~Fola~
I felt Tobi's eyes on me throughout the dinner or what would I even call the event. We were sitted on a table of four with little Moji looking all dolled up and pretty. I felt conscious thoughtout the program and I could hardly concentrate on a thing; not the pageantry contest, not the drama, not the folklore.
All because Tobi was looking at me.
Like I was some sort of sacred item in a museum.
People looking at me like this always made me angry at them.
Him looking at me like this was making me angry too.
At myse
~Leke~I clenched and unclenched my fists as I stood by my bedroom window. It's being a week since the Ankara night and that means a week since I talked with Moji.I was angry at myself, not at her. I was angry at the fact that I couldn't control myself. I was angry at the fact it only took Peju taking her top and bra off to lose the last bit of my self restraint.Then I came out to meet Moji waiting for me, looking all wildly pretty and innocent and that was when I got angry, extremely angry that I felt like punching a wall. In the end, I took it out on her.Now she wouldn't even talk to me. I ran into her two days ago with her sister in the
~Fola~I could feel mom's excitement as Moji curtseyed to greet her. It was the exact same smile that she had on her face when I told her that a friend was coming over. Her eyes had gotten huge and I knew the news was almost too good to be true for her.The fact that I had a friend.The fact that I like that friend enough to invite her for a sleepover."Aunty Moji, we finally get to meet you."Moji beamed as she curtseyed yet again. We just got to the dinning to eat dinner when mom arrived."Hope you're fine, my dear."
~Moji~I was watering the flowers in the garden when I subconsciously looked at the compound of the house beside ours. It was Leke's house and I noticed that it was always quiet. Since that night of our cultural night, I had ignored him even though he had tried to talk to me. I wasn't exactly mad at him. I don't even think that I knew how to be mad at people. And now, I was regretting being mad at him. Something bad must have happened for him to have snapped at me like that. To be candid, I was the one that did not mind her business.He snapped at your girl! He shouted at you. You're supposed to be angry at him, not justifying his actions.I know but then it's not good to judge people wh
~Fola~School resumed today and as I got down from the car, I heaved a sigh. I don't know what to think or how to think. I've not seen Tobi since that last time I saw him in our street or I don't know how to think. I don't even know how I was supposed to act when I see him."Hey Bestie!"I turned abruptly towards the direction of the excited voice. It was Moji jogging towards me and a very huge smile on her face."My baby. I've missed you."She said as soon she got to me and she hugged me, pressing her small frame unto mine.&nbs
~Fola~Friday afternoon and I found myself walking towards the classroom where the literary and Debate club activities was going on. I had managed not to attend any of the meetings during the first term but now, I was walking towards the classroom. It wasn't because I was actually interested in the club activities.Deep down, I was actually interested but it was already late, we were in second term already and our finals was going to start very soon.I was actually attending the meeting because I had to get away from Tobi. He was slowly growing on me..He's already grown on you.&
~Leke~I've not not exactly spoken to Moji since that last time in the car and even though, we journeyed to and fro to school in the same car, I kept to myself and she did exactly that too.And during those times, I felt less guilty whenever I was with Peju.But that still doesn't mean that I did not think about her every single day.I do and it was becoming excruciating hard to keep my hands to myself, especially when she was always wearing those short excuse of knickers around the compound.Someone opened the door of the unused class that I was
~Moji~Not long after Fola left the class for the library, I closed the stupid color book that I was painting too. I did not even understand why I was painting it in the first place. My siblings self stopped painting in color books already. I glanced back to see that Tobi wasn't in class and I subconsciously glanced at Leke too. He was engrossed with something in his notebook and I smiled at how his brows furrowed in concentration.He looked so handsome.Where did that come from?Where did that come from?He looked up at that moment and his eyes met mine, a look cou
~Fola~I did not go down for dinner.And that was the first time since forever.I knew I should go because mom was going to be worried but I just couldn't bring myself to. I kept thinking of Moji, of her expression when she saw us, of her sniffles and her curled up figure in the school clinic.And I couldn't get over the fact that I did that to her.I felt so bad.And still, a part of me was reliving the sensation of been kissed, the sweet sensation and the butterflies at the pit