04/05/2026
I went to a party a few days ago. It was a wedding I was really excited about because I love the idea of love and being loved back.
Before I went, I had this feeling that I might meet someone special. I did not know who, but I just had that feeling.
At the church, I sat at the back and looked around. I was hoping to see someone I might like, maybe a guy. I adjusted my gele and kept smiling.
“Smile more, good men might talk to you,” my aunt once told me.
But honestly, I did not see anyone interesting. After the ceremony, I took some pictures with the bride and groom, then went to the reception.
As I was about to enter, a small baby looked at me and smiled. She looked so happy. I waved at her and blew her kisses, and she started laughing.
Her mum saw me and said, “Aww, my baby likes you. You will give birth very soon oh.” We both laughed.
When I got inside, I sat with some ladies at our table. They brought drinks and food. While I was drinking my juice, I saw a fine young man sitting alone across the aisle. His table was empty, and he had no food.
I felt a little bad for him 😩.
So when the servers came, I called one of them and asked her to give him a plate of food. I also added a drink from our table.
When she told him, he looked at me and smiled. That smile… I felt it in my heart.
Later, when they brought small chops, I took some for myself and also told them to give him some. When he got it, he looked at me again, smiled, and softly said, “Thank you,” while putting puff-puff in his mouth.
We were acting like shy teenagers.
Then I heard him quietly say “Amala” as a server passed. I guessed that was what he wanted to eat. When I signaled it for him and he gave me a thumbs-up, I just giggled.
In my mind I said, “See these almost 30-year-old people behaving like kids. Just come to my table already.”
He waved at me, but he still did not come over.
I sat there for a while, hoping he would talk to me. But he stayed where he was.
Then one Aso-Ebi lady came to me and said, “Hi, I heard you take good pictures. Can you help me?”
In my mind, I was like, “Can you not see I am waiting for my future husband?” But I followed her anyway.
While I was taking her pictures, I heard a deep voice say, “Why not both of you stand together for a picture?”
I turned around… it was him.
I told him I was just helping her, but he smiled and said, “Have you not taken enough pictures today?”
Before I could answer, he said he wanted to take pictures of me too. He asked for my phone.
I gave it to him, and he took so many nice pictures and even videos.
“That is my way of saying thank you for the food,” he said.
“You are welcome. Thank you too,” I replied.
Then he asked, “But why did you do it?”
“What do you mean?”
“Why did you get me food?”
I wanted to tell him that I noticed him earlier and did not want him to sit there hungry but I felt shy.
So I just said, “It is nothing. It is party jollof. Nobody should miss it.”
Just then, a woman came to us holding a small cooler and called his name.
“I have been looking for you. Have you eaten?” she asked him in Yoruba.
He smiled and said, “I am here talking to your future daughter-in-law. I just hope she gives me her number.”
I was shy 🙈.
“Is that true?” the woman asked, smiling.
“She even helped me get food,” he added.
The woman held my hand and said, “You must be a very nice person.”
I smiled and greeted her properly.
Then he said, “Ah, I have found a wife.”
I laughed and said, “Who said I want to marry you?”
His mum quickly replied, “We want to marry you oh,” and we all laughed.
She hugged me and whispered, “You are very beautiful. I like you already. Please give my son a chance.”
My heart felt warm 😩❤️.
She looked into my eyes again and softly said, “Please.”
At that moment, everything just felt right.
Someone called her, and she said she would join them soon. Before she left, she said we should take a picture together “so we can remember how it started.”
And just like that… that was how I met the love of my life… and the best mother-in-law ever 😛.