My Guy Sent Me a Video I Never Wanted to See

It was a regular Tuesday morning. I was half-asleep, scrolling through nothing in particular, when the notification came in.

It was Cana Guy. We had been friends since secondary school. Close enough that he knew when something was wrong before I did.

"Bro you dey online?"

I told him I was around. He typed for a while, then stopped. Then typed again. Whatever he was trying to say, it was not coming easy.

"Abeg no vex for wetin I wan send you," he finally said.

I told him to go ahead. I thought it was a meme, a voice note, something dumb. Cana Guy was always sending random stuff.

Then he said it.

"Bro na about your babe."

My chest dropped a little. I asked what happened to her. He said he did not even know how to tell me. Then he said he thought she was cheating.

I laughed. I actually laughed. Told him to rest, that he was joking. Me and this girl had been together almost two years. She was the one who always told me I was paranoid whenever I got worried about small things.

"I swear bro I no dey joke," he sent back.

Then a video came through. Seventeen seconds long.

He sent one more message after it: "Bro na her be this."

I sat there for a few seconds just staring at the preview. My thumb was hovering over it. Something in me already knew that whatever was in those seventeen seconds, I could not unsee it.

I pressed play.