Eight
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"Ya Husna let's go please, you know this shopping is crucial" Ummi huffed, looking at her wristwatch.
"Leave me alone! It's not my blankety-blank fault!, you get hyped up about unnecessary things" Husna scoffed.
Here she come out after minutes of waiting Ummi groaned.
"Okay guys lets get going" said Husna, entering the drivers seat while Ummi enter the passenger's, Sulele at the back.
"Where should we go first? The supermarket, ice cream bar or park " Husna asked, friskly.
"Urgh" Ummi groaned. "You're too irritating, the supermarket nah" She scoffed.
"Hey! Stop scolding me abeg, you're not my Mum" She snapped.
They rode to the supermarket hushedly, and enter.
Ummi thrust the shopping basket to Sule."follow me!" She ordered.
***
"Since we're done with this shopping, can we go to the ice cream bar Ma'am" Husna asked, sarcastically.
Thay bought some ice creams and chocolates and zoom off to the park.
They had so much fun, Ummi is already missing them because she's resuming back to school tomorrow, for the commencement of their GCE exams. They returned home when people are already praying Maghreb (Muslims prayer) at the mosque.
***
She didn't hear the creak ajar when Sulaiman entered her room, because she have drifted off by then.
"Ya Ummi" he patted her legs, softly.
"What is it?" She asked, squinting her eyes.
"Mama said you should go and have your dinner, it's getting late"
"Ohhhh Sulaiman, tell her i've already slept up please. I'm very exhausted" she pleaded.
"Okay goodnight" he left the room.
She was fast asleep, when she wake up for someone shaking her roughly, She squinted her eyes to see who is this useless.
"Ya Husna what is this?" She snapped.
"Wake up jorrh"
"Kini?(what in yoruba)" Ummi asked, irritatingly.
"I just bring you something to eat, I know you're famished lil sis. Just wake up and eat, I don't want you to go to bed with an empty stomach" she confessed, sweetly.
Awwn Ya Husna can be such a sweetheart at times.
"Ok let me brush my teeth first" Ummi smiled and advanced to the toilet.
They nattered away for about thirty minutes. When Ummi is very sure her food is digested.
She yawned."Ya Husna i'm sleepy, can i?" She asked politely.
"You can, sleepyhead" she grunted.
"Noo its not a matter of sleepyhead, I'm groggy. If not we'll chat till dawn"emphasising the " till dawn".
"Hahaha i can see. Lazy a*s, just sleep jorrh" she giggled.
"Okay goodnight dear" She bear hugged her and tucked up snugly in her bed.
Goodnight she whispered to herself.
***
"Mama I'm going to miss you" she said, just like a baby whose candy was seized.
"I'll miss you too. Don't mind dear, its a matter of months you'll graduate and we'll live like other mothers and daughters live. Before you further your studies" Said Mama, placatingly.
"Okay Mama, let me take my bathe, have my lunch, chat more with you before it's time"
"Okay hurry up"
She advance to her room, remove her clothes, enter the toilet and took a long, warm and soothing shower. Finally, wrap her towel beneath her armpits and exited the toilet.
"Cling" She heard her phone's notification sound. That's when she remembered her data connection is still on.
She take the phone, read the message which made her blush unintentionally. Who can guess who's the sender? Who ever get it right will get a dedication.
She was scrabbling to the dining area when they abruptly meet with Baba.
"Good afternoon Baba" She greeted with respect, because baba is a purist so he takes no nonsense.
"Fine, Alhamdulillah. Hope you're ready?"
"Yes Baba. I am"
"Ok very good. Yusuf and Husna will be heading back to Abuja, so you can follow them and they'll drop you"
"Okay Baba, thank you" She said and headed to the dining area.
***
"Ya Ummi you should hurry up" said Sulele.
"Okay Sulele. I just forget my phone on my mirror, please help me to squirrel it" She pleaded.
"It's okay baby"he smirked.
"Don't you dare use my phone, if not hmmmmm" Ummi threatened.
"Nooooo I'll not use it, don't panic please" he giggled.
She hissed and entered the car, bid Mama and Sule goodbye and they zoomed off.
AT SCHOOL.
"OMG!! Aysha are you sick?"Amina asked, hysterically.
"Amina take me to the s-i-c-k bbbbbaa" She stuttered, and all went black. But this is usually how it ended when its time for her period.
She can only hear the hubbub of her classmates under hypnosis.
She slowly squinted her eyes, who she see sitting beside her made her eyes stiffened.
Hellurh lovelies
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