What Goes Around.... (a short story)

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Gbenga stared at the lady in the cinema. He's been there for the past one and half hour, not because he was interested in the movie been shown but because of the lady he had seem walk in just as he was about going home after seeing the movie he had come for.

The lady was the same person he saw at the grocery store few days ago. He had locked himself mentally for not having the courage to approach her, even when he was directly behind her at the counter where she paid for her groceries, he had done nothing other than to stare.

Ever since that day he hadn't been himself. He found it hard to concentrate on any thing else other than his thoughts about her. Even at his place of work, he wasn't that focus and that was bad, really bad as Gbenga was a medical doctor, so he needed to be on his one hundred in other to save lives. But today, as if the heavens had decided to give him a second chance, he had seen her walk into the cinema as he was about walking out and he immediately followed her.

The movie came to an end and Gbenga prepared to make his move. He could feel his heart beating real hard against his chest, he wasn't sure any lady had made him feel the way he felt for this lady.

Gbenga walked closely behind her as he saw she was waiting for a cab. He was saying something to her when a commotion nearby got both of their attentions. There had been a car accident, the victim was an elderly man who was quickly dragged out of his car by passerby. Gbenga was about running to go help the man who clearly had been badly injured when he noticed that the lady that has held his focus captive for the past few days had stopped a cab. Now Gbenga was in a dilemma. Should he go help the man and forget about his dream girl, was the stranger worth it or should he go for the love of his life?

Gbenga knew he needed to be quick with his decision as the lady was already entering the cab and only God knew how serious the old man injury was, and so he made his choice, he went for the Love of his life.

Few weeks later, Gbenga and Tolu started dating, Gbenga felt on top of the world. He never regretted his actions to go after the one he loved.

On one particular Thursday evening, Gbenga was on his way home when he got a phone call that forever changed his life, Tolu was dead. She had been hit by a car driver who was on his way home from his dad's burial. The man had been so sad about his father's death that he had gone to get drunk before driving home.

The driver was the some of the old man who died few weeks ago, the same man Gbenga refused to help.

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