As the day dawned, the sun rays fell on Angela's eyes.
"Oh My God! Liah!" Angela screamed. "Why would you open the windows? It's Saturday for God's sake."
"Yes, I did it on purpose. We have plans today. Get up! This is already past 8 AM." Maliah said, drawing the duvet off from Angela's body, and pulling her from the bed simultaneously.
"Have you forgotten what today is?" Maliah asked.
Suddenly waking up from sleep, Angela shouted "we're going home today, yay!"
"How could I have forgotten? You're ready right?" Angela asked Maliah.
"Durr… yeah. Can't you see I'm fully dressed?" Maliah said while rolling her eyes at Angela.
From the bathroom, Angela asked Maliah if David could join them and she agreed.
"It'd be nice to see him before we travel." Maliah added.
Angela had decided to stay in their family house that was within the state since the break was just for a week. Fortunately, her mum and younger brother were coming down to the state for a wedding. Maliah, who also stayed far away, decided to spend the Easter break with her relatives that lived within the state. David wasn't going back home even though his parents and siblings insisted. He told them he had a lot of school work to catch up on.
After getting dressed, Angela and Maliah went to David's room to get him.
In David's room, a guy was lying on the bed while David was frying eggs in the kitchen.
"Thank God we didn't bother ourselves to cook. David here will cater for us." Maliah said. She has always been an outspoken lady.
"You girls are dreaming." David said from the kitchen. "This breakfast is only meant for the "guys" present in this room." He added.
"Oh really? Liah, come let's make an announcement outside. I'm sure there are a lot of hungry "guys" in this lodge. That way even Dave won't have anything to eat." Angela said mischievously.
"Girl, you have a dark heart." David said.
"He's still talking." Maliah said.
As they made a way to the door, David called them back.
"C'mon, I was joking. Everyone can eat."
"Breakfast is ready. Custard, bread and fried eggs coming right up by yours truly— Chef David." David announced while coming out from the kitchen with a tray of food.
He set the tray on the floor and they all surrounded it.
"Looks yummy." Maliah said.
They started eating while taking turns at the custard since they were all eating from the same bowl. After a while David's friend got up followed by Maliah.
"Are you two done?" Angela asked.
They both answered yes and that's when Angela remembered that David hadn't introduced his friend.
"So, who's your friend?" she asked.
"Ah, pardon my manners, this is my good friend— Samuel. Sammy, these are my friends— Angela and her roommate, Maliah.
"Nice to finally meet you two." Samuel said.
"Now that that's done…" Angela said while smirking.
"What now? You mischievous girl." David asked.
"You do know how much I love fried eggs right? It's time!" Angela shouted.
They started eating faster to see who'd eat more and when Angela saw that he was winning, she grabbed the plate and ran into the kitchen then locked herself. When she was done eating the eggs she came out and shouted "I won!"
"No you didn't. You cheated because you saw that I was winning." David said, walking menacingly towards her.
Angela knew David wanted to catch her and tickle her so she started running around the room. He chased her, caught her, pushed her down, and when she was on the floor he straddled her holding her hands under his knees, then he started tickling her.
Angela squirmed to get free from underneath him but she couldn't. She kept laughing so hard and when she couldn't take it anymore she shouted for Maliah to come help her. When there was no response she turned her head to see that Maliah was in bed with Samuel— seeing a movie with earphones on.
"Oh My God! Alright Dave you won. Let me go please, I'm tired of laughing." Angela begged.
He stopped tickling her but was still on top of her.
"Get off already." She said.
"Loser." He said while standing up.
"Aren't you guys going anymore?" Maliah asked.
"Dave, get dressed, let's move." Angela said to David while getting up from the floor herself.
While David was getting ready, Angela and Maliah made a list of what they'd buy and they'd eat. Once David was done, they left but not without David telling Samuel to cook something before they got back.
"In your dreams." Samuel replied.
On getting to where they'd board a taxi, they heard Samuel calling out to them.
"Wait for me." He shouted.
"Hey, how did you get here so fast?" David asked him.
"Were you thinking you'll leave me alone in the house while you guys go have fun? I'm going with you guys." Samuel said out of breath.
"It's a double date then!" David said and when no one replied to him, he kept quiet and entered the taxi.
Angela usually suffers from nausea when on a journey that's longer than 10 minutes. In order to prevent that, she usually sleeps off. She kept dozing off and when David tilted her head to his shoulder, she was alarmed at first but then she remembered that it was David that was sitting beside her, so she rested her head and slept throughout the journey.
When they got to the mall, David woke her up and they got off. Maliah and Samuel started teasing her by calling her "sleepyhead". She wanted to let it go at first but when she saw David laughing with them, she decided that she'd get back at them.
*****
"Fuck!" Maliah said after hanging up the call.
"What's wrong?" Angela asked.
"Uncle George and his family are out of town, so I have nowhere to go." Maliah replied greatly disappointed.
"That's not a problem Liah. You can come with me." Angela said.
Maliah sighed and relief could be seen on her face. They were done and having had enough fun, they decided to go back to the lodge and get their bags. The time was already 4 PM and although they weren't going to spend so much time on the road since they weren't going far, Angela hated night journeys.
On getting to their lodge, Samuel bid them goodbye and went to David's room while David followed Angela and Maliah to their room. He helped them with their bags and called a taxi to take them to the pack where they'd board different buses to their destinations. After paying the taxi driver, David hugged them briefly and they left.
"I'll call you ladies but do let me know when you get home. Hey Angel, send me Liah's number. Also, don't forget to write in that book I gave you. " David said while the taxi man took off.
Angela was a writer and David had given her 2 small journals when they got talking. He told her that one of the journals contained everything she needed to know about him. Then in the other, she was supposed to write everything she needed him to know about her and also how she spent her Easter break. He did this because she told him she loved reading and writing, especially stories or narratives.
Back in his room, David laid on his bed exhausted.
"My guy, you like Angel, don't you? Or is it Liah? Which of them?" Samuel asked David.
"Mehn, I like them both but I like Angel more. She just gets me." David said, smiling at the thought of Angela.
"Guy, you're smitten! Have you told her?" Samuel asked.
"I've not. I feel she's not ready and I don't want to ruin our friendship. We've got a good thing going y'know. I don't want to ruin that." David said.
"Whatever man. I'd say go get the girl but you should know better. I think I like Liah though. She seems fun." Samuel said.
"Yeah, Liah's fun and beautiful too. Kinda my type but I'm drawn to Angel more." David said.
"Guy, make a choice!" Samuel chided him.
"Whatever man." David said, stretching out himself on the bed.