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CHAPTER ONE

I hear my home phone ring but I am not in the right state of mind to talk to anyone.
The caller should just drop a message like the twenty others before her/him. With some controls
on my Bluetooth linked ear pod, I can listen to the messages left me.
“Lola, this is like the tenth time I’m calling you. You are not responding to my messages or chat.
You are not picking my calls either. I said I am sorry. What do you want me to do? Please, let’s
go back to the way we were before. Before all this. I am truly sorry. So sorry. Please forgive me.
It has been like what…four days now? Let’s make up and forget the past, please. You are the only
true friend I have. Girl, please we have been friends for over two decades. Do not let anything
take that away from us, please. I am so sorry please forgive me. Call me. I love you.”
I have no idea what day today is or what time for that matter. I hear knocks on my door outside
but I’m too weak to lift myself from the bed. I did rather let whoever is on the other side assume I
am not home. I just want to sleep. Sleep and forget.
My phone’s ring tone woke me from sleep. It is seated 5 meters from me on my study table. I
stare at it willing it to stop ringing.
After a while, I clicked the play button on my ear pod to listen to the message and once again, I
hear Sade’s voice:
“Babe, pick na. On my way home yesterday from work, I dropped by your apartment, you were
not home. You know how much I do not like that your over-perfect fiancé, but I had to reach out
to him just so I could, maybe get through to you. What is going on Babe? You are not like this
na…please, I’M SO SORRY…let’s make…”
“Sade the Clients are here. We need to move.” I hear Sade’s business partner, Chris, calling out to
her.
“I have to go now. You know that deal Chris and I are trying to land; I think we might just have
the breakthrough with it this time. Chris just called me now that those guys are here. I have to go
now. Babe call me. I love you.”

The message ended. I dropped the device and went back to sleep. I tried to go back to sleeping but sleep would not come back to me, I stood to go freshen up. Once done, I lay on the couch in my sitting room and watched the whole event of my life playing out before me. I began to sob uncontrollably...