02/01/2026
When I was around 16 or 17 years old, I was already feeling myself like an adult.
My beards were sprouting like new yam tendrils, and deep down in my mind, I was already a man.
I was crushing on one Yoruba girl in our church. I don't get to see her often because she was in a boarding school in Ogun state, but I was still crushing on her.
The day her eldest sister did her wedding, I dressed to kill because I know I was gonna see my crush live and direct, and maybe, I might get to express my deep feelings for her.
So I dressed to keel! I wore an oversized PUMA shirt, Tommy Hilfiger shorts, a Nike canvas and topped it with a face cap. I was looking like a returnee fugitive from Alabama, but I choputas not. To me, I was the real gee.
When we got to the venue, I left my mother to sit with her fellow women, and I went to sit with the big boyz.
The wedding was classy. At the reception, assorted delicacies were served to the guests, but I noticed that the servers were avoiding the table were I sat with the supposedly big boyz.
I was yet to see my crush seff. I was just sitting down, minding my business and pretending not to be hungry when someone tapped me on the back.
I turned and it was mama Victor. This woman was holding fried turkey in her right hand and a bottle of coke tucked under her armpit. Before I could sat Jack, Iya mi used her teeth to cut the meat into two, shoved one portion into my hand, uncorked the bottle of coke with her teeth, drank half of it and passed the remaining one to me.
The moment I collected it from her, my eyes locked with my crush who happened to be passing at that time.
Holy s**t! Why now of all time? My steeze and composure reduced like a fallen pen!s.
My mum even asked her to tell the servers to bring something for me that I was hungry. She nodded and hurried off. I swear, I saw that smirk on her face.
Since I was hungry, I kukuma ate the meat and drank the half coke in shame.
My crush finally brought cold rice without a single meat for me. She said meat haff finished, and sashayed away.
My crush for her vanished immediately. With all my dressing? Damn you baby gurl! She no even fine seff. Na only bress and one small tiny hips wey she get, and I thought that was what confused me then.
Whenever I remember the mumu of that year, I just burst laugh. True true, the babe no notice me ooo. She no even rate me. All the crushing started and ended in my heart.
But why my mama disgrace me like that? She no know say I be big boy that year?
Did I tell her I was hungry?
Parents of those days seff!
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