We had been robbed that semester,my room mate and I. So I needed to go to the MTN office to retrieve my sim card.

I remember not feeling in the mood to go out that day as I was feeling super lazy.

I had earlier gone to the tailor's to amend some clothes and afterwards I went to the MTN office in town to retrieve my Sim.

I was busy with getting and filling my form and then getting a form number when I noticed him. He was dressed in his "corper" uniform,I remember not looking at him afterwards as I was busy contemplating how to sit down as all the seats were filled up. I was beginning to get tired of standing up when I noticed the young boy seated beside the youth corp member stand up,I quickly took the seat and heaved a sigh of relief.

The customer care attendants were pretty slow as there were lots of people on ground to be attended to. I was beginning to get bored and I didn't even have a phone to press except for a Nokia phone which held no fun to me.

When I caught his eyes again,I said the first thing that came to my mind being impulsive "Are you Hausa"? I asked him,he replied in the negative and asked me why I thought he was Hausa; I remember giving him a silly reason about his hair being all curly like that of a Fulani bla bla bla and thus a conversation was born and that was when we started talking. I asked him how long he had been serving in kwara state and where he studied and all.

He proved not to be a bore and so the conversation never got boring. I soon got attended to and while he was being attended to,he asked me to wait for him since I was done. I obliged him and waited for a while and he soon got done and we left the MTN office. I was walking towards the bus stop when he thanked me for waiting for him and asked that we do lunch together at a nearby eatery. I was thrilled because I didn't imagine he was taken by me in my baggy boy T-shirt and leggings which I had worn that day.

We went to this nice eatery and we took a spot in a quiet corner and got lost in each other. It felt as if it was just us alone,he got us food and we got talking and getting to know more about each other. It was one of the most soulful conversations I ever had in a long time far from the normal silly ones some of the boys in my school would make which would bore one out in a minute or two. We talked about our families and that was when we discovered we had a lot in common aside from both being from broken homes (lol). We kept talking for so long that we didn't notice the hours go by. When I suggested I go home,he refused and he got us ice cream and said he wanted to still spend time with me as he found me interesting. I was thrilled again and in that moment he confessed he really likes me and he thinks he has found his soul mate.

We talked for more than seven hours in that eatery that day and at a point when we were close to leaving,he had asked me to kiss him that he felt I was the one. He looked so deep into my eyes as I remember him saying "all you have to do is to lean closer to me and that's it". I had refused and it was later he told me that my refusal to kiss him proved further I was the one. Towards late evening we left and he escorted me to the bus stop after which I went home.

The days that followed were magical and I didn't want to come out of it. We would talk for long hours on the phone and it was obvious he was "chasing" me. He had told me earlier about his relationship status which was "single" and I told him I was single too,I felt there was no problem and I finally said "yes" when he asked me out.

The next couple of weeks were spent hanging out with him and when I spent the weekend at his place for the first time, it was pure bliss as he treated me like some princess. I cleaned the house and cooked for us and in the evenings we would listen to some songs while holding each other. We shared a love for John Bellion's songs and he introduced me to Mali music and some other cool artistes too. He had  a side hustle for selling of shoes and wristwatches and he recorded songs too as he had a dream to be a musician like his dad.

I supported him and over the weeks we got to know each other better and I felt comfortable enough with him to tell him things I hadn't shared with the other guys in my previous relationships. I remember telling my friend Nikemi about him not saying too much afraid that if I said too much the whole magic Raph and i shared would disappear,but I told her enough to make her know we had "done it" while listening to Rihanna's ANTI album playing in the background.

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