Chapter two

Idunnu's p.o.v

' Hello, Blessing...Oh...Alright, send her to my office. Yeah! Thank you.'

Soon enough, there was a knock on the door.

   ' Come in...'

Stacey walked into the office with a bright smile and I returned the smile.

   ' How are you bestie?'

   ' I'm fine....Obviously.' Stacey replied swaying left and right.

   ' You should be at work, shouldn't you? How come you're here?'

   ' Well, it's a little clever trick.' Stacey said with a smirk on her face.

   ' You mind sharing it? Please?'

   ' Alright. I just called and told them I was down with a fever. That's all.' She replied laughing loudly. I joined in the laughter.

   ' Bad girl...' I said.

   ' So, what are you up to?' Stacey asked ignoring my comment.

   ' I'm trying to come up with a design for the week.' I replied thinking hard.

   ' Okay. Do you mind if I join? I might have one or two ideas.' Stacey said and I scoffed loudly.

   ' What do you know about fashion designing?'

   ' Whatever. Seeing is believing. Besides, do not underestimate Stacey Oblong.'

I couldn't hold back my laughter.

Mike's p.o.v

   ' What do you mean by you need a new girlfriend? Have you already broken up with Linda again?' My best friend Raphael asked staring at me intently.

   ' What? Stop looking at me that way. She was the one that left me, okay?'

   ' And why? There has to be a reason.'

   ' Well, she just overreacted. I was with this girl...It's kind of a long story.' I replied Raphael. He was always behaving like my older brother.

   ' Mike, you cheated on Linda?'

   ' Not exactly. Something like that though. It was just a fling.' I replied and shrugged my shoulders.
 
   ' Mike, I wonder when you'd get serious with your life and get married.' Raphael said and I laughed.

   ' You're talking like you're married.' I teased.

   ' I'm not like you, bro. I haven't seen the right person. You on the other hand change girls anyhow. Do you have to go around with you see?'

   ' Relax man. I'm just enjoying myself. A little fun before I'm stuck with one girl won't hurt, right? Besides, I also haven't found the right person so we're on the same page.' I replied smiling slyly.

   ' Alright. If you say so.'

   ' I'm bored here. How about we go to the bar.' I suggested.

   ' Hmmm. Alright. But, no girls.' Raph said after thinking for a while.

   ' Aye Aye Captain Raphael.' I replied raising my two hands as a sign of me surrendering.

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I'm Michael Leonard. I'm a 26-year-old handsome young man. I own a company where we trade in the buying and selling of automobile spare parts. Okay, it's not like I'm the owner of the company, my parents are. However, dad and mum have relocated to the states. While dad is a Nigerian, my mum is half Nigerian, half American. My mum's dad was an American but he got married to a Nigerian. Since my mum is half cast, I got a little bit of her looks.
Mum loved Nigeria so much so when she was 20, she relocated to Nigeria and met my dad 4 years later.
I'm just like mum. I love Nigeria a lot Though I went to college in the states, I decided I was going to live and work in Nigeria.
I'm very handsome and I know. Raphael has been my best buddy since we were in high school. Even when I went to the states, our friendship never died and so we continued when I came back.

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   ' Give me a bottle of Hennessy.' I said to the bar boy.

   ' Raph, what do you care for?' I asked Ralph who was busy staring at his camera.

Raphael loved photography and drawing a lot. Even though he is a businessman just like me, he still makes out time to take pictures of almost everything around him and also draw.

   ' What are you staring at?' I added a little bit louder and watched him flinch.

   ' Where you saying something?'

   ' What are you staring  at?'

   ' My camera...obviously.' He replied me frowning a little.

   ' Whatever. What do you care for?'

  ' Give me a bottle of white wine.' He said to the bar boy.

   ' Raph, don't you think you  need a girl?'

   ' What do you mean?'

   ' I mean you keep advising me to get a good girl and settle down but you've never had a girlfriend.' I said and Raphael smiled a little.

   ' Relax man. I kinda have a woman I love. She's right here.' He replied pointing to his chest. He was obviously talking about his heart.

   ' Hmm...Okay. If you say so.' That was all I said.

Idunnu's p.o.v

I was just about entering into my house after a stressful day at work. After cracking my brain for a while with the help of Stacey (Smiles! She actually helped a little) I was able to come up with a design and we started working on it. Just when we had finished sewing the sample, I snapped it and posted it on our social media platforms. Immediately, orders started coming in. It seemed that so many fell in love with the design. More customers means more work and yes, more money.

Just as I opened the door and was about to step in, my phone beeped with a text message. I entered the house, closed the door and slumped on the nearest couch I found. Then, I brought out my phone. I sighed loudly as Isaw who sent the message. I was him again; My Anonymous lover.
Seems he's always stalking me. He sent me some of my pictures he had snapped today and attached a message also. The message read,
    ' You're just as pretty as always. Keep putting on that smile for me. And hey, blue really looks good on you'
     Love, Anonymous

I smiled after seeing the text. I took a glance at the blue short gown I wore and smiled again.

   ' Does blue really look good on me? I asked no one in particular.

Anyways, I stood up to freshen up and then have dinner.