Chapter 35

"Ehm... how the hell was I supposed to know that you have started having dance rehearsals? Did you ask me to wake you up?" I replied not having it. I stood up too aware of where I wanted to be.

"They asked me to join a group of boys from business department. We have to perform in the next Clasfon meeting and the dance steps are pretty hard." She said in a rush as she parked her hair up.

She was lucky that her hair was well relaxed hence it was easy to arrange.

"That's nice, but I still think that you are stressing yourself too much. Don't you think that you are engaging in too many activities?"

"I can handle them." She replied.

"OK. OK." There was no need for me to push further, it was her life after all and besides I didn't want this to bring a fight between us.

I mean it would be ridiculous if it does.

"I need to buy food for Emeka now, he said that he is hungry." I told her while I walked to the corner of my room and took out the last 500 naira left in my bag.

It was not that I was entirely broke, I had some money left in my account but I was just too lazy to withdraw it.  I found it difficult to go to the ATM especially with the scorching hot son that we experience in Enugu now.

"Why do you want to buy food for him? Is he your husband?" She asked sounding irritated. She gave me the 'Ugomma you are stupid' look and hissed.

It was the look that I knew all too well but it still manages to erk me anytime she uses it on me. In essence it was the look that screamed, 'That I always did stupid things because I thought with my heart.'

"Well I want to that's all_ and besides I like him." I said leaving the room. I was starting to feel suffocated. I could be highly claustrophobic around people.

"How's my hair? Did I park it well?" She asked coming out of the room too.

"Its nice..nice." I said.

Yea, She was not as pretty as most girls but you wouldn't notice it much because her confidence was topnotch.

"So are you with Emeka now?" She asked with the same look.

"Not exactly, but we like each other." I lied.

She was my best friend in school. I should tell her...I should tell her that he has kissed me, that he has touched me. I should tell her like a Normal girl would, but I was not a Normal girl and she was not a Normal friend. Let's say I was scared she would judge me_ she would. I know.

"Mma, you have to be careful I don't think he is good for you." She said as we got to the eatery. I would have been angry but instead I laughed. I laughed because they didn't know him the way I knew him.

"He is good for me." I answered simply.

I wanted to add that he was all that was good for me. That he was enough for me. That he was all that I wanted and all that I needed. That I didn't care what anyone else thought not even her. But then my lips remained shut because there was a struggle that existed between my heart and my mind and no matter how much I wanted to shut my mind from speaking, it kept on whispering in my ears.

"Be careful."