Story [Writer's contest]

In Life we don’t always get what we want and sometimes when we think we’ve gotten it, fate has a way of showing us who is boss by snatching it away from us…….

Jaiye woke up on a hospital bed, a few days after he was rushed in, he had no memory of how he got there. He scanned the entire room trying to make sense out of anything around but nothing came to mind, he was still trying hard when a young nurse walked in and found him awake

“welcome back Mr Jaiyeola Badmus I am Nurse Betty, how are you feeling sir? She asked.

“not sure” he replied, please how did I get here? He inquired.

“You were involved in a car accident sir and you seemed to have bumped your head, don’t you remember?”

“No” he responded.

“ok, just hang in there I’ll get the doctor" and she was out.

The doctor appeared few minutes later, he explained that Jaiye had a mild concussion which is causing him to suffer a temporary memory loss and that everything will come back soon. Jaiye wasn’t too pleased about this news, there was this emptiness he felt that he couldn’t explain and it made him uneasy almost paranoid, he had a gut feeling the doctors and nurses were hiding something from him. He was right of course, cause by midnight Jaiye will remember that he wasn’t the only one involved in the accident and he will be informed much later that his fiancée, Morenike didn’t survive the accident and he’ll cry like a baby.

Lying there on his bed, all the good times he had with Morenike came pouring in, they met back at NYSC camp a couple of years ago just about the same time he was about giving up on true love, she came in and rocked his world. He made their first date so romantic and adventurous that she was so excited about the second date and by a couple of more dates later, things had gotten more serious between them within a short period of time than any of them ever predicted. For him he was sure of what he wanted but he wasn’t sure of if she felt the same way for him and he couldn't read her mind so he decided to compose some few romantic texts.

“Sometimes words only cannot express the thoughts of a man, I lack the words to express how comforting my heart get to the soothing of your voice and it would seem your voice is enchanted and it illuminates my soul. Even if I know not if you feel half what I feel for you, I am mesmerized by your illumination and passionately in love with you”. The response he got was out of this earth, few months later they were engaged but now she has left him with this incurable heartache, how can he live without her? Can he ever love anyone like he loved her?

NAME: SHITTU IDRIS TUNJI‎