Khaluchi_8941

"What happens when a nerdy girl falls for a playboy?"

"They say that pain is a sign of weakness leaving your body but in my case, it's a clamp that refuses to let go of my heart no matter how hard I try."

Chisom has had a complicated life but when she meets him, the world seems brighter and everything feels a thousand times better. 

 Even though Chisom masquerades as the strongest person she knows with nothing being able to move her, deep down, her emotions are as fragile as an egg: easily shattered. Meeting him was one of the best things to happen to her. He was her first love but would he be her last?

Painful Addiction

My phone pinged with multiple Facebook notifications and WhatsApp messages.

My ringtone blasted through my room relentlessly with calls from my parents and friends back in Lagos.

Overwhelmed and annoyed, I switched to airplane mode and silence reigned supreme.

My roommates had traveled to their various houses in Umuahia in hopes to collect foodstuffs to refresh their current stock; a week before the big announcement that shook the entire university, leaving only me in the room.

The hostel felt as empty as I felt inside when I read the news that was sent to my department's WhatsApp group chat by the course representative.

The university had joined the Academic Staff Union of Universities also known as ASUU, for their indefinite strike action over the failure of the federal government to pay their salaries for the past six months.

Bad things happen to good people