AND SHE SAID YES, I DO!

I have been wanting to witness that day when I would hear her say yes I do. Lo and behold she said yes, I do. Evelyn was a lady that no man can look at once and take his eyes off. Her charm and glamour are not of this earth. We met at a function on the Island.

I could still remember that day it's still as fresh in my memory as today. I was invited to a seminar in Eko hotel and suites. I did not know the caliber of people I would meet there, so I tried my best to dress smartly.

Though, I had been attending seminars before, but this would be my first time on the Island. I'm not that stylish when it comes to fashion so I put on a blue T-shirt on a black jean and white Skechers.

My invitee even begged me to wear a suit but I disoblige. I hate suit with passion, each time I put on a suit it always like a punishment to me. Don't mind me it's not just my thing.

I left home at 6 am in the morning because the seminar was scheduled to start at 8 am. I got there late because of some delay I encountered on the road due to traffic jams. Thankfully, I didn't put on a suit, it would have been terrible.

I was sitting in between two fat people inside the danfo bus I entered. It was when we entered traffic I know that I was in serious trouble. Both of them were sweating like mad, and their sweats were dropping on my body, coupled with my own sweat.

Kade, my friend who invited me to the seminar had earlier told me that they would not allow me in if I was late."Call me, perhaps you come late." But I was just thirty minutes late there should still be grace, I thought.

So I didn't bother calling him. I walked straight to the door, I met a damsel who has been shining her thirty-two the moment she sighted me. She was like a sunrise in the summer, a beautiful field by the riverside. She asked, how may I help you? I'm here for the seminar.

I'm sorry you are late. Firstly, I'm Samuel and you are... Evelyn, she snapped. "I was coming from afar, how may you be of help?" I'm just an usher and I'm operating base on instruction. "Kindly call your invitee."

I was short of airtime. And how can I just tell this damsel I don't have airtime. "I'm having a flat battery said I." Could you please help me notify him that I'm around? Erm, sorry, he's Kade, do you know him? Yes, I do.

I know all you are thinking about all along is a yes to a marriage proposal. No, it was a yes I do to something else. Fiction?

I am Akerele Odunayo Samuel.

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