LOGINIn the bustling city of Lagos, Nigeria, where dreams clash with harsh realities, Seline's journey unfolds. Born into a humble family, she carries the weight of responsibility on her young shoulders, driven by a burning desire to uplift her loved ones from the clutches of poverty. With her diploma in hand, Seline sets out on a quest for a job that will allow her to support her family and bring them a glimmer of hope. But life's unexpected twists and turns often defy our plans. As fate weaves its intricate tapestry, Seline's path intersects with that of Sweet, a charismatic and affluent celebrity known for his reckless playboy ways. Their encounter sets in motion a whirlwind of emotions and challenges. Seline finds herself drawn to Sweet's magnetic charisma, but she knows that getting involved with him could lead to heartbreak and derail her dreams. Yet, as the saying goes, the heart wants what it wants. Caught between her aspirations and the allure of Sweet's charm, Seline wrestles with the complexities of her emotions. Will she choose to guard her heart and remain focused on her goals, or will she succumb to the seductive power of love and desire?
View More“We’ll get back to you”
This is the fifth time she has heard this statement in the past three weeks of job hunting.
….“What is the essence of going to the university when all you get as a reward was unemployment and frustrating application processes,” she thought while walking on the street with a folder containing my credentials securely held to her side.
The typical life of a Nigerian graduate was frustrating she thought as she kept walking, but got lost in her thoughts that she didn’t notice the black Toyota Prado that was coming out from a building. At the sound of the 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘬, she snapped out of her thoughts and, quickly crossed to the other side of the road and boarded my next bus home, she was so done with this frustrating job hunt.
"Conductor gives me change nah!" a woman at the back of the bus called out.
She was quiet throughout the whole ride dreading the nightmare she called home, from her mum who pick a fight with her at the slightest chance to get an excuse to scream at the top of her voice to gain the pity and attention of the neighbors, to her siblings who are always on her neck for this or that.
A typical Nigerian home, where the responsibility of taking care of the home is inscribed on the first child whether male or female like the mark of the beast from the day of birth.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲.
𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡.
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠.
Sweet had been unusually quiet for the better part of a week, a fact Seline noticed but chose, mostly, not to comment on, recognizing the particular quality of his silence as something deliberate rather than distant. She'd learned, over the past year, to tell the difference between him retreating from her and him building toward something he wasn't ready to share yet, and this, she was fairly certain, was the second kind."You've been planning something," she said finally, on a quiet Thursday evening, watching him fail to properly focus on whatever he was pretending to read."Maybe," he admitted, setting the book aside entirely. "Can you keep Saturday free? No lab commitments, no Reach planning, nothing.""That's ominous, given our history with surprise plans.""Good ominous, I promise. Trust me?""Always," she said, and meant it completely, the word arriving as easily now as it had the night she'd said the same thing in the car after the first mob
The morning of Reach's first mobile clinic arrived with the particular chaos of a plan meeting reality for the first time, equipment that needed last-minute checking, volunteers arriving in staggered waves, a community leader in the small town outside Lagos who'd agreed to host them greeting Seline at the gate with more nervous energy than she'd expected from a man who'd clearly seen decades of outside organizations promise things they never delivered."You're really coming yourselves," he said, watching the small convoy of vehicles unload equipment into the community hall his church had offered for the day. "Not just sending equipment and leaving us to figure it out.""We're here for the whole day," Seline confirmed. "Every test, every result, explained properly, by people who'll actually be here to answer questions. That was the whole point.""Forgive my skepticism," he said. "We've had promises like this before. People come once, take photographs, and disappe
The idea started as a joke, the way most of the best ones did between them, tossed out over breakfast on an ordinary Saturday morning."You should start your own thing," Sweet said, watching her scroll through job listings on her phone out of habit rather than actual need, a leftover reflex from years of needing to always be looking for the next opportunity. "Not another position somewhere. Your own lab, eventually. Or your own initiative, at least. You clearly have opinions about how affordable diagnostics should actually work. You've had them since your interview with Dr. Nwosu.""That's a bigger leap than 'start your own thing' makes it sound," Seline said, though the idea landed somewhere it hadn't quite landed before, settling in rather than bouncing off the way most casual suggestions did."Every big thing starts as a smaller one," Sweet said. "You didn't start as Dr. Nwosu's research assistant. You started as a girl serving wine at a party, wondering how
It was Kachi, unexpectedly, who first noticed the shift."You're basically married already," he announced one Sunday afternoon, sprawled across the couch at their mother's house while Seline packed a small bag of things to take back to Sweet's, a routine that had become so ordinary over the past few weeks that she'd stopped consciously registering how much of her life had quietly migrated across town. "You have a key. You have a toothbrush there. You do that thing where you finish his sentences about work stuff. When's the wedding?""Nobody said anything about a wedding, Kachi.""You didn't say anything about it," he corrected, with the particular smugness of a teenager who'd recently discovered he could win arguments through observation alone. "I'm just saying what everyone's obviously thinking.""Out of the mouths of babes," her mother said from the kitchen doorway, not even trying to hide her amusement."I'm fifteen, not a baby.""You'll always be a baby to me," their mother said,
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