THE NEXT ATTEMPT

CHAPTER 2

I marvelled at the content of the message as I doubted if the sender sends it intentionally or accidentally, I called Nikki and make her aware of the situation. She jumped up joyfully and started singing her own version of Somebody's Son by Tiwa Salvage "Somebody son don find you toooday, just dat his name is Anonymous..." After singing to her satisfaction, she looked serious and asked me various question which may serve as a clue to me remembering Anonymous, but all attempts prove futile as my answers are in the negative. We later decided to let go of the matter as the mysterious being will later identify himself. I logged in to my Instagram account to upload some of my birthday pictures, when I discovered that this mysterious being has posted various pictures of mine and wrote epistle to congratulate me, I ignored all his posts but mind mine business by posting what I wanted to. Later that evening, my mum called me into her room for a heart to heart talk. She began; "Tiwalade my daughter, you've always been a source of joy to this family, your obedience, steadfastness, diligence, intelligence and hardworking is what I'm proud of. You're very beautiful and we'll cultured that all serious minded man would want to have as a wife. Tiwalade Omo mi, when will you bring home a suitor. Time is no longer on your side my sweetheart. You've graduated and thanks to God you're employed already, the next thing now is to find a right man to settle with " she concluded. "Mum" I said as I knelt down," I'm promising you that very soon I'll bring home the right man, mum you know all I crave for is the best and trust me I'm working on it, thanks mum for your concern. I concluded.