For the next two weeks, me and my friends were basically living off the money Jane had gifted me. I had changed my phone....yeah the box she gave me contained a phone I and was feeling fly. People kept asking me how much I bought it but I told them my uncle from the UK sent it. Jane had been so busy at work but we managed to talk every night before she slept. I knew I owed her that much to give her attention for all she's done for me. I kept asking her what she wanted from me and she always said "Stylish, nothing, at least for now". That was a relief but I knew someday soon she would want to cash in on her goodwill. School work also had been steady and tests were a norm. I had been frequent at the library these days all in a bid to get better at my mathematics. On one particular day I sat in the library, at my table with my mathematical textbook and was trying to solve some equations. Prof had given us one mad assignment which we were to submit the next day. Demonic questions they were. Out of the 10 questions, I could
only solve one. I was clearly frustrated at it. This man would come to the class and solve easy questions while he dished the hard ones to us. "Bro, I can't kill myself", I pushed my writing materials aside and put my head on my desk. "a ten minute nap should do the trick" I thought to myself.
Eventually by the time I woke up, thirty minutes had gone. I packed my books properly and wanted to continue solving when I saw an A4 paper on top of my text book. It was my assignment fully solved,
all ten of it. In fact the one I thought I did was totally wrong. "Who could have dropped it here?" I thought as I knew it didn't fall from heaven. I turned the paper over to the other side to see if there was a clue there and faintly I saw a text faintly written. "+233264388024 , Please call me" I was completely stunned, I looked around to see if anybody familiar or anyone I knew was in sight. Nothing seemed off, everyone was minding their business. I packed my stuffs, left the library building and headed to my class.
When I got there, I could see that most of my course mates were in clusters, trying to solve this very assignment. I looked for the smartest and most brilliant person in my department. His name was Derrick , he was with a small group of people trying to solve the same questions. I walked up to their table and dropped the paper with the answered questions on his book. "Derrick, how far? abeg help me check this out, is it correct?" He looked at me and said he was coming. He brought out his note pad and started solving and comparing. After like five minutes of cross examining it. He stood up to me smiling and impressed. "Did you solve this? its actually correct" "Ehen, it is? I asked..."Yes bro, it is" he smiled again, "We were actually using the wrong formula all through. The formula Prof gave us is flawed and wouldn't
work for this complex equation, but this formula works perfectly. Maybe Prof actually wanted us to figure it out. Mehn, wherever that inspiration came from that made you conjure this up, may that source never run dry" he said as he gave me the paper back. I took back the paper and held it in my hands trying to figure out how it found its way to me. I asked him if he needed to copy the answers and he said he's already written down the formula and he would solve it himself. Just as he said so, the cluster of girls with him hurriedly got in my face and were begging me to give them to copy. "Stylish please can we have this? please ,please, please" about three of them chorused. I smiled and thought to myself, " We rise by lifting others" as I gave them the paper to copy out the answers. But certainly not before cutting out the part where the phone number was. I needed to know who the person was and I prayed it wasn't a boy.
I stepped out of the class to dial the number. And as it rang, I closed my eyes just so that I could shut out all noise and listen to the first sound that will come from the other end. A few seconds later, the person picked up. "Hello" it was a calm sweet female voice and instantly I fell into tranquility. "Hello, good afternoon, humm, this is Stylish, you left your number on a paper with some solved mathematical equations" I replied. It felt weird saying that though. "Oh, the sleeping dude from the library?" she responded back as I could hear her laugh sheerly. "For the record, | only took a mild nap" I tried to defend myself in a jovial manner. Her chuckles were louder this time around. "Mild nap you say? I sat beside you for over twenty minutes, solving those equations and not once did you wake up, that was a deep sleep if you ask me". "Guilty as charged" as I laughed, "But why did you solve the questions if I may ask?" "Well I was actually at the table opposite you. I noticed and could read your facial expressions that something was clearly frustrating you. I had a hunch it had to do with work in front of you. I was busy reading and when I had finished, I decided to come say Hi only for me to find you asleep. I looked at your table and saw the questions and that you had solved just one" I interjected with a chuckle "those questions were mad chale.
"Mad??, those were basic calculus problems that I had come across in secondary school, so I took your book, brought out my paper and solved it. I didn't want to wake you so I wrote my number at the back, probably you would notice it and call" "Wait chill, youve been doing calculus since your secondary school?" I asked in amazement. "Yes I have" she replied, "Solving mathematics calms me". I opened my mouth in schock, I had never heard that in my life, maths calming somebody and a girl for that matter.
"May I ask what department you're in? I further inquired. "Economics" she said. We kept on talking as she made me realize the important of mathematics to the universe. "what's my own?" I thought to myself. All I needed to do was survive this department and graduate. I knew I was going to need her help if I was to do well in the mathematical aspects of my courses. We spoke for over ten minutes as if we had been friends for a long time. She was funny, She sounded smart and had an aura of liveliness in her. I thanked her for the solved answers and asked if she was still around but she said she had gone home. My phone had beeped that I had one minute remaining sol had to precipitate the chat. "I have to go now, but can I call you tonight if that wouldn't be a problem" I asked. "Most certainly sir, I'll be expecting your call" she responded. "And your name again please??" I asked . "I'll be expecting your call" she answered back seductively completely ignoring the question.
That night Jane called and she asked how my day was. I told her it was fine and that school work was stressful but I could handle the heat. She asked what my plans for the weekend was and I said I had nothing doing. "Would you like to go on a trip this weekend? she asked. "A trip? what kind of trip?" I replied "I really don't think I should travel long distances this period" I added. "Calm down my dear, we would still be within the region, | just want to take you sight seeing. Have you ever heard of Boti Falls?". Oh my, that had been one of the places I had plan to visit while schooling. Visiting there would be a dream come to reality. "Yes I have, is that where we are going?" I asked. "Well yes, I would love to take you there, let's just go relax and catch fun for a while. That is if you would want to go though...." I cut her short before she finished. "I would love to go please, I really need the time off to relax" She laughed and replied "Alright then baby boy, today is Thursday, I'll come pick you on Saturday morning and we would drive over there, is that fine?" "Yes it is, thank you so much Jane". We ended the call shortly after. I was highly elated at the trip and was already looking forward to it. The thought of the trip made me totally forget to call the mysterious girl that night, in fact, I had utterly forgotten about her, that was how deep the euphoria of the trip felt.
The next morning I told Ivan and Mark about the trip as we were on our way to school. "Woowwww" Ivan screamed, "What will I wear like this? I need to go and prepare for the trip" Ivan and I looked at him with mild contempt and smiled. "Jon!!!, are you okay? do you think you are following them?" Mark asked. "Why not? Please I cannot let one woman come and use my padi for ritual ooo, let me follow them so I can protect him na" Ivan answered. I was mute and listened to them talk. "Don't you realise that they need a moment alone for the very first time? The first time they met, you were there to ruin it, the second time they met, you were also there in the church, what's your own?" he said with a laughter, "let them be, besides this looks like a date" "Date???, Calendar " Ivan replied, "you don't know that its actually my presence that has been protecting him all these while, the 3K ghc, the brand new phone, all because of my good spirit and wonderful aura, if I leave him now, he might be unfortunate ooo". And with that I burst into laughter and interjected. "It is you that will be unfortunate" I retorted amidst laughter as I gave him a hot slap on his back. We laughed so hard for like a minute before I continued. "Thanks guys, I really appreciate but Ivan, I'm going alone, no third wheel this time around" "Alright then, its fine" Ivan said, "but l know as I'm not there, you won't be safe, I'm serious about my aura ooo" as we all burst into laughter again.
By Saturday morning, I woke up so early and had gotten prepared. Jane promised to be around by 10am. I had waited and waited till 12pm but she wasn't here yet. I kept calling and she apologized that there was a road block somewhere and she was stuck but she would be there soon. I wondered what time we would get there, do what we wanted to do and get back home. Ivan came into my room and tried to cajole me one last time, the idiot was all dressed up in his fine cloth, with a face cap and dark shades. "Dude, don't you think this is a heavenly sign that you need to take me along, I'm all dressed up already, na to wear shoe remain o". I burst into laughter. "Walahi, you are mad sir, I'm going alone! period!" I replied. He smiled and walked out of the room as my phone rang. It was Jane and she was at my hostel iunction. I jumped up, locked my room and set out. By 3:15 we got there and it was a beautiful sight. Playing with the water was soothing and the whole ambiance gave a nice feel. It was a wonderful experience. Jane said she wanted to take a swim that we both should. "It's just a harmless swim", I thought to myself so we went to change. I came out first and was already in the pool when I sighted her
walking. There were other people around so I felt a bit shy. "Damn" I muttered as I looked at her body. She was in her swimming trunks.Her skin was flawless and spotless while her towers stood firmly on her chest. She got into the river and walked towards me. She stood right in front of me inside the water and smiled erotically. I could feel the blood rushing through my third leg as the "thing" was being awakened. "Hey handsome, like what you see?" she said as she swam away. All through the swimming, I made sure to keep my distance from her. She was a good swimmer and watching her swimming was turning me on. I wanted to come out of the river but as my "thing" was still standing, I had to stay longer for like an extra ten minutes before I could come out. After swimming, we went to the eatery there to eat. By the time we were done and ready to leave it was around 6pm. We set off on the journey back to school. We got to Mampong by 8:15pm, She was meant to go back to Accra but that was another One and half hour journey. I begged her not to risk it. I couldn't take her to my place so I suggested she go to a guesthouse and lodge there till tomorrow morning. She obliged and I took her there. We
got there and she got settled finally like around 9pm. I thanked her for the wonderful time and said I needed to go home now else my roommates would be worried. "Oh, I thought we were going to spend the night together Stylish" she replied. And she was right, I wanted to, it would have been the logical thing to do, to stay with her after a fun filled day but I knew this was temptation and I had to flee. "I know ma, but ljust feel you need to rest. I will come check on you first thing in the morning before you leave" I replied. I thought she would argue with me or try to be assertive but she smiled and said no problem. I walked towards the door and left the room clearly happy that I had lived to fight another day. I walked past the reception and proceeded to the gate when the receptionist ran after me and called me.
Chale what could this be???