You don't know you can be controlled for the rest of your life, till you are a girl child. Biolu just graduated from the University and finally felt she has gained her freedom at last. Freedom to lead her life, wear what she wants, go where she chooses and befriend who she likes. But she did got a shock maybe it was part of her life challenges.
So after graduation, her parents asked her to stay with a maternal relative of hers till she is finally cleared from school. She agreed at least she won't have to worry about feeding as she did in her university days. Then it wasn't like she doesn't have foodstuffs stacked in her cupboard, she always find it difficult to change meals because of the limited option available to her. If you weren't eating noodles, it would be spaghetti or rice or you might be soaking cassava flakes and floating berries or drinking tea in all. So staying with her relative looked like the perfect plan.
Biolu really wasn't a fan of the relationship thingy that had almost every girl and ladies attention. In every corner where ladies gathered, the centre discussion was always about a ‘man’, ‘my man said…’ ‘my boo and I…’ filled most of their discussion. Well, after university life she knew she would give this love life a chance at least she wanted to feel what it means to be in love. She wanted to know if it's any different from the past hidden crush she has had or there was more to it. That was how Diola came into the picture. He wasn't her spec so she decided to remain just friends with him. Biolu just could not understand it, how you meet today and in three days time you are professing love and saying you cannot focus without her. This made her laugh because if only Diola knew she had grown a tough skin to most of their(men) sweet words and fickle love.
Well the fact that Diola was not her spec didn't mean she wouldn't accept little favours from him especially when she didn't ask for it. So on a good day, he offered her a ride from her place of work, she accepted and he drove her home. She felt all was well until her relative uncle called her to the sitting room for what looked like a family meeting because his wife was present. He started rambling about the need for her to be safe and not trust strangers. Biolu still didn't not understand where all this where coming neither did she understand where it was leading to. He finally hit the nail on the head when he asked her who was that who brought her home.
“A male friend of mine” she had said. She emphasized the male friend in other to feed his curiosity. And her relative went on to say he needs to see the male friend for the sake of her safety. This left Biolu wondering safety? What safety? Hasn't she been safe guarding her self alright all those years in school? What was it about safety that her uncle wanted to know about her friends or was it one of men's trick to always control a woman's life and hide it under the guise of protecting her.
