OMO LOMO

NORA'S POV

I woke up quite early,so I decided to check my WhatsApp messages,it has been a while,one message was from my bestfriend Ese

main bitch:bitttch where the hell have you been,dont tell me you've already got a university boyfriend,I nor wan hear o

me:mumu abegg calm down,I've just been busying moving in and all,hwfa lagos na,how's the uni treating you

MB:omo babe,school is sweet o,jesus yoruba boys are fine I swearrr,I wan do find better boyfriend,the cuteness too much

me:comon! nor face your book,na man go kill you,mumu

MB:lol,Abi nor be so,mumu I missed you

me:bitch I missed you too o

MB:have you heard from Nate?

Me:yeah we talk sometimes

MB:I hope everything goes well for the two of you,I don't want to loose my bestfriends o

me:we'll be fine,I guess it was just a phase

so incase you are wondering what this is all about,ese and I had a bestfriend,Nate we've been friends for quite some time,just before graduating high school,you know what? scratch that abeg,we call it secondary school over here,so yeah just before graduating secondary school,Nate started acting weird with me,didn't take long for us confess to our long hidden crushes for each other,and no,we didn't date,we just had a Thing! I guess,it was really nice at first,but university came and we grew apart,we still talk though but it's not the same,I guess the fact that we weren't really official made it easier,abegi am not just cut out for such things

I told ese I had to get ready for school,and she replied with

MB:go away jor,Abi do you think am missing you,yeye thing

me:shut up you know you love me,I love you too!

I left my phone on charge and went to go bath,tessa wanted to bath too,when we got down,I was expecting tessa to be acting as weird as I was yesterday,hanty did not even have my time ni,she stripped as soon as she got water in her bucket,I had to ask her

"haa! this one you are not ashamed so, I hail o "

she laughs "abegi,what is there? is it not breast and bom bom"

it's not o,haa people like us that dont have nko?" I asked her

"what don't you have?" she was staring at my naked chest now...awkward!!

"is that one nor breast? abi you want it to be like watermelon first??"

I laughed,hard "well no sha,I just don't like that people make me feel less or a girl just because I don't have a curvy ass or something"

And it was true,body shaming was a really big issue in Nigeria,tessa and I had our baths and went to dress up,I heated or rather warmed my jollof rice and she made noodles or what we Nigerians like to call indomie ,the other girls were already up,I liked the fact they weren't fighting or stealing stuffs like the other rooms,I've not been here for up to a week,but I've lost count of the girls I'd seen screaming at each other,or trying to drag each other's breast...juvenile klumps!

tessa and I went to class,I kept a sit for mercy,the class was like an oven,am sure if we mixed a cake and left it at one corner,it would be ready before evening

I didn't plug in my earphones today,I was making light conversations with tessa,mercy came and took the seat next to tessa, a light skinned guy came to take the sit next to mine,tessa and mercy look like they would get along well,I felt a tap on my shoulder,so I turned,it was the boy

"hi,my name is osaretin"

"hello,my name is nora"...("who be this one again") I said to my mind

"soo,what department",oga was seeming very shy

"Biochemistry" I answered "you?"

"computer science"

"ooh that's nice" I answered politely, omo lomo needed to get the hint(I nor wan talk to you my guy)

"so where are you from"?

I mentally eye roll,

"Am benin but I stay in Ekpoma"

"Am benin too!...I stay in Benin"

(Epa I didn't ask you sha)

okayy,that's nice,(guy you drop the conversation na)

I must say,you are a very fine girl

I usually didn't believe I was,but anything to shut the bros up

"thank you,you're fine too"

he grinned "thanks"

my saving grace came when the lecturer finally came 20 minutes to the end of the class.

when we classes ended,I stood to get up with mercy and tessa

"hey nora" I internally groan,(bros what is your problem nau?)

hey what's up? I turned to face osaretin shey bi that was his name?

he scratched the back of his head "I just wanted to ask for your number,yunno so we can keep in touch"

bros wait o,shey you be touch light ni??

"nora you give am the number na,am hungry o,I need to go back to the hostel abeg" that was tessa

"okay "I said to him,give me your phone,he gave me his phone,I saved my number and waved him goodbye

ehh,"nora don catch fish o,see as the boy fine" mercy said

I just laughed "abegi I nor get e time"

"you go get am o,na by force,he's very fine"tessa added

I just laughed at them,yes,the omo lomo was fine,but meeh! I don't do such

mercy hanged out with us in the hostel for a while before leaving,school wasn't so bad right??

Glossary

I nor wan hear o(pidgin): i don't want to hear

mumu:(pidgin) stupid,mumu

yeye thing(pidgin) silly thing

hanty(pidgin) aunty,usually used to tease people

ni(yoruba) used for exaggerations

I hail o(pidgin) greetings

abegi(pidgin) please

bombom(pidgin) butt

epa(pidgin) a respected man,elderly man

omo lomo(urhrobo) traditional word for dude,guy

bros(pidgin) dude

shey bi(pidgin) right?

double update

ikr,i am your bestest

gosh,pidgin isn't easy to translate o

I might just end up translating the complex ones

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