Today she saw him as she was in her business of finding something to eat. Standing at the shop thinking of what to buy, she was concurrently thinking of HOW she WOULD talk to him. Or rather on whether she SHOULD talk to him.
“No you can’t do that, things will definitely go wrong! He has to be the one to talk to you first. It’s the rule.”
“Excuse yoooouuuu! What rule? We past that era baby girl. You can do it. If you never get to talk to him you will regret it all your life. After all, it’s just saying hi!”
“No it’s not just saying hi. You’ll say hi and you’ll want to sit there with him! You’ll want to keep the conversation going. This is his duty. Do not do it!”
“Oh please come on. You’ll lie in your bed wondering why you never talked to him. You’ll beat yourself up for not mastering the courage to talk to him. Here is your golden opportunity, he is sited all alone. Just go say hi.”
“Oh no don’t you be fooled. If he liked you or even wanted to talk to you he would have done that decades ago. I know you are just 2 decades old but all the same, he would have done it decades ago!”
“Oyah, just do it girl. What’s the worst that could happen. Just say hi and sit there on your phone!”
“No baby girl, you’ll seem desperate. “
“Desperate for who? You are just saying hi, it’s just hi for crying out loud. Nothing more nothing less!”
“Baby girl, once you take the first step he’ll definitely know you like him and stupidly enough, he’ll unlike you even if he currently likes you. So just stay put. Bite and scream to a pillow if you have to. Talk to a stone if you have to. Assume any tree is him and talk your heart out to it instead.”
“Wow, really! Is this how we gonna do our own? Talking to trees and stones? Have we totally lost it?”
“No, we trying to keep it all together. Salvaging the already nasty situation we in.”
“And what nasty situation is that?”
“Liking a guy before he likes us, daaaaaah!”
“Leave this stupid girl and listen to me. I have your best interest at heart. You and I know that it promptly gets hot deep within the stomach when you see him. And that is perfectly fine. The best thing to do is talk to him. You might actually realize you don’t like him that much after talking to him. And you won’t know that for sure if you don’t at least talk to him. You might live all your life thinking you liked him so much when in reality that is not the case. Talk to him baby girl. It’s just saying hi.”
“Babe girl, listen to me. He’s cute and all. You see him and out of the blues butterflies fill your stomach. You see him and you feel some type of way. This is all good. A clear indicator that you are perfectly normal. But there is only so much you can do. This is as far as we can tolerate the good feelings! He has to be the one to take the next step. It might feel like you should spell out how you feel to him; tell him of how you think of him before falling asleep; tell him of how he is the first thing you think about in the morning before checking your phone or even uttering a prayer; but no! Once you do that it will all come crumbling down on you. You’ll end up hating yourself. You’ll feel stupid trust me. So Do Not!”
With coated and uncoated groundnuts in her hands, she turned to head to her halls of residence. Passing by where he was, ready to go and say hi, he was no more. The spot was occupied by someone else. She was disappointed!
“You should have listened to me faster. You would have found him. Now see your life…”
“Bebz, these are the heavens clearly spelling it out to you, in CAPS and Bolded that talking to him was, is and will always be a bad idea. Don’t beat yourself up. Things are in order…”
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