Monday, October 24, 2011

How I met him by Damiete.



How I met S
OK so some people might think my story is not romantic but mind this is Lagos and the idea of a romantic date here for some people is going clubbing and pouring oogles of champagne down a girl’s throat. 

I met S at a restaurant in Lagos. I was there for a friend’s birthday party and was feeling extremely bored.  So I kept going outside to wile away time. Once when I was outside I noticed this group of guys and a finnneee looking dude in the group. I noticed that the group kept looking at me not very subtly if I might add , and I also noticed Mr fine staring at me and smiling at his friends. ‘These dude are for sure talking about me’ I thought. It made me blush a little and because I hate being the centre of attention I hightailed back into the restaurant with a slight smile. Suddenly I started having a mini asthma attack and since I get uncomfortable pulling my inhaler out in front of a bunch of people, I go outside to a secluded part of the restaurant  to pull out ‘trusty blue’ (yeah I named my inhaler. Don’t judge me). 

While outside, who should approach my little secluded corner than Mr fine

‘Excuse me are you ok?’ Mr fine asks

‘Yeah I am, thanks’ i reply (obviously am not)

I try to hide my inhaler but to no avail

‘You don’t have to hide that you know, I understand. I’m asthmatic also’

‘You know some camomile tea will help ease your attacks’ he adds  ‘come with me’

He takes my hand and gently leads me into the restaurant and instructs the staff to make me some tea

He introduces himself as Stan and by the time the tea arrived I was falling for him :p

He confesses that his friends were indeed staring at me, because he had pointed out to them how gorgeous i was.*blush*

Unfortunately my friend came looking for me but I had to leave but not before Stan got my number.

I’ll see you soon’ he promised with a little smile

The next day at about noon I get a call from Stan and he wants to see me.  He asks me out for that evening and God knows I could not front, i very nearly screamed out ‘yessssss’. ‘ok’ imanage to reply somewhat calmly.

I am so excited for that evening, He picks me up and he takes me to a restaurant and we just sit and chat, just drinking tea. By the time it got late he suggested that we make it a proper date. He then takes me to a private picnic area near the water (this is in lekki for  those familiar with Lagos) and we just drank wine and talked. By the end of the night i was planning the names of our babies.

Unfortunately, things didn’t work out between Stan and i but it is an encounter I will never forget. Siiigggghhhhh.