Corona love A short piece by Ola_Olowo

When I looked back at the moment when the pandemic started, I just couldn't stop thanking China and the inventor of the Virus . Many lives were lost, many others have been borne; many have lost their jobs while many other businesses have gone bankrupt, scores of business opportunities are reopened. Many realised the falsehood of what love they'd preconceived true as few of us found true love in some weird places.
Yea… I found this true at an isolation centre where I was Quarantined. I was on a visit to Nigeria from the UK to see my mother and my fiance who had been so worried over the Corona outbreak in the UK - they both presumed that Nigeria will be a safer haven.

Just when I touched down at the airport in Lagos, all the passengers were all driven out of the airport to a quarantine centre; upon a report that some passengers had been tested positive to the virus during the preceeding flight that conveyed a batch of returnees from the UK. I hurriedly called my mother to inform her about the development, to keep her mind at rest.
We were taken to a place the government had provided, admitted on seperate beds. However, I was welcomed by a plague of desperate, harsh and resilient  mosquitoes which gave my first night its nightmarish experience in over 7 years. 

The doctors and nurses who were appointed to nurse us never cared to look after the welfare of relatively all of us; except for a nurse whose clear-cut sense of hospitality captured my heart the few times I notice her. She tended us with the enthusiasm, joy and passion she has for her job.
The following day when she resumed her duty, I decided to play sick so that I could get more of her attention. As a sharp guy; for whom I am collected her mobile number and got talking with her.

After 3 weeks, we were discharged to our families after none of us showed any sign of the virus. I drove right to my mother’s apartment hoping to give my fiancee a surprise visit; knowing that she hasn't been notified of my returning into the country, not at the time when the pandemic worsens daily. Upon arrival, Mother would bog me with talks of hurriedly marrying Adetutu and that I ain’t growing younger anymore.
The next day, Mother’s driver drove me down to Ayobo since I wasn’t conversant with the roads' map anymore. I was preoccupied with the aim of giving my babe a surprise unknown to me that I'll become a plaything of shock on arrival. Pulling up on her apartment, I knocked at the door; only to meet a strange guy with a towel wrapped around his waist.
Baby, who is at the door? I heard Adetutu screamed and she came from behind him in her bum shot and a crop top sweating profusely.
The utter shock of countenance on her face gave me all the answers I needed. I subconsciously dropped the gifts I bought for her at her door step and left with hot tears threatening to pour down my face like an heavy loom of rain.
The next few days was hellish for me and fell ill afterwards. Mother thought I had contracted Corona but I never told her the aftermath of my visit to Adetutu’s place. I contacted Nurse Yemisi, the nurse whom I met at the isolation centre to come nurse me and boom! She treated me on both professional and psychological grounds.
Adetutu called severally but I wasn’t ready to listen to any excuse she has to give to me.

Its 7 and a half weeks after the incident. For the record, Yemisi and I just had our quiet wedding somewhere in Ikoyi. The past 2 months had been the best of my life and it was as if Yemisi and I had known each other for the past 7 years. I made her resign her job and we both started to plan on how to start our new family outside Nigeria. In a matter of days, we will be starting our family in the UK after the airports finally open for international flights.
I know many will say its a risk. I know many will say its folly. But when you eventually found whatever you'd want, you have got to grab it with both hands. Yemisi and I wasn't opportuned to have dated for years, but I know we will learn to make up for it.
In the love world, its not about how far, but how well.

All thanks to Corona, I found true love in a place I never expected it.
When true love happens, it needs no preparation.
I am Ola_Olowo
And I am a preacher of Love…