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Episode 35

Love is like a very large circle. We can run
away from the spot where our “special one” is but at the end of the day, we would definitely
go round the circle and come back to that
spot where our “special one” is.


Zainab walked straight to her office as soon
as she arrived at TOP. Her to-do list was
already on her table and she couldn’t help but
nod in approval with the thought of how
efficient Michael, the intern was. She had been
at TOP for more than a week now and so far,
she hadn’t any cause to question his ability
and efficiency.

She dropped her had bag on her table and
brought out her phone from it before sitting
down. She quickly launched her phone browser
and did some random browsing, checking out
sochistar’s blog and some gossip sites, before
checking her email. It was filled with spam
messages as usual so she sighed as she
scrolled through it looking for anyone of the
messages that didn’t have a spam-like
subject of sender’s email address and then
she saw one with the simple topic: “Hello”,
obviously a spam message wouldn’t have
such subject so she clicked on it and patiently
waited for it to load.

At first, it didn’t seem like it was going to load
due to the bad network, so she quickly
switched on her 3G on the phone and within
seconds the message opened and it was from
the least person she had expected.

The email was short and precise: “Hi Zainab,
been a while I heard from you and I could
have called but I somehow lost your phone
number. Anyway, I just wanted to check on
you and how you have been faring since the
case with your ex-husband ended. Kindly reply
back. Boniface.”

As soon as Zainab read the message she
check the date it was sent and saw it was
sent just that morning so she knew she didn’t
need to apologize for replying late.

She clicked on the reply button and typed: “Hi
Boniface, I never really got to thank you
properly for your services during the case and
I’m sorry about that, I just couldn’t wait to
get over Richard and move on to other things
that are more important. Anyway, I’m faring
really well and thanks for your concern. I hope
all is well with you too.”

With that, she dropped her phone and picked
up the to-do list to examine it. And just as
she was going through it, a knock at her door
startled her and without her replying, the
person walked in to the office. It was Henry.

“Hey!” He said in an excited tone.

“Hey you!” Zainab replied, not exactly sure
about what she was supposed to reply.

Henry walked towards her desk and asked
“can I sit?” But before she could actually reply he planted his a-s on the sit and smiled at
Zainab. He seemed to have something
mischievous in his mind, but Zainab couldn’t
pinpoint it.

“What’s so exciting about my face this
morning?” Zainab asked looking confused.

Henry giggled, “nothing, you look great. Good
morning by the way.”

“Morning.” Zainab replied coldly, anxiously
waiting to know what was in his mind.

“How was your night?”

“Fine.” Zainab paused for a second as if she
was thinking of a continuation, “I would have
asked you how your night was but that would
only waste more time, can you tell me why
you are grinning this way? I’m not really
comfortable with it.”

“You like to cut to the chase right? Alright, let
me play it your way. Do you know what today
is?” He asked.

“Errr
 Friday?”

“Yes! Exactly. And do you know what
tomorrow is?”

“If you want me to teach you the days of the
week just say so instead of using this weird
style,” Zainab replied irritably.

“Okay okay! Calm down. Well tomorrow is
saturday and its a weekend
” Henry replied
and grinned more widely than before, he
expected Zainab to get his point by now but
the look on her face told him other wise.

He sighed. “Tomorrow is our date!

Remember?

You and I
 Go out? You even suggested you
brought your friend, Jumoke along.”

And that was when Zainab got the whole joke.

“Oh! So that’s what making you so excited?”

“If you were in my shoes and had the
opportunity to go out with the sexiest female
celebrity in the country, won’t you be excited?”

He asked.

Zainab hated flattery, but this somehow got to
her and she felt her cheek grow red. “I’m not sure Jummy would be able to make it
anymore,” she finally replied.

“I would loved to asked why but I’m not really sure I want to know.”

Zainab smiled, he just literally replied the
same way she had replied him earlier. He sure
had a good sense of humor and that was a
pluse on his part, Zainab thought.

“So where are taking me to? I need to know
what to wear.”

“Don’t even bother asking me because I won’t tell. I initially planned on taking you to the movies since Jumoke was coming along but
now that its just you and I
 I have a more
special place in mind.”

“So how am I to know what to wear?” Zainab
asked alarmed.

“Zain, even if you wear a pant and bra to a
dinner party, you would look sexy and really
attractive in it so just dress simple and try
your best not to out dress me too much,”
Henry said with a wink and before she could
think of a reply, he left her office leaving her
stunned.

The led on her phone, blinking a red light
snapped her back to reality as it flashed on
her eyes. She picked up her phone and saw it
was email alert. She opened the message and
saw it was a reply from Boniface which said:

“I’m glad to know that you are faring well, and about my well being, I’m fine or that’s what I’ll like to believe. You are on BBM right? Add me up @ 7*, maybe we could chat
better.

That is if you don’t mind though.”

Zainab contemplated adding him up but after
weighing her options and coming to the
conclusion that she had nothing to loose, she
went ahead to add him and he accepted the
invite almost immediately, as though he was
waiting for it.

“Hi ,” he sent her immediately.

Zainab saw the message and ignored it at
first, then looked through her schedule for the
day. She observed she had nothing important
to do that morning so she picked up her
phone and replied: “hi, how are you?”

Somehow, she was certain she was in for an
interesting chat.


Jummy stood there for a while, starring at
John with hate in her eyes. After talking to
Zainab, she had come back to to her senses
and was even disappointed at herself for even
considering John’s offer in the first place.

Who knowing venture into such a situation
knowingly? She asked herself in silence.

“Hello! Are you still here?” John asked as he
observed Jummy had no plan of replying him
anytime soon.

“John, what are you doing here? How did you
even get in here?”

“Hey! Calm down now. One question at a
time.” John said smiling. “Firstly, I’m here
because I wanted to see my girlfriend and
hopefully wife to be. And secondly I got in here
through the door obviously, I told the security
guard I’m your brother and I just came back
from the states and wanted to surprise you. Of
course he wasn’t interested if I came from the moon or the sun at first, but after I gave him a few thousand naira notes, he directed me to your office and even offered to serve me coffee or tea.” John concluded and smiled that kind of smile someone smile when he or she has achieved a great thing.

Jummy wasn’t impressed. “John, stop playing games with me and tell me what you are doing here,” she said, trying her possible best not to raise her voice above average.

“Hmmm
 You seem really tensed up. I’m I
making you feel uncomfortable?” John asked.

“Yes you are actually. And I’ll appreciate if
you leave my office right away.”

“Why are you acting so cold towards me?
I thought you love me and
”

“You though wrong!!!” Jummy cut in suddenly raising her voice, “now if you don’t mind, I’ve got some work to do and would really appreciate if you use the door now!”

John was speechless, he didn’t need to ask
her if she had made a decision about the deal
he proposed as her actions said it all. He
reluctantly stood up from the seat and from
the inner pocket of his suit, he brought out a
small case and dropped it on Jummy’s table.

He walked past Jummy and whispered in her
ears, “that’s for you, just a small gift and I’ll call you later on to hook up and talk like old
friends
 I guess I was unreasonable and have
been quite unfair to you.”

Jummy wanted to tell him to pick his gift but
for some reasons, she couldn’t say anything.

John walked out of the office and Jummy
walked to her table. She used the intercom to
call the chief of security office and within
minutes he was in her office. She sternly
warned him never to let John into the
company again.

She pushed the small box into the waste bin
beside her table and went straight to work.

She worked for thirty minutes straight. Settling
accounts and rating progress of GNP over
other network providers in various zones. But
then curiosity wouldn’t let her be and she
found herself searching the waste bin for the
box.

She found out and with a deep breath she
opened the box only to see the most beautiful
stone she had ever seen in her life.

It was a ring with a huge piece of diamond
which glittered like the stars at night. The ring
was without any doubt really expensive and
would have cost even John a great fortune to
buy.

Jummy wasn’t going to be swayed by just a
ring so she made a mental note to return it to
him before he started to get mixed signals.

She hated that she had to return it though.

Suddenly, her phone went alive and started
ringing as someone called, she glanced at her
phone screen and speaking about the devil
 It
was John once again.


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