Thread by @GbengaWemimo

He got home from campus about an hour before his friend arrived at his door
His friend came in looking dejected
He asked his friend what happened
His friend told him there was a babe he was crushing on
He had tried to tell her how he felt many times but the babe didn't take him

serious
The babe was a paragon of beauty
His friend said the babe was the one
The one for whom he could fly into the sky and drag the moon to cover the sun in the name of love
She was the one
The one for whom he could turn day to night
The one for whom he could cause an eclipse.

His friend said the babe had many suitors
Her mother owned a restaurant and she helps out at the restaurant every evening
His friend asked him if he could follow him to the restaurant to give him moral support
His friend said he wanted to tell her how he felt but he knew he had

only one shot and if she should say no, that would be that. So he had taken his time to cultivate her friendship by buying her small gifts and becoming her friend but he didn't want her to put him in the category of a friend for too long
He wanted to strike while the iron was hot

He got his friend's point
His friend was one of those ambitious guys who always wanted the kind of babe that could never say yes to them
His friend was 22, but in his opinion, his friend looked 16 and acted like a 16 years old
Academically,his friend was a brainiac but his friend

lacked all the social skills required to have a relationship
His friend was short and immature
When his friend got nervous, he stutters and fumbles
His friend's parents were rich but even their money wasn't enough to buy him confidence and class
They met when his family moved to

the estate
His friend came to introduce himself to him one sunny afternoon when Nigeria was playing a football match
People were looking for where to watch the match but because he was new in the estate nobody bothered to ask him but his friend
That was how they met
When his

friend came to watch the match in his house, he came with a female family friend
His friend introduced him to the female family friend
He spoke with the female family friend and they started going out a few days later
His friend was shocked at how easy it was for him to talk to

the female family friend and get a yes
His friend confided in him that he had an eye for the babe but he didn't know how to tell her, so they remained friends until she opted for the new guy in the estate
That was why his friend came to him
His friend wanted moral support to land

the girl of his dreams
After some more persuasion, he followed his friend to the restaurant
As soon as he saw the lady, he realized his friend was a tad too ambitious
The lady was a paragon of beauty
The kind that would leverage on the beauty to get whatever she had in mind as

the best for herself
But he couldn't tell his friend that
He has to keep his game face and urge his friend to try his luck
They bought some drinks and sat in the restaurant
They started talking in whispers
After almost an hour of coaxing and coaching
His friend finally got the

confidence to act
The lady was seated at the far left side of the restaurant, his friend walked up to her and started rapping
He watched the lady's body language & realized it would definitely be a no
What he didn't expect was his friend's reaction
The whole thing happened within

five minutes
The rap and the rejection
His friend fell on his knees and started to beg the lady with tears streaming down his face
It was crazy
He watched the scene for another minute or two and realized the lady was being embarrassed by his friend's antics
He was about to get

involved when the lady's mother walked in and raised hell at what she saw
"What is this?"
"Who is this boy and why is he crying like a ninny?"
His friend got on his feet and fled the restaurant
The lady tried to explain to her mother that he came to ask her to be his girlfriend

and she said No
Her mother shouted some more
He paid for their drink and left
When he got home he met his friend by his gate
His friend was still crying
He told his friend to forget the babe
His friend wouldn't listen
His friend begged him to intervene
"Speak to her on my behalf"

his friend begged
He told his friend he had no relationship with the lady
If you really want to date her, you have to befriend one of her sisters or a close friend who can persuade her on your behalf
I am a total stranger and I cannot be of any help after the damage you had done!

He couldn't believe how angry he was at his friend
kneeling down and crying after only one "No" was a game killer
Who would date a guy who cannot take a No with a smile and respond with an overwhelming appeal
As far as he was concerned, the girl was a lost cause for his friend

The next day, his friend was back
His friend offered him some money to talk to the lady on his behalf
His friend was very desperate
He said No
His friend went to talk to his babe (His friend's family friend
His babe begged him to intervene for the sake of friendship
It was a lost

cause but his babe persuaded him to try his best
She said that was the only way he could get his friend off his back
He realized she was right
That evening he dressed in his best clothes and went to the restaurant
He met the lady there
He asked for her phone number
She gave him

He ate at the restaurant & left
Later that evening, he began to send her messages
He had thought she would ignore him or tell him to go to hell
That was the cue he wanted to take to his babe and his friend that he had tried his best
The babe didn't do either
She chatted with him

respectfully and he found her to be quite intelligent
They had a lot of things in common
They love the same genre of music, love the same kind of movies and they both read a lot
She was an undergraduate, just like him and they were in the same school
Just like him she was staying

off-campus
She said it was primarily so that she can help out at her mother's restaurant
He had expected her to be a proud, self-conceited, and overbearing peacock but he found her to be intelligent, wise, and likable
His friend and his babe knew he was exchanging messages with

her
He told them he had gotten her phone number so that they will see that he was taking the "beg her for me" thing serious but he couldn't tell them the truth about what was going on between them
He mentioned his friend to her and she told him to forget about it
She said his

friend was not her type
He understood and didn't push the matter further
He reported the conversation to his friend, even showed him the text messages
His friend told him to try harder
He didn't object, he really liked talking to the lady
As days rolled into weeks, things began

to change
He found himself not craving the company of his babe like before
He found himself drawn away from the friendship with his friend
He told the lady how he was feeling
She told him she felt exactly the same way
Love was making a clarion call to both of them
and they were

both powerless to resist its lure
They began to meet on campus
He would walk from the faculty of Arts to Social Sciences and they would both take a walk on campus
They had lunch together
Went to see theater arts performances together and just couldn't get enough of each other's

company
They didn't kiss or touch inappropriately
He told her he was in a relationship and she respected that but the time they spend together chocked the relationship and his friendship
The fact that it was done in secret bothered him but he didn't know what to do anymore
He was

in love with her and even though he tried to resist it, the truth bears no opposition
It took three months for his babe to work things out
He had been giving her excuses for weeks but she knew something had gone wrong
She eventually asked him if he was cheating on her
He told her

the truth
It broke his babe's heart
She told him to delete the lady's messages and walk away from the friendship
He did it in her presence but it was a farce
His heart was long gone
His friend found out and took it badly
That was the end of their friendship
His relationship died

a natural death
By this time, he and the lady had been drawing closer and closer for one year
He asked her out and she said Yes.
They got married four years later

PS: She said she knew he was the one the very first day she laid her eyes on him in her mother's restaurant...

He said he didn't know when or how
It just so happened that she was the one
They are happily married with three children
This event happened in Ibadan
(Bodija Estate Extension)