DOCTOR LOVE

You stare at the screen of your office desktop for several minutes, not knowing which way forward.

 You don't know if you should send the document and get it done with or wait till tomorrow and update before you send.

You sighed for the 30th time since you finished working on the marketing report you were meant to forward to your boss.

You sigh again once more before you finally made up your mind to leave the report till the next day. You saved your progress and lifted your head to see how the sales girls were doing.

Then you saw him. Cute face that had stress written all over it, tall frame and a lean body that looked like it needed a lot of food.

And food he was going to have. At least, you were going to make sure that he bought enough food to help him replenish his obviously depleted stamina.

"hi, is anyone attending to you yet?', you asked him as you stood from the chair and walked towards him.

"Not yet", his face lit him in an attempt to smile, but the stress was winning the battle as his face fell back.

"Oh! so sorry, how may we serve you please?"

"Ermmm, 3 spoons of ofada rice, 1 barbecue chicken, and salad." He reeled out his order as he scanned the foods in the bay marine.

"Stressful day, huh?", You gave him a smile as you dish his food. 

"You wouldn't imagine it..." He replied. Those fours words would come back to haunt you years after that fateful afternoon.

"What do you do? Tech?", You asked because everyone was in tech these days and they are always tired if not busy.

"Nope, I am a doctor.."

"Oh, nice! What drink would you like to have?' you ask as you walk to the microwave to heat up his food. That was the end of the conversation for you. 

You don't like doctors. You have hung out with a few to know that things hardly end well with them.

It is either they have a fellow doctor lady kept somewhere while they gbensh your kpekus by the side or they are too promiscuous to stick to one woman. That's gist for another story time.

"Water. Just water." 

"Alrighty." You go to get the bottled water, setting it on a tray before adding the cutlery set. 

"You are so beautiful...", It came out as a whisper, like something he planned saying to himself but also hoping that you heard....

And you heard....

You didn't plan to impress him. Nopity nope. That wasn't the plan.

 You just saw a tired hungry man and wanted to have him fed quickly before he fainted.

But now that he is looking interested in you, you couldn't help but check him out well too.

 Beneath his tired frame stood a very handsome man that ticked most of your boxes on first appearance.

"Thank you. Your bill is 3,650. Can you Kindly move over there to make your payment?", 

He moves to the tilling machine to make his payment, while yiu had his food placed on the tray before he came back. 

He said his thanks and left to eat.

You forgot about him totally the second he moved away. You were used to having guys moon over you at work, but it never got any serious-er than the compliments and the smiles you gave in return.

You didn't think this was going to be any different until standing in front of you a couple of minutes after, was the dude asking you on a date!!! 

To be continued...

Aderonke Adeyeye 2022