Episode 11 : Outing
“ Mummy’s here,” I said, and they release me at once. Eeww. Both of them are dangerous zone, I swear.
I won’t hang out with Eric, and I won’t study with David if that will make it even.
“ It is your fault now she won’t go out with me ” Eric hissed.
“ And who do you think you are to come to our house and take her anywhere?
You better get going because the Nikky I know will not come out again. Bye, please close the gate when you leave,” David smiled, walking to their apartment.
“ seriously ” Eric hiss again as he left the building.
Phone rings…
“ Hello, my dear, your father and I are going on an outing remember your aunt Cindy’s wedding? Just stay with Stella(David’s mom) for today, but if you think you can sleep alone, you can, but please lock the doors, okay?
And don’t try anything stupid with Dave o I don’t want teenage pregnancy if you get pregnant you are on your o ” my mom sound too happy on the phone but teenage pregnancy?
Seriously what’s my mom thinking? I can’t believe this.
Teenage pregnancy my ass But wait, did she mean I’m going to stay with David’s parent today? They are not home too I heard them talking about an outing this morning.
Nikky’s parent is already sitting at the event when her father notices a familiar figure.
“ honey I think I saw Mr. Augustine right now ” Nikky’s father inform his wife.
“ Hey, sweetheart why would Dave’s father be here but wait is that not Stella? ” lia said, and they quickly called their neighbours.
“ Seriously I didn’t know you guys won’t be at home too I just couldn’t help it I have to come to my sister’s wedding,” lia said, breaking the silence.
“ Oh, that means? We left two adolescents all alone eish! ” Stella exclaimed.
“ If I knew you are also going somewhere I would have taken her along but what do we do? I told Nikky to sleep with you guys. So that means Nikky and Dave are at home together alone? ” Cecilia, try hard not to scream.
“ Don’t let us think awkwardly Samuel is there too but I don’t know what my hot-blooded son is capable of doing ” Stella shook her head.
“ Alright don’t let us think like teenagers they will be okay? ” Mr Augustine (David’s father) said for the first time.
The narration continues by me…
I knock the door, and Samuel opens it for me.
“ oh sis why are you here? ” Samuel asked.
“ oh, my parents are not home so they told me to stay with you guys don’t tell me aunt is also not at home? ” I reply with an additional question.
“ yes the left for elder uncle’s wedding well you can come in ”
I enter the house, and I sat down on the couch, but wait I’m going to sleep with two guys, and I can’t sleep alone, what do I do?
“ What is she doing here? ”
Episode 12 : Let’s Cook
“ What do you mean what I’m doing here? My mom told me to stay at your house ” I replied to his question.
“ And can’t you see that my parents are not at home too? You still came here? What kind of a lady does not have fear? Imagine what I can do to you ” David, sound, you know I can’t explain.
“ I try to think but I can’t sleep alone and you can’t do anything Samuel is here and we are not even going to sleep in the same room why are you so worked up? ” I said with mouth twisted.
“ Of course are you even a girl? ” David said, and instantly I became angry.
“ If I’m not a girl then what am I? A guy? I can’t believe this ”
“ Either one you are I don’t see you like a girl,” he said.
“ Well at least Eric l me as one to write a love letter to me who cares about you? ” I explode with all the anger I’ve been saving.
“ Is that one even a guy? What would he see in someone like you?! ” he shouted.
“ Ah then is he a girl? He is even taller and handsome than you why do you feel you are on top of the world?! ” I yelled back at him.
All this while Samuel keeps quiet, enjoying every of our little drama.
“ You guys should stop fighting ” he tries to intervene.
“ Stay out of it!! ” David and I yelled together.
“ Handsome than me? Why is he handsome than me?! ”
“ Because he is! Because I say so! You are so cold that you are ugly in my eyes.”
“ Then you are so blind ”
“ I’m not the one who is blind Isabella is the one that is blind you psycho ”
“ Why am I a psycho? Are you not the one who always says I’m handsome? Then you are blind then! ”
“ Oh, this psycho! When did I say that? ”
“ Why are you calling me psycho?! If I’m a psycho then you are empty brain!!! ” David yells so loud that Samuel covets his ears.
“ Yes, I agree I’m a person with no brains but you are real psycho a psycho! ” I said, and I sat down again. I mean, why is he like this? Oh, I’m so hungry.
“ I’m hungry ” I hear David said behind me.
“ then let’s cook,” I said, holding my empty stomach.
“ As if she knows how to cook ” he whispered.
“ I know how to cook, I’m a great cook ” I try to defend myself.
“ I will cook you are so stupid in everything so how will you have the brain to cook? ” that’s an insult okay I’m letting our royal chef David cook today while I sit and watch TV.
“ Actually it’s his first time cooking,” Samuel said immediately David went into the kitchen.
What?! Ewww, hope I won’t have indigestion today?
Well since he is so smart to let him try hmm I’ve been cooking for almost two years now, and I know how to cook everything I know how to eat, and someone said I don’t have a brain? Well, let’s see his cookings.
“ Uhm Dave please can I boil the rice while you cook the stew? ” I ask, and he nods his head like that red-headed lizard.
I quickly put the rice on fire with the right amount of salt before I got back to the sitting room.
Episode 13 : Zip It Up
“ Food is ready,” David said, placing the bowl of soup on the dining table.
I’ve already placed the cooler of rice earlier, and Samuel arranged the plates.
The stew looks some kind of forget it.
Everyone has rice on their plate but now remains who will taste the stew first.
“ Samuel you go first,” David said.
“ No aren’t you the chef taste it na,” I said with a low tone.
“ I’ve tasted it so much in the kitchen that I almost ate everything,” David said without sharing a glance with me.
“ Oh really Samuel goes first,” I said, feeling scared.
“ Oh no, sis you go first Since you like him so much won’t you be delighted to taste the first meal cooked by my brother?
You taste it. First, I will eat after you have to take a bite.” Samuel replied. Oh no with something that looks like a mixture of prayer and curse I brought the spoon to my mouth and I smiled sadly. You know that kind of smile that you will be crying inside.
Those two grab their spoons too, and they ate whatever the rubbish is because I’m sure it’s not a soup again. We spat it out together.
“ But David why na? Just tell me why you hate me so much that you want to kill me? Why na bhet why? Hmm? Vinegar inside stew? Is it a sin to love you so much?” I cried.
“ I’m sorry ” He muttered.
“ Even if I’m stupid and I don’t have a single brain. I can’t put vinegar in your soup bhet why? What did I do so much, ” I sniffed?
“ Okay I will make another one,” I said when I finally gain my strength. Ah, David is pitiful he got A1 in everything but got an F9 in cooking. Even I the supposed idiot can cook with my eyes closed.
After 20 mins I’m done after eating, I gave David a wicked frown before I retire to the couch.
Next morning
“ Ah, you are so loud! ” David shouted because I’m singing in the bathroom.
“ What? Why are you there in the first place but wait are you spying on me?” I yelled back.
“ What? Me spy on you? It’s not as if you are attractive ” he hisses before he walks away. Seriously I don’t know why I suddenly hate him.
“ Since you don’t see me as a girl you must be a tree, with all these curves at my young age what kind of a guy reject me? ” I hiss loudly for him to hear.
After dressing up, I had a hard time zipping up my gown, but I don’t want to call David and Samuel has gone out to play. Well, he doesn’t see me as a girl, so what? What if he knows I don’t use to wear bras? Oh, no wetin mtcheew shey I will kill myself ni it’s just my back na let me call him.
“ Why should I zip your dress up for you? Do you even have pride? ” he said.
“ Why? You said you don’t see me like a lady why getting worked up? ” I twist my mouth.
“ What do you think I am? A tree? ” he shouted.
“ Of course you are like a big iroko tree in my eyes ”
“ hey! I’m not a tree okay you are a girl and I’m a guy I can’t do this ” he pats my head after shouting.
“ Eiyyy you must have some weird thought going on your mind just zip the thing up ” I remove his hands from his pocket then I turn my back.
Episode 14 : I’m So Sad
After pleading and pleading he eventually did it.
“ But which kind of a girl doesn’t wear a bra? ” he asked suddenly but how did he notice? This guy is something.
“ You are something how did you know if a lady doesn’t wear a bra? Seriously anyway I’m outta here I have to see Janelle and probably Eric ” I slam the door on his face.
“ Oh, girlfriend your parent is not at home did you sleep with the aunt? ” Janelle is already waiting for me. I didn’t know.
“ Where did you sleep? ” she asked.
“ Aunt is not at home but I slept in their house ” I replied.
“ What?! You spend the night with Dave?! ” she places a palm on her mouth.
“ hey stop thinking dirty Samuel was there too ”
“ ah! Oh, this dress you always have a hard time zipping it up who help you? ” Janelle can ask questions.
“ David ”
“ what? Why would he? Are you that shameless? ”
“ whatever he almost kill me yesterday ”
“ what? As for how ” she said hands akimbo.
“ he put vinegar in the stew ”
“ what? He is something so he can’t even cook? ” Janelle laughed.
That day is stressful, Janelle kept dragging me everywhere it is after evening she let me go where my mom is at home already.
“ do you have fun? ” she asked.
“ With who? Someone that almost kill me? ” I hiss.
“ kill you? Oh my god don’t let it be what I’m thinking ” my mom said with a stern voice.
“ seriously why is everyone thinking strange like this? He almost kill me because he put vinegar in the stew ” Ewww I have to explain so she can believe me.
“ oh is that it? I don’t know he can be so bad at cooking oh ” my mom twist her mouth in the manner I use to twist mine.
I retire to bed later that night.
Monday
I feel like I’m alive since David is not with me, But wait am I forgetting him? It will be cold, and I will get to think with my head, but I doubt if that will be possible.
School is enjoyable today, without maths teacher harassing me, with Eric treating me to lunch and with Janelle by my side, but why do I feel like something is missing? Forget it.
Ring ring
I’m going home because we are in the middle of the exam so no much work but did David read during the weekend? He must have he must. Speaking of the devil here he comes.
“ oh Nikky I will be right back please wait for me but if you don’t see me after five minutes check me in the class okay? ” he said. Who told him I would wait for him? Let me wait. He is my prince charming, after all.
After seven minutes I still can’t find David what is wrong then I started going to the class.
In the class…
David and Isabella are in the middle of the discussion, which seems very serious. From the look on Isabella’s eyes, it seems she is begging David for something, and she saw Nikky coming from afar then she quickly hug. David tries to get her off him, but she held on tight.
Nikky saw them, and she turns back immediately crying her eyes out.
The narration continues by me.
Seriously why Isabella? Why her? Why not me? Why Isabella? I thought you said I’m the best thing but why will you hug her.
“ Nikky I can explain ” he tries to say, but I cut it.
“ You don’t have to I’m nothing to you, right? You even said you don’t see me as a girl but you Bella is a girl in your eyes? But why?
I love you openly for three years, but you did not even look at me, but you hug Isabella do you know how much that hurts?! ” my tears rush like a river as I say every word.
“it’s not like that hear me out ” he tries to hold my hands, but I snap it away.
“ just get lost and stop making things hard for me, you didn’t like me, and I’m not a girl your eyes just like Isabella said I’m your loyal dog just, please get lost!
I don’t want to see you again! David stops making things hard for me. I’m not your plaything! Don’t talk to me! Don’t appear in front of me yet! ”
It hurts, and I’m so sad.
Episode 15 : I’m Okay
“ Nikky I don’t hate you,” he said again provoking me more.
“ But you like Bella, so get out of my sight don’t appear in my face till the end of this exam.
And for a holiday I will travel and be the handmaid of my aunt who just got married so keep your distance from me we are no more friends.
” I concluded before running home.
After the exam like I said, I spent my holiday with my aunt and its so much fun that I like them, but I have to go back home.
The first person I saw when I enter the compound is David. But why this guy? And guess what? Isabella is behind him. I just walk away from his face, and I enter our flat. Oh, I miss my room and my teddy bear.
Resumption day
“ Hey, girl I miss you a happy new year,” Janelle said, hugging me.
“ I miss you too same to you ” I pinch her cheeks.
“ Oh where is Dave? ” she asked.
“ Why should I know? ” seriously making me angry on a Monday morning.
“ You always follow him around,” Janelle said.
I hiss then I left her to argue with whatever she will like to discuss with.
The first week of resumption is boring, and I don’t know why mteww. On Friday I couldn’t find my purse I search every nook and cranny of the school and even Janelle look for it everywhere we still couldn’t find it.
And my transport money is there, I told my parent that I don’t want to trek again and they started giving me transport money but will I trek today.
I just don’t have a choice o trekked along with Janelle Eric and Chris, but it’s not that long before they leave me alone.
If David is here, we would have walked together, but things happen to be that way well, I can’t blame faith.
If we were meant to be together, we would surely be.
“ Nikky ” I heard his voice again, or am I hallucinating? No, I heard it.
“ Wait you are taking the wrong route,” he said then I raise my head. Its true this is not the right way.
Before I know it, we are walking together, which I’m not comfortable with.
“ Nikky this is not good for you let’s get back together,” he said.
“ You are making a mistake we were never together don’t you get it?! ” I started walking faster.
“ I know you. You can’t continue with this and I don’t like seeing you sad like this ”
This guy seriously is getting on my nerves.
“ I’m okay ”
“ No, you are not ”
“ What do you even know? I’m okay and can you please stop making things harder for me? ” I said when we get home, and I rush to our flat.
Throughout the weekend, I didn’t get out of my room only coming out to run errands, and I make sure I avoid him like a strange plague.
For about six weeks, this continues until my mom calls me to have a dialogue with me because I am just looking sick and sad, walking like a zombie around the house.
“ Nikky I want you to tell me the truth, before your holiday you will cry alone in your room waking up in the morning with dark circles, during the holiday your aunt call me that you are just forcing yourself to smile and now the dark circles of thing still continue to wait what is happening? Are you having problems in school or with Dave? ” mom asked.
“ Mom I’m okay,” I said, blinking back my tears.