Reliabl

Dotun struts into the lounge with his friends. He is bragging about his girlfriend and how incredibly lucky he was to have her. He is shocked by what lay before his eyes: Ayomide, his fiancée, had her arms around the neck of some guy. The gesture, the stance wasn’t friendship. It was something more.

Dotun and Ayomide locked eyes, dimming out everything and everyone else. The unsettled butterfly in her eyes wings off swiftly like it had never been there. She leans into the stranger. Dotun knows what comes next and his heart crumbles like stack of cards.

***

Dazed, he sinks into his sofa. Had she fallen out of love for him? Had there been any love to begin with? A coherent thought found its way through the maze of his confused emotions and settled. He had set up a standing instruction to credit Ayomide’s account at the end of every month. The next payment was due in 2 minutes. Hot fumes emanate from his head.

‘You cannot kill me twice,’ he says. Without much ado, he picks up his phone, logs into his {App name}, pulls up the standing instruction and hits cancel. Instantly, he is notified that the standing instruction is no more.

 #Reliability when you need it

#a little mend