Chapter 264: She knows

Mom looked at me deep in the eyes with this rage in her eyes, more like she already knew everything about Cynthia and me.

"Keep quiet, your dad told me everything Yesterday. Naughty boy... You know I have been wanting to tell you some things but you won't listen, I love Cynthia, she is a nice soul, and I love her for you as well, but I wouldn't want you to make any mistake with her future, you know how close we are with that family, I won't want any problem." She said. Now I got a cold rash all over me, so fake dad told mom, that meant that he saw her on the CCTV camera how she walked in and out of my room at night and morning respectively. I look at her with fear of what next to expect.

  "No, no son, you don't have to be scared, your dad already explained to me, I know it was my rule about such affairs that made you keep It as a secret to me, I was wrong to think that if I should scare you about having an affair with anyone, that you might never do it. I forgot that I can't stop the inevitable. Listen, son, henceforth I promise that I will understand you, no matter what, all you have to do is to always talk to me, my reason for asking you to talk to me is because I will not want you to make any ever-lasting mistake" mom said to me, my face glowed with this.

"Mom I am sorry that I kept this important part of my life from you. Yes, it's true... I... I love her, a.d she feels the same way too."

  "That's my boy, so... How is it going to be" she asked curiously.

  " Mum did I did ever mention to you that you are very inquisitive?" I said With so much humor, which made her plaster an evident smile on her face.

  "You know that I have always loved you, so everything about you, it's always my priority, more so I now know that you are matured enough to do all these things Matt made me see it, so I won't stop you, but I'll only advise you so that you don't make any harmful mistake," she said, which Made me plaster a genuine smile on my face too.

  After a while of having so many chats with my mum, I stood to go back to my room.

"Mom, I'll be going to exercise my body, I want to go out and have a little run, I won't be long."

Is it not too early to go out?"

"Mom, it's called morning jog, it's not too early." I responded to her quickly. I just want to jog for a while" I said, as I went outside, I inhale the Cool morning air, as I started running in the open streets of the estate, I was panting, but the coldness of the weather couldn't allow me to sweat, making me feel like I was not even doing enough.

  When I was done jogging, I then came back home, as I went to the kitchen to prepare something mouthwatering, so I'll be able to think of how to Make tomorrow very memorable, I then decided to cook noodles, before frying some eggs, to make the meal more scrumptious.

  I tried so hard to be able to finish with the meal preparation on time so that I may go and take my shower. The plan was to finish with the preparation of the meal, go and bath, then come back and eat after the preparation. But when I was done, I saw that the sun had already set, and the heat of the kitchen made me sweat, and I can perceive the strong stench of my atm pit. So, I quickly rushed to the shower and washed so fast so that my food wont be cold before I'm out.

When I came out, mom was already sitting on the dining table, with her spoon waiting to join me in my dinner. Mom really loves my noodles, she sometimes teases me that she will get a shop for me where I will be selling cooked noodles, she will call me "mai shayi", (tea seller). This was the name called the Housa folks who sells tea and bread, doodle and fried eggs, and other fast food, most of them are experts in the preparation of noodles, and my mom thinks that I will do better than them.

" fast Mr. Man, I have been waiting for you since."

"Ahh! Mom, you never said that you will eat."

Did you ask and I say that I dont want?" She asked.

"Hmm, I never asked"

So you know, common sit let's eat together, since you have the mind to make your own alone without thinking of me, them I also have decided that I will shorten your ration." Mom said and I laughed, I sat and we ate together, though I never made the noodles for two, it still got me satisfied, maybe it was because I ate with mom.

After the meal, I then decided that I need to go to bed and rest, even though am not someone that mostly like sleeping early, I just have to because, I want to sleep, so I'll be able to sleep and think of a way of making tomorrow worthwhile, little did I know that tomorrow will be opening a totally new chapter for me, the new adventure of Damian the Aquaprince. I thought about how great tomorrow will be for a while, trying so hard to calm myself, but my heart was already beating erratically against my rib cage, threatening to explode, I don't know how she would react when she sees my surprise, will she be happy, or would she dislike it, I just don't know for certain, but I had the impression that she will like it, after all, she said she love me the first time I told her I can swim, even though it was a lie at the moment, a lie she never got to know.

 I decided to call her, to inform her, of my plans for the new year, before I could finally get the courage to call her, I had to inhale and exhale three times before getting enough courage to call her.

  I called her, after the first Ring, she immediately picked up she was already looking at the phone but was deliberating whether to call me or not.

  "How are doing, honey?" I had to stress the honey so that she could find my voice mesmerizing and enticing, I deemed my voice so that it will sound deeper and hard like a Hollywood action movie actor.

  "I am good and... I have been waiting for your call, but... It seems like you were busy." She breathed, evidently sad, so I was right, she was actually deliberating whether she should call or not.

  "Yes I was so occupied with some kinds of stuff," I said while smiling.

  "You are so occupied, you didn't find the time me to call me yesterday, and today, check your time, this is when you are calling, and you know tomorrow is the new year, right?" she breaths, I had to pitch my nose, trying my best to calm down, because of God... Her voice could be the cause of my early death, because whenever she twists her voice Like that, those words would end up going to my groins, making the blood in my body, run towards my member, and make me rigid as a Rock.

 "Just expect me 2 pm tomorrow, I'll be coming for you, okay?" I said to her, before I then end the call, without waiting for her to say one more word.

 I then closed my eyes, before Inhaling a deep breath, trying hard to calm myself, I just want to think of her reaction, it's Just her reaction, that kept on lingering, in the depths of my memory.

I woke up later in the evening, mom had already prepared everything needed for our crossover ritual, mom and I have our way of crossing over to the next year, it had been so since I was a kid till date, we don't crossover in church, we might go to church some times but before twelve we must find our way home, hold hands and say our new year resolutions, secretly write our plans and goals to achieve in the next year and how to achieve it, we will write them in two sheets of paper and we will burn Ine and keep the other, we also will fry chin-chin and pick twelve out for ourselves, this twelve chi-chin represents the twelve months of the year, and we must start eating and finish it between one minute, once it is twelve O clock on the dot, we start eating it, and we must finish it before it gets to a minute after twelve. That will indicate success in all plans and goals.

Though it is superstitious, but mom and I believed it, and it had become a tradition to us. I got out of my room staggering, fake dad had already come over he will be joining us for the new year ritual.

"Ikemefuna my son, I see you have been enjoying yourself these days." Fake dad said as he saw me walk out of the room to the sitting room, it was already past eleven and mom was still preparing, the program is a thirty minutes process, I don't know why my mom didn't wake me up to assist her. Though she didn't wake me up, I still helped her to do the little that remained. We set the table and lit the candles, fake dad also joined us in the fixing of things. It happens that mom had been doing this for quite a while, even while in school, she thought of fake dad while they were school couples, so he knew almost everything about the ritual, well, we managed to finish on time, it was a few minutes to eleven-thirty before we finished, so, we waited for the alarm to ring so we could commence with the ritual, we had a little praise and worship song, after that we prayed, it was after the prayer that we started with the writing of our resolutions, plans and goals, we tried to be fast in the writing and also into the other sheet. We finished with phase right on time, then we burned the duplicated one and kept the original piece, after that we start singing songs of praise and gratitude to the Almighty God we did this coupled with prayers, as we paid we checked the time in anticipation for twelve, as soon as it clocked twelve. We started throwing the chin-chin which we already had in our hand before then, we three it into our mouths and started munching vigorously, everybody else did their own very fast and we all finished but I couldn't swallow my own within the one minute time because I choked in the process, this was the first time that this had happened to me. Mim was not happy about this, she thought it was a bad omen, but fake dad tried his best to curb the problem to make it look lesser than mom thinks of it. That night I slept unhappily, I never knew why I wouldn't be able to chew only twelve tinny chin-chin for sixty whole seconds, that was really annoying, on a normal day I can chew more without a thought. Though I was angry because of what transpired during the new year ritual, the thought of Cynthia kept me smiling. According to tradition, the repercussions of not being able to complete the ritual means that you will end the next year fulfilled, mine meant that I might not complete my set goals, things might happen that will make me drift from my plans, and I might fail. The thought of Cynthia kept my mind off any future failure, if I have her, I am a winner, so I thought to myself