TADE
Her door sensor alarm comes on, Tade, a brown skin melanin-popping lady as she loves to describe herself gets off her bed, slips her perfectly pedicured feet into her fluffy moccasin, and walks to the living room to answer the door. A DHL dispatch rider holds out two customized LV bags and hands her a printed form to sign in before handing over the package to her, She smiles and closes the door. She sits on her sofa in the corner of her heavily decorated sitting room and opens the bag to unbox and adore the Louis Vuitton bag and matching shoes, her phone rings "Hi Baby!" she blushes as she answers the call "with a voice like that, it means you are no longer mad at me" the voice echoes from the phone, she laughs "one designer is enough to shut me up, but two! What the hell does anger mean again?" "I'm glad I am forgiven, I promise it won't happen again" Tade rolls her eyes as Richard makes the same promise the twentieth time that month, a call comes in interjecting her conversation "Richard hunnie, Susan is calling, let me hear what she has to say, l will give you a call back" she ends Richard's call and picks Susan's call "Hi babes!" "Tade gather the girls around by 4 pm, I have huge news for you girls!" Susan speaks excitedly as Tade answers the phone "Chill! What is going on? Give me a hint as a reward for being the P.R.O, I pinky swear not to spill to the girls, you know your secret is safe with me" Tade begs Susan anxiously who in turn laughs out loud "So you don't know why you are the P.R.O? News spread faster from your end dear" Tade exclaims in total shock "wow! so you mean I am the basket mouth of the clique? I feel insulted right now" Susan who is already feeling bad tries so hard to water the insult with a little compliment "girl! I don't mean it that way. You are just so talented in ways you can never imagine! Even in your subconscious, you are a better broadcaster than most who take it as a profession" Tade's mouth flew wide open "Oh my goodness! This is the height of insult i have ever received..." Susan interrupted "see you soon dearest, I love you!" she hangs up.Tade still with her mouth wide open flings the shoes off her thigh and paces up and down her living room "So this girls take me for granted for all my good deeds? Little wonder what they say behind me.. but all I do is make everywhere lively! Why am I being ridiculed for it?" she continues dramatically "boring isn't in my dictionary even if it means sharing some valid information about someone, I mean valid because I make sure I don't say false things about anyone! I take my time to find out the truth and table it so l and my girls can have something to talk about, l don't do these for myself dammit! All I do, I do it for the girls yet I am being seen as the leaking mouth?" she stops pacing for a moment and then picks up her phone "Nora better have an explanation to say to me if this is exactly how she feels about me" she dials severally but Nora didn't pick up her phone, she grunts and rolls her eyes "Hughhh! Nora is always unavailable when needed! Chichi better tell me this is a lie!" she dials Chichi's number which was picked up immediately "is it true I am the gossip mongeramongst us?""Hello! Let's start with Good day and ... Who the hell said that?" Chichi replies calmly "Susan called me to gather you girls around by 4 for a time out and according to her, I am the only one good at doing that" Tade rolls her eyes as she reports "Common! She didn't mean it that way, you are the thread that ties us stronger daily baby! And Hell yes! I am so in for a time out, I will go insane if I stay one more moment in this house" Chichi replies excitedly "Ehn Ehn! She said she has a big announcement for us, despite how hard I tried to milk out the news, she insisted on not spilling but I am guessing it has a man involved for it to be tagged H.U.G.E" Tade chatters absentmindedly while Chichi scoffs over the phone "Well, Nora isn't picking up, try to give her a call so she wouldn't be left out, see you by 4 pm"Chichi smiles "Superb! Same spot in the mall?" "Yes!" Tade hangs up.SUSANSusan wonders for the umpteenth time why a man would just bail out on her without having to hear or see her first. "Has it finally gotten to this? Won't I go for deliverance like this? Maybe my father's family has finally caught up with me after several years of my mother's trial to keep me away from them since his death" Her mother knocks on her door softly, she wipes away the tiny tear off her cheek and calls out to her "come in"Her mother walks in grinning from ear to ear "so how did it go? Do you like him" Susan lets out a teary no and her mom rushes to her to hold her in a firm embrace "what happened? Is he not good looking? Does he have an attitude? Tell me baby, you don't have to like him, someone else will come by" Susan is forever grateful for the kind of mother God has gifted her, she holds her up when she is about to break down which happens almost every hour as she is just an extremely emotional person "No mom, he didn't even call at all" her mother let out a fuss
TIME OUTThe restaurant is scanty than usual, the attendants walk around cleaning off lefts out off the table while the waitresses have all the time in their hands to gossip and laugh around. Few customers are sitting quietly at their tables. In a corner, Chichi and Susan chatter like they haven't seen one other in decades while Tade sits fiddling with her phone and munching the chips arranged in a fancy dish on the table. All attention was directed to Nora as she walks in "Here comes the lady of the hour! Who has been keeping us from hearing the breaking news" Tade who is sitting opposite the entrance rolls her eyes as she announces Nora who just walked in, Chichi and Susan stand to hug Nora as she kept apologizing for keeping them waiting "I am so sorry girls, I got here as fast I could" they kissed each other hi while Tade remains seated waiting to be greeted specialy "Tade love! Are you still going to give me attitude?" Nora calls out to Tade while Susan quickly chips in "you defi
SUSANSusan scrolled through her Instagram feed severally but no new update showed on her timeline, she had followed Henry on Instagram two days back but he hasn't followed her back nor spoken to her since their last conversation. She is starting to become worried, is this what he is like, or is he just NOT into her? He never apologized for ghosting her on their supposed first video call, all he did was gave her a call a day later and caught up with the conversation like nothing happened and she was quick to forget because he really is very good at conversing. Just as the thought of their conversation crossed her mind, her face grew wider with a big smile "I think I like him already but he needs to stop making me feel casual like we aren't planning to start something serious together". Her office door flew open which startled her, Bode her colleague walks in majestically like he owns the whole building, Susan shakes her head and warns him "you really need to start knocking before you
NORAIt's mid-week already, Nora wishes the weekendwould stay longer before it gets here, going to her family house reminds her of resuming school after a long break. She was always reluctant and sad, she was a border back then, and she wished her parents could be kind enough to move her to a day school like every of her friends, she enjoys the third term break better because she gets to stay long at home, eat healthily, and get fatter, then recuperate well unlike when she was in school. Each of her provisions gets seized by her seniors immediately on arrival, how she got to survive the rest of the term is history! She never wishes her unborn children the same fate. The home she wishes to go back to when she was younger is what she now dreads so much. Mothers have their ways to put you on your feet every time, her mom always has a way of ruining their perfectly running conversation whenever she puts a call through, she either asks if she is familiar with the color code 'cockroach bro
SUSANSusan's phone wouldn't stop buzzing after Bode posted her pictures from Linda's birthday at the club the other night. In fact, that is her most-liked post on the gram and she still can't get over the fact that people would rather admire half-naked girls than fully clothed ones. She is bewildered as she reads comments upon comments from people who she assumed to be ghost followers and even some of her friends who only remember she exists whenever she posts a cute picture. She scoffs and laughs as she reads Bode's caption to her picture again "this guy is a fool!" Her phone buzzed again, this time it was Henry liking all her club pictures and adding possessive comments on each "Mine" "My sucre" "Butterfly" Susan couldn't believe her eyes as she read out loud, she calls on Bode who rushes in because he feared it was an emergency "what happened?" he asks as he tries to catch his breath "He commented and liked all my pictures!!!" Susan informs him excitedly, Bode on the other hand i
TADETade waved at the security officer as she drives into the parking lot of Sunrise Mall, it's been two years since she discovered Pheecoz Beauty Salon, their customer's service, neatness, specialty in all styles, and the fact that the salon is mostly patronized by celebrities, made her choose the Salon as her final bus stop. For Tade, the primary reasons for going to the salon on a Friday can only be to get the right connections and get explicit celebrity gist. Getting her hair done is just secondary. If the gist being shared is juicy, Tade doesn't mind to voluntarily swap her turn with another customer just to buy more time to enjoy whatever topic of discussion it is in the gossip mill to the end. As a regular, she enjoys the privilege of not even booking ahead before fixing an appointment, Tade walks in brightly into the salon, and rather than the usual busy state of the salon, she is welcomed by serenity and some free-spirited attendants."From Friday, we will know how the weeke
Chichi locks her car as she drives in, she is startled to hear the sound of laughter from her apartment, she walks towards the door to be sure if it is really from her apartment, the voices and laughter grew louder. She barges in immediately; her mother is seated at the dining table with a familiar face. They looked in her direction at the sound of the door "Chichi you are back! We have an august visitor" her mother had announced, Chichi's leg lost every nerve and vein in it, she stood as still as a rock wondering what the hell this guy was doing in her house, why would her mother bring her ex-boyfriend to her house?Richard waves from where he is seated "Hi chi"Chichi who is still in shock looks at him disgustingly. Eight years ago, Richard meant the world to her, they had dated for a year before she realized those overprotective, insecure and monitoring attributes of his were far from what she thought to be love and care, he was obsessed with her all the while but she was too blind
NORANora honks the horn as she arrives at her parent's house, a tall handsome looking teenager opens the gate to peep, as he sees his sister's car, he rushes out with a big smile on, Nora whines down, hails, and admires how fully grown he looks "Ahn Ahn! Promise Nawa oo, you are way taller than I am right now, what are you eating?" Promise, who is the last born of the family couldn't help but chuckle, he dashes to open the big gate for Nora to drive in. It's been a year and some months since she stepped her feet in her family house and it feels like forever but nothing has changed much, the environment remains the same as much as she remembers it.She parks her car and gave her brother a big hug, she opens the booth to drag out her mini traveling box and her brother rushes to assist her, wondering if his sister had come for a long vacation, he asks "Aunty, do you have work to do around here?" she opens the passenger's seat door and carries her handbag and laptop bag while she replies