TECHNICAL vir-gin
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After the rehearsals, she switched her new phone and the first call that entered was Kehindeās call.
āBother, Kehinde plea-se I will call you later..ā She said hurriedly over the phone as she was trying to conclude a discussion with the youth choir leader.
āOkay!ā He said and quic-kly ended the call.
āYouāre leading praise and worsh!ptomorrow. No excuses!ā The choir leader mand@tĀ£d and she accepted having realized that his mind is made up on her.
On reaching home, she dialled Kehindeās number, he picked it up and said,
ā Donāt waste your airtime,cut the call let me call you backā he said and she ended the call with a smile. In less than two minutes, he called back and they spoke for close to 35minutes before they bade each other good night. As she was about entering the small kitchen to find something to eat, her roommate entered. They exchanged greetings and she asked her what she cooked.
āAh! No food in this house o. Iām thinking of preparing Noddles for the both of usā she said and the roommate hissed and brushed past her.
āHaba , kilode?ā Sade stared at her but she didnāt respond. After standing for few seconds, she swallowed ha-rd and entered the kitchen to prepare the Noddles which her roommate refused to eat.
She picked up her phone and called Koladeās number several times to apologize for her actions but he didnāt pick. She put on her data and went to search for him on WhatsApp, fortunately for her,he was online so she sĀ£nt some chats to him and apologized. The chats showed green mark lines which indicates that he received the chats but Kolade didnāt reply . She gave herself excuses on his behalf that he probably was busy and waited for his response till she dozed offā¦
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Sadeās 4 Oāclock quiet time phone alarm rang very close to her head and she woke up. She looked at her roommate who was de-eply asleep and her bĀ©dy suddenly bec@mĀ£ weak and de-sired more rest. She l@yback to rest for a while and in no time, her eyes closed as she sle-pt off. At 5:43am, she jumped up from the be-d like someone who was being chased by a masquerade from the dream.
āAh! Iāve missed my quiet timeā she murmured and quic-kly climbe-d down the be-d, collected her bible, jotter, Our Daily Manner booklet and pen and went down on her knees close to the re-ading table to pray. She prayed for few minutes and sat down on the re-ading chair to study her bible after re-ading the ODM commentaries. She jotted down her personal revelations from the scriptures and prayed. After saying the grace, she entered the kitchen and put a pot on fire to boil rice.
Sunday school starts by 7:50 and she canāt miss it for any reason. The thought of Kolade flashed her mind and her heart skipped.
āHe didnāt return my calls nor replied my chatsā she told herself with a low voice.
āSometimes I wonder whether this courtsh!pis a kind of prison or something. I mean, for how long will I continue to be the one to apologize to Kola each time we have a misun-derstanding? I do everything to plea-se him yet he gets too difficult to plea-seā she said almost crying when her roommate entered the kitchen to collect a cu-p.
āGood morningā she managed to greet without looking at her and she grudgingly murmured back a response. Sade checked the time as she was stirring the pot of steaming tomato stew on the burner and realized she was going to run late if she doesnāt hurry up with her food. She left the stew on the fire to boil while she got herself re-ady to enter the bathroom. With the towel loosely tied to cover her brea-sts, she entered the kitchen and turned off the g@s, then dashed into the bathroom and had a quic-k bath.
Her phone began to ring as she was dressing up and she rushed at it thinking it was Koladeās call, but got disappointed when she saw Kehindeās name. She sighed and went back to finish up her dressing. She arrived the church two minutes past the Sunday school time; but they were yet to start, yet she felt bad for going late to church.
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The Sunday school started and she expected to see Kolade teaching in one of the clas-ses since he was a Sunday school teacher but he was absĀ£nt. She suddenly bec@mĀ£ afraid that something must have happened to him. She quietly walked out of her clas-s when she couldnāt concentrate very well on the teachings and went to a quiet place to call him. She dialled his number several times, but there was no response. As she was still thinking of the closest person who could possibly know his whereabouts, she looked around and sighted Kolade with a lady talking and laughing as they walked up to the church premises and he had his phone in his hand. She intentionally dialed his number again and she saw Kolade grumbling with a frown on his face as he looked into the screen of his phone.
Heās probably telling that sister that am disturbing his phoneā she concluded in her heart, ended the call and stood back and watched them enter the church sluggishly,not minding that they were alre-ady late,then entered and sat on her seat at the front rows from where she turned several times to look at Kolade who didnāt want to maintain eye contact with her.
As the Sunday school clas-ses were summarizing their teachings, she bent her head as h0t tears streamed down her eyes.
āLord, plea-se help my heart. Sing throu-gh me even in this morning service and give yourself glory in Jesus name.ā She prayed, with her head still low as if she was meditating over the lessons.
The microphone was handed over to her after the summary, and she mounted the stage, with her mind made up not to look Koladeās direction she closed her eyes, lifted up her slim hands and started to sing in ton-gues to charge up her spirit. After some minutes, she raised a worsh!psong that brou-ght many people on their knees, crying and praying in the Holy Ghost. By the time she was handing over the microphone to the person who would lead in opening prayers, people were alre-ady lying down on their faces, knees and crying as they worsh!pped God.
Sade opened her eyes and handed the mic over to an elderly man, and as she walked up to her seat, she saw someone smiling at her from the congregation but was too shy to look the second time. But during the opening prayers, she systematically opened one of her eyes and looked towards that direction and found out it was Kehinde and her heart leaped for joy.
After the service, she joined the choir for their usual 5minutes prayers after service, then rushed out to greet Kehindeās. When she found him, he was hvgging and shaking hands with Kolade and she wondered where they knew each other from. She swallowed ha-rd and walked up to them despite the internal pressure telling her to wait till when Kola leaves.
āBrother Kehinde, good afternoonā she greeted excitedly and without seeing the person, Kolade recognized her voice and his countenance changed so much that Kehinde noticed his uneasiness as she greeted him.
āKennyā Kola called his attention from Sade.
āI nee-d to be on my way nowā he said and they both exchanged a good bye handshake.
Sade tried to approach him, but he snubbe-d her in the presĀ£nce of Kehinde and walked away with his Bible in his armpit. Embarras-sed, she stood at a spĀ©t and watched him disappeared from her sight and Kehinde walked up to her and tapped her on the shoulder. She tried ha-rd to hold back the tears that has clouded her eyes, but they found themselves flowing down freely to her cheeks.
āLet me drop youā Kehinde said almost in a whisper, held her hands and led her to the carā¦
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Kehinde drove Sade home in silence and turned several times to look at her but she was too ashamed to look into his eyes, so she looked away and got drown in her own thoughts. There were so many questions troubling his heart which he nee-ded to ask her concerning Kolade and what happened few minutes ago,but in order to avoid ma-king her more emotional, he kept them to himself and hoped that his suspicions are not true. Soon, they arrived her house and he looked at her again before speaking up after the long silence.
āMy dear, I donāt know exactly the problem between you and Kola but I donāt think a woman should be handled the way he did. Itās d–n wrong!ā He said and hit his hands on the steering of his car, then he continued.
āAnd you just have to stĀ©p crying, I donāt feel right seeing your tears. Wipe your tears,no one should determine your happiness.ā He said and drew close to her with his white handkerchief and wiped the tears that flowed down on her cheeks.
āYou know what? I will come pick you up by 4pm so that you wonāt have to stay alone and cry over what happened. Is that okay?ā He asked but she nodded in the negative.
āI told you I will be going out with my fiancĆ©. I donāt think we would be back by then ā she explained quietly without looking at him.
āItās alright then, anything that will make you happy is okay by me. Nevertheless, I will still call to know how youāre doingā he said and opened the door for her to go down. She thanked him and walked into the compound. Her roommate was alre-ady back with a friend from her own church and they were lost in their discussion so much that they didnāt know when she entered the room.
āHa! My boy friend cannot do without S-x o. And me I donāt want to lose him because men are scarce to get. I will give him what ever he wants and keep trusting God that one day,he will propose to meā she was so shocked to hear that statement coming from her roommate whom she thought was born again.
āWell, tĀ©pe have been demanding S-x from me but I canāt do it. My parents will kill me if they finds out am no longer a vir-gin. My father is a pastor and am the only daughter, so I donāt want to bring him disgraceā the visitor said laughing.
āGirl, shine your eyes o. If you lose tĀ©pe, to get another well to do man will be difficult o. Do for him anything he want oā Sadeās roommate advised her friend.
āSee am still a vir-gin, though technically. The only thing I allow him to do with me is smooching and r0m@nƧĀ£s. I never try?ā The visitor asked rhetorically and Sade who couldnāt contain their dirty discussions cleared her throat to announce her presĀ£nce and they both turned to see her standing behind them. Her roommate gave her a stink look and returned back to their discussion.
āWell, r0m@nƧĀ£s is not bad, you guys can start from there gradually and graduate into the real thing..ā Her roommate said laughing.
āNo ooo! I want to marry as a vir-gin, we are not graduating into anything oā the visitor who was not comfortable with Sadeās presĀ£nce protested,stood up,picked her small fancy bag then said
āI wan go Jaree ā she said and they both left the room.
Though Sade found their discussion irritating, there was something her roommateās visitor said that got registered in her mind and she kept meditating over it even as she changed into her house wears and ate her food. As she ate her rice and stew, she picked up her phone and began to dial Koladeās number to know the time they would go to the hospital to see her sister but Kola was not picking up. After the fifth attempt, the phone was switched off and she bec@mĀ£ restless, and began to contemplate going to his house but the thought of being embarras-sed again kept her from doing so. She broke down in tears and her roommate entered and found her crying.
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