meeting her...leaving her!!!

WOW!! I've never had as much comments on any of my posts like i had in my last one. Now i really feel like i'm actually making contact with people out there. It's a good feeling. Thanks to ya'll.

Unless its already been postulated, I have this theory: ‘EVERYONE looks to meet someone to be with’. When we say things like ‘I’m single and happy and don’t want anybody for now’, we just subconsciously use the phrase to buy time, waiting for the right person to come along. Or maybe I’m just talking about myself….

Well, I’m always open to meet people. For this reason some time ago I sent in my name and number to one of these hook up programmes on radio. That night I answered a total of about 96 calls and got more than 40 messages, true! Flashers?…uncountable! A boy even called saying he wanted us to meet so we could ‘see if we were compatible’! You and who is compatible?!! Anyway, after a couple of days, I had screened all the numbers and gotten the ones I wanted to contact. Amongst all these numbers, was one particular girl that had a very nice voice over the phone. I mean ice cream nice!! It was so nice that I recorded some of our calls and played them over my music system just to hear an amplified version! I’m crazy right?....then again i AM a 'psykia case'! I fell in love with her voice! TONIA'’s voice. ( I hope she doesn’t ever read this cos this gist takes a drastic dip for the worse!!).

I was in school then and she was in lagos so all we could do was talk….for a while….a long while! Tonia and i talked for over 7 months without seeing each other! I mean we were practically dating in absentia! I’m sure we had sex many many many times, if that was possible that is!! Long and short, we couldn’t wait for me to return to Lagos so we could finally get balls rolling (not those one silly!!)

I finally returned to Lagos some time after that (some weeks ago) and couldn’t wait to see my Tonia. Yes, My Tonia! By the way we now called ourselves names like sweetheart, honeybun and such names that depict intimacy. I quickly arranged with my friend to drive over to her place on one lovely Saturday. She gave me her address somewhere in an estate in Ajah (an area in Lagos where most of its inhabitants are considered as being veeery comfortable). ‘Correct’ I tot to myself. At least she go try, going by ‘aje butter’ standards! And so my friend and I, two lone rangers set out on an all revealing trip to go see the person that gives me butterflies.

After driving around in the estate for wot seemed like forever, we found the house. She told me they were having a party at her house, her dads 50^th birthday, so once we came around the vicinity of the house it was hard to miss. We parked about 6 houses from her gate so we could see her before she us. I called her up on the phone for which must have been the umpteenth time that day. I told her to come out but she would have none of it. “I’m very busy, just come right in”. My friend and I stayed in the car for another 7mins or so trying to psych ourselves up. We then decided to go for it.

We came down and started walking towards the gate. By the time we were about halfway between the car and her gate, she called saying she was coming out. I stayed on the line asking ‘can you see me yet?….can you see me yet’? my friend was was some feet behind. I looked back and saw him slowing down. I was wondering why he was lagging, then I looked towards the gate and saw her.

Ladies and Gentlemen: incase I’ve never described myself, let me make an attempt at doing so for the sake of this post. I’m 6’3, light skinned, and facially?, I know say I try, even if I say so myself! And as the birds of a feather saying connotes, I kinda keep a relatively high standard to the girls I hang out with.

So, lets get back to the reason why my friend slowed down. …I SAW HER!! I thought to myself in pidgin ‘abi na she be dis? Omo, make e no be she o! But she dey talk for phone….men na she o!! O boi!!! Tonia!…Tonia……Tonia was a very dark (jet black), very short (she has got to be no more than 5’2), round (by this I mean circular) looking female (notice I didn’t use the word girl)! Putting it very mildly, most definitely not my type!! Polished but very crude looking…heeellllllll no!!!

By now my guy was stationary so I turned and waved to him to come over with a look on my face that said something like ‘so you wan make only me go meet am? Abeg show! Instead I said out loud “Ah ah, come lets meet my friend”. I finally walked up to her, we greeted. I was looking around to see if someone else was speaking through her body….but….fat chance….this was all there was to it.

There and then I made up my mind that this’ll probably be the last time I’ll be seeing her so I decided to make the most of it. I just tried to make the meeting seem normal and happy.

We stayed there for about 40mins…no more…and had to leave cos ‘I had to run an errand’. I just had to leave, was very uncomfortable. I had a good laugh with my friend in the car on our way back, but I was really disappointed about how things had turned out.

All this happened last November. I can’t bring myself to tell her I’m not interested anymore when we speak over the phone, for we still talk. I just hope she’ll take a cue from the vibes I’m generating.

BYE mehn. Was nice knowing you sha!!!