Sweet Stories: MR RIGHT - Episode 1 By Evelyn Ivy Ojo

Abike turned to look at herself one last time on her dressing mirror just to make sure she was okay. She turned round, checked her backside, turned again, made smiling faces and stood straight, striking some poses as though she were taking some shots. She finally agreed she was looking stunning in her white on white outfit with her stiletto shoes and her lovely clutch bag.
Thoughts of how she would make heads turn at the all-white party intrigued her as she walked out of her compound.
Abike is definitely not an attention seeking person but she sure needs all eyes to be on her at this party especially the male gender. After all, two of her friends just testified they met their spouses at a function they attended; one at a wedding reception and the other at a birthday party.
"Today nah today, the bros must show oooo"..... She assured herself with a big grin.
It was her colleague, Linda’s birthday party. Linda who is married to a very wealthy young man had jokingly said to her that friends of her husband who are still single and searching would be attending the party and that she could catch one of them. Even though Linda had said that casually, the thought of meeting “Mr Right” at the party never eluded Abike’s mind.
…”Abike you are too selective… omo mi some women experience menopause at the age of 40 ooo….. ennn”… her mum would often say to her.
Selective? How she wished she was really selective. What Iya Abike as she was fondly called by her children didn’t know was that, of recent, nobody had even come to ask for her darling daughter’s hand in marriage. When suitors were coming for her, she was waiting for her ex Olamide to get back from London who betrayed her trust and got married to someone Else over there.
Apart from the pressure from friends and family and the fact that her 35th year birthday was around the corner , she longed for her own family, yes she needed a man that would make her feel there was no one besides her. Her apartment was becoming too boring for her even with her favourite TV channel. All thanks to an exciting career, perhaps life would have been more boring.
Thank God she was already in a taxi when it started raining heavily. The rain would have stopped by the time she gets to the venue, she thought within her still feeling all excited.
As Abike had hoped, it was as though something had sealed up the raging sky when she arrived at the venue . She joyfully paid the cab driver as she alighted. While approaching the hall, she heard her phone ringing, she wondered who it was. Right in front of her was a gully she didn't notice.
Just as she was reaching for her phone, ……………..

TO BE CONTINUED
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Written by Ojo Evelyn

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