Sunday has always been my best day of the week, its the only day I get my alone time, but this particular Sunday hits different,
we are Catholics so we attended the 6:00 service which ended by 7:00 this is the shortest one-hour mass for Catholics.
in my room relaxing and chilling with chips, soft drinks, and my phone, I have already accepted Daniels request on Facebook when I heard cars horning by our house, quickly looked through my window to see who was there lo and behold my cousins 2boys and 2 girls ( all of them are younger than I am with the age range between 4 to 14 years)with their parents, I don't know if am to be excited or not, mixed feelings cause I haven't seen them for two months tho we live in the same state as theirs,
but of all days to come visiting, why on the day of my alone time, I played back on my bed distressed and pretended like I didn't know they are around and started imagining how their reactions will be when they see me "Shima look how you have grown " and how many dishes am going to end up washing today, a knock on my door welcomed me back to reality my elder brother Timothy " my friend find your way downstairs" was what I heard next, this is one reason am not close to my brothers, they hardly talk nicely, they talk like people who were raised in the ghetto.
sluggishly I carried my weight downstairs, forced a smile, and began greeting my cousins with their parents one by one, as expected by the parents
"Shima look how you have grown in a space of two months, I missed you guys" I replied with a sheepish smile on my lips turned around,d and dashed into the kitchen to help my mum with serving the visitors, when I was done serving them I got a seat and sat on the dining resisting the urge to go back upstairs which will be rude of me,
I kept myself busy with my phone when I saw a notification from Facebook, opened it only to see a message from Daniel,
" Hey what's up "
" good afternoon " I replied not feeling his vibe at the moment.
" Happy Sunday". from Daniel
" wish you the same" I texted back
"How is ur day going ". from Daniel
" not as expected, my cousins came over with a sad emoji"
" lol, are they giving you any trouble" from Daniel
" like you will do anything about it if there was any trouble " I replied
" maybe I can, if you tell me" from Daniel
" come and help me with the dishes "Ii replied
he dropped a voicemail of him laughing his ass out.
I didn't reply to him till later that day when everyone has retired to bed, we chatted for straight 30 minutes then I slept off.
I woke up by 4:00 am and went about my morning routine before I got ready for school and left the house by 6:30 am, and got to school by 7:00,
going through my locker I sensed that someone was watching me from behind, out of curiosity I turned my back and saw Daniel smirking, he walked over asked how was my night, it was ok I replied, did you sleep off while texting? that's when I realized I must have fallen asleep, sorry I was stressed out, it's fine was wondering why you weren't responding he said.
so are you going to.... he didn't finish his sentence when Grace dropped by smiling, hey Shima have you suddenly dumped m for your new boyfriend, I almost peed in my pants, his not my boyfriend, Daniel meets Grace, Grace, Daniel. Daniel is just a friend nothing more, now shall we walk to our class I said leaving two of them behind.