The photographer-1 by Angelss
“Hurry we’re late,” she yelled at her bestie. The
wedding preparations had just begun and the date
was very close, gosh! What was she thinking.
Nadina Patrick Essien was a typical sanguine; loud
and friendly, extremely emotional and this endeared
many people towards her. Since childhood, Nadina
was treated specially from other kids due to her
charisma, this attracted envy even from her own
friends. She was extremely pretty and intelligent,
with a bubbling social life, one could hardly imagine
how a Law student combined clubbing and school.
“You see what I warned you about? We should have
started earlier.” Udeme complained as she struggled
with the tight fitting pencil jeans trouser. Her friend
Nadina was almost the opposite of her; while
Nadina was carefree, Udeme was very careful and
planned everything she wanted doing. She shook her
head as she stared at the mirror; she was going to
be the maid of honor. Nadina had fallen deeply in
love with her friend Duncan Ette. She remembered
introducing them on one birthday party, which was
her mistake. She didn’t expect their friendship to
bloom the way it did. Nadina always took
everything; her friends, her attention and the way
people flocked around her, calling her Nadie lovingly.
She finally took Duncan’s heart. Duncan was every
girls dream, he was rich and hardworking, even while
in the University He had his own business, although
it was on the small scale, it got bigger after being
merged with his father’s company. This made his
progress explosive. He was average in height, dark
with features so lovely; his eyes were shaped like
almonds, giving him a seductive look, in addition to
his well chiseled nose and attractive lips and a
muscled frame. Duncan was for the kills! But he
used to be her best friend. Unlike before, he no
longer spent time with her, neither did he take her
on dates nor call her daily as he used to. She had
fallen in love with him and he used to call her
“baby” before he started dating Nadina. Maybe she
should have opened up to him about her feelings.
“And what is going on through your mind?” Nadina
asked an absent minded Udeme. Her friend had
been acting strange since this wedding thing; she
had become withdrawn and sad. Well she had to be,
as she would miss her bestie once the wedding was
over, Nadia thought. Duncan was the love of her life,
she was extremely lucky to have him, thanks to UD
who introduced them! Duncan had changed her life;
from holiday trips to Dubai to expensive gifts, even
paying her fees. He worshipped her, she was his
Angel; that was what he called her. The trip to the
boutique was slow and quiet, each lady to her
thought. They had three place to visit; first the
boutique, the caterers shop and the photographer’s.
Visiting the boutique was quite thrilling. Bee’s House
was the biggest wedding boutique in the country.
“Let’s do this,” Nadina yelled excitedly as she
stepped out of the car, “You no go calm down? No
fall o.” UD exclaimed, and shook her head. “Yeye
girl,” she added jokingly. They spent over one hour in
the boutique as Nadina kept having problems
making up her mind. “I want this one, no, wait!
That’s better!" She kept on. UD had actually gotten
tired of waiting for the Queen of England to choose a
dress for the royal ball. She strolled to a nearby fast
food joint, picked the menu, well well, She was in the
mood for something chill due to the sunny weather.
She beckoned on the waitress, “I need ice cream,”
she requested. “What flavor do you want? We have
strawberry, blueberry, ginger horse, vanilla...” “Oh
just bring whatever,” she interrupted the waitress
with a wave. She was tired and needed to save her
strength for the rest of the shopping. That sadness
returned, she was filled with envy but she pushed it
aside. She had heard of besties betraying themselv
es, she could never bring herself to hurt Nadina, no.
If Duncan was ever hers, then it would have
happened. For now, she was going to enjoy her ice
cream with all serenity. Her phone rang and pushed
her out of her thoughts. “Give me twenty minutes,
yes...OK.” As she looked up, there was a male
stranger before her, looking at her with a smile. My
my! Her mind exclaimed. If Duncan was considered
handsome then this man in front of her was the god
of handsomeness himself. “Hello UD, are you there?”
Nadina was still on the other end of the phone.
“Hello Princess,” the Adonis greeted. “Can I help
you?” She asked curiously. Yes you can, he thought;
I could kiss your pretty lips. He was drawn by her
beauty, that angelic aura that surrounded her, he
knew a beauty when he saw one, after all he was an
artist. “It appears your ice cream is running out.
Can I get you another?” He replied cordially.
“Hmmm, I don’t talk to strangers,” she replied and
made her way to leave but she was too late. He
cornered her and they stood looking deeply into
each other’s eyes. They must have roused attention
in the restaurant. Too late! Jeez was he gonna kiss
me? Udeme thought. Duncan and Nadina walked in
looking shocked as th ey saw the fearful look in her
eyes. “Excuse me? Is he disturbing you?” Duncan
asked looking the stranger up and down. Who was
he, hovering over Udeme? Duncan thought. He
studied him some more, the man was way too fly,
he felt threatened. “I’m sorry, nothing’s wrong. He’s
just a new friend I met. See?” She hugged the
stranger lovingly, “Oh, you mean it? Alright.” Duncan
backed out. “I’m in love with your friend,” the
stranger smiled as he shook Duncan’s hand, Udeme
blushed shyly. The stranger winked at her. All this
while, Nadina felt lost, she just stood there staring
at the most sexy man ever! She felt weird. He
somehow looked familiar. She felt jealous this once
for her friend UD. She, Nadina always got the
attention, after all she was light skinned and prettier
with a sexier figure. She smiled as the stranger took
her hand in his and kissed it. “You’re such an
angel,” the stranger remarked and found UD staring
jealously. He winked again. Duncan actually felt
jealous of this man, complimenting his friends like
that. "Have my card, my love. Please make sure you
call me,” he stretched out his card to Udeme, kissed
her fore head and left. For the first time in her life, a
man wanted her for her, and not as a means to get
her friend.
