25 AND NIGERIAN episode 3

Two months had gone and we were already in the month of March,i have been able to convince my mother that i was bringing her son in law to be home by Easter. Easter is next month and i am yet to even meet a man who wants to get married. Like can we just meet and marry after one week,i know it sounds crazy but anything to get this out of my neck.

I love weekends especially Saturday's,there is no waking on time to leave for work and i usually go out to shop and maybe later to the movies. After Sunday its my best day of the week.   I had my list drafted out for the things i needed to get in the market,showered, got dressed and left.
Some poles to the junction where i would board a bus,i bumped into an old friend i used to crush on but we had stopped communicating even though i still had his number,we exchanged contacts again and he insisted to drop me off at the market.
On the way,we got talking especially about our love life, he shocked me with his response. He said he wasn't planning to get married at all, he had a daughter already from an old relationship and she lived abroad with her mother so he visits from time to time,i didn't even know about his daughter since i had met him just three years ago and his daughter was already six,he never discussed her or maybe we never had the need to talk about it then.    He said he was enjoying his single life and didn't want distractions in the name of marriage,he was laughing all through and i couldn't help but admire his dimpled face, what a human i wondered but it's nice so that no woman will think he was wasting her time in the end. I still liked him after all this time but i knew he wasn't the best person to be with since i still wanted my heart intact.
We got to the market and he asked to follow me and pass time so he can know my place when dropping me off since he was on his two weeks break and had nothing doing, i just agreed, it wasn't easy getting to talk to him the first time and here he is asking to join me in shopping without minding what a mess the market would be, i didn't even insist i just said it's cool.

Preye was among the first persons i became real friends with when i came into Port harcourt,we could talk as long as possible and i still don't believe his child story, we lived in the same compound at the time and he was a chronic womanizer but i still had a crush on him, i couldn't explain how i would be attracted to such a person, he was very arrogant and a snub that was what my friend's and other neighbour's thought. I later found out the house was his,he had just returned from over seas and didn't know how to start associating with others and they felt he was snubbish.
He worked with an oil servicing firm and could pass for one of the biggest boys in Port harcourt, he lived in the main building of the compound while we lived at the boys quarters behind him.
 One day as i was coming back,i was a corper then, i met him siting outside and he looked very sick to me, i decided to go find out if he was okay, i didn't care what they had talked or thought about him,i liked this man and i was willingly to receive his snubs just so i could talk with him.
 I got close,greeted and asked if everything was okay and he told me he was down with a bad fever and his domestic staffs were on leave including his driver and his friends were at work so no one to take him to the hospital,i couldn't drive so i  had to go get a fellow corp member who lived nearby to help us get him to the hospital because i knew my neighbour's won't even agree....That was how we became friends and started talking,going out together and playing games when ever he was in town, we had to remain just friends because numerous girls flocked around him and i wasn't sure he loved me enough neither did i have the strength to fight any girl.
 I left the house after my NYSC and went back home to Aba where my parent's lived before my father passed on and i didn't tell him i had come back to Port harcourt when i got a job because i assumed after two years,he should have been married with all he had acquired and i didn't want to start getting crazy thoughts on my head because i really liked him so i stayed away,it was nice to see him again and to think he has a house where i live and lives there too and we had never bumped into each other before.
As i recalled our meting while we drove home without a word, it was as if something was occupying our minds and we didn't want to share it.
Suddenly,something came to my mind,The plan..my plan.
Preye was the best bet for my plan,he didn't want a wife and i didn't want my mother's disturbance at least for some time. I hope he agrees to go on with my plan because Eater is just some weeks away and i needed some space till at least next year.

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