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Valentines Day always has a special place in my heart, well more so the day after, that was the day I found out about my first horn(that I knew about). Picture ya boy ,young and in love decided to flex his culinary muscles and prepare a feast ..
Called up “moms” and asked her for her secret stuffing recipe for the chicken, baked a Mac pie cuz what’s a bajan feast without a Mac pie, some rice and peas , coleslaw, green salad, ya boy even made a cheese cake from scratch, like digestive biscuits crust scratch ..
The beverage of the night was freshly made orange juice no wine because she was coming down with a cold
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That was that for the food , let me set the scene for my father’s place , I was living home at that time.
.That was that for the food , let me set the scene for my father’s place , I was living home at that time.
Told pops I was planning to have a little romantic dinner with the misses so I needed him to not be home, he was game so he did his thing otherwise , enter my grandmother’s sacred red table clothes, ya know those table clothes that come out only at Christmas time ,yea those ones
Hit up my brethren earlier in the day to burn a CD of old skool love tunes just for the night and had it on the background, vanilla scented candles placed on and around the table, lights low , y’all get the scene .. it was perfect 
Now Home girl had no idea all of this was going down , thought she was just coming over to chill, was she in for a surprise.. she pulled up to my house In darkness and proceeded to let herself in only to be greeted by the above setting, her gasp was audible .. Boom!
Ya boy was smiling from ear to ear, knowing full well the pièce de résistance was yet to come..Dinner was fantastic, chatted , giggled like young lovers should, footsie et al..
remember that play list from above well that set up the scene for the bedroom ...
remember that play list from above well that set up the scene for the bedroom ...
Enter bedroom scene , ya boy had the lily white fresh linen on, I want to say something about thread count but I didn’t know shit about that back in the day, rose petals arranged on said linens in a heart shaped with a magnificently penned love letter in the middle ..
Y’all thought the gasp from earlier was loud, well this one topped it.. it WENT down!!!!.. strewn across the bed after what I can only describe now in my old age as “copious” amounts of rounds we lay in each other’s arms musing about the silliest of things until we fell alseep.
Hope y’all still with me, remember said day after valentines , this is it. Still laying in bed we’re conversing about the most random of things when I randomly ask “would you tell me if you cheated on me ?!” In retrospect I learnt a useful lesson in that moment ...
... only ask questions to which you are ready for the answer. The silence that followed after I asked could be cut with a cheese knife, what followed was a whimper by her which caused me to look over to see her crying ...
.. I was like are you ok? To which she burst out in tears and replied “yes I cheated on you” , I’m like stop playing only to have her tears intensify even more, at this point I’m like she’s serious .. what followed was a 30 min convo of why , how , where and when ..
Recollecting these details in that moment I must say I was pretty cool about it , I appreciated the honesty.. we got dressed, she left , couple weeks passed of not speaking then we called it quits.. so yea Valentine’s Day will always have a special place in my heart ...
Hahahahahahahahahah, y’all really didn’t think it ended there come on !!!
That said girl is the one directly/indirectly responsible for my career today, I can’t make this stuff up .. lemme know if y’all ready for that story
That said girl is the one directly/indirectly responsible for my career today, I can’t make this stuff up .. lemme know if y’all ready for that story
De people calling for the continuation , who am I to not appease the people .. where was I , ah yes, Horner girl aka home girl being responsible for my career.
To give you some context, I was studying Motor Vehicle Engineering during our relationship but after ...
To give you some context, I was studying Motor Vehicle Engineering during our relationship but after ...
completing that course I wasn’t sure if that’s what I wanted to pursue as a career for the rest of my life so I was telling her about me applying to this college in Canada to do Aircraft engineering, but then the Horn situation happened and she was out of my life ..
I still applied to the college in Canada and was accepted but the fees were outrageous so I missed the registration period and essentially couldn’t raise all the funds to attend so that was a major bummer, come to think of it and understanding what depression is ...
that was a perfect example.. there was no motivation to do anything it was a transitionary period of my life re : liming 24/7.. ...
days turned into weeks , weeks turned into months until one day I’m lying on my couch idle and my phone rings ,guess who is on the other line ..
days turned into weeks , weeks turned into months until one day I’m lying on my couch idle and my phone rings ,guess who is on the other line ..
You guessed right , home girl who I haven’t heard from in months. She’s like have you read today’s paper , I’m like no she’s like you should , there’s a notice in the paper about a scholarship being offered by LIAT in Aircraft Engineering and I should apply ..
.. wouldn’t you look at that Home girl Horn me and in a twist of events trying to make up, so I’m like yea yea.. I’ll check it out but the reality was I wasn’t .. remember that depression , it’s real.. so she calls me back a week later and ask me if I got on it , I’m like no..
Low and behold , home girl takes it upon herself to drop off said application for scholarship outside my doorstep with an apology. I’m like ya know what , this is a sign Gerston don’t make a jackass of yaself , what was there to lose ...
So the scholarship called for an essay to be written as to why I deserved this scholarship et al, and it’s key to note here I read that essay that was on my file in HR and DAMN!!!!!... wooooooo!!! It was Fyah!!!.. I’m like Gerston you was spitting some B.S.. ahahah..
Submitted the application and 2 weeks later I received a call notifying me I got shortlisted from candidates throughout the region to go forward to the next process, the rest is pretty much history.
I remember during my final year overseas I called her up ...
I remember during my final year overseas I called her up ...
.. and said Thank You , she was like “for what?” I’m like for everything, life has this was of having a very dark sense of humor and in the grand scheme of things that Horn was needed , up to this day we remain pretty decent friends ...
and make fun at the entire situation by saying ... Look you horned me but Yet gave me a Career and we both have a good laugh at it .
