CHAPTER NINETEEN WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE AGAIN?

On the fourth day on the show, Tolu continued with her story talking about how Richie eventually showed up again in their house, and this happened after a month to the incident that brought them together.

"I was at home alone on that particular evening sleeping because I was I just returned from a fruitless job hunting journey, and I was emotionally so down that I slept off on the seat in our sitting room, then from my restless sleep I heard a knock like it was from a mile away.

I woke up with uncleared brain and I sauntered towards the door to see who was there, when I opened the door and I saw Richie standing there like a man coming from heaven, he looked so calmed and collected like he has not been out to work the whole day, yet according to him he was coming from the office, my breath was caught in my throat because his presence affected me; I knew right there that it would be dangerous to have him near me!

Anyway, when he saw how conflicted I was by his presence, he with a dashing smiles said, " I'm sorry I woke you up, I hope I have not offend you by this intrusion?" I replied, "Well, not at all, I actually did not mean to sleep for I have some issues to deal with, but weariness got the better of me and I slept off. So your coming helps in a way because if you do not come I may not wake up till my mom will come from the market and that may cause quarrel between us if I fail to do what I promised that I would do for her."

Richie looked at me and said, "That means I must not keep you for long because you need time to attend to the errands, I actually have not been to this place since the last time that I came to thank you, so today that i am around I just want to say hello to my saviour before Monica will show up, how was your work in the office today?

When he asked this question I did not know how to answer him, because feel if I tell him that I have no job that may somehow draw him more closer than I deem fit for the kind of relationship that we should sustain. This means I don't want him to know anything personal about me.

While I momentarily fidgets, he sensed my mixed emotion are instinctively picked it in his mind that I had nothing doing and he said, " Oh, I am sorry, are you not employed?"

With this question I had to opened up to him because I hate telling lie. I asked, "How do you pick it just like that, that I have no job? He answered and said, "From the way you fidgets my intuition pick it up that you have no job"

"Well, you are right, I am looking for a job and I just returned from one potential job hunt that did not yield the right result, that was the reason I was tired and slept off"

He asked, May I ask you what field are you labouring to enter? "Do you mean my area of specialisation?" I asked. He said yes I told him that I studied computer science for my first degree, but I have master degree in business and economics analysis."

When he heard this he asked, "Are you sure, you look so young that no one will envisage that you could be a holder of second degree. " Well i started school very early that was what helped me" I replied.

He added the following for me, "And you were brilliant too, because if you are not brilliant you won't be able to combine the two fields of studies in your CV, only brilliant student can do that.

"Well thanks to God for that, brilliancy is a gift from God no man can force himself to have natural brilliance. " Richie replied, "But brilliancy as a gift from God to a lazy fellow is tantamount to failure, if you could possess what you say you have at your age, then you must not credit all alone to gift of brilliancy, you must be hard working too and you deserved to be helped."

"Thanks for your compliment, but talking about help, I knew nobody working in any of the financial firms that I have been pressing to secure employment, and their securities usually turn me back at the gate that they are not employing at this time" I answered, but his reply lifted my soul to the highest heaven!

"My dear, you have raised helper for yourself the day you put your neck on the line to save my life, you will have your dream fulfill this very week" I asked him, "Are you working in any financial firm?" Not just any financial firm, I am working with the second largest financial firm in the country and I have my personnel manager rapped around my finger that he won't deny me the chance of getting you employed into the company, more so now that the company is in the need of computer analysts, if you can do well I. the interview you are in already."

I will surely do well, it is just that non of the company have given me face before now, I suppose your own company is Zenith e-comerce firm?" I asked and he replied, "Yes, it is" "But that was where I just returned from and they told me at the reception that they are not employing now"

"That is what they will tell you, those guys at the gate don't know what is going on inside, and the company don't advertise, people are usually employed into the company via a connection with someone inside the company, that was how I got in some years ago, and that is how you will get in this week. Tomorrow, dress corporately and come to the place, when you get to the gate, give them this card"

He brought out a card from his purse, signed his signature on the back and gave it to me and said, "With this they will direct you to my office and the rest will be history"

I was so happy that I am going to get a chance to work in such a place, it was an international company with branches in many countries, this means I can be sent to work anywhere in the world if I am good. Just then I realised we have been standing by the door since he came and invited him to come inside and sit, but he excused himself that he had called his girlfriend Monica before he dashed to my place and she would soon be out to see him.

I agree to let him go because I don't want trouble from the snobbish girl again, just then I looked at the place where he parked his car from where I was and I saw that Monica was already there looking towards our balcony and I knew that Richie is in deep trouble for this visit!

True to my thinking, when Richie got to where she was it was all out hell, she was shouting so loud that the whole street heard her rantings, though I dare not show my face outside but I was watching through the window as she forced him to explain over and over what she was doing in my our place again today?

Richie explained all she could, but all his explanations fell on her deaf hears! She accused him of all manners of indecent intention towards me, and she even called me all manners of names from the pit of hell!