Pearls of Love IV
Even after twelve years I am still unable to forget the first night. That first night for years remain tied somewhere in my memory and refused to leave. It's like a file copied on a flash, if the file is not deleted or becomes corrupt, it remains on the flash for even twenty years.
That was the first night that Ann
slept in my room back then while we were in the university.
It was our second year in school, that was the same year I met Ann. I was
in Computer Science while she was in Microbiology. We had an elective course in
Biological sciences department, that was where we met.
As soon as I stepped into the lecture room, I could almost immediately notice the fair
complexioned girl, sitting all by herself at a corner of the lecture
room; she looked new, though it’s not like I know everyone that took the
elective course but I would have known her if she had been in that
class before! She wasn’t someone you can miss out in a crowd. Beauty is an
understatement!
You know, I am this very smart kind of a guy, very fast to calculate and analyze situations around me, without really giving myself off, unless I want to, and the only reason why I would, is because I want you to notice me.
The class was rowdy as usual.
Some students can really behave like kids, moving around from one place to the other like they were in a primary school class.
One of my major dislikes is disorderliness and untidiness.
Disorderliness brings about ugliness and ugliness is repulsive and distracting but beauty radiates and attracts.
Have you ever wondered why beauty seems to attract everyone that comes around them, because beauty attracts.
Many students are disorganized both in their physical appearances and
the organizing of their notes. When a person is not orderly it is very
easy to know. You see them jumping from one seat to the other making the
whole lecture room rowdy and noisy.
I distaste disorderliness with a passion.
I wasn’t the only person that noticed Ann it seems she stole the
admiration of the entire class both male and female. People starred at
her in an irritating manner like she just appeared from the space. I
admired her too but I didn’t make it so obvious like many of them did.
Anyway if a prophet had told me that morning that I date her, not to talk of marrying her, I would never have
believed!
Adams was one of my close allies back then, I think that was one guy I shared sitting with most that I can remember in my undergraduate days. At our second year, we were allocated the same block, but different rooms in the famous university, Bourdillon Hall. We started together, graduated together too, but I think he graduated with a Third class.
Okay, we are sitting together this morning as we waited for the lecturer. We had been waiting for about thirty minutes into the lecture when the lecturer came to
announce that the lecture wasn’t going to hold until another scheduled
time.
As soon as the announcement was made I packed my books and started
heading for the door. Adams had gone to meet Ann, and they started
walking towards the exit too.
That guy is smart in hooking girls up. I was smart at things, but not at hooking girls.
Well, I thought they looked perfect together!
I slowed down for him, to let him know I was going back to the room.
“Where are you up to?”he asks as they walked up to me.
“To my room” I answered wondering about the pretty girl beside him.
I
didn't like hanging around classrooms and school premises when I had no lectures, I preferred being in the room, to think and plan. That was what I do almost all the time,even years after.
Admas introduced Ann to me. I can hardly remember much of what he said, all I could think of, is, this guy is going to toast this girl, when he already has two girlfriends that I know of.
Lucky him, honestly lucky him, I know I needed a girlfriend badly, but I hadn't still seen anyone that I liked, those that looked appealing are already taking. How can you tell someone like Adams who has two to leave the third one for you!
After they went off, I went hurriedly to my room, at least I could rest for a while before going for the next lecture, in about an hour.
Most of my thoughts that day was about the strange fair lady, there was something about about that kept sticking somewhere in my head and refused to leave. Something so different from what I see in almost all the others I come across daily, she was not only beautiful, she looked natural, calm and smart too.
I must have a talk with Adams about this!
Later in the evening, after the day’s lecture, I invited Adams to my room so we could talk about Ann. We talked about her almost the whole time he was in my room.
Adams said he liked Ann but he wasn’t sure if he would be asking her for
a date or not since he was already in a serious relationship with Amina
and Deborah and was still thinking of which of them to do away with.
Amina is finer than Deborah but Deborah was more decent and had been dating Adams for a longer time before meeting Amina.
I had advised him severally to stop dating two girls at the same time;
it was always getting him into trouble. Now he is considering whether to
ditch the two and date Ann but wasn’t even sure how to go about asking
Ann to date him.
In evening while I was returning from the library I stopped over at
Adams room. I was surprise to meet Ann there. She was in the company of
another girl, they were playing Ludo.
She had such a beautiful smile that I was almost jealous of Adams or
should I say I was angry that he has things going on well for him with
girls and women.
Since I came to the campus I hadn’t dated a girl, I think I am kind of
shy and not very confident in speaking to women. Well that isn’t the
whole problem I have, I am also very selective when it comes to my
relationship with people, not just women alone.
I am selective with making friends and company I keep, not to talk of my
girlfriend. But since I saw Ann that morning it had been a different
feeling for me. There were many girls in my class who I hardly take a second look at.
There was this incidence I remember clearly when one of my female
classmates accosted me once to ask if I am a real man or not. When I
asked her why, she said because she doesn’t see me interacting with
girls.
As if we were predestined to meet again, the next morning while I was
going for my lecture met Ann; she was also on her way to her
department. We talked briefly but better than the previous day.
This time I summoned the courage to ask her a few questions about
herself as we walked down towards her department. She gave me her room
number and I promised to find time to call on her.
The thing I was sure of is that my friend, Adams hasn’t ask her out yet if at all he had plan to.
During this period, we had a one week holiday. It was the mid-semester. I wasn't a fan for traveling home for holidays, especially short holidays like mid-semester. So I was in school all through the one week, I
tried all I could to see Ann but I didn’t run into her even once. I
called the room number she gave me but I did not get any response.
You know, technology has eased living so much now, those days while we were in school, the only form of communication is Landline telephone and maybe postal letters, until almost when we were leaving school that e-mail was invented.
To worsen the situation, in my school, male students were not allowed to enter the female hostel and so there was no way I could go inside to find out for myself if she
was in or not.
The practice when a male visitor wants to see a female student in the hostel, is to wait at the waiting lounge or outside the hostel entrance, for a willing female student going the direction of the person you want see to help you tell the person, that you are waiting outside.
They will ask of your name, and the name of the person you want to see, then go inside, "Room A24, Ann, Dan is outside"
If by chance you have a second girlfriend, who has been suspecting you, when you name is announced like that, she sneaks out a create scene.
Well, that was the only way it was done then, though it was fun! I bet things are much easier now, with the advent of phones and BB chats.
I didn’t see Ann for the whole week until we resumed back, I think
within this period I became so obsessed about her to the extent that I took ill.
Before Adams traveled for the mid-semester holiday I told him my intention about Ann and he gave his consent. He said he decided to stay with Amina and leave all other girls. He said
he loved Amina and that she was a good girl. He wants to settle down
with just one girl like I had always advised him to.
Eventually I saw Ann when we resumed back, she was sitting with some
guys in the common room of the Biological Sciences department.
As soon as I saw her, I was filled with anger, rage and jealousy. The
same person I had been killing myself over was there sitting in the midst of several guys, laughing and cheering, perhaps one of them could even be her boyfriend.
There and then, I made up my mind, I had had enough! That was the thing with me, once I have had enough, I have had enough and I decided to take the bull by the horns; I decide I must tell her my mind. I went over to the counter and purchased "Love greeting card". That should make my work easier. Right there, I signed the card and went over to where
Ann was sitting with the guys. I politely called her up and told her I
had been looking for her for a while. I gave the card to her and promised
to call her that night.
After this I felt so good within myself. I noticed she was excited too and that gave me all the joy that I needed.
That evening I went to her hostel and gave her three other greeting
cards expressing my love for Ann. That day we agreed to have a date for
the weekend.
On Saturday afternoon I went to Ann’s hostel as we agreed to meet and we
both went to the Social Center. The social center is always full of
activities. Different people all over the place engaged in one activity
or the other.
We sat in a corner where we could watch the people passing by and see
activities around. We bought two bottles of coke and some snacks while
we talked about our future, academics and the past.
For almost one we talked about different things, but nothing suggestion my major agenda. All the while i was busy calculating the right steps to take, how to start the love talk. I hared flops and would not take a "No" from her, and like magic, I nervously told her how much I wanted badly to be her boyfriend.
I stood up and sat on the
backrest of another seat, while she sat on a chair facing me.
“Why are you sitting there?” she asked
“Because I want to talk to you”, I answered looking her straight in the eyes.
“But we’ve been talking” She smiled knowingly.
“Yes, I know. But I want us to talk about something different; we have
been talking about academics, our families, past lives and all that. I
want us to talk about ourselves now”
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