Amarts's Notes

Episode Five “No! Onyinye, tell me you are joking, please!” Onyinye let a bitter laugh escape her mouth. “Who jokes about marriage, eh?” she paused for a moment, expecting an answer she knew she was not going to get. “I am getting married in two months.” She sneered at him. Onyinye’s words were buzzing in Adedamola’s head but he chose not to believe them. He chose not to let those words mess his mind up. So he employed a long laughter to deflate the tension between them. Afterwards, he stepped forward to hug her, but Onyinye shoved him away in fury.  He stared at her with a bolt of shock. Could she be real? His beaten eyes perused Onyinye’s hardened face for some hints that she was telling lies. Anything like blinking of her eyes or pouting of her lips or twitching of her fingers could do. Those were Onyinye’s normal demeanours whenever she managed to tell lies. The coldness in her still eyes said she meant every word. They maintained eye contact with him....

Episode Four A year after she had the dream, she was yet to see his shadow. Receiving his calls had become too cost a luxury for her. She would have given up on his return if she hadn’t seen him several times in her dreams standing at her doorstep, wearing his usual charming smile. But one thing she could not decipher from her dreams was the reason behind his arrival. She wished her dreams had been kind enough to furnish her with details of what the future held for them. Onyinye was still in bed, enjoying the cool weather from a Saturday heavy downpour, when a loud, insistent knock at her door ruffled her nerves a bit. She looked at her wristwatch. It was 6.30am, a very inapt time to receive visitors. ‘Who could it be?’ She thought as she put in a couple of lethargic strides towards the door. When she asked for the person behind the door, only the wet sound from the heavy downpour was what she heard. She summoned courage, opened the door and her mouth at the same instant....