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2024-10-29 19:42:56Tosinmile 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
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“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
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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
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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
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“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
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“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
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Ibukun didn’t know the right words to say to Lashe. Even though she was nice and kind and a general person; she didn’t know what she must have done in her last life to deserve someone like Lashe. She had said she was going to shower him with all the love she had but she ended up getting the one showered.The album broke record as the first album to reach over 100 million downloads within the first twenty-four hours after release. All the entertainment outlets and newspapers carried it and the album kept being downloaded at a crazy pace.The curiosity towards whoever was Lashe’s girlfriend grew as Lashe had said the album was for his girlfriend. A few girls started making posts on social media saying that they were envious of Lashe’s girlfriend and such posts soon started trending on social media.Lashe walked out of the lecture room with his bodyguards as a girl walked towards him, her steps slightly hesitant.“Hello, please can I get an autograph?” she asked
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Ibukun could feel that Lashe wasn’t himself when he called her and told her to come and meet him in front of the hospital. So she had rushed over. Seeing him standing with his bodyguards in front of the hospital; she hurried towards him.She placed her hands on his face the moment she got to where he was and scrutinized his face. She frowned slightly as she regarded his pale face.“Did you cry?” Ibukun asked slowly as Lashe pried away her hands from his face and took one of them in his. He squeezed her hand slowly as he started leading her into the hospital.“There’s someone you should meet” Lashe said slowly and Ibukun turned to him in mild surprise.“Someone? Who is it?” Ibukun asked as they entered the elevator.“You’ll know soon” Lashe replied as he pressed the floor his grandmother was. The elevator quickly brought them to the VIP floor and Ibukun soon realized that the floor wasn’t your usual hospital ward. She turned to Lashe but it seemed like h
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Fikayo swallowed her saliva as the body guards led them to a room. Ibukun instantly walked towards her friends and wore an apologetic smile.“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you guys” Ibukun said slowly as Lashe walked up to them.“Hello, you are Fikayo and you are Blessing right?” Lashe asked as Fikayo looked at him in surprise.“You know us?” Fikayo asked in shock and Lashe laughed.“Don’t you think it’s weird if I don’t know my girlfriend’s friends?” Lashe asked and Blessing chuckled.“It’s really hard to believe this” Blessing said and Ibukun smiled.“I’m sorry ehn. Have you forgiven me?” Ibukun asked as Fikayo sighed.“It all makes sense now. How you were unresponsive when your idol got a girlfriend. Your mood when his grandma was ill and died. It all makes sense now” Fikayo said as she turned to Lashe.“Welcome to the geng Lashe” Fikayo said as she punched his shoulder playfully while Blessing and Ibukun looked at her in surprise.
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Ibukun felt her phone vibrate in her pockets and she quickly brought it out. She stood up and walked away from the girls as she picked the call.“Hello babe” Lashe’s voice drifted through the phone to Ibukun’s ears and Ibukun felt herself getting chilled as his all of a sudden sensual voice.“Hey” Ibukun said softly.“You reached already?” Lashe asked and Ibukun could hear him shuffling around and the background voices of the staff that took of him whenever he had concerts.“Yup. Already seated, Fikayo and Blessing is with me” Ibukun replied as she heard the makeup artist voice telling Lashe to adjust his head.“Okay. The concert will start soon” Lashe said and Ibukun nodded.“See you on the stage” Ibukun said with a short laugh.“Roger that milady. I love you” Lashe replied.“I love you too” Ibukun said as she hung up the phone and walked back to her seat and sat down.“Was that your boyfriend?” Blessing asked and Ibukun nodded
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Ibukun adjusted her hold on her school bag handle as she walked alongside her two friends as Fikayo started talking.“I think Lashe has juju” Fikayo said and Ibukun turned to her as she burst into laughter.“Juju? Fikayo you are crazy” Ibukun said and Blessing burst into laughter.“Why?” Blessing asked.“How did he know that we were finishing his exam today and arranged his concert to be today?” Fikayo asked and Ibukun scoffed.“Didn’t you know that DUL finished their exams the day before yesterday? Girl you are seriously over thinking” Ibukun replied as Fikayo pursed her lips.“Fikayo said Lashe is using juju o” Blessing teased a she and Ibukun burst into laughter.“Better stop laughing if I give you your eulogy” Fikayo threatened as they entered the bus.“Give me let me hear you when it’s not as if I don’t I know your own” Blessing replied as she sat down.“Juju girl” Blessing said and Ibukun burst into laughter. Seeing her fie
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Lashe walked out of the courthouse as the massive crowd started cheering and shouting. Lashe couldn’t hold back the smile spreading across his face. He looked towards the massive ground as with the help of his bodyguards he was able to climb a slightly higher place to talk to his fans.He waved at them with a smile and their yelling’s went a ton higher while Lashe laughed and smiled. They soon quietened down and Lashe looked around squinting his eyes.“I was looking around hoping that I would be able to remember every face that is here” Lashe said slowly and softly.“Thank you everyone. There is no way I can describe how I am feeling. Seeing you guys here makes me feel so sweet on the inside and trust me when I say this feeling is totally alien to me. I’ve never felt like this before. I want to say a big thank you to you guys, everyone here, everyone watching from home, everyone who can’t watch from home but still supported me, I can’t help but feel at home around
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“I just heard about on the internet and that was why I sped up my visa and all. I was coming home already so I just hurried it. I was still shocked when I landed. I was so shocked and had to hurry to pay my respects to her. I didn’t believe it” Uncle Deolu said as he dropped his head.“I visited her grave before I came though. There were lots of flowers there” he added and he turned to Lashe with a frown.“When did all these happen? How come you couldn’t contact me? I watched all your concerts and heard your songs while I was Canada. I tried to contact you but all to no avail. There were many times I sent messages to your fan mail but I received no reply. I figured out that you were doing fine” Uncle Deolu said and Lashe sighed.“I didn’t know how to. My manager manages my fan mail, he must have thought it was spam or something” Lashe replied and Uncle Deolu smiled and nodded.“I’m glad you are okay” Uncle Deolu said as he turned to Ibukun’s mom.
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It wasn’t until later that Ibukun had discovered that the documents were the documents that clearly stated that Lashe’s parents owned the properties that all his Uncles had snatched. Apparently, they had made fake documents.Her mom took the matter up immediately and sued the uncles to court immediately. She got her whole legal team working on it and Ibukun knew her mom; forget about the fact that Lashe was her daughter’s boyfriend, she was his fan and injustices like that, she hated it. She was definitely going to win the case, that Ibukun was sure of.She sighed as she closed her Physics textbook. Her mock exams were starting the next week and she had barely started reading due to the stress that had plagued the previous weeks. There was a knock on her room door and Ibukun turned and the door opened to reveal Lashe.He was wearing black suit trousers and a top with jean jacket. He wore a small smile as he walked towards Ibukun who had shot up from her seat
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“There are sleeping pills inside” Tosinmile said and I looked at her in surprise as she nodded as we both turned to Lashe.“He needs to rest” Tosinmile said as my eyes went soft. I placed Lashe’s head on my laps and adjusted him in a sleeping position. Slowly cradling him and patting him to sleep was what I did for about three days straight.I wasn’t surprised at the massive turnout at the burial. A lot of teenagers were there and they were all shocked to see their always smiling idol looking as if his soul had left him and which there were times I almost thought it did.Lashe was the only family member she had left and Ibukun’s parents took care of everything. Ibukun had a black hat covering her head a black nose mask covering her face as she walked towards the grave and collected the spade. She carried sand and poured it on the hole.Tolu squeezed her hands reassuringly and Ibukun nodded while she sighed softly. She gripped Lashe’s hands tight while the oth
