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We are here again o! Brief break to clear the head but here’s another love story for you guys!
I may not be one to be bound by many rules but I actually have one. Never date someone in the same church as you. Another branch, sure. But same branch? That you can see twice a week and then everyone starts catching on and talking about it? Big. Fat. NO! Maybe it’s the scarred Pastor’s child that’s talking but noooo. So people of God, you can imagine my shock when I started crushing on this young man at church.
It was my sixth month in the church and quite frankly he didn’t do anything other than be uncharacteristically nice to me. Is that all it takes to melt my heart now? A man that’s kind and awfully good looking? Throw in the fact that he loves God and omo! I actually need to get it together.
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It’s month 10 since joining the church. We’ve exchanged numbers and we’re talking every other day. I think I might full on be liking this man. We save seats for each other. Well, I try to save seats for everyone in our friend group at church so it’s not unnecessarily obvious lol.
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It’s Sikemi’s birthday today and we’ve all decided we’re going to all take her out for an Amala-eating birthday treat. If you don’t like Amala, I guess only God can save you. Pardon my manners, let me introduce you to the gang — Sikemi (the birthday girl), Yems (that’s actually Yemi but someone called him Yems one day and that’s the name we all started calling him), Toke (the man I’ve started liking), Adaora and Ben (the couple in our group. They’re the cutest guys!) and of course, shy but loving Ranti (that’s me by the way). Somehow, we just found ourselves hanging out more and more after church and boom, we all became really good friends.
We chose the popular ‘Mama Amala’ because they have the best amala around. They’re also way neater than other amala-serving outlets around. We all got our food and started chatting. We sang for Sikemi and then we all went round the room to talk about how we met her and the things we love about her. And then of course we gave her our gifts.
I was so caught up in how happy Sikemi and everyone else was. It made my heart so happy that I was a part of something so beautiful. Beautiful friendships? I’m there! Toke and I were having a side chat but I could have sworn that out of the corner of my eye, Adaora made a sign to Sikemi. It was so subtle I almost missed it. Two minutes later, Adaora took a call and said she and Ben had to leave. We’d been here for about two hours, I guess it would make sense to start leaving. We hugged them and they left.
Suddenly, Yems and Sikemi started getting ready to leave too. To be honest, it wouldn’t have been weird if Toke and I were left alone or anything. We’ve spoken to each other many times. In church though. Always in church. But I really really didn’t want to leave. I liked being here. With him. Just talking about literally anything but of course I didn’t want to seem weird. Then again, why did I feel like it would be weird? We’re adults, jeez.
We said goodbye to Yems and Sikemi and I kid you guys not, Toke and I turned to each other and at the same time said,
“I’m not ready to leave yet.”
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Let me be honest guys, this one might have a part two!
