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Double Promotion<br />
Shittu Fowora<br />
She feared too much time left in the hands <strong>of</strong> one who had the kind <strong>of</strong> face that stopped<br />
you in your tracks could lead to the unimaginable. He’s slim, trendy, with an almost flawlessly<br />
symmetrical face. She sees it in the way listeners hung on his words and reciprocate his smile<br />
so quickly. They want to be close to him just like she does.<br />
Even with all the chances that came his way he’d always told her, in all the four years three<br />
months they courted, he was a one-woman-man who prized Tinuke’s industry and support<br />
more than the plumpness <strong>of</strong> ‘things in lycra’ or doll faces slobbered with lipsticks.<br />
Her first stinker was to come three months into their marriage after a steamy weekend at a<br />
resort. An alert sounded in her cell phone. She picked it up. Read through it and stopped.<br />
“Kpodo!” she sounded with alarm that clearly stirred her partner. “Who the hell is she?” she<br />
continued.<br />
“She? What are you on about?” He interjected, with a slight on his face, his left hand still in<br />
his pocket while drawing closer to her. “What do you mean Tinu?”<br />
She handed him the phone and watched his countenance for cues. “O! This? ‘Twas in error,<br />
I was going to text Greg for a meet up.”<br />
“Greg? And when did Greg become ‘Sweets’! ” She paused for effect, her decibel rising,<br />
“How! How do you intend making it up to you Sweets with Greg?”<br />
Her annoyance combusted into so much gas and ember the lodge could come down any<br />
moment. It took a lot <strong>of</strong> pleading to get through it.<br />
36<br />
Tales from the Other Side
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