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Dimensions Part 4

Tosin stared at Amarachi. He had absolutely no words for her. Somehow, he felt guilty because of his heavy involvement with Jumoke. He was still officially dating Amarachi and he had spent the better part of the past year chasing another girl. He was contemplating telling her everything but he was not sure how she would take it. He tried to build a defence instinctively somewhere in his mind. She left me without saying a word. She did not call me for a year. I was lonely. It really was not my fault. Any guy would have done the same thing I did. Blah. Blah. Blah. He was not even making sense to himself. “Tosin baby, hi. I missed you terribly.” She said flatly. “Amy, what am I supposed to say or do right now? Three hundred and seventeen days since I last saw or heard from you. Oh! I should open my arms and yell out that I love you? Because I actually do and that’s what makes it all the more painful! Did I mean so little to you?” Tosin retorted somewhat angrily. “Calm d
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Dimensions Part 3

                                                   DIMENSIONS 3       After the last anonymous phone call, Tosin does not have any idea what to expect. He is absolutely certain that it has to be something unpleasant that the anonymous caller is leading him to and even though he pretends to himself that he is brave enough to find out, he knows deep inside that all of it is just a charade. He also wonders the role of the anonymous caller and why he deems it fit everytime to contact him to give him information on anything. The trend all along has been ‘Chuka’, ‘Tosin’ and nothing else. Thus far, it has been all about bad news so he gives Mr Anonymous a nickname, “Bearer Of Bad News!”   The time for the latest discovery of more bad news is here. He prepares but just an hour to the stipulated time, he gets a text message containing just three words that change everything from none other than the only girl in the world that could successfully push his buttons and turn him into the proverbial
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Dimensions Part 2

JUMOKE He has been avoiding me for the past two weeks. My numerous phone calls to him have gone unanswered every day of the last fourteen days. I have hardly seen him and even when I was lucky to see him, before I could even pick a call as I walked towards him in euphoria, he simply disappeared into thin air. I have not once managed to meet him at home even though I have been there about ten times. I am now convinced that something must have happened between him and Tosin because Tosin always manages to change the line of conversation the minute Chuka’s name is mentioned. They must have had a clash of some sort and now I’m the one suffering for it. Even when I told Tosin that I suspect Chuka is avoiding me, he just simply stated that it is further proof that he doesn’t even like me. I’m so miserable now because I really miss him and I don’t even know what I did to him to deserve all of this. With every day that passes, I miss him even more and it feels like a wild animal is tearing my
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Dimensions Part 1

                         CHUKA    I am twenty-two years old and I have a complicated problem. Tosin, my best friend probably hates me now and I sense a certain unspoken tension in the air when we speak. All our laughs and jokes and gist and chants together are all a charade. We are at war with each other; a cold war. I did nothing wrong and perhaps he knows but yet, he has every right to despise me. He loves her, she loves me. I knew from the first day he introduced her to me that things would not be the same again. I did not have the slightest inkling how but I just knew somewhere in my subconscious that things were about to change. Granted, he told me she was the girl that had stolen his heart and he was doing all he could to get her. He stated clearly that she might or might not have known about his love for her or how much it drove him to do things. However, as at the day he introduced us, she seemed to have absolutely no idea how much he was into her. No matter what he did, she ap
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The Shot Of Irony

     I could feel the excitement in the air. The girls were out to see their heroes. The cheers were getting louder by the minute. The tension was too much for me to handle. The referee was pacing up and down waiting for the other team to be ready for this crunch tie. An old rivalry was about to be rekindled and the spectators seemed impatient. It was the prestigious Inter-House Junior soccer competition and I was out on the field to represent my house, Honesty house. Clad in blue, we could easily have been described as the most inconsistent team in the tournament consisting of three other teams; Unity House, Punctuality House and Perseverance House. The fixture though was a bit favourable for us because even though Unity house was a difficult team to beat, they were the easiest opponents to face in this straight knockout tournament.      I had quite a reputation for playing the kind of mature football that my stature seemed not to suggest. In the previous year’s competition
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