Have You Been Disappointed Before?

Anita told Lanre that the girls were already around. Then she told Lanre that they could still be sleeping. Lanre frowned when she heard that.

“Do you realise it is your wedding today? Those girls should not be sleeping”. Lanre said. She asked Anita where they were. Anita wanted to go show her herself. But she told Anita not to bother. “I will do it myself. Just you tell me in what part of this house I can find them”. Lanre said to Anita.

Anita told her to go behind the main house, the one by the left. This is the first time Lanre will be going there. If Anita does not tell them they have an appointment, then she does not leave the house. So she had no clue that there is a house behind which they also take their visitor’s to.

Lanre got to the house Anita had described to her. She opened the door. It was obviously not locked. She had a pan in hand together with a spoon. She was going to wake them up the way her hostel prefect would do whenever it was 5 am and they were all still asleep. She had attended a boarding school in her junior secondary school.

Lanre beats the pan hard. It was so loud and disturbing that nobody could escape waking up from their sleep.

“Jesus! There is fire on the mountain o! Thief o! Arm robbers!” one of the girls started screaming. This made some to hide under the bed. While some went to ran upstairs. Some already lied prostrate on the floor, begging for their lives.

Lanre decided to hit the pan again. “Are you guys ready to be part of the bridal train or not?” Lanre said. She was talking at the top of her voice. It was at that point everyone started to come out one after the other.

“Mtchew! Na even one babe sef!” one of them exclaimed saying it was only a girl. Lanre told them that they should start getting ready. “Once you are done, I will start making you up so we can finish on time and arrive the church early”. Lanre said to them. The girls were ten. She wondered if Anita was going for a football match. She told them to hurry up and then she left. She was going to go get Anita’s make up box. She was sure she has.

“Give me your make up kit. I didn’t come with mine because I didn’t plan for this”. Lanre said.

“What do you intend doing? Lanre leave it ok. I already paid for a make up artist and a hair stylist. They will be here shortly. And they will be coming with their workers”. Anita said. Lanre laughed.

“I know you have paid for a professional make up artist. And you feel they can do better than me. But let me ask you a question”. Lanre said. Then she went ahead with her question.

“Have you been disappointed before?”.