The secretive friend

Greetings!

Femi was and still is my friend, we were brought together by destiny and since we have been together, no one has come in between us.

Although, we have our challenges as friends as we all know that no human is perfect. I'm not perfect, so is my friend, Femi.

Our friendship started from our secondary school days, when he was selected to be the time keeper and I as the senior prefect boy.

During those days, my friend Femi and I were known as twin brothers and this was because we were known for doing things together. We study together, read together, eat together and go home together.

There's a time one of our teachers called us to his office and asked,

“Are you both from the same parents?”

As soon as the teacher asked us this question, we both looked directly into our eyes and whenever we do that, it's a sign that we want to answer the question in unison.

So, in response to the teacher's question, we said, “yes sir.”

And ever since then, the teacher had been calling us twins as he didn't see any reason to doubt our response to his question.

However, as time went by and when we were about to write our SSCE exam, the teacher found out that we were not twins, but he didn't get angry at the response we had given him before.

So, after everything, we both sat for our SSCE exam and we both passed creditably well. We were both happy on the day we checked our results and not only but every member of the family were also happy with us.

Our families, both threw a party for us to celebrate our performances and also in preparation for the task ahead.

However, something happened along the line that I was not so comfortable with. Femi, who happened to be my best friend, was my own confidant and there's nothing I could do without him.

So, I also thought it's the same with him, but later I realized it wasn't. After we had both graduated from the university studying the same course, we decided to settle down in the same city.

After we had settled in the city, we both started our personal business without using our certificates just because we couldn't get employed.

I ventured into building materials business, while Femi also ventured into selling cars. He was doing well in his own business, likewise myself too in my business.

After a while when I started making a fortune, I went to my friend and shared my thoughts on getting a landed property with him since he had been my only confidant right from the secondary days. I told saying,

“Femi, I have come to tell you about this plot of land that someone asked me to buy.” “Okay, what's it about the land?” He asked.

It's then I told him that I wanted to buy the land, but instead of him encouraging me.to buy the land, the reverse was the case as he only shared with me the bad experiences of his father in the hands of the land grabbers.

When I heard this, I ran for my dear life as I would not want what happened to his dad to repeat itself on me and aside from this, he is someone I would not in any way doubt his judgment.

However, after a while when I had run for my own dear life, a friend of my friend, whose name is Tayo and I met at one of the banks in town and it's in the course of our conversation that he told me about Femi.

Tayo told me that Femi is about to finish building his house and that before December 24th of the same year, he would be doing his house warming.

When I heard this, I couldn't believe what he was saying, instead, I asked him saying,

“Which of Femi are you talking about?” “Your Femi of course,” he replied. “My Femi?” I asked. “Yes, Femi, your best friend, didn't he tell you about the project?” he asked. He continued and said, “if he hasn't informed you, please don't tell him about our conversation ooo.” “Okay, I won't, thanks for the piece of information,” I said.

So, after this conversation with Tayo, I felt so embarrassed and shocked by what I heard, I was even thinking out loud on the road as to why he would not let me know, but others.

However, even with that, I didn't react as I believed if he had wanted me to know he would have carried me along, but I was still shocked as I was just using that to console myself.

Fast forward to December 19th, Femi called me and broke the same news to me. When I heard him telling me this, I was angry within myself, but I didn't let my anger control me as I only congratulated him.

However, ever since then, I had made up my mind not to share my views and thoughts with anyone again as betrayals are everywhere.

Although he came to apologize at the end, this wouldn't have been possible had he been those people who he chose over me had not betrayed him.

Thanks for reading.

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