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They had been childhood sweethearts, from the first moments they met, there had been an instant familiarity about them. These days, the story was entirely different. Bimbo remembered wiith a pained expression on her face...

It all started right when she gained admission into secondary school. Segun though two years ahead of her had made quite an impression on her young mind.

'Do you know where I can find my sister Tope?' He'd asked her but she had replied quite rudely 'Do I look like I know where she is?

At this point it must be said that Segun's Sister Tope was actually friends with Bimbo's elder sister Deola. And since the first meeting that day they always taunted and teased one another and that later developed into friendship.

The friendship was such that Bimbo gave Segun a hand in picking likely girlfriends and choosing gifts for them at Christmas and easter and Valentines. Àll through those early years in school she was widely known as his 'partner in crime'.

He in turn gave her advise about boys, though she wasn't particularly interested in any boys at the time. She was more an egghead and was quite firm, so the boys in her year were quite intimidated, it also didn't help that her elder brother was a Senior Prefect then.

Then the unthinkable happened.. Segun's dad died and he went into Self-Destruct mode.