Aderonke Adeyeye's Blog

  I woke to the crowing of my landlord's cock. It wasn't the usual crowing, it was the crowing that sounded like it was singing - there and then, I knew it was going to be a good day. I jumped out of bed and immediately started playing songs from my mp3 as I started to get dressed for work. Humming to Simi's Move On, I wiggled my little butt sideways on my dressing chair. It was starting to be a good day already, and by the end of the day, I was hoping to get the long awaited news of my life. "Ahhhhhh", I squeaked in delight, not giving a rat ass about my neighbors who might still be sleeping. Today might be the day I got promoted to my long desired position at the office, and I was determined to look my best. Tade, my office best friend, had chatted me up the night before to gush about how the position was vacant, and how everyone was whispering that it might come to me. "Never to be caught unfresh", I mumbled underneath my breath as I painted my lips w...

"I miss you. Can we see and talk things through.  I want you back." Sesan quickly dropped  his phone  immediately he clicked on the 'send ' button. It was so fast anyone watching him would think the phone was hot coals in his hand. He stared at his phone, like someone half waiting for a monster to creep out of the screen of the phone.  He knew he wasn't going to get a response from the recipient of the message.  Why he sent it in the first place, he had no clue.  Sesan knew he couldn't blame it on the alcohol. He was too coordinated and calm to blame any of his misbehaviours on alcohol. He doesn't drink to get drunk. He keeps his sense and sanity in one corner before drinking and dons it back after drinking. So he knew exactly everything that happened tonight.  Everything that started from when he and Tara got to the party, when she started drinking, talking loudly and flirting with Boye,  causing him to shrink in his seat and distant for the rest...