Chapter 2

"FEYI!!"

The girl mentally cringes at the loud shrill voice of her mother. Anytime she hears her mother's voice, she often cowers in fear as it usually means that she is in trouble.

She quickly gets out of the bed and heads into the living room where her mother was standing waiting for her.

"Why is that there?" she asks, pointing at the disinfectant spray that was on the floor.

Feyi panics inwardly as she forgot to put it on the table because she was not only on her laptop trying to edit her C.V yet again but she also ran an errand for her mother earlier. Plus she was playing Valkyrie like old times.

"I...I forgot...."

"You forgot?! You always keep on forgetting!! Not surprising because you are always on that stupid laptop!! You studied Computer Science yet you cannot even apply that degree into something useful!!"

Feyi wanted to argue but could not find the words to fight back.Feyi just sighs and takes all that verbal abuse whilst struggling to fight back tears.

"Speaking of your laptop, shut it down and hand it over to me!! It is not contributing anything useful to your life and it shows."

Feyi just rolls her eyes before shutting down her laptop and handing it over to her mum and then walking past without even sparing a glance at her mother.

"Can you imagine this girl just ignored me like that? How dare she?!"

Feyi just leaves the house and heads outside. She has been cooped up in the house for too long so she might as well go out despite her lacklustre social skills.

She then spots an Internet Cafe and heads in there. The Cafe did not have a lot of customers around which was good because she does not like crowds much.

She then takes her seat and just chills out. "Do you intend to use any of our computers for anything?" the cafe manager asks. She looks around and noticed some people playing Valkyrie.

"I would like to play that game please." The manager smiles and hands Feyi a special access card which she pays for.

She is then directed towards a computer system that was at the far end of the cafe and takes her seat.

Once she inserts the card, the manager helps her boot up the computer and she logs in and begins to play like crazy.

She continues to stay there until around 7 o'clock and heads back home.

Upon reaching home, she ignores her mother and her friends and just heads straight into her room. "Why is Feyi like this?" asks one of the women. "Exactly. That is not how she usually behaves."

Once she gets to her room, she plops onto her bed and just lies down. Usually she would put on the TV but today was not that day.

Her thoughts get distracted by a beep from her phone. She picks it up from her phone and sees a notification of a Facebook message.

Curious, she taps on the notification and is redirected back to Facebook where she sees a Facebook messager message from someone she has not heard from for years; Dolapo Thomas, her friend from Infotech days. She used to have a crush on him due to how sweet of a guy he was.

Theconversation between the two went as follows:

@DolapoThomas: Hi Feyi. Longest time.

Smiling softly, she replies:

@FeyiBadmus: Hi Dolapo. I'm good and you?

He replies with:

@DolapoThomas: Good as well. I lost access to your number because my phone got stolen.

Feyi feels bad for him.

@FeyiBadmus: Eyah. Sorry to hear that. Will give you my number.

She then types out the number and sends it to him.

@DolapoThomas: Thank you Feyi.

She smiles softly as soon as she sees the incoming call from a number she believes to be Dolapo's.

"Hi Dolapo." she says. "Feyi I missed hearing your sweet voice."

She giggles. "You and that your mouth eh." The guy chuckles. "Hey just one of my charms." She grins and continues chatting with him, managing to forget the incident with her mother for once. She did not even sit at the table with her mother, something that did not go unnoticed to her oldest sister Sade who goes to Feyi's room to check on her little sister and stands by the doorway.

Feyi was not paying attention to the TV which she finally switched on and was spacing out.

"You ok kiddo?"

The girl just stares at her with a blank expression on her face. Being the last born of the family may have some perks but there is an obvious downside to it best illustrated by their mother's overbearing attitude.

Sade sighs and walks in, taking a seat beside her. "Don't mind mummy." The baby sister just pouts at her. Sade smiles softly and hugs her sister."You will be fine kiddo." Feyi smiles a bit and hugs her sister back. "Leave Mummy to me."

She then heads out to go have a chat with their mum. Feyi decides to open the door and eavesdrop on their conversation.

"I get you do not understand her mum and truth be told, no one does. But at the same time mummy. She is your daughter. She is one of us. She may not have a job but how about this? Let Feyi find something that interests her via her laptop regardless of whatever it is and just create a career path of if that."

Their mother thinks for a moment before saying, "Alright but she has one month." Feyi's eyes widen in shock. One month?! What does she mean by one month?! Sade then returns holding Feyi's laptop. "Here you go sis." Feyi gets off her bed and hugs her sister. "Thank you."

Sade chuckles and gently pets her on the head. If there is something everyone can agree on, it is that Feyi is a naturally affectionate person. Comes with being the youngest.

"Ah yeah. Before I forget, mummy said that you have a month to sort yourself out financially." Feyi then begins to think. "W-what can I do that can help me within a month?" Sade grins. "How about uploading videos of that game that you love to play?"

Feyi's eyes sparkle at those words. "Why didn't I ever think of that?!" Sade smirks and ruffles the girl's hair making the child to pout and chase after her big sister much to the confusion of their mother.