“…Jeff remained my friend despite the sour relationship between him and Damzy.
Though I didn’t attend his wedding as that would alienate Damzy, especially since Amaka and I were formally in relationship and Jeff now married leaving her in the middle of nowhere in the entire mix.
On Jeff’s wedding day, the three of us decided to hangout at chitis so it it wouldn’t be more awkward than it was already.
We had reconciled our differences and clearly defined our relationship after that awkward day Damzy slept in my room.
We spent several weeks before breaking the ice, and she asked me to tell her what was going on between me and Amaka.
I insisted that she must first tell me why she’s so heartbroken that Jeff was getting married.
After much back and forth, she told me the near-truth. She told me they had gotten so close and she was beginning to have feelings for him.
Trust a woman. She’s never ever going to tell you the whole truth. So she didn’t tell me that they he broke her hymen. I would later find out much later from another person.
However, it was at that point that I told her that Amaka gave me my first kiss and she seems to really love me.
So we decided to remain platonic friends while I try out a relationship with Amaka.
Telling Amaka what was going on between me and Damzy didn’t really go well, but after a week of begging, explanation upon explanation, she later accepted.
As it is said, “A man chases a woman until SHE catches him”.
So, the wedding came, passed as well as the exams and the reality of me studying Combined Social Sciences; Philosophy and Psychology as my main course since I won’t be redeploying to Law any longer.
I had also gotten my own lodge, or do I say, our own lodge because now, Amaka is my roommate. Though my parents believed Ike was still my roommate and her parents believed Ifunanya was her roommate.
My friendship with Jeff would later prove valuable as he helped us to secure reliable sorting sources that decreased the suffering of studying two unwanted difficult courses at the same time.
To be honest, my second year was my sweetest year in that University.
There was the sweet lovely Amaka giving me Romeo and Juliet vibes, then Jeff, helping me to sort through difficult courses, and of course I have known the school environment very well.
Life was good, and by design, whenever life becomes good for humans, they feel it can become better, then they introduce suffering and ruin the joyful moment.
For me, I felt I could also do business as a student and start making money too while studying.
Is Nigeria about to happen to me the once again? Let’s find out in the next episode.
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