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SIXTY FOUR
“Wait” Damilare said as he dug into his pockets and produced a key holder before giving it to her.
“The door is locked” he added and Tolu stared at him as tears welled up in her eyes.
“Thank you” she said before she bolted down the stairs.
Damilare sighed as he rubbed his forehead. He slid his hands into his pockets as he watched Tolu run down the staircase.
“General Abubakar, who’s that?” one of the students behind him asked and Damilare sighed.
“She is the reason your PR and Head of Pro hasn’t been himself” Damilare slowly replied as he turned to them.
“Let’s go” he said as he started walking away.
The DULSU quarters was as quiet as a graveyard as Tolu stepped inside. It was past 2pm in the afternoon and Tolu wasn’t bothered at the fact that she might end up missing a class. She walked towards Demola’s apartment. She pursed her lips before she brought out the key brought her pocket and slid the key in.
And as Damilare had
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“I’m sorry for hurting you. I’m sorry for giving you heart ache. I’m sorry for not putting you into consideration. I’m sorry for everything I did. I’m sorry for hurting you” Tolu cried and Demola felt himself freeze all over. He silently listened to her sobs and her continued apologies.“I only realized after I messed everything up that I absolutely can’t lose you. I cannot lose you” Tolu said slowly and Demola placed his hands on her hands and sighed.“You have Toluwanimi. You have feelings for someone else while I have feelings for you. hurt is inevitable in this circumstances. It would be better for us to stay away from each other. It would hurt less then” Demola said as he slowly rubbed circles on Tolu’s hands around his waist. He was blinking his eyes rapidly; he didn’t want Tolu to see him crying. To see how badly hurt that he was that he wasn’t lucky enough to have her.Tolu sniffed repeatedly “You are one of the eloquent speakers in DULSU. You sure should u
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Ibukun didn’t know the right words to say to Lashe. Even though she was nice and kind and a general person; she didn’t know what she must have done in her last life to deserve someone like Lashe. She had said she was going to shower him with all the love she had but she ended up getting the one showered.The album broke record as the first album to reach over 100 million downloads within the first twenty-four hours after release. All the entertainment outlets and newspapers carried it and the album kept being downloaded at a crazy pace.The curiosity towards whoever was Lashe’s girlfriend grew as Lashe had said the album was for his girlfriend. A few girls started making posts on social media saying that they were envious of Lashe’s girlfriend and such posts soon started trending on social media.Lashe walked out of the lecture room with his bodyguards as a girl walked towards him, her steps slightly hesitant.“Hello, please can I get an autograph?” she asked
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Ibukun could feel that Lashe wasn’t himself when he called her and told her to come and meet him in front of the hospital. So she had rushed over. Seeing him standing with his bodyguards in front of the hospital; she hurried towards him.She placed her hands on his face the moment she got to where he was and scrutinized his face. She frowned slightly as she regarded his pale face.“Did you cry?” Ibukun asked slowly as Lashe pried away her hands from his face and took one of them in his. He squeezed her hand slowly as he started leading her into the hospital.“There’s someone you should meet” Lashe said slowly and Ibukun turned to him in mild surprise.“Someone? Who is it?” Ibukun asked as they entered the elevator.“You’ll know soon” Lashe replied as he pressed the floor his grandmother was. The elevator quickly brought them to the VIP floor and Ibukun soon realized that the floor wasn’t your usual hospital ward. She turned to Lashe but it seemed like h
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