noYvonne would you help me get Clara ready for school"
Ya that's my mom trying to make me take care of Clara for the whole day ever since she got my dad to open dis hair salon for her she has shifted her responsibility of taking care of Clara to me.
I have to make breakfast for her, make sure she has lunch and then take her to ballet class. All this because of Mrs Kenneth. she is my mom's best friend ever since their nursery days she would always come to our house and be like " Sarah you are too young to be wasting your talent like this"
we both know you are a professional hair stylist why would u open a provision store in on the street why not open a hair salon and we could go shopping for human hair outside the country like old times after all it's not like money is the problem. And my mom had totally given in to it.
Even tho Sophia had known my mom for like all her life and had been best of friends but they were totally different the only thing they loved was shopping my mom was quiet and reserved while Sophia was a large mouthed gossip and extravagant but that was probably what I thought when I was younger growing up I had come to realize they were alike in every aspect. And my mom seemed reserved while we were growing up was probably because my dad abhorred Sophia because he hated her extravagant nature judging by the heavy makeup she puts on and the way she changes her cars like they were displayed for free felt she is a bad influence on mom but mom was no less judging from the way she had been buying stuff for the last few months seems like she mom had put most of her life on hold just to raise us
but that wasn't my problem I hated Sophia so much right now for ruining my life inasmuch as she was trying to encourage my mom to follow her youthful dreams but she was ruining my life and I was super mad at mom for even listening to her she should have just remained the way she was why would she have to change and if so why now she was costing me my life because ever since she started running that salon my whole life belonged to Clara my kid sister all because my mom was being selfish but after a while I wasn't so mad I realized my mom have been making a hell of a sacrifice for us she had spent almost 18 years of her life trying to be a good mom providing all our needs and making sure we were very comfortable as kids and the least we could do for her was to be supportive she had given up her dreams to be there for us so I just accepted the change.
Taking care of Clara my older brother Tresh wasn't really much of help he only thinks about himself and dosent like to help around the house because he thinks hard work isn't meant for people like him. personally I think he should just admit that he is a weakling all he does is play video games like they were his life one time I think he must have broken Guinness book of records because he spent 48 hours on this new combat game that seemed to never end that weekend and mom had traveled home for a family burial with Dad so there was nobody to bug him and I really didn't bother him because I didn't want to be locked inside my bedroom.
so Tresh turned 18 last month and has still not gotten admitting into the university much to his dismay because he thought dad would water his way through the whole process but trust dad he would never spend his money on things like dat ever again so it's either you earn it or you forget it so Tresh had to resit for JAMB this year and since he spent most of his time on the television dad stopped paying in his allowance and that seriously severed his relationship with Dad which was already hanging only on the effort of mom to cool down things.
But in my life right now Tresh was the least of my problem. the big deal is that since I was a kid I used to wish for this cool awesome party so whenever I got the chance this week I was going to ask Dad for a birthday party.
so on Saturday when Dad was weeding his vegetable garden I asked him if I could get a birthday party he was surprised at first but he just nodded his head in agreement but if only I would make an A in mathematics in the next session. I was happy not that he approved of the birthday but because he actually went through my result booklet he never seemed to care but then why was dad giving me conditions for my birthday like Tresh always gets a party every year and Clara even got a frozen party this year why would mine have to be different it felt it didn't even exist I was always the one to make the announcement every single year. it won't then be celebrated doing dinner with moms homemade cakes which she claims she makes specially for me even tho I knew it wasn't true.the only person who remembered my birthday was Micheal he always dropped by each year with a gift for me. well all those didn't matter anymore because this year I am determined to do everything possible to have a cool birthday party and celebrate my sweet sixteen in Grand style but with the condition dad had given I think the cool party seemed like an illusion of my own making.
on Sunday after church service and having a lunch of vegetables stew, boiled rice and fried fish dad asked me to get ready. I would say I was really surprised but Happy dad never took me out no matter what he always insisted on going with Tresh even tho Tresh hated it with all the strength left in him I was still not fully comfortable with the whole idea of going out I hated meeting people. well I got ready when I got downstairs I saw Tresh moving up and down the balcony that was when I realized that he must have had a fight with Dad. when I got into the car dad looked like someone who had just suffered from a nervous breakdown and he didn't even utter a word to me when I got into the car and started driving the moment I shut d door. when we got to were seemed to be our destination I was dumbstruck I was standing in one of d most prestigious stadiums in the country it was named after our very first president and had d privilege of hosting d u-20 world cup