Monday, August 29, 2011

How I met him - Tola



How I met him.

By Tola Sunmonu


So you know how people say you can never find a boo at the club? Well, I used to be one of those people. When I was 18, I’d just graduated from boarding school in England and was spending my last summer in London before the big move to Stanford. Less than two weeks before moving, I was waiting outside a club in Leicester square for my friend Amanda. After waiting in KFC for over an hour, she finally graced me with her presence but by this point I was irritated, the club would only be open for another hour and I just wanted to go home. But after much convincing, I reluctantly went it.


I instantly perked up when I spotted the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. This dude looked like an Adonis, I had seen him around a couple of times and I was determined to make him fall madly in love with me at first sight. I was a woman on a mission and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way! So while forming my game plan I head over to the bar and I see Dennis, my friends prom date from a couple months back. I say hi, give him a quick hug and kind of acknowledge his friend standing next to him. I didn’t have time for conversation, I had an Adonis to catch!


Standing at the bar, I catch Dennis’s friend looking at me and I think ‘uggh please do not try and talk to me, I really don’t have time’. I hear him ask Dennis about me and Dennis’s response is “Yeh she is cool, give it a go.” Crap, it’s too late to plan my exit and before I can run, he leans in to make his move. Just as I am about to give my well rehearsed “I’m not interested speech,” I catch myself laughing. Could it be that he didn’t use a corny line like many of his Nigerian Bretheren?? I was shocked and for a second I briefly forgot about the Adonis. He offered to buy me a drink and I panicked. I was only 18 and didn’t know anything on a drink menu past a Smirnoff ice. So trying to sound casual and sophisticated, I asked for a martini with a splash of cranberry because I had heard my older sister order that once before. (He still teases me about this). So we start talking and I’m impressed that he isn’t trying to grind all over me. He tells me he is 21 and I’m in shock because I only ever get 35 year olds trying to hit on me and when he tells me he has a job, I just about pass out. (Goes to show the fools I was messing with before).


Anyway, I snap back to me senses and remember my Adonis, I make eye contact with Amanda, she comes over, makes up an excuse about needing me to help her with her makeup or something and I leave. I spend the whole night dancing around in my short tight black dress, hoping that the Adonis will take one look at me and scoop me away into the night. Instead, Dennis’s friend spots me, I try and duck but its too late. He says something corny about how he has been looking for me, I smile, say something awkward and walk away. I couldn’t waste anymore time with him, I had 15 minutes to try and close the deal with my Adonis.


The club closes. No Adonis. On the way home, Amanda asks me about Dennis’s friend, I say he is nice but not my type and quickly steer the conversation back to the Greek God.


3 days later, I catch myself thinking about Dennis’s friend. I wrote on Dennis’s wall, knowing that if his friend was looking for me, he would find me. Like clockwork, I get a facebook message “I finally found you after 72 hours of searching.” (I still tease him about the corniness of that line) A message turned into a 6 hour phone conversation. Before we knew it, we were sharing secrets like we had been friends for years. Over the next 10 days, I was on cloud 9, we couldn’t stay away from each other, it was such an extraordinary attraction. My 10 days were up and it was time to move to Stanford, we promised to stay in touch but at the airport I find myself bawling uncontrollably. It was supposed to be a fling but neither of us could stop thinking about each other. I swore I would never be in a long distance relationship but 4 years later, here we are. We are best friends and madly in love and I thank my lucky stars that the Adonis never looked my way.


Tuesday, August 9, 2011

How I met M. - Kaven

It was the summer of **** and we were out of school for the summer. My friend was throwing a huge party for his milestone birthday and we had been invited. Now my friend was one of those popular guys and his parties had always ALWAYS ALWAYS been epic. Now that he was throwing this gig for such an important age, I knew it was going to be some kind of party..hahaha. The party was in NYC (at this time I was still a DC head) so my crew and I decided to book a hotel in the city. It was also very close to the location of the party. At this point in my life…I was VERY new to partying in NY…the only other time I had gone for a shindig in NY was in Webster Hall O_O…Yeah. It was a white party so we planned accordingly…I had my outfit ready by the time I reached the city…it wasn’t all white but hey...Black short skirt with a white frilly Bebe top complete with a black belt and black pumps…excuse me can you say “B.A.B.E” ?? Honestly I had shopped tirelessly for that outfit and in my head (at that time) I thought it was the best thing ever. I was so hype for that party..I don’t even know why?? Lol.

This “epic” party was located in a loft in the city. The moment the elevator doors opened..I knew it was going to be one of the best nights of my life. It was an all white loft and everyone there was wearing white…they all looked so nice. There were waiters with champagne and hors d'oeuvres...the DJ was going hard with the music…my friends and I were in heaven.

Sigh. Sometime in my little night of fun…I spotted one of the finest guys I had ever seen in my life. He looked like a movie star..I kid you not...he had one of the greatest smiles ever..I couldn’t even look at him for long because he was just so fine. I did not understand it. So of course being a girl I alerted my friends to check him out..I mean what would you have done O_O…I was like “can you imagine being with that kind of guy? My life would be complete” ….yeah it was that pathetic *hangs head* He just kept smiling and laughing and I kept stealing glances at him. I was head over heels in love. I felt like he was so far away from me even though we were in the same place…I finally understood the meaning of levels dey :\

So I had just finished talking to my friend who was throwing the party when I heard a voice behind me. I turned back and saw the guy that the love of my life had been talking to all night. He asked me what my name was and we started a conversation. He was so funny. He was also so cute. At this point I was like I guess this is my life and this is the way things happen. Never get the guy I want but get the friend...Ladies I was settling. We had spoken for like a couple of minutes…[translation: we had become buddies..lol]…when he suddenly asked me to come with him to the balcony because someone wanted to meet me. I followed him to the balcony and when I got there he introduced me to his friend that wanted to meet me. His gaddam friend was the love of my life!!!!!!!!! I mean I knew they had been talking all night but I DID NOT EXPECT THIS!! My new friend introduced him as M the guy who had been dying to meet me all night. He gave me one of the smiles I had been dying over all night. I almost died. I TRIED to play it cool but my heart was beating so fast. How was I going to talk to this person??? How could this be happening to me?

Friday, August 5, 2011

How I met the boy by Sayo


I went back home for a well deserved vacation. I was going to be away from 'the real world' for a full month so you can imagine my excitement.

One random Friday night after work, my sister returns home all excited dancing and singing saying "Shay we have to go out tonight...I'm in this mood and I just have to dance". Obviously, me being on holiday I jumped up, called a few friends and told them to 'follow through'. Then the night started. Mind you, my sisters goal for the night was to 'introduce me' to her friends younger brother and I'm there thinking " Pshhh here we go again".
So we're at the lounge, getting drinks, dancing a little and I notice my sister talking to some of her fine ass friends. Then she starts with the introductions... "Shay this is (let's call him Maurice) Maurice and his brother Anthony". I say hi to the both of them and let them know who my friends are. Now Anthony was the one I was 'eyeing' but that stopped not too long after I noticed he was staring at one of my friends *rolls eyes*. So the night ended shortly after that.....well for me at least.

About 3-4days later. Ria (the friends Anthony was eyeing) and I went out for drinks. On our way out we spotted both Maurice and Anthony walking towards us.--Now in my mind I'm thinking all sorts...How fine he is...How I like the way he's dressed etc--- Maurice stops Ria and does the whole 'oh I met you before' thing....No one seems to remember where or when *LIES* Because I definitely said " We all met through my sister" ---low and behold The Voice From The Back. The expression on both their faces was nothing but Priceless. That's when Anthony walks towards me and is like
"You're lying , you can't be Dami's sister" and we're going back and forth for like 2minutes. All of a sudden this boy takes it upon himself to stretch his hand out and place it on my forearm. I'm there looking like "Errr 'scuse me brada but I don't know you like that' and he's going on about how soft my skin is and blah blah blah.
Ok to be completely honest with you I was melting on the inside, he was standing so close to me I didn't know how else to control myself but be defensive.
He apologized and simply asked for my number and bb pin...I gave him my number, then Ria and I finally left. The next day I woke up to a text from him saying Good Morning, asking what I had planned for the day and if I wanted to meet up with him.
-- Now I don't know about you....but for me..I wait till I know a little about the guy before I meet up with him or anything. So for about 2 or 3 days I came up with excuses which worked in my favor because I managed to find a friend of mine who went to school with Anthony and gave me the "Go Ahead".

But yeah soon after, Anthony would call me everyday just to find out where I was and no matter where, he'd stop by and say hi to me. The best part was when he came to meet me at the hair salon. Thank GOD my hair was done, Mr John (baddest hairdresser I know) was hooking it up so Anthony was somewhat
speechless *giggles*. From there we went to lunch and my holiday just continued this way.

Let's just say .....'and the rest is history' --In a good way of course =)