MY YAHOO BOY EXPERIENCE
EPISODE 2 :
But all this changed when I met
Gika short form for her rather long native name. She was the inspiration I had
been lacking, my muse. She legit had four piercings on her ear, a nose ring and
one on her belly button. Gika knew all the happening spots and clubs on the
mainland and the island. Lucky me! I had my license, so we painted the town red.
From my horrible alcohol count of zero, I went to a 30. I was finally free. My
nights were alcohol and weed full and I repeated the same cycle. Was it the
guys? I met a million of them, I wasn’t an ugly person, so I didn’t lack in
that department. I would even sit back some days and be like, “Edidiong you
have arrived! Your success story is written” looking back now I can’t believe I
equated my idea of freedom with success. Oh boy was I naïve?
After a few months of endless
partying, weeding, alcohol consumption I started to feel empty. I cannot
exactly describe it. I started lagging behind on work and I would always feel
the need to take a substance to get me through the day. It was bad, so much so that
my water/tea flask became a mini whisky flask that followed me everywhere. I
was addicted, yet I wasn’t happy but then, I didn’t have any plan b. the only
plan ever was for me to have freedom and
by freedom, I mean my idea of it, which was the life I was now currently
living. I felt like the world didn’t love me, why couldn’t I find true
happiness like the youths I saw on social media?
One evening I didn’t feel like
going out to the regular clubs, I desired something new, so I asked Gika if she
knew any place that was special and that didn’t do the regular just drink, weed
and dance kind of club. Your guess is as good as mine, Gika did know a place!
She warned me though, that you needed to have a lot of money and connections to
get into this particular one. Money had never been my issue as I barely had any
expenses to make, as the company took care of it all and Gika knew the entire
city. So off we went, to have a different kind of fun, I felt would fill the
emptiness deep in my heart. It was by virtue of that change in scenery that I
met Tade!
He wasn’t like the other guys in
the club that night, he legit stood out from the crowd with little or no effort,
not because of his fine features because dammm! He was fine! And great body
build, but rather a certain aura that oozed out of him with so much strength,
that I felt weak in my knees. It was like everyone around us ceased to exist,
as we made eye contact and walked towards each other slowly. Then my night began!
I wished morning would not come, as we slow danced together, hands meeting
hands, skin meeting skin,, steps matching steps, it was like I had reached
cloud nine and found my soul mate. I didn’t want to ever leave that club, it felt
like I was possessed of some sort because it wasn’t drunkenness as liquor
hadn’t touched my lip since early hours of the morning and that was not even
enough to make a baby fall asleep, but there I was drunk with something
stronger than the toxicity of alcohol. I do not remember how I left the club
that night or how I wound up in my house but I know it was an evening of bliss
cos my dreams where filled with images of Tade.
Words enraptured me to the very end...next one please 😎
ReplyDeletedrunk with something else!!!! This words are powerful
ReplyDeleteSmooth....
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