CORRINE

“Corrine! Corrine! Corrriiiinnnneeeee! Are you suddenly deaf?!” That was Sewa screaming like an annoying biatch! Well, she can be that a couple of times more than I want her to be, but I love her still… ours isn’t like the mushy mush mush bestie whatever kind of thing that girls do, we just connect. She understands me, doesn’t judge, got my back just as I got hers, although sometimes, I be wanting to get more than her back… hehehehehe!

“So tell me about this new guy. He cute?” “Ohhh Sewa! Yes, he’s cute! And yes, I’m interested… in the only wayyy you know I can be interested!” “Aw shush C! You know you can be interested with your heart and not your… anyways, y’all meeting up sometime soon?” “Yea, I’m watching the game with him tonight at the bar. Wanna come?” “Neeehhhhh! I got plans myself. Know what? You can tell me all about your date and I can do same later on BBM, yea?” “Sure, ‘slong as you don’t sleep on me this time, you always do!” “Hahahahaha! I’ll try not to tonight. There… I hung your white shirts, deal with the rest. I’m outta here!” “Thanks babes. I’ll see your ass later!”

Corrine Olufowokan. That’s me! 29. Orphan. Live with aunt and her husband. Got an apartment at the back of the house to myself. I’m pretty much left alone. Don’t drink, don’t smoke, not saying I’m a saint, I got my vices; I work, sometimes as a model, sometimes as a script writer to my boss who never pays enough! I mean, hell! that shii is tasking and nigga jus comes up with too much excuses not to pay me some good money, I’mma quit on his ass soon! Ok, at this point, you figured out one of my vices, no? I cuss. It’s an old habit, dying hard!

Picture above is one of my modelling jobs, I loved this one! I didn’t sweat too much in the sun like some of the other jobs! I remember how the photography dude and the production manager had issues whether I should take off my belly chain or not. I jus’ sat legs crossed under the shade watching ‘em two argue. The thing is the belly chain’s important to me, matter of fact it’s symbolic. You see, I’ve been in love one time, jus’ one time! And it ended really badly! I will not go into details, but I will say this… never date a colleague at work except if you’ve got a crystal ball or a tarot card reader who can assure you that everything will work out fine and y’all will live happily ever after! But if not, then never! My two point five cents!

So after the whole ordeal with the former colleague/ex-boyfriend/dude-I-never-wanna-run-into-ever-again, I walked into a store one day and saw this silver belly chain, and even though I wasn’t into stuff like that, I fell in love almost instantly. Ever since I paid for it, I wore it every day! Like, I said it’s symbolic for me. You see, a lotta girls get into a lotta trouble because they mix matters of the heart with matters of the V region! Seriously, most guys care not so much about your heart (I said “most”!); matter of fact, most don’t care if you are breathing, as long as down there is breathing! That’s all that matters! Unfortunately, girls usually learn this the hard way! I know Corrine did (yes, I usually refer to myself in the third person sometimes; they say it’s a sign of narcissism? Oh well…)

Back to my silver belly chain story… at some point in my life, I figured I’d have to separate my heart from… from everything else! That’s where the chain comes in! My heart can stay up there and all the other roaring, this-girl-is-on-fire emotions can stay down there! So my SBC is like a silver bullet *grins* lil Miss Wolverina V down there can devour all she wants as long as she doesn’t try to make contact with the heart! Silver bullet shoots her out of the wolf mode if she does!

So that’s my story of the silver belly chain and all the body parts involved! Back to the argument, the photo guy won and my SBC was part of the shoot obviously! Think I’ll cancel tonight’s date and crash Sewa’s; girl should learn to stop telling me everything including time and venue of her dates! *evil grin*

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Written by Faith John @rebelkween

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