DEJI Finding the appropriate marriage counsellor wasn’t as easy as Deji expected. It wasn’t as if he could go about asking people for recommendations, not if he didn’t want people asking questions. It was interesting how people pretended that their
ORE Being in Terry’s presence was intoxicating. Ore felt like she had the first time she tasted alcohol. It was at her first house party in university. This one had been thrown by her next-door neighbour; a third year Law
BENJY Benjy had thought that he would feel a huge sense of relief when Lizzy finally got around to the idea of letting go of the baby instead he felt a sense of dread settle over him as he heard
DEJI Courage was finally admitting that you had been lying to yourself. It was one thing to pretend that something wasn’t happening, to look away each time the subject came up. It was like putting wallpaper over a damaged wall
ORE The day had arrived. If anyone asked Ore, she would deny that she had been anticipating this day, giddy like a school girl on the first day of school. She would swear that she did not buy the new
BENJY Few things ruffled Benjy’s feathers like fighting with his sister. He and Ore had always shared a closeness that he lacked with his brother. She was vulnerable with him and he could often read her moods well enough to
DEJI It was Saturday and Deji had promised to take his children out to the park for a quick run around. So there he was. Spending time with his children was often capable of putting a smile on his face,
ORE Ore could feel the pressure building inside her as she uttered those words. Never had she seen her brother look at her the way he was looking at her now. Benjy was the brother who was very supportive of
BENJY After that Sunday which he was now referring to as the “Doomed Sunday”, Benjy couldn’t eat or sleep. His productivity at work was being affected. On Monday, after tossing and turning all night, he couldn’t pull himself out of
DEJI Most of Deji’s processing happened at night when everyone was in bed. He had found that after having children and becoming a proper family man, there wasn’t much time left during the day for his thoughts. And he was
