Must Read: Forever And Always

Episode 6 years ago

Must Read: Forever And Always

Tola just looked at me and smirked again but I could see a small smile tugging at her lips. “You’re so impossible Alex!” She said as she finished cleaning her mouth.

I looked away, trying not to die from choking. I spit and rinsed my mouth. “I’ll be in the next room, you can shower here. There’s a towel in the cabinet under the sink” I announced as I stepped, picking up my towel, suits, shoes and comb.

“Wait, don’t tell me the towel am gonna use is yours!” She thundered while I shut the door and walked away.

I stood outside the bank in anticipation as worry consumed me. It was 8:30pm and Tola was no where to be found. I had called her over and over again but her phone kept ringing without anyone picking up. I kept glancing at my phone continuously but there was no call from her, not even a message.

‘Maybe she has gone home’ I thought but shook the thought away. Tola wouldn’t have gone home without seeing me. At least, that had been the case for some days now. We would always see before I dropped her at home. I looked for her mom’s number but I didn’t see in my phoneboook.

I decided to drive down to her house, to ascertain she was back home, safe and sound. And to think she had not eaten anything in the morning and also, I had promised her mom I would personally drop her off after work . I raked my hand through my hair as I stood beside my car in icy rigidness.

I hurried back to the bank to check again if she was stuck in the middle of something. “Have you seen Tola this evening?” I asked the woman she worked with. She politely replied that they had finished work together but Tola had run along after finishing with the day’s work.

“Thanks” I managed a smile and walked away in big strides. I entered my car and sighed deeply. “She has probably gone home. Why am I even expecting her to have seen me before going? I am not yet her boyfriend” I uttered under my breathe and sped off.
I arrived my house very late in the evening due to traffic. As I la!d on my back on the sofa after having a light meal of omelette and toast bread with juice, I picked up a magazine on the stool beside my couch. It was about celebrities and their alarming rates of divorce.