Falling hard for Mr wrong

   I paced from one end of the room to the other like a man in the labour ward waiting for his wife to bring forth a child to the world.  Confusion and guilt hung over me like a dark cloud announcing a very heavy rain. My God! What have I gotten myself into? I asked myself for the hundredth time, as that was the only meaningful question that could come to mind.
    I need to talk to someone about this, I need to share this with someone! Tears soon hung in my throat as I realised that my best friend Anika, and the only one whom I could have shared this with, was the one I had betrayed.
   OK fine! I will put a call through to romance Fm, I'm  sure the love doctor could give me some valid advice.  I sat tight as I waited for 9pm to come, and it felt like donkey years indeed.
   Oh wait! All this must sound really confusing  to you, thus I shall go straight to addressing the elephant in the room that had effortlessly put me in my melancholic situation.
      It all began on the 3rd of may, when my best friend Anika had asked me to accompany her briefly outside the hostel gate to meet her boyfriend Mike.
    This new boyfriend of hers seemed to excite every bone, nerve and hormone in her body. And she would practically twirl like a ballerina anytime he called, babishly fumbling with her hair, the bedsheets and any other object she could find as soon as he called.  Well,  that clearly differentiated him from all her other callers.
     "you really should get a boyfriend soon,  and experience what love feels like"  she would say to me, with that jittery mocking tone in her voice.
    Andrea please come with me, it is rather time my  boyfriend met my best friend.  After much convincing, well I obliged.  I mean Anika wasn't studying law for nothing, If there was a person who could convince someone to commit suicide and make it sound like a good idea, it was my girl Anika.
    We waited a while for pretty boy to arrive, and when he finally came, my heart froze. I couldn't really decide if it was the actual cold, or my body was telling me something else.  He was drop dead handsome! And when Anika officially introduced us and he held unto my hand for a warm handshake, I went to limbo and back. And that was when it happened,  he held unto my fragile hands a little longer before saying "you are prettier in person"...  And Anika laughed out innocently before saying" I know right...  There is something about our genes"...
      Anika soon left us to get acquainted with each other as she went to get suya  and I soon started to shiver. Mike,  made to ask me a few questions about my personal life when he noticed the shivering and without saying a word, he held me in his arms as he tried to keep me warm.
   My mind  told me to pull away immediately, but it soon turned into a situation of "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak".  I liked it there in his arms, listening to his heart beat and feeling warm.  Anika soon walked in on us, but instead of getting mad, she said "oh, baby are you cold?"  then looking at Mike she said "Bae,  I need to take her inside, it's all my fault that she caught a cold"  (what innocence bestie bore!)
     I said good night to him,  and later in the night he called, telling me that Anika had given him my number so that he could check up on me, "you know...  You are family now"  he said calmly.
    But after that statement we had a completely romantic conversation that made me feel warm again (stop this Andrea! This is your Bestie's boyfriend!)  my head kept telling me.  But like a car that had clearly lost it's brakes I ignored all the signals until it was too late.  I fell head over heels in love with  this guy, and when he started sending me romantic texts each morning I knew he had fallen for me too...
     We couldn't address our present predicament, and when I threatened to make things right and leave him, he threatened to break up with my friend and have me instead.  And that was a clear violation of the girl friends code, just as the men would say "Bros before hoes" we had a saying of "chicks before sticks"...
    Now I was doomed! Especially as I realised that I couldn't do without him too.  The time soon clocked 9:00pm and I waited for the phone lines to be opened so as to make that call, I heard a thunderous knock on the door and it was Anika.
    "Andrea, are you having an affair with my boyfriend!"  she screamed, and saliva immediately dried in my mouth.  "how could you! I trusted you!..." she ranted on and I felt like screaming back at her, for not taking the warning signs serious and for trusting us too much, but staring at her standing there one thing was obvious...
   ... All hell would let loose for a woman scorned! There was definitely no sleeping for me tonight...
 
...  Love more, cheat less...