Reign didn't know if she was supposed to weep or jubilate. Instead of making tea, she had been assigned to work at a local farm. Selling milk.
She admit she got several loose screws in her head, "Why did I unbraid my hair? I torment myself a lot, my hair is pathetic. Not long enough to be held as a bun and not short enough for an afro, neither is it rough in texture nor smooth. I have no rubber band, no hair clip, nothing."
She ends up tying the meagre bits of hair with by -luck-funded bright,red bandana with white flowers.
Looking at her outfit, she know she looks ridiculous but she's going to work and it's a farm,nobody cares Reign! Speaks firmly to herself but the yellow tank top she is wearing.."Woah everyone will know I look ridiculous, even farmers."
The next thing in her list is to call mom,
She is in her home country, very far away and she suddenly miss her, not a lot though. She still do not know how to operate calls from here so the WhatsApp call have to do, thankfully she is online and answers at the second ring.Murmurs " That's my mother! "
"Hey mom love, I'm here to harass you"
"All my money was used paying up your trip and your pockets took every remaining cent, I don't even know what I'll use to buy new stock and the sugar...."
She roll her eyes, why does she sound exasperated. "It's not money, " and swears she heard steam escape the inflated exasperation. "What do you want mummy" she roll her eyes once more,
"Mom ill be working on a milk shop" She say confidently, milk shop sounds better than telling mom she paid thousands so that i can be a farmer, well I'm still I conflict with the change in professions myself cause why? Why me? We have a beautiful farm at home I'd have happily stayed there and farmed, but wait, who'd have paid for my services? Nobody. Shutting her thoughts she admits that She suddenly love being a farmer abroad.
"Can't you come back? You know that we can get you something else baby? Like you can still go back to school and get that vertinary certificate you wanted so bad or maybe I can talk to Jeremiah and ... she cut her off,
"I'm good Mon love, trust me, all I wanted was your prayers. You know that your prayers brings me luck" Reign sweetly say.
"Finally, you admit" She exclaimed.
"Mom I'm leaving the bus is outside, I love you" Reign said, as she rushed outside, she knew her mother would pray for her but didn't hung up till they exchanged the I love yous.
Inside the bus she gave the guy a twenty note and settled herself next to a window. She hated to admit, her mom was right. There were bigger opportunities back there at home, this country wasn't offering what she had expected but she felt the need to give things more time, and there were a lot of things that she wanted and this money she was hoping to make was the key. And it wasn't like she had tried and found things hard, she refused to quit before trying.
In as much as mom lamented, there was always an option to ask her for money for all the things she craved for, but why should she do that when she could as well wake up and hunt down for this money . Plus was selling milk that bad? Yeahh they had mentioned some more assignments beside that but what could go wrong were she to say no? With that thought she alighted.