HAPPENSTANCE

I have a test by 1, and the only thing on my mind is the tiny omega who smelt like they were doused in chicken broth and scrubbed down with fried plantain while in the process of preparing the most mouth-watering jollof rice to ever grace the taste buds of a human. This omega bumped into me at the bottom of the library stairs, looking as if they had everywhere else to be except there. They didn’t bother looking up at me as they ran even further away from the library. What had happened to them? Why were they in a rush? Where were they going to? Couldn’t they have waited to speak and apologise for bumping into me?

God, the smell of jollof shouldn’t be the first thing to send me into a frenzy this early in the year. If it had just been jollof, I wouldn’t be going this mad. But, no, their scent had subtle cinnamon undertones. How are cinnamon and jollof a good combination? Do they bake? Do they cook? Are they a caterer or a baker or both? How did they get to smell like chicken broth, fried plantain, jollof rice and cinnamon???? What is the colour of their eyes? What is the colour of their underwear?

Wait, what? God, how did that pop into my head? How am I supposed to finish revising for the test that is in less than two hours when all I can think of is an omega who I may not see for the rest of my stay in this ghastly school? “You may see them again,” that annoying voice in my head whispers. I may. I may not. I need to read. I should be reading, not thinking about how to get them in my arms so I can pinpoint the source of their actual pheromones. Not imagining laying them out on the table in front of me and dousing them in my scent so their scent doesn’t get out and wreak havoc on others. Not thinking about how I would find a way to get to them and affect them the way they have affected me.

Now, I wouldn’t be so psychotic as to think they could be my scent match; there is absolutely nothing about jollof or fried plantain that is in the make of my pheromones. But, the cinnamon? God, the cinnamon.

I really really need to focus now. Who even smells like jollof rice?

Signed,

A🖤💜