Chapter 8

The next day, my cousin woke me up by 6am, he reminded me of my school that day. I took my bath, dressed up, food was already waiting for me at the dining, so I had breakfast with my cousin. Henry knocked, I knew he was there to pick me up, he promised to pick me up every morning to school, then take me to the company from school for my part time job, then we would go home together…I loved that idea but there was no room for making friends, anyway, I didn’t care about friends. Henry hugged my as usual, my cousin was staring at us, he held my hand and we left and I forgot to take the spare key. He was sweet as usual, opened the door of the car for me to enter, then we drove off. Due to traffic, we got to the campus by 10am, I was already panicking, I thought I had missed the lecture, Henry got book and pen for me on the road while we were waiting for traffic. When we got to the campus, I was scared. The campus is massive, the type of cars I was seeing, Henry’s own was the least, the school no be for poor person oo. We came down, he told me to follow him to the chancellor’s office, which I agreed. When we got there, the secretary to the chancellor was acting as if she own the school, Henry had to call the man and the man instructed him to give the secretary the phone which he did. After dropping the call, the secretary led us into the vice chancellor’s office…his office was the my cousin’s entire flat, Henry entire flat joined together, it was beyond massive with beautiful artistic works and designs, Nigerian flag and pictures of the president, vice president, and the vice chancellor.

Henry greeted him like they were related, he asked Henry about his father, mother, the company, if the father is still strict, Henry answered all the questions before telling him why we came. He introduced me to the vice chancellor as his fiancée, that he paid payment regarding my school fees during the weekend which the vice chancellor was aware of. He told the vice chancellor to always look out for me, that I am new to Lagos. The man assured Henry that he has nothing to worry. They stood up, shook hands. The man called the secretary and instructed her to direct me to my class, department of medicine and surgery, 100 level classroom, honestly, I was scared and Henry noticed it, he hugged me and encourage me, Henry was the man and he is still the man. Inside the class, I saw classy people, both male and female, they look like ministers, governors, rich business men children, they are clean, very clean and most of them had foreign accent, I guess most of them did not grow up in Nigeria.

I and Henry continued our love rendezvous, while my cousin resumed her work until one evening, after 6 months, the married neighbor, the wife banged on our door as if she was chased by armed robbers, I rushed and opened the door, the woman barged in shouting “where is she? Where is that whore?” I told her there was no whore in the house, she slapped me but I held myself back considering her age. She continued ‘tell that whore you call a sister to leave my husband alone, men are everywhere, she should leave him alone”, I didn’t know what she meant but I promised her I would tell her once she comes back, she sighed loudly and left the house. I almost cried, I swear, the slap entered my brain. My cousin came back, she is older than me, shouting at her would be risky, so I calmly told her what happened, and from the look on her face, she was scared.

She quickly entered her room, and made a call, I didn’t bother to eavesdrop as usual, I was busy with my assignment and I was exhausted.

Four years letter, I and Henry were still together, my cousin met one Austin and fell in love with him. So we were doing couples goals, Henry was the best man, he never bothered my for sex because I told him that I would keep my virginity till after marriage, she respected my decision. However, there was a time Henry seemed as if he was distant, maybe because I did not give him sex. He would tell me to pick a taxi to the company that he was busy, I excused him because he was trying his best, paying my school fees and I was in 400 level and I had everything I wanted. On 14th February, 2017, we went out as per couples goal, I and Henry, my cousin and Austin, Henry proposed to me with a golden ring, pure gold. My cousin screamed, in fact, her scream was louder than mine. I hugged Henry, he was so perfect, he was everything I needed in a man. After the proposal, problem started between I and Henry and his family, my cousin and her boyfriend and Jennifer.

After two days of the proposal, Amanda contacted Henry in my presence that she was pregnant. I was wondering how that happened, I confronted Henry. Remembered that time I told you Henry was distant, always busy? He was collecting pussy from Amanda, I was heart broken because I loved Henry to a fault, he promised to sort everything out.

The next day, he got a call from his mother to come home. His mother doesn’t call him like that, and with the way she sounded, I sensed trouble. Henry told me not to worry, that he would be fine. He dropped me off in the school and drove down to see his parent. By the time he got there, guess whom he saw? Amanda. She had already told Henry’s parents and coupled with the fact he is the only son, our relationship was in trouble. His parents told him to choose between loosing his inheritance or marrying Amanda. His company, his inheritance was important to him, he chose marrying Amanda and maintaining his inheritance, that was the end of our 4 years relationship and engagement.