Must Read: How 3 Girls Fought Over 1 Guy (A Tale)

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: How 3 Girls Fought Over 1 Guy (A Tale)

Wetin this girl they talk now, I thought, you buy me this sweet turkey only to force it down my throat with sad news.

For some seconds , the turkey flesh I had torn from the main turkey lap hanged in my mouth while I searched mercy’s face for any kind of play play
me:” mercy, that is not a joke o”
mercy: ” do I like I’m joking”
Mercy then started relating to me the things I did not know is happening underground. The night she and uzoma fought, she was visited by aDe, or rather ade escorted her to her hostel and talked to her, the first sign was the apprehension she saw on the faces of two of her room mates, she initially thought it was because of the marks on her body before she realised that the girls where not looking at her, but where looking at ade with fear. The girls knew who ade really is.


Ade had calmed her nerves and told her she was just an unfortunate bystander and a victim of circumstance, but he assured her that no matter what happens, no one or group of people is going to do anything to her. He asked her if she still wants to date David despite what happened, she said she will think about it(as at that time) and ade told her point blank that if she continues to date David, despite his protection, he will not intervene if uzoma wants or tries to fight her, he says that their will be no gang beatING, he will counter uzoma’s threats, but if they(uzoma and mercy)meet and fight, he will not intervene, no one will intervene.
“no wonder”, I thought, ” that this girl has been wearing strong strong clothes since!”

I asked if ade and uzoma belong to the same group(I get you know what I mean by group by now), she said she does not know that one, but she said she is sure uzoma belongs to something, and she messed up big time.
” how did she mess up” I asked
mercy: ” she was supposed to recruit David in 100 level, she did not, she refused to lore him in”, so when they broke up and we started dating, they blamed her and refused to deal with me, and since ade and that girl he was with that day are involved, I’m safe from them, but David is not.
me: “so you think David and uzoma had broken up abi?, if I give you jist hen! that turkey we you dey chop wunt digest for three days” I said in my mind
I asked her ” how do you know this and who is that girl that ade was with that day?”
mercy: “some one told me in the hostel , the girl with ade is senior to uzoma I heard she even slapped uzoma that night”
me:” so how Come you think that ade has joined cult”
mercy: ” cus of his movement lately, most times I dnt see him, even if I plan to see him, he tells me not to come to his room that he will come see me later”
me: ” Heya, this girl does not know that anytime he is not with her, he and uzoma are busy grinding each other to a halt in the room” my mind said , but my mouth replied ” so you are not even sure sef, and you don make me fear anyhow. The David I know cannot join anything other than debating society for this school.”

she laughed, but I continued “you know David na, do you think he can fight ordinary puppy dog?, I dnt think he will just join like that without informing you sef.
mercy : ” if you want to join, will you inform toke?”

I did not answer her but asked instead ” does toke know all this?”
mercy: ” yes”
me: ” does David know all this too”
mercy: ” yes”
me:” then he will know how to avoid them na, dnt worry, I’ll look for David, I’ll send you a mail tomorrow afternoon when I go to the cafe and tell you where he is, okay, (she nodded), but why did you decide to still date David after ade warned you about uzoma after the fight?”
mercy: ” me sef they wonder o” (showing me her palms and tilting her heard slightly)” she what Ive gotten myself into”
me: “na love na, love can do anything”
mercy: ” ya head”
me : ” so if uzoma come fight you , will you fight her back?”
mercy: “I might not a Benin girl for nothing”
me: ” just be careful sha”
mercy: ” anti-truth, plus tell me , do you know why that girl is still interested in David, he has broken up with her since , why does she now want to still see him, expecially at the club, I understand if she wants to fight me, I’m ready for her, but her trying to see David is what I dnt understand”
me: ” maybe because he is good in bed” (I winked, bet she wunt know I just gave her the reason )
mercy: ” o ya start to dey go, you have stated yarning nonsense, see you on monday”
she turned and went inside , I said ” help me tell toke that I’m sorry” she just waved her hand without looking back .

I turned and left , I was now really worried with this new info I got, so their is a lot more going on that I was not aware of, it’s time I set some distance between me and this issue, so that when poo hit fan, I will not be in the room, and if I’m in the room, I’ll be wearing space suit.

I’m very sure David did not go to see uzoma, uzoma goes home every Friday afternoon.
that thought hit me like lightning,”haa!, David, David, davidi, uzoma goes home every Friday afternoon and her roomate ekaite told me to tell him to come by 8.pm on Friday ,what is going on” I asked no one.

I did not check David in the hostel that night, i do not remember why, neither did I see him again until Monday the next week as I went home sartuday morning, some will start their exams in a few days , so activities(including mine) had to adjust.

Throughout the week , I saw mercy only once, we agreed to meet later but did not.

Ade(who I’ve almost started calling bros) had packed the play station 2 up, saying he will bring it back after exams, therefore my sojourn to their room reduced drastically.

I did not meet toke again for the rest of the semester, not that week, not during exams and definitely not during the holidays. We were both trying to see who will beg first, readers you all know now that he or she who begs first to end a fight in a relationship will probably always be the one to beg anytime their is a fight in the relationship, and that will most likely be the way as long as the relationship lasts.

I know she is into me, I’ve seen it and mercy had told me that too, I know I’m into her too, but we need to see who needs who more. Im afraid this our stance might backfire, but we shall see sha.

David refused to release any info, and I also did not tell him that I now know everything, well almost everything, I refrained from probing too much cus the last time I got involved, I was the only one out of everybody involved that got trashed physically
Fetus has finally got back into the room, he was forgiving , ade did not do anything to him, but we later found out it was ade himself who mistakenly told him about the lockers.


He was warned however, not to cross path with uzoma or he might meet the Lord he claims he is serving that day.

Finally, I met uzuma during week before exams, she did not even talk about the party issue again, I think she still doubted if truly David was at the party, we just jisted about some other stuffs and if we will hook up at home.

I knew David saw her during the week, I believed he lied to her as usual that he was not at the party.

Uzuma also still believes their is something between mercy and David, she told me she just prays it’s not true, “I’ll remove her eyes” she told me. She bragged about some other things which I knew was a lie cus her goons wunt support her, how I wished i had the same immunity like mercy, I would have told her what’s really on my mind, I would have opened my mouth like fayose.

Through the week while preparing for my exams, I had thought about the whole thing and realised one fact, uzuma is not really a bad girl as some will think, really she is not. yes she has a feisty attitude, yes she believes the use of fists is the best way to settle a dispute, yes she is crazy, but the uzuma I know before we got into school would not have deliberately joined bad gang, her mum is even a leader of some sort in their church, she sometimes go for night vigil most Fridays when she goes home.

But as she saw and experienced the power that comes with such association she fully embraced it , she enjoyed it. little did she know that some things that look good and sweet can actually be bad, dangerous and eventually bitter. “she, a young fine girl had join baht gang that” like falz the baht guy said.

I believed she loves David, hence her refusal to lore him in when her gang requested her to do so, I dont know the full details of what they did to her or what’s really behind her refusal, but i know the fact that David could be with another girl while she was fighting to protect him really hit her bad.

But rather than lose her status and lose David at the same time, she is prepared to scatter everything than lose everything, she was ready to fight for her guy than lose him to mercy, well she was born to fight anyway.


As for me I deliberately reduced my involvement in the whole issue since I’ve seen that things are far far beyond my capability to intervene, ” the money wey dem gather for house, church and village was for me to come and read book ” I kept reminding myself .


Exams are over, everyone has left or is leaving, I should have left but for one stupid lecturer who gave us assignment during exams, I went to meet my course mate who gave me correct eBa the other time(hope you remember), she had finally turned me to one who does moSt of her assignments, she knew my weak point, FOOD!

After giving her the assignment(mine and hers) to submit the next day, she escorted me, as we got outside, we saw ekaite with her travelling bags, struggling with it as she was moving out of the hostel, We just passed her, I did not greet her and she acted as if I did not exist. few steps later the coursemate asked me:
course mate: ” you and your friends babe no dey talk?”
who:” who?”
course mate: ” ekaite na”
mevery much confused)”I don’t understand”
coursemate:” that girl,(pointING to ekaite)is ekaite,she is your friends girlfriend na, or I’m I wrong”
me: ” which of my friends are you talking about”
course mate: “which of your friends ke, the one you came with to my room one time like that”
As I left the school for the last time this semester, I realised that Ive only taking one guy to my course mates room, she knows me with only one guy, DAVID!