Sweet dream/Beautiful nightmare.
It has been a swell experience working at the customer service department for a top business enterprise at Lagos.
Some times, the people who call in sound furious and insulting, while others have been polite and very discreet.
Although, recently, I have been receiving unsolicited calls from a certain stranger who cannot be traced or identified.
These calls however unsolicited have become the peak of my day, I'll look forward each day to hearing from this unidentified gentleman. His sweet sounds and perfect baritone blended with the warming tones of melodies from my heart, have been set to soothe any pain I once felt for the day.
He made sure to call daily, leaving sweet messages and notes. I was falling, very fast for this man, I was yet to know.
Weeks, possibly months pass and this gentleman never ceased to call me. The feelings I was having for this unidentified man were escalating, escalating beyond my control. I was love struck and prayed he was too.
All of a sudden, my perfect man stopped calling, all these while I hadn't been able to trace his calls, It didn't even matter at that time since he was sure to call,but now those once unsolicited calls have become a longing to me. I don't act right anymore, I have become desperate for those former feelings. I need them.
It became so bad that, I started to align every obituary to my missing wonder, I grieved and mourned as though he were dead and every newly wed couple I saw, I paired to him also for I thought he had gotten tired of me and decided to settle down with someone else,I would cry for days about this.
This went on for months, I was loosing myself, everyone around me noticed and became worried for my cause, there was still no sign of my wonder man, nothing, there was nothing at all.
Until one day, I picked up the call grumpily to attend to a customer, then I heard that sweet familiar baritone, my whole heart became whelmed again. He told me to come downstairs, that he was waiting at the reception.
I ran down the stairs with great speed as my wonder man would now be revealed to me.
On getting there, I found the man of my fantasies, well built, chiseled jaw, hazel eyes, slim lips but I couldn't quite get his height, that is because he has one knee bent to the ground, his hand stretched out as I come closer. In his hand is a little black box, he opens the box as I was standing a step away from him, revealing the shiniest ring that I had ever seen. I look away from the box to his face just in time to see his lip part then he said "Tope, will you marry m..." "Tope! Tope! E dakun, this girl you will not kill me oo, I did not kill my mother, the only thing you know is to sleep all day your mates are out there making money, impacting the world, don't go and find a job o be sleeping here, rubbish!"