14| Spilled Beans

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Saturday afternoon, I was done with chores and dripping sweat, I stripped and took a cold shower, it felt way more refreshing than hot water.

It was late Saturday morning and I was done with chores, Adura almost didn't lift a finger except when she decided that she would do us the honor of making breakfast

I applied body lotion, slip into my clothes, a random baggy jeans and a casual grey tshirt to match. I didn't want to give Chris the idea I was trying to impress him and neither do I like dressing up for things that aren't special occasions so I might as well be comfortable.

I took out my braids the previous day so I had to shampoo and condition my hair in the shower. I packed my laptop into my backpack with my ICT note and my jotter while I wait for my hair to dry.

It was almost past twelve when Adura slipped into my room. "If mum asks of me tell her I went to charity's house" she turned to leave but paused to size me up and down before leaving and slamming the door.

If there's one thing I'm sure of is that Adura was definitely not going to charity's house that was definitely a cover up and with the way she was dressed in that crop top and jeans, she even had a little make up on so for sure she was going to see her boyfriend. I scoff, sly creature.

I leave my room to go and eat breakfast, boiled plantain and egg sauce, then return to grab my phone and my bag and making a silent prayer to God that every thing would go according to plan. I hope it's worth it.

I slipped into my grey crocs and don't bother to do anything with it so it's left in a thick curl of Afro.

"Mummy" I knock on her door before opening it, she was lying on her bed "mummy I'm about to leave" I say and she lifts her head to look at me and internally I give myself a pat on the back for not dressing too nicely.

"Stop by the restaurant and make sure everything is okay there, I can't go there today" she says and returns her head back to the pillow. Lately she has been acting a little bit reclusive and I wonder why, does it have to do with something about my father?

I clear the thought from my head and leave, I pass by Pelumi's house thinking twice on stopping to check on her but I brush the thought away she'll be fine I can always check on her when I get back.

I push open the door to the Restaurant and make my way to the front counter to ask Ijeoma who worked the cashier and served customers sometimes to give me juice and she does. As long as my mum owned this place and helped around here sometimes I'm allowed to have what I wanted sometimes.

I take my chivita juice and my straw and find a corner at the far end with a table for two, I scan the room for a moment it had a fair amount of customer in it eating and going about their business.

Seun wasn't here yet, he worked evening shifts and mostly ignored my existence. I check my phone again, Chris was supposed to come and pick me up by 1pm and it was currently 12:45pm. I sip from my juice and set an alarm on my phone for 3:30pm so I'll know when it's getting late and time for me to start coming home. I sip more juice and scroll through Instagram and like posts and reply random messages that comes in to pass time.

"Hey!" I look up to see Chris, he had on a plain black shirt and jeans "are you ready to go?" He said smiling at me. I give him a blank look before picking up my bag to signal him that we should leave already.

"Don't you ever smile?" He says beside me as we walk out the restaurant and I frown at him "smile a little" he chuckles.

"How did you know where I was sitting? I hope you didn't talk to any of the staff?" I said hurriedly.

"I just looked around and I saw you, what's the big deal?" He looks at me with an amused face then opens the door to the backseat of the silver car to let me in.

"Nothing" I bite my lip and get into the car and immediately get blasted by cold air from the air conditioner "I just don't like attention " I say when he gets in beside me.

The car ride was mostly silent except for the car radio or when Chris tried to make small talk. It felt weird being in the same closed space with him and his shoulder and knee kept brushing mine which made me rather self conscious.

The gates to the estate where he lived opened and the car drove in. The place was beautiful, it reminded me of when I, my sister and my mum went to stay with my dad at his place every holiday. There were beautiful flower-less plants and trees and a really nice looking side walk, the houses had small low bar gates around it and most of the houses here were huge and beautiful and very identical.

"Esse lives two houses from mine" Chris said out of the blue, obviously noticing my fascination with the place which makes me frown. The car turned into the driveway of a house with white, yellow and brown painted on it. It was huge like my dad's and it made me wish for a second that mum had agreed to move in there.

"Aren't you coming?" Chris asked and embarrassment wash over me, I just have been staring for two long to notice that we've stopped.

I came down from the car and followed behind Chris not without peeping through the fence into the next house. The place was so quiet and peaceful, very serene. You could almost never believe people lived here.

I walk behind Chris through the brown door and into the living room, I could have sworn it glittered for a second. It was so neat and expensively furnished. It screamed money and I feel a pang of jealousy overcome me.

"Christopher? Is that you?" A woman's voice trailed from the door beside the empty dining room and I look from Chris to the empty dining room which now had a woman's head peeping from the door.

A/N

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