LOVERS DESK
Lovers Desk is a weekly Lovelife.ng series that explores the relationship struggles and exploits of young Africans. It showcases the hidden love and hurt stories that are rarely shared or discussed, helping you see through their lens and draw lessons for your own love life.
My Story
Ahhhh! How do I even begin this story? I will sha begin from somewhere.
My name is Amaka, not the one that disappoints but rather, the one that gets disappointed.
I’m huge on crushes. Right from when I was little I had begun crushing heavily on everyone and anyone. My crushes were not based on physical looks either, I mean if you’re fine boy, that helps.
I would be crushing on people over their intelligence, composure, abilities and so forth.
For Emmanuel, the first day I saw him what got to me was height. You see…I’m petite and so it’s only natural that I am attracted to a tall guy.
He was not very good looking but he was so tall that it covered every other physical imperfection. He was my street neighbor and every single day I would leave for work I would look towards the direction of his house praying fervently that I would catch a sight of him.
One day, I wa invited for a house party in my neighbors house. At first I didn’t want to go, but it was really boring day so I decided to go.
I wore a casual jumpsuit and did not even bother to do my make up or hair. I was basically going for the food, booze and a distraction from boredom.
I was barely 10 minutes in the house party when Emmanuel my crush walked in.
I almost lost my composure. I had never seen him close up before and now form the corner of the seat where I sat in, I had ample time to really study him. Close up, e was more handsome than I gave him credit for and boy! Even taller than I had expected .
I was already getting butterflies just looking at him and then suddenly, he looked my way and held my attention for long seconds.
I got so shy that I looked away.
After about 30 minutes, he made his way to me. He told me had been watching me for a long time, and has had a massive crush on me for almost a year.
What?!!! Imagine my shock.
This same guy that I’ve been crushing on heavily also retuned my feelings? Ahhh! My night was made. Or so I thought. Alas! Something happened that changed my opinions.
While we talking he kept leaning closer to me, and At was when I noticed a very pungent odor coming from somewhere. At first I was taken aback by the odor and wondering where it could have been coming from when I realized the culprit was the person leaning towards me.
It wasn’t just the odors from his body, his mouth was stinking badly too.
I shouted “Jesus! What a life”
Suddenly all my crush and feelings for him disappeared. How could he disappoint me like this?
I took a quick excuse to leave the party and just as I was about to leave, he asked me for my number. I am a polite babe, so, of course I gave it to him.
He called and called and called for weeks but I never picked. Eventually he stopped calling and that was my crush for him ended.
Since then, I have her greatly reduced the way I crush on people.
