Skip to main content

Heart Diaries


  4 A.C 

This life no just balance o. 

  Since Bayo met Cynthia, he has been giving me extra work. Anytime she's nearby, I have to beat faster. Sure, I know Bayo is still a young man and that means I am a young heart. But that doesn't mean I should start doing extra work because of another human being. It's not as if Bayo is dreading being sacked anytime his boss asks him to his office. Neither is he playing football. I bet Cynthia's heart is not doing any extra work on Bayo's account. 

  A girl that looks the way the Eyes have described her surely wouldn't be falling head over heels for Bayo. Eyes said Cynthia has hips that didn't lie, skin the colour of roasted groundnuts, and teeth that had probably been in a million toothpaste ads. She's out of his league. She probably only talks to guys that have their own cars and Bitcoin. 

P.S: I'll be using A.C meaning After Cynthia to denote the timeline.


37 A.C

  I'm too young to be diagnosed with cardiac arrest. I had thought by now Brain would have talked sense into Bayo. That's how he almost killed me with adrenaline when Cynthia called him by his name and smiled at him. Apparently, Ears were shocked at hearing Bayo's name coated in honey. According to Eyes, she had spread her luscious lips (their words not mine) and showed him her 32 plus one cute gap in the middle, and the cutest dimples on planet earth. That's how I found myself beating at the speed of light. I thought Brain was supposed to have more sense than this.     Later everyone will be accusing me. Saying stupid things like “the heart wants what it wants.” I don't want anything! After all, it's those idiots; Eyes, Skin, Nose and Ears that will be manipulating that fool Brain to be producing hormones upandan. If in the end, she buys him a ticket for the friend zone, somebody will then say Bayo should have “listened to his head, instead of his heart.” Well, I'm saying it now. Listen to me Bayo. Anything apart from cardio that makes your heart beat faster cannot  be good for you! 

94 A.C

 I'm beginning to wonder why this girl came to work at a software company. She ought to be a model with eyes like that. Displayed on a magazine cover or a music video. Somewhere Bayo would see her and appreciate her beauty and inaccessibility. But no. She's here in the cafeteria. Currently seating across from him and laughing at some cheesy joke Brain has dredged up from somewhere. It's their second unofficial date. In a few more weeks he's going to be talking about how incomplete his heart was until he met her. And I will laugh at his lack of originality. I've always had four chambers and I still do. 

  Here's a joke for those who think I'm cold-hearted even though as an involuntary muscle I can't technically be cold. It goes like this. A guy gave one of his kidneys to his girlfriend who needed a transplant. She broke up with him a year later. I bet he feels incomplete now. 


0 A.C

Cynthia left Bayo. Apparently, she meant it literally when she told him that only death would keep them part. 

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

If you don't have a Google account, use the Name/Url Section to drop a comment.

Tap on the Google account and select Name/URL

If you don't have a website leave the URL blank

Thanks

Popular posts from this blog

The Writer

  I don't talk to strangers. What I mean is, I don't have unnecessary conversations with service people. If I have an appointment with a doctor, I don't need his bedside manner. I don't need enquiries about my welfare from the market woman at the stall where I always buy my semo or idle chit chat with my barber as he cuts my hair. Even on a bus, I don't join in on the familiar chorus of how bad this country is getting. I don't think I'm better than people. I'm just not good at verbal communication, so I write instead. I'm better at it. I eavesdrop on the conversations of people around me and reinvent them as fiction. That's how I became an international best-selling author.  A year has passed since I last published a novel. That's why I decided to go out to find fresh ideas. Public transportation is usually ripe with stories to transform into captivating tales.  As I waited on a street in my city, I spotted a keke. It was empty except for the
12 comments
Read more

Vegetable Soup

     James must have eaten thousands of meals in his lifetime, but only a few held strong memories for him. Not an easy feat, considering there are only so many times you eat a particular dish before it becomes commonplace.      There was the bean porridge his aunt Chinanza used to make during the primary school holidays, which he and his siblings spent at her house. The porridge was watery, with fragrant fresh pepper and soft yams sliced into it. At that point in his life, he didn't enjoy eating beans, but he always enjoyed Aunt Chinanza's. He hadn't spoken to Aunt Chinanza since the big family fight, but whenever he thought of her, he thought of her beans.      Then there was oil rice, which his brother Tom used to make when they were still in secondary school. Tom was a bit of a mad scientist when it came to the kitchen. He would go into the kitchen and concoct meals that their mother certainly did not teach them. Nobody knew how he came up with his recipes, but they alw
3 comments
Read more

Best In...

     He had been standing there for what seemed like hours, unable to make up his mind, and with each passing second, the award plaque grew heavier in his hands. He could hear his father’s voice echoing from the past as clearly as though he was present in the room with him. Which was not surprising after all, as he was standing in his father’s study. He remembered how he would stand with his elder brother Seyi as they helped his father set up more space on the Wall of Achievements as a child. He could remember how their father would tell them with pride in his voice, the stories of each award as he added more and more every year. He stared again at the wall, which told the story of his father, Dr Obafemi Michaels, his outstanding career as a surgeon, researcher, and even as an upstanding citizen of his country. The wall was covered with award plaques and souvenirs. There was even a medal of honour from the former president.       The Wall of Achievements had been extended to the wall o
4 comments
Read more