A lot of people handle betrayal in different ways but mine was so painful judging from the fact that it came from a friend/colleague and the person I loved and valued so much. It was a double betrayal for me.
My Story:
I use to have a very good friend called Kene, we met in my first year at the university of Nigeria Nsukka. We connected immediately because we had a lot in common. He was from anambra state likewise me. I immediately took him as my brother, we really got along with each other to the extent that I told him everything about me. Normally we all have this friend that you’d tell private things about you.
Kene comes to my lodge often. whenever he visits, I prepare noodles and fried egg. While eating we engage in premium gist/gossip, then we study together especially during discussion classes. I shared a lot of memories with him. This is just a brief run down of how our friendship was, coupled with the fact that we were both coursemates.
Here is the major thing that happened, coming into the university I really had no girlfriend. so whenever Kene is on call with several girls like this, I normally say ‘God When’ it was much easier for him to associate with girls because he was given an award as the most handsome guy in first year Freshers Award Night. He was liked by girls, and without thinking twice I can say Kene was a flirt. He wasn’t keen on starting any serious relationship with anyone. At the other hand I was low key searching till I met a lady in combined biological sciences department. Her name was Amarachi, an ebony tall and pretty lady. Seeing that I was good in sciences, I’d help her with first year assignments and even reporting tough practical exercises for her.
Along the line Amara and I became so much attached that chatting her on WhatsApp would make me blush. One cool evening Kene and I came to read in the library, I had to tell him about the girl because sometimes he’d just see us talking and just walk away. At the times he walked away, I always noticed that he acts so weird but I just didn’t read meaning into it, so I had to tell him that I had feelings for the girl. He was just saying that na mumu dey love, that they’d serve me breakfast and I should just make out with her without having feelings. I told him that I just wanted to be with her alone and nobody else, at the end he told me ‘well that’s cool, husband material 1,000 yards’
On a Saturday weekend, I invited Amara over to my house and we spent quality time throughout that day. Kene on the other hand didn’t inform me that he was going to visit that Saturday, normally friends could just show up even without invitation in the university environment. Amara prepared Spaghetti and boiled egg that Saturday evening. As we were about to eat, someone knocked on my door and it was Kene. I had to open the door for him, to his greatest suprise amara was there. They both exchanged pleasantries, then Kene was complaining about the food aroma. Amara and I both laughed hard at him, then I told her to put for him food while I go outside to buy a can of Fanta for everyone.
I had to leave both of them in my Room this is where I made the greatest mistake of my life. As I set out, little did I know that I gave Kene the opportunity to come into the life of Amara. They exchanged contacts, and familiarized with each other. As I returned with the drinks, they were laughing so hard on meeting them. Well I over looked it seeing it as one of those things, after eating Kene had to go back to his lodge. Amara had to pass the night with me since her lodge was outside school and judging from the time it was already late, making it even more difficult to find shuttle outside the school. That night Amara told me she liked my friend, and that he was cool and handsome. Little did I know that Kene took her number and started messaging her on WhatsApp. Things started becoming fishy by the day, as I noticed that Kene already located her page on Instagram and like all her pictures with sensational comments on each of them.
From time to time, Kene would be like, Tony that your baby sexy like maddddd and he commended me for making a very nice choice. Sometimes he’d say that the girl is supposed to be dating bigger guy’s and I was lucky to have her. I’d just laugh over it and we continue with our normal activities. Along the line, I’d chat Amara up and invite her to my house for the weekend but she’d decline looking for an excuse. She didn’t come to visit as she normally use to visit during weekends, so my weekends were kind of becoming boring.
One faithful Saturday evening, I was so bored and my phone was dead adding to the terrible boredom. There was no light at all and during that period I had no generator, but Kene did. So I bought like 5 liters of fuel and started heading to kenes house with my touch light and phone. On getting to his lodge, I saw a feminine slippers that looked like that of Amara at the front of the door but I didn’t reason it so much. I knocked on the door severally but nobody answered, but then I could notice that Kene was around seeing that his slippers was outside and his padlock wasn’t at the door knob. So I knocked again but nobody answered, seeing that I had no option, I had to wait at the corridor. A neighbor next door to Kene came out and laughed telling me that I came at the wrong time. He told me that Kene was with a girl, the guy offered me a seat outside. He told me that the girl has been around since Friday evening, but I just took it as one of those girls Kene flirts with. The guy lighted his cigarette and told me that they’ve been doing lovey dovey since yesterday. I just laughed with him as I waited outside.
After about 45 minutes, the door got opened and I saw Amara on kene’s towel with a bucket of wet clothes which she wanted to spread on the rope at the passage corridor. I nearly had a heart attack, because it looked so unreal and I immediately shout Amii. She turned and saw me, she just shouted Jesus and ran inside. I pursed her into kene’s room and met Kene on boxer’s. I nearly ran mad, I confronted Kene and asking him the meaning of the nonsense happening. He laughed and told me that do I want to fight him, and that he was ready for it, with no remorse he told me that I was not smart. I wanted to rush him, only for his neighbor to come separate us. Amara hide at the back of Kene, and tears dropped down my cheeks. This guy literally betrayed me and broke my heart into shreds, the worst of it all was that he was having an affair with someone I loved so much. This was how my relationship with Kene and Amara got broken, fast forward to this day. I don’t tell people about my love life anymore, I make it so private. Though I still see kene at school but we don’t talk anymore, this was the height of betrayal for me.