"Jay, you have to find a lady for yourself; you are growing old already, man", Joe said sarcastically to his elder brother, who sat on the cushion in the living room with a glass of chilled orange juice on the table right beside him.
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"Concentrate on your game, and if you are tired, go to the room and relax; you need it," Jay replied his younger brother.
"You are my elder brother remember, you aren't getting any younger", Joe further said.
"Thanks for your concern; I will look into that when the time is right, don't stress me, man," Jay replied and concentrated on the TV program he was watching.
"When the time is right at thirty-five years of age, when will the time be right? When you are forty or fifty? Anyway, just make hay while the sun shines; that's my piece of advice to you, big bro", Joe said.
"But what exactly is your stress, if you are ready for marriage, kindly go and marry. Must I get married before you?" Jay asked, becoming a bit angry.
"It's okay bro, don't raise your voice, it's fine. I'm just concerned as your younger brother, so don't take it personally", Joe replied and stood up.
"Why is everyone bothered when I'm not? It's my life, for crying out loud; you all want to live it for me?" Jay said, soliloquizing.
A few minutes later, a knock was heard on their entrance door; Jay stood up from the cushion to check who it was, and behold, it was a beautiful young lady with a bag in her hand.
"Good afternoon, sir; I'm Precious from Tabby's kitchen. Two plates of jollof rice with turkey were ordered from this address. Jay looked a bit lost because he didn't order food, but then it would be his brother Joe who finds it quite easy to order anything online.
"Give me a few minutes", Jay said as he called out to Joe who was blasting music from the speakers in his room.
After calling a few times with no response, Jay picked up his phone and called him via his mobile.
"Come outside your order is here", Jay said and hung up.
In less than one minute, Joe rushed out looking a bit excited to reason best known to him.
"Oh yes, I ordered that; thank you so much, and sorry for keeping you waiting," Joe said with a smile.
"It's not a problem, sir; thanks for your patronage; we'll be expecting your orders some other time, have a nice day," Precious said and left.
"Tabby's kitchen, wow, since when have you been ordering food from them?", Jay asked curiously.
"You haven't tasted their food now, why are you so much interested?" Joe asked sarcastically.
"Can't you just answer a simple question without overthinking it?" Jay asked, seeming no longer interested.
"Okay, bro, I got to know about them last month at a friend's place. I tasted their food, jollof rice to be precise, and it's a job well done. I felt like having jollof rice this afternoon, and then I remembered I collected their number from my friend, so I processed the order. I would love you to give their food a trial.
"Okay then, thank you for the food", Jay said as he sank back into the cushion with the plate of rice and turkey in his hand.
Joe stood up, walked to the refrigerator, and brought back two chilled bottled water for both to drink. They both sat to enjoy their meal.
One afternoon, Jay decided to ask Joe if Tabby's kitchen had a walk‐in restaurant where he could visit, but unfortunately, there wasn't a walk-in restaurant. One can only order online, pay half of the money then full payment after the food is delivered to the given address.
"That's not so good, as delicious as their food is, they should have a walk-in restaurant where one can go to if one don't feel like ordering but then it's fine. We will order then", Jay said with a smile.
"Joe, Give me Tabby kitchen's number, I would love to place an order and ask probably other foods on their menu except jollof rice",Jay asked his brother.
"Oh! Sure, here it is", Joe replied passing his mobile phone to Jay.
In less than one minute, Jay inputted the mobile digit on his mobile phone, returned Joe's back to him and dialled the kitchen's number.
"Hello, good afternoon, Tabby's kitchen right?", Jay asked politely.
"Yes, good afternoon, what would you like to order", the voice over the phone replied.
"I would love to inquire about other foods you have on your menu so that I can know what to order for", Jay further said.
"Okay, that's easy, you can always get that on our website but I guess you are a first timer then it is my honor to welcome you to Tabby's kitchen once again. My name is precious and on today's menu we have jollof rice with turkey and other African foods such as amala, semo, eba, with ewedu and vegetable soup coupled with chevon that's goat meat, beef, fish and chicken as you may prefer", replied by Precious, the voice over the phone.
"Wow, precious I would love to have semo, ewedu with goats meat, two plates please and the address will be dropped shortly on WhatsApp", Jay said and hung up.
"Wow, wow, food will be here soon bro", Jay said to Joe who was playing ps5.
Forty minutes later, there was a knock on the door and Jay rushed to open the door but was a bit disappointed.
"Good afternoon sir, I'm Joseph, your order is here from Tabby's kitchen", the delivery guy said.
"Thank you but wait, a question please, did your management do change people that deliver orders?, Jay asked curiously.
"Yes sir, depending which is on duty for delivery when your order came in", Joseph replied and left.
Jay slammed the door and that alerted Joe to drop the pad which he was playing game with.
"What's that bro, why did you slam the door in such manner?", Joe asked reading Jay's countenance.
"Nothing, I'm good, food is here let's eat", Jay responded looking a bit sad.
"Were you expecting someone else?", Joe asked with a smile.
"Don't start, just grab your food and eat, do that in peace please", Jay replied.
"You can always talk to me, I might be of help, you can't say", Joe persisted.
"I'm going to my room, don't bother me with your silly talks", Jay said and quickly took his portion of the food and headed to his room.
Frequently, Jay began to order food from Tabby's kitchen but then the phone attendant or delivery attendant is always different. Joe noticed he's always eager to order food from Tabby's kitchen and also always anxious for their delivery. But then Jay didn't make his intentions known to Joe until one day when Joe called to order plates of jollof rice.
"Good afternoon Tabby's kitchen, I would love to place an order", Joe said over the phone.
"Put the phone in speaker please, just want to hear how the attendant is replying, one was rude to me the other time", Jay said looking so anxious like he was expecting something important from the call.
"Yes, good afternoon sir, my name is Precious, kindly place your orders", the voice over the phone said.
Jay collected the phone from Joe which left Joe surprised as to the reason behind Jay's action.
"Hello Precious, two plates of jollof rice with chicken please and can you get it delivered by yourself, I humbly asked", Jay said blushing over the phone.
"I'm sorry sir, I might not be able to do that as I am not in the delivery department today but nevertheless, your order will be delivered soon. Thanks for your patronage", Precious said and hung up.
"Bro, why did you collect the phone? You look a bit stressed, hope no problem?" Joe asked.
"There's this lady working at Tabby's kitchen named Precious, she had once deliver an order, I think the first time you ordered from them and since then I haven't seen her again. Sometimes she do pick the call but for sometimes now, she hasn't been picking calls nor delivering orders. I just got a bit worried and I was glad she was the one who picked up today, sorry about that", Jay said apologetically.
"It's fine Jay, but why do you care so much about this girl or is it what I'm thinking? You can't tell me you are into a girl you saw once or heard her voice over the phone", Joe asked curiously.
"Joe don't start please, just don't, I'm seriously not in the mood right now", Jay said.
"Anyways, next week friday is your birthday, how are we celebrating? Is it with a house party or we would be going out?", Joe asked excitedly.
"I don't know yet, when the time comes, I will think of how I want it celebrated", Jay replied sadly.
"Come on bro, cheer up. You know I got you anytime", Joe said as he roughly hug Jay.
On Jay's birthday, he didn't want to celebrate but then Joe decided to surprise him with a secret gift. Joe ordered varieties of food from Tabby's kitchen and specially requested Precious to get them delivered. Fortunately, his request was granted. At exactly 2pm in the afternoon, a knock was heard on the door, Jay was in his room while Joe got the door opened. He invited Precious inside the living room which she reluctantly agreed and explained Jay's interest in her. She couldn't resist a handsome looking man like Jay then decided to make him happy on his birthday as a grant to Joe's request. After few minutes, Joe went to call Jay for lunch.
"Hey celebrant, come out and eat, it's your day, what are you doing locked up in your room?", Joe asked teasing Jay.
"As if you prepared the food, wasn't it ordered?", Jay said unimpressed.
"Yes, it was ordered with a special ingredient to spice it up. Come on, I'm famished", Joe said as he dragged Jay off his bed.
"It's fine, I can walk, don't fall me", Jay said with a smile as he followed Joe out.
On getting outside, Jay saw the back view of a lady sitting and quietly asked Joe who it was. Out of curiosity, he walked towards the lady to see who it was and right there, he saw precious, his favorite Tabby's kitchen phone attendant.
"Joe, for real?", Jay asked with a broad smile. "Thanks bro", Jay further said.
He was so happy to finally meet Precious outside work ethics. After a brief chat, Jay and Precious exchanged contacts and promise to keep in touch with one another. In no time, they became friends and that was his last birthday as a bachelor. The secret gift gave to him by Joe became his partner for life.
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