Bigger than Love pt3

The good thing about being born in a century that is technologically advanced is that you don't have to wait for no telegrams to be delivered and you can avoid awkward situations.

Ryan and I have now been dating for six months in total if you count the months I was abroad. How did I fall for him? Funny story that is. We were in high school together and I had the absolute hots for him from the first day I say him. He was shy and vulnerable and sort of geekish. Hey don't judge me, I am sapio sexual. Intellect is the way forward for me. I am the type of girl who says 'whoa look at the oblangata on that one!!'. So anyway, we sat close to each other for a year and the guy never asked me out. My girl ChiChi knew all about my obsession and so when I told her that Ryan had given me a present for my birthday she was totally syked!

'This could be it! Tell me what he said, how he said and did you kiss?'

' Chichi you are always jumping the gun! Girl do you have to be so direct? He came up to me and gave me a card and plastic rose and some chocolates then he asked if he could walk me home.'

'Eeeekkk!! you dirty girl. He walked you home? What about the bouquet of roses from Michael and not to mention you already had a box of chocolates from your boo Jasper and that Brian guy who has been lurking around shifty corners waiting forever for you to yes, how did you manage to carry all that home or did you let the poor guy help you carry gifts from other guys? My God you must be the most popular 16 year old I know!' She exclaimed all in one breath. Lord knows how she does it. Chichi can talk all day and I don't even know how she gets all the drama in her head.

'What!? No we did not kiss and no I did not let him carry my gifts home. My cousin, Gideon came to pick me up' I respond defiantly. ' In fact I don't even know why I am getting all this attention, there lots of pretty girls in our year'.

' Shut up! You my best friend are one of the best looking girls in your year.'

'Well then why does he always look at her and not to mention he is always with her and runs away every time I greet him. Liana is my sworn nemesis and you totally can tell she got a thing for him under that facade of "mummy son" foolishnes. I mean literally the boy legs it when I say hey Ryan!'

' Babe that is because he is totally into you!' Chichi exclaims. I can picture her big smile right now. She was always so optimistic. Some things never change.

Anyway the whole year went by and despite countless hints that I liked him, Ryan never asked me out. I eventually moved back to England at the end of that year and left him with only an email address incase he wanted to ever contact me.

Fast forward ten years later.  I had just come from Amsterdam last year in May after ditching a guy I had been seeing for like 6months. He was the definition of wasteman. I mean the guy would appear and disappear whenever it suited him, then when he returned,he would offer some cheesy excuse for why he had not been in touch and expect us to pick up where we left off. Even though he was a saucy Zambian guy, I found him quite pompous and tedious. I guess the only thing that had really attracted me to him was that he was....yep a geek. I am not talking about ugly run for your life geek. I am talking super cute, toned and intellectual geek. The type that's nice to look at. His swag was on point, he could make jokes with the best of them and when it came to romance, the guy was a gem. However I was looking for more than he could offer. Ernest was a little too moody for my liking. His status updates on his facebook were always somber and melancholy. If he was not moaning about something, then he was sulking about another. It was exhausting!!

So you know what I had to do. Towards May I invited his sorry ass to my sister in laws birthday and the guy tried to pretend he was too traditional and had to behave himself and shit. When we arrived at the party, his ex was there. She was lovely. Tall, slender and a smile to die for. Ofcourse she was also one of my closest friends. Venetia was at the party with her fiance Charles. They had been dating for about 3 years or more at the time of the party.

'Melanie!' Venetia exclaimed taking a moment to observe me as she twirled me round. 'Girl you need to put some clothes on' she said mockingly then turned to Earnest ' How could you let her out like this?' She smiled. You will not believe that Earnest grunted and muttered something about how he never let me wear that and frankly was a bit rude. Did this man not just vote on how sexy this dress looked on me and now he wants to diss me? So yeah, I kicked him to the curb. I mean what kind of woman would I be to continue dating such an asshole right?

So end of May I ventured into the weed clouded Amsterdam to see my sister Kiambi and emerged revitalised. Earnest had tried to contact me when he noticed I was serious about the break up and tried to make amends but my ship had sailed and I am not fan of recycling. My next venture was to go back to Zambia and have some fun. I told my girls about the plan, booked my ticket and el presto!! I was ready come christmas.

Now back to finding Ryan. I am there joking with my girlfriend Melissa on twitter about finding me a beautiful chocolate man when I return so I twitted ' I need a Mosi drinking, Chikanda eating, Vinkubala frying, Michopo braaiiing beautiful Zambian chocolate man'. Instead of a tweet back from Melissa I get an anonymous tweet saying' I cook, clean and take out the trash'