Greetings!
Janet and I have been friends from our university days and that was from our first day at school, although we were not that close at first, but due to class activities, we became somehow cordial in our relationships. We spent time together doing our assignment and at the end gisting about our past and other stuff like that.
This our gisting of a thing has really gone too far that on a particular day, I thought to myself,
"This girl is not really bad like that, let me ask her out."
Although I'm a shy person that doesn't know how to ask a lady out, I thought it was the right time to give this a trial as there's no other time other than that particular to ask Janet out as we were already close as I was very sure she would not turn me down.
So, on this particular day, which was the following day I had the thought of asking her out, we all went to class as usual from our different hostels as we both lived in different hostels, on getting to class the class was full already. She was seated at the far right and I in the far left and it even took me time to sight her.
I shout her name from afar waving my hands saying,
"Janet, I'm here." "Okay," she replied. "We will meet after the class," I said.
Thank God we had our meeting point and that's where we normally meet after the class most especially when we were unable to sit close to each other.
So, after the class on this particular day, we both met at our usual meeting point and it's at this meeting point that we both proceeded to the faculty of the social sciences basement. When we had already settled down at the faculty of social sciences basement, I told her that,
"Janet, I have something to tell you." "What's that?" She asked. "I don't know how you will react to what I'm about to tell you as I'm afraid of telling you," I replied. "Well, I will advise you to hit the nail on its head, just say what you want to tell me," she said.
After she had given me the go ahead, I did not hesitate as I was happy to tell her my mind, I told her about my feelings for her and that I would like us to take our relationship to the next level. Although, while I was telling her this, my heart was moving so fast as I have not asked a lady out before that time in my entire life.
When she heard this, she burst into laughter and her only reply was, "Sam, this would not be possible."
When I heard this, I was down and it's like the end has come. A series of thoughts ran within me and I felt sick and disappointed. Immediately, I asked her why, but she would not give me a concrete reason as to why she would not give her best friend on campus a yes for an answer for asking her out.
It's this action of hers that made me suspect her friendship with Ola, who she claimed to be her fellowship mate. After she had turned me down, I decided to be watching her movement with Ola. Thank God Ola was a friend to a childhood friend of mine who we both graduated together from the same secondary school, so, this made it so easy for me to monitor both their movements as I have asked Stephen to always help me with details about Ola's girl friend and their movement.
However, Stephen was a busy type who would not have time for the assignment I have given to him. Although, he ab initio tried his best to get me the name of Ola's girl friends, but the only issue was that, Janet name was not there, so, for this reason, it was so hard for me to trust the names he had given me, and whenever I asked him how sure he was about the names he had given me, he would only tell me that Ola was the one that told him everything about his relationships and his numerous girl friends.
Well, maybe the reason I wouldn't trust Stephen's long list was that, I had known Ola to be a play boy and at the same time an handsome guy who no one would not trust with any girl and for Janet to be so close to him, then there must be something going on between them.
So, this was what I carried in my mind over the four years we had spent in the university and it's several years after our graduation that I asked her about her relationship with Ola.
When she heard me asking her this question, she laughed and said there's nothing between her and Ola that happened to her mother's friend's son from home. When I heard this, I was shocked as my suspicion was not only wrong, but a waste of time to have been monitoring an innocent girl up and down. I equally asked her why she refused to say yes to me and she said she had only vowed to have any form of relationship with a guy after her university education.
Now, we are now both together as husband and wife and whenever we remember this same old story, we both burst into laughter and the then Ola who's now happily married to Sandra, a friend of Janet , is now a friend of the family as well.
Thanks for reading.
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