Must Read: Behind The Veil

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: Behind The Veil

To Kross it was a date and he was intent on pleasing her and wining her heart. To Vanessa it
was a smelly fish that needed to be caught red handed.

It was all a complicated day and days between them. Vanessa waited for the shoe to drop but
nothing happened. It was either Jennifer’s plan was stealth and Kross was a good actor or he
was here on his own and meant every word he said.
She picked up her phone and dialed a number after days of waiting for something…anything to
happen but none did.

“Hello.” she spoke into the phone mic.
“Hello?” Jennifer asked as though she didn’t have Vanessa’s number anymore, but she did have it.
“It’s Vanessa.” she said and paused trying to imagine what Jennifer’s reaction would be.
Anything that would give her a clue to Kross’s presence in her life.

“So? Why are you calling me?!” she asked rudely.
Still unable to decipher anything from her voice.
“Whatever plan you have with Kross I need you to quit because I have had enough of you!”
“Mtcheew!” Jennifer hissed and cut the call.
There was this disdain in Jennifer’s voice, the type that reflected as soon as she mentioned
Kross’s name. Maybe they weren’t together after all. It kind of made sense now. The way Kross
had been acting with her; the sincerity in his eyes and words, not even the best actor can act that well because it’s not an act, it’s his true self.

Falling in love isn’t the hard part, the hard part is staying in love and steering that relationship to
the future and that’s one thing she doubt she could do. There is this fear in her that makes her
believe no guy would want to stay in her life forever. She didn’t think she had that ‘charm’ and
‘flawlessness’ which would make any guy stand by her forever. She was a good friend but she doesn’t know about being a good partner!
Maybe it was time for her to jump out there and see how long she would last. The worst case
scenario is he would break her heart and the best cure for that would be lying in her bathroom tub and eating lots of chocolates. One thing she loved more than boys is chocolate.. …lots of them!

At least that’s what she did the night after Sadiq said the three words to her at the galleria and
she didn’t reply him. She didn’t regret it till date. Imagine losing your best friend because you
couldn’t love him the way he might have wanted. If she were to have given him a positive reply
that day, she doubted if they could have still been together by now!
Later that evening in Kano Sadiq got a call from his mother. She sounded very worried and a little angry. Apparently Anty told her about the accident he was involved in. She did try to
persuade him not to partake in the horse race but he didn’t listen and the reason she called his
mum was because he still had intention of riding again.

“We didn’t send you to Kano to get yourself injured! I don’t want to hear anymore of this
nonsense, do you hear me?!” his mum.

“Yes ma.”
And that was the end of horse racing for him.

Since Humaira had travelled to Zaria, he found
solitude in taking his usual hike and meditating.

It was good for him. The best of ideas came to him whenever he was on the road, by himself.

He would switch his phone to airplane mode and just keep walking, observing.