Pearls of Love (Episode V)
“Really” she asks. I think she was as much as I was shy.
“Yes” I nodded, not sure if I was saying or doing the right thing.
“Is that why you are sitting there?”
“Yes, so I can watch you as I talk to you”
“Okay”, she shrugs
I adjusted a button on my shirt suddenly feeling very hot. Call it "tension"
“Yes, I am”, I replied very nervous. I think she noticed this and was probably trying to make me feel calm. It wasn’t the first time I would
talk to a girl but it seemed like a very difficult task. One of the
things I don’t find easy doing is asking a girl for a date. Well maybe
it has helped me, because I probably would have been a bad womanizer if I
knew how to talk to women. Especially with the way woman liked me!
A drop of sweat went down my face and I used a hanky to wipe it off. I
quickly looked around to be sure no one was watching but everyone seemed
to be occupied in their own activities and no one seemed to notice us.
“Ann”, I tottered trying to look her straight in the eyes, I remember
reading somewhere before that when you talk to a woman intimately you
need to look her straight in the eyes. I guess some of those talks’
works some times, but sometimes it doesn’t.
She nods, obviously knowing that I was nervous, but somehow I think
she didn’t mind that I was, I guess she probably likes my being naive,
maybe it gave her the confidence that I was going to be a good guy! Well
that was just my thought.
I finally put myself together and started, “See Ann, I am not so good at
talking to ladies. I guess you have to bear with me. I will do my best
to pass my message the best way I can, maybe not the way other guys do
it”.
I paused wondering if I was saying and doing the right thing or not.
“Ann” I continued. “I am badly in love with you, you know what, this thing
has been affecting me for a while now even though you may not have
noticed it. You see, every minute of my day, I feel like spending it
with you. I can hardly eat when I haven’t talked to you in a day, I
don’t sleep well at nights too if I don’t see you, in fact concentrating
on my studies this days seems so difficult because I use the best part
of the time thinking about you”.
I again paused to see if she was listening or not, she was.
“Please Ann I want you to be my girlfriend”.
After a while she spoke, “See Dan I like you, and I understand
everything you have said. But I don’t want to have a boyfriend now. I
think it will be good if we just remain good friends”.
I thought of something I usually hear people say, that, when you ask a
lady out and she tells you “no” she actually means a “yes”. But let me
be frank with you, I have never believed in such ideas that someone
tells me “no” and I assume she means a “yes”. It sounds real silly, if you ask me.
“Ann, I like you as a friend, but I know the feeling I have for you is
more than that of a mere friend. Its love I feel for you”.
She didn’t speak for a while, I wasn’t sure what she was thinking, but
she obviously was thinking of something. She seemed kind of disturbed
about something more than what I was saying. I wonder what it could be!
Curiously I asked her, “Have you been heart broken in the past?”
“No, I have never had a boyfriend all my life”. She answered, smiling, probably amused at my question.
“Okay, you are scared somebody would break your heart then?” I asked.
“No, it’s not that. I can’t talk to you about it now”.
“What is bothering you then?” I asked and she raised a hand up, to stop
me. After a few seconds she said, calmly, “See, there’s this guy …” She
paused again, my heart raced, “a guy?”, “what guy?” “Is she in love with
some guys?” several thoughts went through my head within a few seconds.
“You are falling in-love with him?” I asked anxiously.
“No” she stood up, I noticed she wasn’t comfortable about it, but
somehow I knew she liked me almost as much as I had fallen for her.
“it’s not that..” she continues, “anyway never mind… let’s just be
friends. You never can tell”.
“You never can tell?” I didn’t understand her a little bit. If I was in
a university somewhere in the south, I would have probably think she
was been forced into a relationship by some cultists or something. She
was kind of killing me without knowing it. Sometimes I am angry with
myself for not knowing how to woo a woman I liked this much.
I finally asked her, “Does that mean you don’t care how I feel about you?”
“Oh no, don’t get me wrong Dan”, She held my hands. “Dan I like you but I can’t give you love, at least not now”.
Well, maybe she’s right, I thought. It was better the way she said it,
you know, I always prefer bluntness to pretext. I prefer people who
would tell me the way things are than to pretend. For instance any woman
who would pretend can kill you. And believe me, many women are
pretenders, some would even pretend for several years before you see the
truth within them!
“What about the guy?” I asked, even though I felt it was inappropriate. “Will you date him?”
“Common Dan, don’t be so difficult” She waved a hand to my face
playfully. But I didn’t even smile; I wanted her to see how serious I
was about what I was saying. I may be dull enough not to know how to woo
a woman or tell all those stories that guys tell them to get them, but I
am too smart to know a lady that is meant for me, and I know what to do
to make sure I get her” and you know what?. It kind of always worked
for me.
Ann said, “Okay, I will tell you since you really want to know. The guy
is asking me out and I am beginning to like him, because he has been
very persistent, but I haven’t told him “yes”. In fact I have been very
angry with him severally, and I told him to stop calling, but he won’t
stop”
A kind of fear went through me, I wanted to hear more. Even though I wasn’t
sure that her story was true but I was relieved to hear something. At
least I have a hint that she was not dating anyone, though it is
possible that she have some kind of likeness for whoever it was.
I didn’t see that one as a problem, what I must do is to make whatever
little likeness or fondness she has for the guy to disappear.
“Do you believe me?” she asked as if she was reading my mind.
I shrugged. “Do I have a choice?”
“You do, you may not believe”.
Somehow I believed her. We waited a few more minutes and left the social
center, I escorted her to her hostel before I went to my place.
Back in my room, I thought over everything we had discussed at the
social center. I wasn’t sure what my next move should be. I was somehow
convinced deep in my heart that she was going to be my girl. I had never
felt for anyone in that manner all of my life!
The next morning as early as seven, Ann had visited me, she said she was
on her way for a lecture and decided to stop by to say “hello”.
It was one of the greatest surprises I have ever had in my life. That
means she was also thinking about me all through the night the same way I
was. What I admired most about Ann is her boldness, not many women will
have the boldness to do what she did. They will feel like it lowers
their self-esteem and makes them look cheap! But that drew me even more
closer to her.
She didn’t wait up till two minutes before she left. I walked her a short distance and returned to get set for class too.
Soon we were spending so much time together that even her roommates
started talking. Some of them jealous and did not even try to conceal
their jealousy. Others wanted to meet me because they had not seen me
and wanted to see the guy who kept their friend away from them.
Meeting Ann was one of the greatest things that have happened to me!
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