"Hello Miss Nigeria," Stephen Marcel said, as he looked at the six-foot-tall, curvy young black woman who emerged from the elevator and stepped onto the Carleton University library fourth floor. Clad in a dark gray vest over a white blouse and dark gray Capri pants, she was quite stunning. With rapturous midnight skin, a voluptuous body and a thick Afro, Nancy Agbaje was Nigerian womanhood personified. And a certain Haitian scholar wanted a piece of that...
"Flattery will get you nowhere, Stephen, shouldn't you be boning up on the LSAT?" Nancy replied haughtily, as she stepped toward the computer area with a grace that the legendary Queen of Sheba would have been hard-pressed to match. Stephen stroked his goateed chin thoughtfully, and smiled at her. I'd rather bone you instead, he thought, and he barely stopped the words from leaving his mouth. Nancy had that effect on him...
Stephen Marcel, born in the City of Cap-Haitien, Republic of Haiti, had been all over the world. His parents, Francois and Elsie Marcel worked for the United Nations and S.O.S. Villages, respectively. He'd been living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario, since the fall of 2013. Living in the Canadian capital while attending Carleton University had definitely changed the wealthy, adventurous young Haitian man's life. He'd had a lot of fun, learned a bit, bedded lots of women, and had even more fun. Along the way, he fell hopelessly in love with a lovely West African woman named Nancy Agbaje.
"I was just waiting for you," Stephen replied, and Nancy rolled her eyes, and then came and sat next to him. He watched as she logged on, and then leaned back in her chair, waiting for the perennially slow library computer to do its thing. Another fact of life in the City of Ottawa? Every year, various institutions raise their fees, and provide worse service than the year before. OC Transpo the bus and train company and Carleton University were frequent offenders in that regard...
"If you don't ace the December LSAT exam, you won't get into the University of Ottawa School of Law for 2018," Nancy stated flatly, and Stephen smiled nonchalantly. A big and tall young black man with stylish dreads, clad in a green silk shirt, black silk pants and black Timberland boots, he had that unique swagger common to men from the Caribbean islands. Although Stephen often acted as though he was too cool for school, he was a dedicated scholar, frequently at the top of his classes in the criminology program at Carleton University. Don't let the dreads fool you...
