"No wonder you've been moping around, acting like a dick!" Lekan said. "Bro, I'm happy to inform you that you're not crazy. You're just in love and the feeling is not gonna pass eventually... at least not anytime soon." He said it happily like he loved the idea of Tunde being in love.
"Oh, and you fucked up!"
"I fucked up!? How?" Tunde asked in confusion.
"Does it ever occur to you that she might be crying, maybe because she was feeling guilty about cheating on her boyfriend?" Lekan asked, looking at Tunde like he was talking to a dunce.
"Oh!... But I tried to placate her, to find out what the problem was...."
"She was inexperienced man! You were supposed to be patient and loving. When you realized your feelings for her, you're not supposed to treat her like one of your assignments where you just rush in and get the job done in a jiffy with no emotions involved." Mide said. "How could you be this clueless?"
"Yeah, how could I?... I hope it's not too late to salvage things between us." Tunde said with a distant look on his face before he suddenly smiled like he just remembered something funny.
"That girl is something else you know. Even though she's a hellcat, crazy and daring... She's still amazing! I don't get how she could remain pure despite being that stunning."
"Wao!" Lekan said as they both watched Tunde smiled stupidly to himself while talking about Abby.
"And she knows a lot about soccer. Can you imagine being with a woman that you can discuss football with? She even kicked my ass at FIFA." He laughed, remembering how she danced around with her butts jiggling under his shirt.
"What!?"
"Shut up!"
Mide and Lekan both exclaimed at the same time with mouth agape. "She did what?" Mide couldn't believe his ears...being the FIFA champion in the family and knowing how good a player Tunde was.
"She kicked your ass or you deliberately allow her to win?" Lekan asked in amazement.
"Guy, I played this girl with my heart and soul and she still beats me 8 - 2. I know I'm never gonna hear the end of this from you both... but wait till you play with her before you start to judge okay?"
"How could she beat you 8 - 2!? That's fucking too much man!... Are you sure you're my brother?... How could you allow a woman to beat you at FIFA?"
"I guess underestimated her."
"No! We want a rematch. We're going to demand a rematch from her." Lekan started shouting jokingly.
"FIFA is a man's world, not for women!" Mide joined... And they went on and on... The twins both continually jeered and took jabs at Tunde till the noise of their laughter died down.
"I think I might be falling in love with her myself" Lekan solemnly joked.
"Shut up fool! That was not funny at all." Tunde scowled at Lekan.
"Yes, it was... You should see your face though..." Lekan said and laughed.
"So what are you going to do about her?" Mide asked seriously"
"Dunno, she has a boyfriend..."
"So you're just gonna roll over and give up because she has a boyfriend!? Guy, even if she's engaged to be married until she says I do to the man, any interested man could still stake a claim to her heart."
"Better call her man. She's an amazing woman, you said so yourself. Don't cheat yourself out of an amazing woman. This might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you to find love.
'Find love?' Tunde thought. That word, 'love' still sounded strange to his ears. He never thought that the word could be used alongside his name with a woman. His brothers believed in the word but he never did.
Hearing his brothers' advice, Tunde connected his phone to the special multipurpose communicating device that he designed himself.
The device was built in the shape of a pack of cigarettes, so it could fit into his pocket. It automatically records a call and locates where a person is calling from even when their location was turned off.
All his registered phone numbers, both local and international were already programmed into the device, which made it possible for him to receive his calls, either local or international anywhere he finds himself in the world, with any phone he could be laid his hands on at that particular moment.
As long as the phone is attached to the device with a USB cable, his device would override its host, temporarily shutting down all its information before making it his own for as long as they are attached.
As soon as he dialed her number he switched on the hands-free mode so his brothers could listen in, he saw her location was at the Golden gate hotel... What could they be doing there, he wondered bitterly with jealousy.
Abby's party was still going on in full swing with guests mingling, dancing, and enjoying themselves. She was chatting with her brother at the moment when her phone rang inside her clutch purse. She showed him who was calling and excuse herself to go pick the call outside the hall.
She wasn't expecting him to ever call her again after what happened between them and how they both handled it. She took a deep breath in and out to calmed her heart that had suddenly begun to flutter before answering the call.
[Hello] She answered the phone tentatively. Her voice soft and pleasant to his hear.
[How are you?]
[I'm good...thanks.]
Hearing his strong and mesmerizing voice through the phone made her remember all the things they both did that she was hoping to forget.
His kiss, the way he caressed and made love to her...
'Oh god! Not again please, Abby! I'm not going to start thinking about that again!' She said firmly to herself with frustration, trying her best to forget the passion he had woken up in her and get her head back to the matter at hand.
[Abby I'm sorry about earlier!...]
He went ahead to apologized with a humbled voice. Even though he's always had problems figuring out women, his brothers made him understood how wrong he was so he knew he had to apologize to her.
[...and I want you to know that I couldn't have intentionally hurt you. if I had known you hadn't done it before I would have been more gentle.] As soon as that came out of his mouth he felt like a moron.