MY LIFE AT THIRTY
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? EPISODE 32 ?
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By Princess ?
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All her words were so painful and entering my body, was it really her fault? Definitely NO. I was actually the one that fell in love blindly, i was so naive and amateur. Aisha definitely played a fast one on me but am i that dunce that she had to leave me for another guy without being remorseful? There was silence in the room as Aminat was walking up and down inside the room she came to me again after a while and started talking in a soft tone.
“Abdulrahman, sincerely you need to let go, forget about Aisha, she is gone for good, she doesn’t think about you again, she has moved on so you need to move on and think about your own, there are million of girls out there that are much better than Aisha, you still have a long way to go dear.
Look at you, you are a fine boy now, very handsome for that matter, forget the Alfa stuff that you are doing, deep down inside you there is a beauty which any lady will always die for. You will still meet so many ladies, far much better than Aisha, there are still a lot of us in the school, there is still NYSC, you will start working, and you will still meet female colleagues. Your neighbourhood too, there will be so many ladies flocking all over you, please you need to take this out of your mind and move ahead, i beg you in the name of Almighty Allah and Prophet Muhammed.
Me: Thank you so much Amina, have heard you…Almighty Allah will be with you too
Amina: Amen but is that a promise
Me: I will try
Amina: Not only try, you have to promise me………..
Me: Okay, i promise to try and do away with her thought
Amina: That is better….what did you eat this afternoon
Me: have not eaten but i will eat very soon, i only took cornflakes this morning
Amina: Cornflakes since morning and this is almost 6pm
Me: i will eat now…..
Amina: okay, don’t worry, what we will do is am not sure you will eat after i leave this place. Why not let us go out to a fast food and eat, while away time. At least change of atmosphere will definitely help a alot
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Me: there is no need for that Amina
Amina: No oooo..its my call and i insist, i know you wont want to reject my offer for the first time…please
Me: okay…No problem
Amina: Thank you so much but before we go
Me: what is it again?
Amina: we will first go to saloon, you will shave and from there we will hang out and come back home…..
Me: Shave again?
Amina: yes of course, seems you have not been looking at the mirror all this while to see what you actually look like
Me: okay, as your lordship pleases..
Amina: let me go and change in my room, you can also change too…am giving you just 5 minutes Abdulrahman
Me: okay…
She left my room and i was still thinking about all what she said, she came back like 5 minutes later putting on a jean trouser and a V-neck top with a small purse in her hand. I was still the way i was when she left, blue shirt and a jean trouser which was just like four inches above my knee.
Amina: so, you are still here? You have not change?
Me: okay, don’t worry, no need for you to change, we can go like this……
I wanted to take my cap and she said no need for that, she dragged my hand and led me out of the room, Amina was having more courage by touching me but i didn’t resist in the first place while we are in the room.
We walked down to Zanrab bus stop, took a cab going to tipper garage and we drop by the round about, there was a shopping plaza by the round about, we enetered the barbing saloon there, luckily for us, there was a vacant space.
I sat down and heard Aminat discussing with the guy that wanted to barb my hair, he brought out clipper and tied cloth round my neck then he said “low cut with shaving”, i responded by nodding my head in affirmative.
That was how he started cutting my hair, my mind started flashing back to me and Aisha, the scene of what happened when she introduced me to Ibrahim in her house, the way she has been avoiding me in school and all sort, i was totally lost in thought
Barber: Se o ti wa okay bayi? (Is it okay like this?)
“i looked at the mirror and realized my hair was already on the lowest ever since i started barbing my hair and for my beards, they are nowhere to be found again, he had trim them down to the lowest.”
Me: why? What happened, why did you cut my hair so low like this?
Barber: It was aunty that said i should barb it like this (Pointed to Aminat), I even asked while i was barbing it and you were nodding your head in affirmative
Amina: I asked him to barb it this way…you look finer….its okay don’t worry dear, how much is our money
Barber: N100…..
“Aminat paid the barber as we left the place”
Me: so, where are we going…..
Aminat: Wait now…we will take bike from here to the place
She stopped a bike beside us, “Agba-dam”, ibo ni Agba-dam” (Where in Agba dam) the bikeman enquired…”close to lawal house”..Initially i wanted us to take separate bike but she insisted we take one because i don’t know where we are going to. She sat in the middle while i was behind her on the bike.
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