Lashe was unable to find his voice for a long time. He stared at Toluwanimi who’s gaze didn’t waver from him for even a second.
“Nimi, do you know what you are saying?” Lashe asked slowly.
“Lashe, I know what I am saying okay? I know what I am saying. And I am telling you that I like you” Tolu replied and Lashe sighed.
“How can you like me? I am dating your younger sister. I’m dating Ibukunoluwa” Lashe said and Tolu scoffed.
“So what? Because Ibukun likes you, I can’t like you huh? Is that it?” Tolu asked and Lashe was tongue-tied.
“What part of her is better than me anyways? She’s just obsessed with you; she doesn’t love you! don’t mistake obsession for love” Tolu screeched and Lashe chuckled.
“Tolu……what did you just say?” a soft voice asked and both Tolu and Lashe turned to see Ibukun standing a few meters away from them. she had a blank look on her face and Lashe immediately rushed towards her.
“Since when have you been here?” Lashe aske
“I hate myself” Tolu cried but Demola just looked into the darkness without saying anything.“I can’t believe I didn’t realize I had such feelings for him until he and Ibukun started dating. Just how stupid I am. How can I call myself her elder sister? She even caught me confessing to her boyfriend. God, I’m so horrible” Tolu continued crying and Demola sighed.“I can’t believe I liked a girl who is this horrible” Demola said softly and Tolu froze and her tears and sobs seemed to take a pause as well. She slowly loosened her hold around Demola’s waist. She raised her head to meet his gaze.“Why are you looking at me like that?” Demola asked slowly unable to stop the heartache in his heart.“I liked you. I like you but it seems like it’s not the same with you. Even still, we were friends, you shouldn’t have treated your younger sister like that” Demola said as he sighed and slipped his hands into his pockets.“Toluwanimi, you are a horrible human being”
Tosinmile swallowed her saliva without saying anything. Ibukun continued to stare into space dazed.“Tolu likes Lashe” she repeated again. Tosinmile sighed as she slowly patted Ibukun’s hands.“She said I was obsessed with me. That she posted the picture intentionally” Ibukun said slowly as she blinked her eyes.“Why?” Ibukun asked as she turned to Tosinmile. A lone tear slid down her cheeks and Ibukun blinked her eyes rapidly; trying to prevent the other tears from running down her cheeks.“Why did she have to do that?” Ibukun asked as more tears rolled down her cheeks.“Why…... Why……. Why… Why …….” Ibukun found it unable to complete her statement as she broke into sobs. Her own sister had fallen in love with her boyfriend, as if that was not enough; she had even tried to cause a rift between both of them and instigated that she was just obsessed with him.More tears rolled down her cheeks as her body shook and moved to and fro as she cried. Tosi
“Hey” Mary said softly as she sat on her bed that was facing Tolu’s bed. Tolu who had been lying on the bed and staring into space looked startled at the sight of her best friends. Mary was seating on her bed and looking at her with kind eyes while Rebecca leaned on one of the bunks and folded her arms.“Are you okay?” Mary asked slowly and Tolu slowly sat up on the bed. Tears streamed down her cheeks and Rebecca quickly rushed to her with Mary following.“What is it?” Rebecca asked as she tried to wipe Tolu’s tears.“I am a horrible person” Tolu murmured as Mary sighed.Ibukun fell on the bed as she sighed. It had been one week since someone took a picture of her and Lashe and posted it and funny enough, it was still trending like crazy. At first people were only speculating what was the relationship between them and were waiting patiently for Lashe to give his official statement.It wasn’t until she got home that she r
Rebecca sighed immediately and slowly rubbed Tolu’s back.“It’s for the best” Rebecca said slowly.“I don’t think Ibukun would ever forgive me” Tolu murmured and Rebecca chuckled.“You can’t be so sure when you haven’t tried” Rebecca said as she pulled Tolu in for a hug.Tosinmile’s face turned solemn the moment her phone rang. She picked the call and pressed it to her ears. She dropped her phone before walking outside the house and walked towards the gate.She opened the gate and found Tolu standing outside the gate. Tosinmile immediately sighed.“This is your house, why aren’t you entering?” Tosinmile asked and Tolu turned to her.“Sister Tosinmile” Tolu said softly and Tosinmile managed a small smile.“Come in” Tosinmile said opening the door wide for her. Tolu hesitated before she walked into the house.Tolu placed her palms on her knees as she sat in front of Tosinmile. Nifemi had called her the d
She sighed as noticed Tolu’s extra tiny wrists and how her frail body waived. Her heart grew soft at the sight and she swiftly turned away from the sight and her eyes came in contact with a photo frame on the drawer beside her bed.The photo frame had a picture of she and Tolu grinning from ear to ear. She had wrapped her hands around Tolu as if she wanted to strangle her while the other looked like she wanted to die. Below the photo frame was an inscription.Sisters forever.Ibukun closed her eyes as tears streamed down her cheeks. The more she thought about it, she couldn’t bring herself to hate or blame Tolu. She didn’t know why that even after what she had done, she wanted to see how her sister was doing but she didn’t have enough mental power to ask.She wondered how her elder sister had been doing all those while seeing her younger sister with the guy she was in love with. Ibukun had never come across such a sister but from what she knew, she didn’t dar
“Wait” Damilare said as he dug into his pockets and produced a key holder before giving it to her.“The door is locked” he added and Tolu stared at him as tears welled up in her eyes.“Thank you” she said before she bolted down the stairs.Damilare sighed as he rubbed his forehead. He slid his hands into his pockets as he watched Tolu run down the staircase.“General Abubakar, who’s that?” one of the students behind him asked and Damilare sighed.“She is the reason your PR and Head of Pro hasn’t been himself” Damilare slowly replied as he turned to them.“Let’s go” he said as he started walking away.The DULSU quarters was as quiet as a graveyard as Tolu stepped inside. It was past 2pm in the afternoon and Tolu wasn’t bothered at the fact that she might end up missing a class. She walked towards Demola’s apartment. She pursed her lips before she brought out the key brought her pocket and slid the key in.And as Damilare had
“I’m sorry for hurting you. I’m sorry for giving you heart ache. I’m sorry for not putting you into consideration. I’m sorry for everything I did. I’m sorry for hurting you” Tolu cried and Demola felt himself freeze all over. He silently listened to her sobs and her continued apologies.“I only realized after I messed everything up that I absolutely can’t lose you. I cannot lose you” Tolu said slowly and Demola placed his hands on her hands and sighed.“You have Toluwanimi. You have feelings for someone else while I have feelings for you. hurt is inevitable in this circumstances. It would be better for us to stay away from each other. It would hurt less then” Demola said as he slowly rubbed circles on Tolu’s hands around his waist. He was blinking his eyes rapidly; he didn’t want Tolu to see him crying. To see how badly hurt that he was that he wasn’t lucky enough to have her.Tolu sniffed repeatedly “You are one of the eloquent speakers in DULSU. You sure should u
Ibukun would have imagined in her seventeen years of existence that the surprise Lashe had been preparing for her was a whole album of love songs. She only woke up in the morning to see a message from Lashe asking her to check her whatsapp messages. She had hurriedly opened her whatsapp to see album, she was shocked and ended up going to school late.Even though Lashe’s company released the songs early in the morning of a school day; the news had gone round and it was trending like mad. Everyone was talking about it and Ibukun couldn’t help but feel on top of the world. Tosinmile was flabbergasted as well as she quickly collected all the songs from Ibukun.It was an album titled ‘Me and You’. It was the first time Lashe was releasing a whole album of love songs and not just love songs, crazy love songs. Twelve love songs. A whole twelve love songs! The whole entertainment industry was in shock and surprise. The songs were being downloaded at an alarming rate.Ibuku