I LOVE YOU – episode 5

Recovering from her shock, she quietly said “dad!”. I stooped to look again, the person was dressed in the lack and white robe of a lawyer with that cap of theirs on the dash board. He was a judge.

Dad: I called you five minutes ago, and you said you were on campus, even in your room how come you are here now?!. Just get into the car!!.

Hadizat only stammered a few words that I can’t decipher, turned to me and enveloped some few #1000 notes in my hand and entered into the car.

I watched as the car drove away, it was a car registered in osogbo.

She had once told me about her family, the dad was a judge in osogbo, the mother a trader and all her elder brothers were in the UK. Being the youngest and only girl, they had somewhat restricted her movements, forcing her to stay indoor.

I counted the money, it was 5k, to get shoes. I got the shoes and went back to school.

What she spent on buying me things in less than two hours was more than my monthly allowance.

I got to the room, met banky who just got back from his 10am paper.”how was it I asked”.
Customary of all students, “it was fine”, he replied.

I dropped the clothes and shoes on the bed, banky rushed over

Banky: “you got all these from who?”
Me: (I smiled a little) hadizat.
Banky: bad nigga, you see?! I don tell you since, make you date that girl. Don’t come to school to only read. Socialize! Have fun!!

My laughing continued. Oga emma put on his keyboard(you’d wonder if there’s always light in my school,sure!) and played the birthday song, as other roomies sang along. I was thrilled, ‘how did they know?”, facebook?!. I didn’t tell them for the fear that they would bathe me in water.

Oga emma came over after the rendition and whispered into my ears “2 cor 6 vs 14”. What does it say. I carried my bible to check, as I got to the chapter looking for the verse, my phone rang. It was hadizat. I dropped the bible-closed, went outside to receive the call. We talked for three minutes.
She explained that her dad got angry a little about her, lying and that he threatened to reduce her allowance from 60k to 50k.what a difference!. She told me not to cook that night as she would be taking me to eat at new buka.

I got back to the room, completely forgetting to read the bible passage.
9pm came longer than I expected, I wore one of the shirt, jean trouser , and the all-star shoe she bought for me.

We met at awo café, and we both went down to new buka. I ordered moderately, but she cancelled it, and did the ordering to her satisfaction.

When I checked what was on the table aside the cake which I doubt we’d both finish, it was around 5k in worth.

We ate amidst jokes, stares and winks.

We went back to the hostel, so as to read for PHY 106. We got to anglomoz and she shook my hand, and left. I was still standing, staring at her leave, when she suddenly turned and called out “Kelvin!”, she started coming back, but what was she coming back to do?