Amarts's Notes

Episode Three More than their mothers ever could, Ekaette loved knowing all the guys that mattered on camp. To their boxers if that was what it took. She did her best at that, within the brief stint NYSC afforded her with the guys. And she’d sworn to go on knowing them after camp was over. It was the one thing that bestowed her with a sense of invincibility. Her success with it meant she owned the exclusive rights to their relevance amongst her female friends. After knowing them, she passed them over to her favoured friends. On this particular occasion, Onyinye won the right to meet them. A shy personality with a pinch of salt for self esteem, was Onyinye.  You could imagine her surprise when Onyinye’s gaze caught of one of Ekaette’s mattering guys and he exclaimed ‘beautiful Onyinye!’ without holding back. He wore a captivating smile that sustained her gaze on him for some seconds. Then she looked away when the smile wore out for a bit. Right from that moment, h...

Episode Two “I have to leave this country,” Adedamola replied assertively. “I am sorry,” he added in a velvety voice. “I don’t know if I want to come back to this country anytime soon.” “I don’t have a problem with that. I have a friend whose boyfriend is in Australia and they are still in a deep romantic relationship. I am not afraid of long distance relationship. I like United States, in fact, US is my dream country. So what is the problem? “I am sorry”, he said, after he sighed. “Sorry for what?” She growled. “What are you sorry for?” “I don’t want to hurt you, but I don’t want to be insincere with you either. Long distance relationships can be very complicated. You know I have been in it before and it didn’t work. I-” “Don’t scare me, Adedamola. You are sounding like you want to leave me.” She sharply interrupted him. “I am sorry dear. But-” “So you are truly breaking up with me?” “I know…” He stuttered for a while before he paused. Then he a...

Episode One God forbid!” Onyinye exclaimed as she got up from the sofa. “God forbid,” she said again. She had just dreamt that her boyfriend, Adedamola, broke up with her.  Onyinye had the ability to foresee things before they happened through her dreams. Many of her friends had nicknamed her Josephine, the dreamer girl, seeing as she enjoyed telling people what would happen in the future. However, this time, she was really terrified. It was a really bad dream that she could not afford to let materialize. She was seriously in love with Adedamola and she couldn’t dare to imagine what would happen if he broke up with her. It had been nine months since they started dating and those months had been the best months of her life. Already, she had envisaged their future together; their dream house, children, everything. Onyinye paced briskly and thoughtfully from corner to corner of her living room before she returned to sit on the same sofa she stood up from. Abruptly, she ...