CHAPTER SEVEN

I turned and faced Aurelia, eyeball to eyeball. Law students kept moving back and forth. Our lecture hall seemed to be the only hall that was currently occupied.

“What are you driving at, Aurelia?”

She didn’t answer immediately, but swiped furiously on the screen of her large Blackberry mobile phone, until she suddenly stopped.

“Just swipe right”. Aurelia whispered and handed her Blackberry mobile phone to me. I received it from her gingerly, and she turned her face away, while moving her knees rapidly. The pictures I beheld afterwards made me lose my appetite for the rest of that day. The hot weather suddenly became chilly for me. I felt like the only person in the Oba Erediauwa College of Law. The only sounds I could hear were the cooing sounds of the birds who dotted the flowers in the centre of the law college. Slowly and painfully, Asha’s voice began to ring in my ears. I continued swiping rightwards and didn’t notice as some exhaustion-ridden course mates of mine began to trickl