PITAPEE!

She has always been a heady sensation for him, a feeling beyond love,lust or fatal attraction. He couldn't explain it at first, explaining it away as the feeling that comes with a new found love. They are friends, soul-mates even or better still, something deeper. On his part he can say that,he used to know when she felt she had something deeper for him...these days, he can't really say.

The circumstances in which they first met and parted ways can be called awkward, but it left an imprint on his mind. He should have struck then, if only he knew that two years down the line he would fall hopelessly in love with her, if only he knew that what he had for her could make him give up everything, yes everything just to be with her. All he needed was to see that she was ready to damn all and face the music with him.

Now, it seems funny, funny because she may argue that he didn't push too hard, but he knew that she was at a low point in her life for far too long. The path of recovery was long and tortuous for her, he didn't want to seem to take advantage of a period she needed love, much love, care and tenderness so as to regain her self confidence, worth and swag. Now, she has all that, he is happy he was the rock all those years, that he was a central part of that process, but........

Two years ago when they met....
" This is my mum"
 he looked at the striking resemblance, they could pass as sisters even, with one claiming to be the elder sister.
 " good day ma, it seems you guys are having some difficulties getting your travel documents sorted"
 she sighed deeply and explained how everyone seems busy and their turn seems to be taking forever.

He first noticed her when he passed them with his documents for submission in the inner office. She has this striking personality that sucks you in and makes you want to hold her.
 Years later when they will make love and lie in each other's arms , she will always ask
 " do I ooze sex?"
"Why do you ask?" he will always respond.
 "Why is it that everyone I come across just wants to sleep with me instantly? When I was younger it used to thrill me, with time it got be scared that this is all men see as soon as they see me, now, it just makes me cry and insecure"
 He will laugh it off and  start a long lecture of why it is normal with her sort.

The truth is that she oozes something, something that awakens something in any and every healthy man she comes across. That thing makes most men lose control when left alone with a woman like her.
 She doesn't dress provocatively or suggestively, in that department her decency is superb. He laughs most time when he remembers how crazy she is. That babe de craze shaa o.

Back to that first meeting. After he went downstairs, she came out and hung on the half wall corridor, from where their eyes kept meeting whenever he looked up.
 " is this girl sending come get me signals to me?"
he asked his partner in crime.
"They should go and tell her that I burn whoever comes too close o"
His crime partner, a friend he made way back in school before they lost contact and met again at the same office laughed out loud
" ol boy, go rest. Na u de find her wahala, the babe is most definitely looking at me"
"See me see wahala o" he responded,
" babe wey em mama don virtually dash me stylishly for up, Oyaa Wetin be her name ?"
Truth of the matter even though he was forming, he didn't know her name, but he was going upstairs to find out and he will definitely make sure they were attended to ASAP! This is his territory and this damsel will leave here satisfied today.

He took the stairs three at a time and found himself by her side as if a magnetic force beyond his control was pulling him, maybe partly because he knows how dangerous his crime partner can be and has to stake his claim. They have an unspoken rule, once a claim is staked, you can only hover and watch till the other's game crumbles before you step in.

" Where is your file?" He asked her.
When she turned to answer, he couldn't help catching his breath, this is the most childish looking face he had ever set his eyes on and boy o' boy, those eyes, those eyes could kill.
"You should greet a lady first before asking her questions, that is called good manners" she retorted.
He almost got annoyed, but years later, he will come to love her spontaneity and the simplicity in her, and above all, the brains on that shoulder.

"I will greet you with a kiss" he grinned,
"and I will respond with a slap" she smiled without missing a beat.
" the file is with one Mr Kenny, oh! Here he comes" he walks up to the man and takes the file from him " sorry, let me handle this"
Fifteen minutes later, they were heading home and she had this smile that started gradually till it spread on her face like that sun immediately after afternoon rain
" wow! How did you do that?"she asked, he only grinned. "
Anyway, thank you so much, the name is........"
 " don't worry, he responded, I saw your file and I have your phone number, I will give you a call"
the mum simply stood and shook her head " young people nowadays" she muttered....