May looked away. Why do they have to display their love here? In front of her and her daughter?
"In fact, for this, I am going to prepare something for you to eat." Bella announced, happily standing up.
Edric pulled her back. "No. Let May cook. We have an important business to finish in the bedroom."
Bella chuckled before placing kisses all over his face, her hand finger-combing his beard. "I like the sound of that." She said and chuckled again like it was funny.
They both stood up. He was way taller than her. When he stood, her head touched his elbow. Edric wrapped his long arms around her waist.
"Maryam," he called.
Maryam looked up
The sun had barely set when a knock came to the door. The woman outside was getting impatient when nobody came to open it. She knocked again. This time using both hands to hit the door brusquely.May and Bella came out of their rooms at the same time. They stared at each other for a while. Bella looked at her with hatred while May looked back with sad, bored eyes.When a hard knock came to the door again, they both diverted their eyes to the door. Bellaflipped her hair backward and majestically sashayed to it, shaking her round butt in an attempt to make May jealous.May yawned loudly, stretching her hands and body. Not even paying her attention. PHCN hadrestored the power earlier, so she decided to charge her phone.&nbs
This was all too sudden for May. She didn't want her daughter to be taken from her. "What about school?" she asked. Hoping that mama would take the hint."She will attend school there. Don't worry about that."When May left, Mama turned to Edric whilst untying and retying her wrapper, as if to give him a final warning."Whatever you sow today, remember you're going to reap it. You better sow a good seed so it will bring forth good fruit."Edric didn't read much into what she said. It sounded like a parable.She shook her head pitifully and walked passed him to join May in Maryam's room.
Turning off the gas cooker, Iby took the kettle and poured some boiled water into a small bowl. He turned on the tap, totally forgetting that his landlord hadn't pumped water yet. When no water rushed out, he fetched water with a cup from his black water drum that was at the side of the kitchen close to his chest freezer.He mixed the cold water with the hot one. He dipped a finger into the bowl to be sure it was now tepid, took a towel from on top of his chest freezer, and, with the water bowl in hand, he walked to his room.May sat on his medium-sized muoka foam, looking around like it was the first time she'd visited him. "I still can't believe you got rid of the drawings," she said.His room looked different from the first time she was here. The lewd dr
May cleared the dishes and washed it against Iby's wish. He'd told her he was going to do ithimself later but she disagreed. She joined him in the room sometime later and found him face up with his two hands behind his head on his bed, staring at the ceiling.He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't notice her appearance. She looked at the ceiling too, struggling to find what was so interesting. May found nothing. She rolled her eyes and cleared her throat, which caught his attention.Iby turned towards her. She tilted her head and forced a smile, making her look stupidly cute.He noticed that she smiled a lot whenever she was with him. And not her usual fake smiles. These reached her eyes."What?" he asked, trying not to laugh.
Evening came by quickly. She dialed Mama and spoke to Maryam, telling her how much she's missing her. Maryam in return, told her of all the wonderful food she's gotten to eat in Mama's house. Telling her mother that she was missing out. "Mummy, you need to taste Grandma's Akara (bean cake) and moin-moin. It is very delicious. She makes buns and beans pie too." She spoke through the phone with delight. May could sense it.May laughed. "So just a week that you've lived there, you know all these foods already?."Maryam smiled. "Grandma feeds me alot. Even when I say i'm full, she still won't believe me."May heard Mama chuckle and say, "This girl won't kill me." in the background."Maryam I have to go now. Someone wants to buy orange and I need to attend to him." She told Maryam as she placed the phone inbetween her ear and her shoulder while she used her hand
In the website, the blogger had suggested that if you want to get your boyfriend or husband in bed, then you'd have to surprise him in a sexy attire that was going to push him into the mood.She'd also said that a red lingerie and bra would do. The procedure she said was to pose seductively lying down on the bed.It would have been easy for her, but May had no kinky or seductive clothes. If not all, almost all her clothes were baggy and conservative.Exiting the website she had visited for help on her phone, she dropped her phone on the bed and stood up.Placing both hands on the sides of her waist, she thought of what to do. In no time, she is ransacking through her bags. Digging out all the baggy clothes and throwing it all over the place in fustration until at last, she went with putting on a polka–dot panties and a chiffon top that stopped right after her butt.May looked at her
It was drizzling and cold outside. The street was quiet as it should be at this time of the night. The only sound that could be heard was the one produced by the rain hitting different roofs and the floor. Aside that, there were no other sounds as people of her streets were soundly asleep in their various homes. May kept walking and didn't care if she was gradually getting soaked by the rain. She wished it could wash away all the pains she was feeling at the moment.She spotted a large number of Aku swarming round a white bulb in someone's corridor. A basin of water was kept on the group just below the bulb so the unlucky once would fall inside and probably end up been fried the next day by the house owner.The owner would remove the wings, dry them in the sun. Later fry it with little oil, wrap them in a leaf with little salt spread on it and then, consume it. The rain termites were known to be filled with proteins but May never
May wasn't herself when she stirred. Her aching eyes slowly opened. It took her some time to register that she was still in Iby's house. She had slept off on his couch with him and had woken up without him by her side.Goosebumps appeared all over her skin once the morning chilly air whirled through the opened windows and into the room. She tried to sit up on the couch only for her to receive a sharp pain in her head. May placed her left hand on her forehead, shutting her eyes and rested flat on the couch; face up and her head on the arm of the couch.The hand that was still placed on her forehead burned slightly. Her body was hot. Her breathing felt hot as well.Although she had just woken up, it didn't stop her from feeling sleepy. She tried to keep her eyes open. In doing so, h