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I wasn’t used to seeing so many boys at one place. The University I attended was new then and my class was the first set of undergraduates she had.

It was my first time being away from home. Things were weird and everybody appeared strange to me.

At first, there was a segregation between the boys and the girls but as the weeks rolled out, the segregation melted away and boys began talking to girls and soon people began dating.

Every day, I searched for him with my eyes; my first crush in the school. Mike was handsome; not in a manly or macho way but in a very boyish way. He was short and he always wore a face cap.

We all lived in the campus because it was prohibited to live outside the school.

It was around 8pm and I had gone outside the hostel to get some air.

There he was; Mike. He was seated on a slab alone. I am a very shy person but I don’t know what gave me the courage to walk up to him.

‘Hi’

‘Hi’ He replied.

‘I was wondering if I could talk to you’

‘Sure’.

Our talk was not deep or interesting because I did all the talking and I honestly cannot remember the things I said because I was babbling.

The dominant statement in the hostel was he asked me out. I didn’t even know what that sentence meant till the first day I heard it from one of my roommates.

I met Caleb. I was in the computer room and I was having difficulties opening a yahoo mail account and he came to my rescue.

We became friends after that day. I can’t forget how he always made fun of my height.

‘Short girl’. He would always call me.

Caleb was energetic. Way too energetic and he never got tired of talking or telling stories. He always had something to say or a story to tell about everything.

On the night he asked me to be his girlfriend, I said yes. I didn’t think about it, I didn’t sleep over it and I wasn’t aware then that being in a relationship was a serious matter.

I just said yes and he became my boyfriend. I had no romantic feelings for him and I only said yes because I felt adventurous that night.

I didn’t think he asked me to be his girlfriend because he had feelings for me. He barely knew me.

Our friendship was just a week old. I believed he asked me out because he wanted to be among the guys that had girlfriends in the University.

The relationship did not last. How could it? We started it for all the wrong reasons. We still hooked up a couple of times after we broke up.

Caleb was a terrific kisser. The first time he kissed me, I was astonished. There was this thing he did with his teeth that made his kiss feel amazing. I wasn’t ready to let go of the kisses I got from him that easily.

As for Mike, I found out he was arrogant and full of himself and that killed whatever feelings I thought I had for him.

I dated two other guys outside my school and I ran from both relationships. Aside from the fact that I wasn’t in love with any of them, I found out the first one was a cheat and the second one was possessive.

All of these made me begin to doubt love and its existence. If it really existed, maybe it wasn’t as beautiful and magical as they portrayed in the movies I saw and the books I read.
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