OBSESSION (PART 1)

It was a cool breezy Sunday evening and after hours of working on my presentation for work, I decided to take a break from it and walk round the neighborhood to calm my head. I had just moved into the area (Goshen estate, Lekki) and was yet to make friends with the neighbors plus you know how life is there big cars, big houses but you never get to see the faces behind them as everybody was into minding their business. Anyway I got my iPod and a bottle of water to go, was like ten houses away from mine when I saw this lady standing beside a car with the bonnet up it was obvious she was having problems with it and needed help.

God she was so beautiful and I was literally drooling. She had an average height, light skinned complexion it was easy to guess she was Igbo, was wearing a little black dress with stilettos to match and I could tell she had her natural hair on plus make up was perfect I just wanted to eat her up, she was that good looking. I didn't even wait for her to signal for help or anything of that sort I just walked up to her to find out what was wrong, apparently the car was overheating and she didn't know how to go about it, with my little knowledge about cars I knew it wasn't right to open the radiator immediately so while waiting for it to cool we got talking.

Her name was Vanessa Uzo she worked as a PR with an advertising firm, lived in Victoria Island and was SINGLE (she didn't actually admit this but after asking some questions the answer wasn't far fetched). After waiting for about 10mins I put water in the radiator and she was ready to go but not without asking for her contact number, she just smiled and told me she wasn't into giving every random guy she met her number but if we ever did meet again she would consider it, I smiled back and watched her zoom off. While standing there thinking of whether or not to continue my walk, I got a call and instantly my demeanor changed, it was from Halima. Halima is that ex you still have feelings for but you want to do away with we dated for about two years and had just broken up months earlier.

She was over protective and had serious anger management issues I can’t even count how many times she accused me of cheating on her just because she saw me hug or laugh with a female friend in a funny manner or how many times she embarrassed me in front of my friends or in public over trivial issues. The one i think stood out was when she broke a girls head in a club just because in her words she was grinding me in an inappropriate manner, that night we both got kicked out of the club. Hadn't spoken to her since the breakup and did whatever i could to avoid her so when the call came in i had mixed feelings as it brought back good and bad memories so i chose to ignore the call  to avoid any form of attachment. After walking for another 20mins I decided to head back home and to my biggest surprise, I saw Halima sitting at the door post. You don't want to know how surprised and angry I was at seeing her as she was the last person I thought I'd see. I knew she was stubborn and always did whatever she had to do to get what she wanted but this one caught me off guard plus she didn't even know I had relocated so how did she find me? I managed to keep my calm and went up to her to know why she was creeping on me. I invited her inside and we got talking then she started begging and making promises and just basically saying things i wanted to hear *sigh* after dating for two years she sure did know my weak point and how to act on it. Yes I was angry about the whole thing, there were times I just wish I never met her, there were times when seeing her irritated my guts but then there were also times when I was down and she was there to cheer me up, when I was nothing and writing job interviews here and there she supported me whichever way she could and most importantly i still loved her. At this stage i felt i owed her another chance at least to see if we could make something out of what we already had but i didn't want to do something id regret later so i didn't agree instantly instead i told her to allow us give it time and see where it would eventually get us which she agreed to. She hung around for while, we talked and laughed about how miserable we were without each other during the period we weren't talking, she even made dinner for me before she left. I wasn't going to jump to conclusions yet but i was happy with what i saw that day and just hoped she had changed for real. Monday and Tuesday seemed to come and go fast and then Wednesday was here, had just finished my presentation and was heading out to grab lunch with Halima when I bumped into Vanessa one can only imagine how excited i was because i didn't think i was going to see her again and even if I was going to my office seemed like the last place for that. So we got talking and i found out her company was handling an advertising deal for my company and while she waited for some documents to be prepared for her we went to my office and continued talking thus making me move my lunch date with Halima to dinner with the excuse that I was having an impromptu meeting with my Chairman. I was so engrossed in our conversation that i totally ignored the pings and calls Halima had put through to me. The documents were ready and as she was about leaving I asked for her number again which she gave me this time including her blackberry pin and as I moved for a hug Halima walked in.