Thread by @GbengaWemimo

They met at the most unlikely place
He was driving to Lagos Island for a meeting
She was on a Yellow Bus to Lagos Island to deliver some goods for her sister
The yellow bus turned out to be a "one chance" bus
The driver, conductor and one other passenger suddenly brought out guns

while the bus was in motion and began to rob passengers
A bag was passed around where passengers were told to drop all their cash, phones and other valuables
She had just 2000 naira on her but the recharge cards she was going to deliver for her sister was worth over 3 million

naira
Her sister was a banker
She was the one who started the recharge card business and encouraged her sister to dabble into it because of the gains
Her sister's life savings were invested in the business
She didn't know how she would be able to face her sister if she lost the

goods
The recharge cards were in a brown envelope
The envelope also had her documents
NYSC discharge certificate (Original), university result (Original), photocopies of her international passport and academic transcript
She dropped the 2000 Naira cash in the "offering bag" and

she also dropped her two phones
She passed the bag to the next person
The conductor said "We have not shot anybody yet and we didn't plan to do so! But I will personally "search" you before you drop
If you kept any valuables thinking you can make a fool of us
You will be shot"

She needed to get rid of the envelope
She was seating just by the window of the bus
It was the usual Volkswagen bus that took to Lagos roads like fire to a house
The windshield on the window was nowhere to be found
She waited until the attention of the three hawk eyes had been

drawn away from her
She waited until the bus left the bridge
She didn't want to risk the envelope flying into the lagoon
As soon as the bus got off the bridge
She noted the landmark and threw the envelope out of the window of the speeding bus
Somehow, nobody noticed
The bus sped

on until they got close to Carter bridge
The driver slowed down and all the passengers were thrown out in a jiffy, then it sped off with the conductor and the other robbers
The conductor did not search passengers as he threatened but how was she to know he wouldn't go through

with his threat
She had done the "better safe than sorry" thing and found herself in a fix
She needed to walk back on that side of the bridge and hope the envelope would be where she threw it
She set off quickly, hoping to get the envelope before a random person picked it up

If there was one thing she had learned since she left Nnewi to live with her sister in Lagos, it would be the fact that everybody is ready to do anything to become rich in Lagos
Many are in the city hoping to take advantage of other peoples mistakes and misfortunes, like vultures

She walked on an on
All she could remember was a turning off the bridge to the right, an ambulance stop, a roadblock of some sort to the far right of the bridge and a police vehicle were close to the point where she dropped the envelope
She walked on for thirty-five minutes, at a

point she ran out of land and found herself on the bridge but she didn't see the landmark and she was sure they drove through such a place so she walked on
Until she got close to Ebute Meta, she saw the landmark and practically ran to the spot
The envelope was waiting for her

A towing vehicle operator on duty at the junction saw the envelope fly out of a speeding bus, picked it up and checked out its contents
He said he knew the owner would definitely come back for it
He said he also assumed it was a "One chance" bus incident due to the prevalence of

such incidents on that route
She showed him her identity card
He confirmed the names on the card and those on the other documents in the envelope
He gave her the envelope and offered to drop her at Obalende
She told him the full story as he drove her in his towing vehicle, he was

the first honest man she had met in Lagos
They exchanged numbers
he also gave her some money to get herself to her destination and back home
She had never seen such kindness and care in any man before
When she got home she called him to say a big thank you
She told her sister the

story
Her sister was shocked
Her sister insisted on calling him to say thank you too
Her sister called and invited him to their house for dinner on Sunday night
To her sister, he was a hero who ought to be celebrated
He had ignored his basic instinct to keep three million naira

worth of recharge cards to himself and even parted with his own money without asking for any form of compensation
He came for the dinner
He was a gentleman
He brought fresh-baked bread and a bottle of wine
They had prepared a croaker fish delicacy which the three of them enjoyed

he left at 9pm
She saw him off alone
Her sister's fiance had called from Jakarta at about 8:50 pm
Her sister's fiance thanked the man and said hello to her briefly but from that point, the man became her guest
Her sister excused them and went off to her room to do video call with

her man (They were planning their traditional wedding already and they had a lot of things to talk about)
She told him she needed a job badly
He asked her what she studied
She told him English literature
He told her he was a writer
He wrote plays and novels
He said he had even

staged some of his plays in church
He asked if she could help type and edit his works
He said he had been postponing publishing his works since forever and couldn't think of a better time to get it done
She couldn't reconcile him being a tow-truck operator and a writer
He told

her he was a graduate of Mass Communication who traveled to Texas in search of greener pastures and get into the limousine services business just to make ends meet
At the end of nine years abroad, he returned with five tow trucks with which he started his auto-business in Lagos

life had thrown him some curveballs but he was a survivor.
He told her he had set up his business and the business was doing well
Four of his trucks were on the Lagos-Badagry highway where the road was terrible due to the ongoing construction work
This brings him a lot of daily

income as the services of tow trucks was in heavy demand
He coordinates the trucks from his office on the mainland and sometimes does some towing on the third mainland bridge
They talked a lot
He wasn't one of those guys who will be with a lady and talk on and on about her beauty

and all sorts of vanity all in the name of trying to get into her skirt or into her head
He was a very focused man who knew what he wanted out of life
She agreed to edit and type his works because she was bored and needed to occupy herself somehow
She had also warmed up to him

She resumed the following day
He had his manuscripts & a computer set up for her
As she read his work, she found herself falling in love with him
That very day, at about 4pm
She walked into his office with tears in her eyes
She just read one of his emotional plays
She kissed him

Entangled gbengawemimo.com/post/entangled
She told everybody she was praying
to get a job soon
She told everybody she was not seeing
anyone yet
She told everybody she was single
and unentangled
Yet, she kept sleeping with him
every weekend

Entangled gbengawemimo.com/post/entangled
She told everybody she was praying
to get a job soon
She told everybody she was not seeing
anyone yet
She told everybody she was single
and unentangled
Yet, she kept sleeping with him
every weekend...