I love U - Episode 2





I got up from bed the next day around 6am. At around 8:47am, I got dressed to go for my BOT 102 exam. I got to ODLT in less than ten minutes. I saw my best friend, akmed as I fondly called Ahmed. He was  the  one with the highest aggregate score among medicine part 1 students -302. He was sitted on a bench (am not sure if the structure was meant to be a bench) made with concrete,facing the entrance of the premises. He got up and with smile, gave me a shoulder to shoulder hug. He was always jovial, one would hardly believe he was the best amongst us

Ahmed ; “how far na guy?”
Me :I dey o
Ahmed : “o boi, this your dressing, nawa o. no be exam you come do? Abi una get service immediately after this paper?”

I looked at myself and smiled. I was dressed in my baby pink shirt, ash trouser and black shoe. I myself didn’t know what made me dress like that, afterall we are in exam period. Even during lectures, I had always dressed corporate on mondays and Tuesdays, dress almost down on Wednesday, and completely down on Thursday and Friday, moreover, today is Friday when most students were on native attires.

I sat down beside Ahmed to scan through his note once again. Few minutes later, hadizat walked into the premises, there was no abnormal hype in her dressing, it was just the normal ‘Friday hadizat’. She came nearer to both Ahmed and I. I don’t know why I felt sweaty all of a sudden.
“Good afternoon’ she greeted us, as she forcefully sat between Ahmed and I, the normal way she’d do. There was no anxiety on her face, she was kind of indifferent, but why am I the one having ocean of anxiety flooding some millimeters beneath my face’s skin. The ocean of anxiety was frequently letting out sweat out of my face, just as the ocean splashes up when it hit the rocks on the shore.

Bode the class rep came out, “the invigilator is around!”
“oh! Its 9:30 already?” ahmed said as we stood to go into the lecture theatre.

The exam lasted for one and half hours. I had finished answering my questions about twenty minutes to the end of the paper. The rest of my time I spent looking at hadizat who was sitting around 30~ from my direct north, some rows away.

Her light face was glowing as it protruded out of her hijab. She occasionally smiled, probably she saw some ridiculously simple questions.

We submitted and got out of the hall.
Hadizat: Kelvin, lets go to bank area
Me: good idea, I also want to withdraw

As we got some few step away from the hall towards the general direction of the entrance of amphi theartre, bode shouted from behind “part one couple! I see you oo”. We both laughed, as he had always been like that. But these words carried fresh meaning to me this time. Am not sure if it did to hadizat. She was as if she never said those words yesterday.
After we were done at bank area around 12 noon

Hadizat: “let me just go to the mosque,its almost 1pm”
Me: “should I follow you?”
Hadizat: ahah! Pastor! Mosque?”
Me: (on realizing what I just said) oh! Well, can’t I go to preach there?” (I quickly added jokingly)

She waved at me as we parted ways at sports complex.
I walked towards SUB, thinking, “ how on earth did I suggest to follow her to the mosque?”
How come this statement of her’s is making me lose my self, making me lose innocent Kelvin!!!

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