Thread by @GbengaWemimo

Valentines week of 2015

He traveled to her school to spend the week with her
It was a yearly ritual they had since they became lovers
They always spent the valentine week together wherever
they found themselves
The previous year, ASUU was on strike and they spent the week in

each other's company
It was her idea
The Valentine week ritual
She told him right after they started dating that February 14 was a hoax in her opinion
Most people with multiple lovers find a way to satisfy all their partners
She said she had older brothers and many male friends

She had also been room mates with ladies with multiple partners
She said she cannot trust anybody who wouldn't spend the whole week from February 10-february 17 with her
He felt she was being overdramatic but since he had nothing to hide, he fell inline
She was the most dedicated

lover he ever had
She was clingy in a wonderful way
She was his best friend and his heartbeat
He arrived at her school on February 10
He had a cousin who was also a student in her school
Whenever he went to see her, he stayed with his cousin
Their relationship was sacred to the

two of them
He was determined to make things work and so was she
They met at a fast food joint on campus the very day he got to her school
He had saved towards the week and had more than enough to cater to their needs
She bought some stuff and they decided to take a stroll

Just as they walked out of the restaurant he heard his name
He turned back to see two ladies
One of them was smiling and looked very familiar
He stopped and turned
Her face lit up in his
She was his old friend, the one that attended Wasley College with him in secondary School

They shook hands and he introduced his babe to his old friend
They had some small talk
His old friend asked him where he was staying
He gave her the address of his cousin
She promised to check on him if she could spare the time
He and his babe took their leave some minutes later

That evening, after his babe had gone to her hostel, he sat with his cousin
They were listening to some music and talking generally
He told his cousin that he met his old friend
His cousin also attended Wesley College and they were all in the same class
His cousin told him the

old friend was always asking of him
The next day, his babe came to check on him
He told his babe his old friend had called him earlier in the day and told him she would be coming around to see him that evening
His babe said No!
She said they could catch up at another time but not

during their valentine's week ritual
He tried to reason with her but she insisted it can never happen
They were still talking about it when his old friend arrived in company of another friend
His babe was barely able to keep it together
He had never seen her so territorial and

unreasonable before
His old friend spent an hour with them before taking her leave
As soon as she was gone, his babe said "When your friend was here, I had a deja vu moment. It was as if I have seen that scene before in a dream or a vision. It was weird but in that dream, I saw

and your old friend holding hands and making promises to each other like lovers"
He laughed so much that his tummy started hurting him
Jealousy can provoke the imagination in so many ways
The deja vu story was a classic case of jealousy and manipulation in his opinion
He told his

babe to perish the thought
The valentine week went on without a hitch
He returned to his school
In June 2015 he was in school, working on his final year project when he got a phone call from home
His mother had taken ill and his siblings were scared she might die
He dropped

everything and boarded the next available bus home
When he got home, his father and younger sister drove him to the hospital
When he got to the hospital, he found his mother asleep in a hospital bed
Next to his mother's bed was another woman who was ill
As he turned to greet the

woman and her minders, he heard his name
He turned around and to his shock saw his old friend
The one he went to Wesley College with
The one his babe had a deja vu moment about
His old friend's mother was ill and of all the rooms they could have given her in the hospital, they

put her in the same room as his mother
He and his old friend somehow got talking
His mother spent 10 days in the hospital
He was with her for three days
By the time he got back to school, everything had changed
He couldn't explain how but things were no longer the same
His babe

acted the same way she had always acted and he responded the same way he had always responded but they started growing apart
By September 2015 when he was posted for NYSC, his relationship was over
It died a natural death
In December 2015, when he traveled home to spend Christmas

with his parents, his old friend came visiting
They got talking again
One thing led to the other
He asked her out
She said yes
In October 2016, he proposed
She said YES!
They got married in August 2018

PS: He said things just fell into place
She said things just fell into place