BOFAL

***Continuation***

We're stuck with or without the provisions, I said. Besides I should be the one who's scared to lose a treasure like you I added while holding her two hands and still starring into her eyes.🤧

That afternoon she was all smiles again after I told her that one of the many firms I applied to get a job from had contacted me for a third interview and the the contact person was one of the staff I chatted with on my first day at the company building and he told me to come prepared as rumours went round that four of the Senior managers out of five had agreed to employ me🥺🙈

We had a long talk about any and everything; Laughing loud and teasing each other🤣 before I eventually left for my house as it was already evening🚶🏻‍♂️🚶🏻‍♂️🚶🏻‍♂️

sNuggle🌸 moi only✅

...the longest silence between sNuggle🌸 and I, never happened on the grounds of jealousy, toxicity and attempts to get some attention but simply because both of us went broke at a critical time of our lives;🤣 during this time, I had no job to cater for my needs talk more her's.

I depended on sNuggle🌸for some basics: food, clothe, and pittance for some months then the straw that broke the camel's back; she went broke.😢 something that she had never experienced even once in her entire life because her parents provided everything she needed to live a comfortable life but as recession and inflation put my country men and women at the brink of survival, her parents too struggled to make ends meet. Things became difficult such that Mr. and Mrs. Bassey(Snuggles'🌸 parents) sold their Toyota Camry LE to run their family whilst expecting business to get better.

Snuggle🌸, a connoisseur of food suddenly lost appetite and some weight, her brown eyes lost their allure and her ever wet pink lips chapped then she started having mood swings which I would only come to understand that day.

The sun was flaming hot that thursday afternoon and we sat under the shade of the Dacryodes edulis tree (called Ube in the Igbo dialect) in front of her Parent's house to get some fresh air and I was Detangling her hair when she broke the silence to say that she nose-dived because she was scared I would starve and or prolly run away from her since she could no longer provide for me like she used to.
Those words broke me, gave me a feeling of trust and belongingness simultaneously as I have never received that kind of love and or care from anyone else except my mother of course🥰.

I reached for her forehead and gave her a kiss then I looked into her struggling brown eyes: "Baebi🍭 I could never run away from you, I mean, you've done the most for me than anyone else has done for me. You should also know that I love you beyond anything you could ever provide for me. We're stuck with or witho

*This morning my sNuggle🌸 asked me; "Did u know that I fell in love with u even before we met?" I smirked😏, thought about it and just heavily breathed the warm air in my small room searching for a soothing answer to such a simple but complex question🥱then came my obnoxious laughter😁🤣and she(🌸) laughed even worse than I did and said: "u dey mad ooo🤣...*
my sNuggle🌸