CHAPTER 26

In the plane

"You're not serious right? There's no way you can gobble down two bottles of wine and still be wide awake!" I said to Lyle

We were discussing, you know trying to get to know each other

"So do you have any siblings?" Lyle asked

"Yeah, five of them, but they all live with my mom, I'm the only one who lives with my dad, they're separated" I said

"Oh I'm sorry I didn-" I cut him off

"No no, its okay, I'm totally fine with it, if I wasn't, I wouldn't be so open about it, back to our discussion." I smiled at him

"Do you have any?" I asked him

"Yeah, two of them, my younger Sissie and my older brother, he's eighteen and she's twelve, I'm seventeen though, you?" My mouth dropped open like an open oven

"You're seventeen, damn you look twenty-two or even twenty-four, you're older than your age." He laughed and nodded as he said

"I know right? I get that everywhere I go, how about you?"

"I'm seventeen too." I said and he nodded

"So, why are you coming to Denmark?" He asked

"To see my boyfriend, apparently, he just left school and told all of us that he's going home and might not be back in a forever." I frowned

"Well he's gotta be prepared for your wrath. By the way where does he stay so I can give you a ride when you're going, might as well give you a tour." He said

"The sad thing is, I don't know where he stays. I'm just hoping to find him."

I replied

"Are you serious?! What were you thinking trying to find one person in the whole big city of Copenhagen?!" He looked at me in surprise

"I also came for tour, but that's not the major reason, if I don't see him, might as well enjoy my tour and weekend." I said and smiled, Lyle simply shrugged and laughed

"You can stay at my place by the way, no worries its my family house." He said and I considered it, it wasn't that bad, seeing his family would be nice too, its been a long while since I saw a complete family of parents and children

"Okay thanks, I appreciate it." He nodded and smiled then directed his gaze back to his front, while I stretched out and slept.

Three hours later

Okay now I'm already awake and we've gotten out of the plane and were making our way toward a nice looking car, a BMW though

"Who's car is that by the way?" I asked

"Mine, I have a driver" he replied

I nodded as we continued walking towards the car.

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When we got to Lyle's house, behold it wasn't just a mansion but it was like a palace, too big, it looked more like a business organization other than a place someone called home.

"You never mentioned that you lived in a palace." I said in awe and he just laughed

When we walked in, the men at the door opened it and bowed, Lyle nodded and we both walked past them before a girl who looked younger than I was ran to Lyle and hugged him.

"It just keeps getting better, big brother just came home a few days ago and now, so have you!" Her sharp voice tore away the thickness of the air around. Then, her eyes flicked to my direction.

She gasped

"Oh my gosh! You have a girlfriend! What's her name?" I just smiled

"She's Tiara, Tiara Mayors and she's not my girlfriend, she already has a boyfriend, she's just my friend that'll be staying here for the weekend okay?" Lyle grinned at her

"Meh get out... I'm Arrie." She said as she walked to me and I smiled

"That's a nice name, you already know mine though." I said and she pulled me into a hug, for a twelve year old, she sure is really tall, looks about 5'3 or taller.

"Okay so, I can show you around, and you can pick any room of your choice, believe me when I say there are about seventy six rooms here, all well furnished and all. So are you from Denmark? Or Africa?" Arrie asked

"I'm from Nigeria, in Africa." I smiled

"Cool I'm Danish though, I guess you already know, I should probably stop talking." she smiled sheepishly

"No I didn't know, this is my first time in Denmark." I said and grinned at her

"Okay so, what's your favourite colour?" She asked

"Black and cyan, you?" I looked at her

"Oh... I love purple and white" she smiled lazily as we walked into the elevator, yup, there's an elevator in their home

We got to the middle floor of the ten storey building, and came out of the elevator then walked past many rooms.

"So I said to this guy, dude leave me alone, I'm just twelve years old!" She looked at me in disbelief "but you know what? He said to me, 'I know, I love girls who are younger than I am by half my age, which meant this dude was twenty four!!" She said in disbelief with her arms flying all over the place.

I just laughed, Lyle's sister was so funny, and the funniest thing about her is that she didn't even know she was funny.

"When I was at the airport in The UK, a dude in sports clothes walked up to me and went 'pardon me, you know where I can purchase some golf clubs?' And I'm all 'back off man, I don't wanna talk to you!' Trust me, it was hilarious" I said and we both laughed out loudly.

"So I see you're enjoying each others company." Lyle's voice boomed from the other end of the hall

"Yeah, its nice to have another girl to stay for the weekend, I was beginning to get bored of Alice, she keeps drooling whenever she sees Eddie, I'm like whoa girl, I'm his sister and I'm right here" she shook her head and gagged.

I and Lyle looked at ourselves and bursted out in laughter

"Oh here we are, my favorite room, at least apart from mine, I spend most of my quality time here, I want you to have it!" She said and looked at me happily

"You're a beautiful black girl, I've always wished for my brother to get married to a black girl but mom always said that he'll marry Dani and she's older than he is, way older than he is, I never liked her but what can a twelve year old do?" She shrugged and let the luggage holder pass into the room and then walked me back to the living room.

"I'll show you around after lunch." She grinned cheekily and walked to the dinning table where everyone was seated

"Where's Eddie?" Lyle asked

"He hasn't come out of his room since yesterday afternoon, apparently he got mad at mom and has decided to avoid her." Arrie replied and shrugged