Wanda meets Jude:
It was a hot Wednesday afternoon and the scotching sun on campus seemed hotter than usual. Wanda made her way through OAU walk, she had just 5minutes to the start of lectures and she didn’t want to sit outside. Professor Koroma would let you sit in the scotching Northeastern Sun if you were five minutes late to his class….not to mention the Maiduguri flies that seemed high on steroids.
She could tell someone was trying to get her attention but she was the least bit bothered.“These guys don’t know when to toast girl abi”…the sweat trickling down her back wasn’t the only thought running through her head, her misplaced face towel was competing for her thoughts …“ excuse me, hi” Wanda’s patience was thin at the point and without a second glance at whoever it was she blurted out her repugnance…“ahh, what is it, can’t you see I’m late for a lecture? please, I don’t have time for this” and walked off.He looked at the purple face towel in his hand and walked quietly behind her. He knew he had seen her before…trust me, this wasn’t a cliche move he knew she needed the towel.Just as Wanda was beginning to enjoy the coolness of the barely functioning fan in the lecture theatre Cynthia passed her face towel, “that guy said I should give this to you”… Her flushed face did no help masking her embarrassment.She quickly looked away and the lecture seemed like an eternity…she would almost forget he was there but each time she tried to steal a glance, their eyes met; those eyes…. “what is this?” He looked too good to be trying for her attention...With Prof out of the way, she knew he would walk up to her, what would she say…before she had a chance to gather her thoughts he was a few feet from her desk, his perfume had a soft smell of talc almost like a baby smell to it…his presence was over powering..."is he that tall or it's cos I'm sitting?"
“I’m sorry about earlier, I,I,I…” her stutter was more embarrassing…
, “it’s fine, you wouldn’t have known I had the face towel, it’s OK…”
with an almost convincing gentlemanly demeanour he stretched out his hand for a handshake and Wanda was awed by his smile.
“I’m Jude”……” ammm, I mean, I’m Wanda”.
Her heart rate was accelerated, the sweating had returned….why did one hand shake have so much effect on her?!
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