Sitting on my boyfriend, Fred’s couch, smiling realy hard and I’m sure the young man noticed that I was smiling sheepishly.
What’s making you smile or are you talking to someone else, I was afraid because I thought he already saw the message I was sending and getting.
What kind of statement is that? Why would you accuse me of talking to someone else, I hissed and went to the room. I left for the room so that there won’t be further arguments or talk about that.
Truly, I was talking to my new boyfriend, Chris on Facebook. I’ve always wanted to date a white man but that felt like the right time.
Everyday, I wake up talking to Chris and make sure I talk to him before I sleep but we never had a video call session and that was what I really wanted because my apartment wasn’t beautiful enough and I won’t want him to feel embarrassed when he sees my apartment.
We kept on talking for three straight weeks until Chris told me that he wanted to send me an iPhone11 from the USA.
That phone was like the biggest deal as at then because everyone wanted an iPhone11 and the people who use it are the rich and wealthy ones. Also, it was just reigning then so it will be so good to have it.
He then sent me pictures of the phone but said he can’t pay for the delivery fee to Nigeria so I should handle that myself. Also, he mentioned that he kepy fifty dollars in the iPhone box which was a gift for me.
He sent a delivery website to me which I clicked on, filled my details in the gaps and paid as much as fifty dollars for the delivery.
I was expecting to get my phone within a week. I already told all my friends about the phone and my new boyfriend and things were no longer going well between myself and my boyfriend.
On the day my phone wad supposed to be delivered, I called Chris that morning as usual.
Hey baby, I can’t wait for my phone to get here, I said that to him out of happiness.
I’m very happy too. Let’s have a video call session, Chris said to me and I immediately tidied my bed and placed my doll right beside me. I combed my rough hair and acted like I was really just waking up.
By the time we had the video call, I saw a black man. I wsd expecting to see a white man that Chris called himself but to my surprise, he was a black man. He told me never to call him again and he just scammed me of the fifty dollars through the delivery website.
I could not cry nor say a word. I ran to the toilet immediately because my tummy was making funny sounds immediately after I saw what happened to me.
Ah, my school fees, that was the first thing I saw because the fifty dollars I sent was my school fees and I was hoping to pay my fee back with the dollars in iPhone box.
I was so confused because I didn’t know how to pay back my school fee. I was sad and my friends began to call and congratulate me about the phone I will get soon.
I was so angry thinking about how to get back my school fees.
I called my parents and then pleaded with them that there is a project we have in school and it’s very compulsory.
How much is the project, my dad asked.
It’s fifty dollars sir, I said back to him.
Argh, how will a project be as costly as your school fees? It’s like there is something fishy, my dad said to me.
I’m sure he knew I wanted the money for something important. I was even accused of spending my school fees but I frankly denied because they didn’t catch me red handed.
Truly, no project in the school is ever going to be as expensive as the school fees and I wasn’t even a science student who may be asked to invent something. So, when my parents asked me about the project, I didn’t have anything to show for but lied that I submitted it early and didn’t take any picture of it.
I’m sure there are skeletons in the cupboard, my dad said but I still never admitted the fact that I really spent the school fees and I didn’t make it known to people.