwu pointed at me and said something. She caught me looking at the direction and she waved at me still with a smile. That was enough, I had to mind my business. I brought out my phone to distract myself. There was nothing to do really, and I kept going through my contacts and messages again and again. Finally the year two students were done. I heaved a sigh of relief and decided to give one last look. To my dismay, they were gone, just in a twinkle of an eye.
Tochukwu would want me to get a seat for him and that I did.
“Where went you G?” I asked him when he was finally settled.
“To my lodge,” he said bluntly while trying to wipe off the sweat drops on his forehead with his bright bluish coloured handkerchief.
I wouldn’t want to say a word about them going to his room. I perfectly understood.
Several weeks after Tochukwu showed me his new girl, I had forgotten about her, .......
To complete.
And such small stories happen in big places.
He who expects nothing gets everything
He that wants more gets more.
He that wants more gets more.
