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.