A Glimpse Of Her Episode 1
A Glimpse Of Her (episode 1)
Ever heard of the saying that goes “you can meet someone today that can change your whole life forever”? If yes, then you might just understand how a staunch advocate of the popular mantra “I don’t believe in love”, could go from that mental conditioning to falling helplessly in love with someone he never saw coming. That moment you meet someone and then suddenly, you just can’t imagine your life without them anymore. Just the thought of losing that person sends an intense fear within you that makes you pray earnestly for the actualization of that fear to never come to pass. Everyone has a weakness and can be a ‘s×¢ker for Love’ but it takes only the right person to bring out that soft and vulnerable side of them. This and more was the reality of a successful footballer named Michael aka ‘Milano’.
Few years back, Michael had just been drafted to play for the almighty ‘Heros Football Club’ after a successful football career with his former team. His football name was ‘Milano’ and that was the name most people knew him for. Michael was an epitome of fierceness, handsomeness, strength and smartness all in one. He was to die for which made him a highly desirable spec amongst so many ladies both far and near.
Despite being a highly successful soccer player, Michael’s Love Life was a wreck. He didn’t believe in love and only involved himself in flings. No matter the efforts made by numerous ladies to win him over and be the official ‘one’, it always failed woefully and left them heartbroken. Regardless of Michael’s stand on Love, he was still a gentleman that treated everyone rightly. Never for once did he try to lead any lady on or try to play them by giving false green light. He always made it very clear that he was all for the flings and nothing more.
Not to forget, Michael was a very generous guy and when I say generous, I also mean to the ladies. He didn’t hold back in spending money on the women in his life. He bought them expensive gifts and took few lucky ones on luxurious trips abroad. He loved Life and made sure those close to him at any moment in time received a fair share of enjoyment too. Despite being a ladies man, he had his spec!
The caliber of women that hang around Michael were hybrid and high taste kinda woman. They oozed money, class and status. It’s quite understandable for Michael to roll with only these kinda woman because his career and lifestyle exposed him to that sort of life. The places he hanged around were places you could only find those kind of women so it isn’t quite mysterious that they were the only caliber of women you will find around him at all times. He loved curvy and glowing skin ladies with a polished acent. They were unapologetically his spec!
Well, on another side of the country was a kindergarten school teacher named ‘Tiffany’ usually called ‘Aunty’ by her lovely students. Tiffany was a very soft spoken, kind and loving person to the core. She was the best teacher in the whole school to the extent that both her present and past students loved her so much.
During every xmas or graduation ceremony held by the school, Tiffany always went back home with the most gifts given by parents to teachers. Her gifts were always too many that she usually ended up sharing some with other teachers that didn’t get gifts or got little. Calling Tiffany an angel might not be enough to fully describe how amazing she was. Whenever a student comes to school with torn uniform, no lunch or no school supplies, she would go out of her way and use her own money to sort the student out. She was extremely selfless and was totally sold out to ‘Humanity’.
One fateful day during assembly, the headmistress announced that their school has been invited for a fund raising sports event aimed at supporting schools with funds they need for development and that some students will be selected to attend the event. After the announcement, there were shouts of joy amongst the senior primary students as they were all excited to go for the event which was scheduled that weekend. They hoped to receive some funds from the organizers of the event so as to compete the school library and stock it up with books for the kids.
After morning assemble that day, some teacher were called into the headmistress officer for further meetings regarding the upcoming sports event. “Tiffany, Mrs Shalom and Mr Pascal will be in charge of taking the kids to the event and bringing them back. The school bus will be made available to take the kids to the stadium and a maximum of 15 students are allowed to go. Mr Pascal, as the sports teacher of this school, I believe you know the best students to select for the event. We wish you all the best of luck and pray you bring back some funds for our school” the headmistress said. Immediately the meeting was over, all teachers went back to their various classes to resume for the day.
Finally, it was Saturday which was the D-Day for the fund raising sports event. Tiffany used her money to buy refreshments for the kids and was in the school premises early to arrange them safely in the school bus. Mrs Shalom and Mr Pascal arrived shortly afterwards and they zoomed off to the sports stadium in town. When they arrived, the organizers of the event took them to their reserved area in the stadium which had the name of their school on a banner close by. There were over 100 schools in attendance which resulted in the stadium being crowded. Tiffany made sure all the students were seated and monitored very well to avoid anyone missing. Shortly afterward they arrived, the event officially began.
It was a day packed with so many sports events. Their school came first position in two sports and this made them extremely happy. The organizers of the event also brought refreshments for all the children. It was such a fun filled day and without a single doubt, they all had a good time there.
Just before the event came to an end, the spokesman called upon the person behind the success of the event whose charity organization was the main donor and told him to mount the stage to give a speech to the children. Before everyone’s eyes, the almighty ‘Milano’ climbed the stage and the children s¢ræmed in excitement. He happily thanked the children for coming out and encouraged them to continue being zealous in their studies. He assured them that all schools represented there will go home with some funds for the development of their respective schools.
At the time this was happening, Tiffany accompanied few of her students to the restroom to go pee. They had been disturbing her for a while so she had to take them to the restroom and this was before Milano mounted the stage to give his speech.
Be the time the kids were done peeing and ready to go back to the stadium, Michael was done with his speech so Mrs Shalom called on phone and told Tiffany to meet them at the school bus in the parking lot. On seeing that they were ready to leave, she took the kids towards the parking lot to meet up with others.
As they walked through the crowdy premises, Tiffany made sure to hold the kids and also asked them to hold each other. They kept engaging her in one conversation or the other and this kept her very occupied. Tiffany was faced downwards towards their direction as she conversed with them. Highly engrossed in the conversation she was having with the kids, she didn’t know when one of them slightly hit someone.
“Oh I’m sorry, he wasn’t looking and it’s my fault” Tiffany politely said as she made attempts to help the stranger pick up his phone that fell on the floor. “No it’s fine, I wasn’t looking either so it’s my fault too” the stranger said and lifted up his head only to have his heart skip several beats at the glance of this beaming angel standing above him. Words automatically failed him at the one time in his entire life he needed to say something the most. He was utterly speechless as he gazed into her eyes. There was just this enchanting aura that surrounded Tiffany that had him spellbound and hypothesized. At that point, it’s safe to say that the almighty Michael aka ‘Milano’ was Love Struck. Oh my my!
Just before Michael could fully recover from the shock and say something, Tiffany looked into his eyes, smiled faintly and walked away with the kids still holding their hands. Michael friends began to tease and laugh at him as he helplessly watched Tiffany disappear from his sight. They had never seen him that vulnerable with any woman so it was enough to make them laugh out loud.
“Guy what is it nah? Just see as you were looking at that babe like she stole your heart. I had to snap that magical moment when she smiled at you but you looked like a zombie” One of Michael’s friend said while laughing his ribs out. He showed Michael the photo as they all walked to their convoy. Few of the guys with Michael were also footballers that came to support the event too.
“Please send me that photo, please” Micheal begged and it was sent to him. That single photo was the only proof he had to convince himself that Tiffany wasn’t a dream. He didn’t know her name neither did he ask for her number because of the shocken state she threw him in. She just felt like a beautiful dream but his only assurance that she real was that cute photo of her smiling and looking him in the eyes while holding hands with the lovely kids she was with. That single photo became his greatest prized possession.
Day in day out, Michael couldn’t stop staring at that photo. He tried every possible best to track her on social media but failed woefully and even if he knew her name, he still wouldn’t find her because she wasn’t on any social media platform. Tiffany just felt like an angel he might never see again all the days of his life but he wasn’t just going to fold his arms and give up without a good fight.
Three days after the sports event, being unable to hold it in anymore, Michael took to all his social media platform to solicit for help. He posted the photo of Tiffany and wrote; “My dear fans, please I need your help. I’m bringing this here because I have tried all my best to track the lady in this photo but all to no avail. I met her at a sports event during the weekend but don’t have any single detail about her. I don’t want to believe she is an angel that doesn’t have any earthly trace. This lady is driving me crazy, anyone that can give me even the slightest details on where I can find her will get a cool sum of 300,000 Naira from me. Please help a brother find his angel”.
Immediately that post went Live, the whole social media space was on fire trying to find Tiffany. Blogs helped the search by publicizing the news and the traffic was massive. Everyone tried to get even the slightest detail about her but couldn’t find any trace of her on any social media platform.
As the search intensified, one of the parents to a student of Tiffany saw the photo trending online and quickly recognized Tiffany. She quickly sent a private message to Michael revealing her name as ‘Tiffany’ and also the name of the school she worked at. She told him not to bother giving her the bounty money and that she was just doing it from her heart because Tiffany was such a kind person with a beautiful soul. On hearing that, he thanked her earnestly and began to plan on how to see Tiffany again.
As early as the next day, Michael drove to the school alleged to be Tiffany’s work place. When he arrived, he parked three blocks away from the school so as not to make his visit obvious. It was 8am at the time of his arrival so he waited patiently to see if Tiffany would be one of the teachers that walked into the school premises that morning.
About 20 minutes into the investigation, Michael was seated in his tinted glass car when he felt a $ens-tion all through his body. It felt supernatural and just as he was still trying to figure out why his body behaved that way, a very familiar body stature majestically walked pass his car. As he looked at this particular person with keen interest trying to catch a glimpse of her face, she stopped after walking a little distance away from the car to give a popular beggar that always stayed around the school some money.
As Tiffany searched her bag for any possible change, she finally got hold of some money and gave to the poor beggar. He blessed her and she smiled and waved at him.
Immediately Michael saw that smile, he knew without a single doubt that she was the woman he has been searching for. This heart beat ceased as be shockingly muttered “That’s Her!”.
End of episode 1 😉