📖 Diary of the Depressed 🖊️
Chapter Three
I was packing my card stuffs to go in and prepare lunch for mom when Madam Caro drove in shouting out her usual order "MTN 1000" I went to give her the card and she asked me
"Khadijat, you seem to be familiar with the new guy?"
"No ma" I replied her frowning my face
"But I saw you talk to him a while ago "
"Ma the money for the card" I asked becoming angry
She gave me the money laughing and drove into the compound. I hissed and went back to packing my card stuffs.
Madam Caro has eyes on young guys which irritates me. She won't go for her mate and size.
I went in to prepare lunch for mom.
"Mom, here is your lunch. I dropped the food on the table and went back to the kitchen to clean up the place.
"Khadijat! Khadijat!! Khadijat!!!" I heard mom shouting my name and I ran out to find out what it was.
"Yes mom", She had a sour face like someone chewing bitter kola.
"What nonsense is this? Is this a food or a poison? No Maggi, no pepper, so tasteless" she asked me spitting out the ones in her mouth.
"The money I had wasn't enough to get both rice and ingredients so I had to make do with what I had" I explained to her.
"Shut up! Take this poison of a food out of here. You are useless like your dad. Like father, like daughter" she hissed and lay back on the sofa.
I packed the food to the kitchen holding back the tears that had filled my eyes longing to find it's way down my cheeks.
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I was back at my recharge card stand looking hungry and I was yawning when Onome startled me.
"Hey! You look damn hungry" Onome said sitting on am empty chair and staring at me.
"Hi, I smiled a sort of bemused smile trying to hide the embarrassment of seeing someone watch you yawn.
"No I'm not hungry, just tired that's all, I said and nature couldn't cover me up because after saying that I yawned again and my stomach made some noise. I was really embarrassed and I had to laugh it off.
Onome understood and persuaded me to follow him to his house so I could eat. I looked at him and shook my head. As if he read my thought then he said,
"Mom is not around and there is a plate of rice you can quickly eat at least to appease the thunder rumbling in your stomach" he said laughing and I joined him still saying no.
"Please.....he had a frown on his face and then I thought of the pains of sleeping hungry again this night so I decided to give into his pleas.
"Alright I will" he was very happy and I followed him to his flat.
He fixed up a plate of rice for me while I watched like a newly wedded wife watching her husband prepare food for her.
I ate hurriedly and hungrily and he frequently told me to take it easy but I still ate quickly. I had not eaten such rich food for the past 2 weeks since Dad left. He gave me some fruit juice to wash it down and I gulped it all down at once.
He walked me back to my recharge card stand and I thanked him for the nice food and drink; he waved it off like it was normal. He told me to take care and left.
That night I couldn't sleep. I did not understand this feeling pricking my inside. It can't be what I'm thinking? I've not fallen for Onome, not possible. Can just a day of being with someone make you fall in love with them?
I was with my diary writing and asking myself these questions.
I know the right person to answer my questions; Ene will answer them for me. She has been in relationships and knows such feelings.
I kissed my diary, put it in the box and slept off.