The Maid Of Honour

Anita’s mother was already fascinated by Lanre’s character. She thought the young lady has a kind heart, hard working, industrious and had a high IQ. Well, that is not what her daughter thinks of the same person.

Anita has come to believe Lanre cares about nothing, not even other people’s feelings. She felt Lanre lacked manners especially on her to talk to someone. She felt Lanre is also self centered.

As for Ify, she just feel anything she sees Lanre do, then that is Lanre. As for Lanre, she was whoever she tends to be whenever she wants. She just lived like that, not trying to impress anybody. The only person she wanted to impress was her mother. And it only had to do with her studies.

But at a point, she stopped. She felt it was useless. She could not kill herself trying to stress over it. She felt the professions are no longer fields studied but mere sentences in the mouth of professors.

She will always tell herself, “I know better than some of these lecturers. If I should read, then I will make them sit to learn from me. If should go into practical, then they surely will have no choice but to learn from me”. Then she would say, “I do no want those anymore. Not even going to compete with anyone because of grades. Just going to do my own thing. First class or not, I am more than first class. Maybe if there was a higher grade, it would have been better. I would see something worth competing for”.

At the end, Lanre believes she is way smarter than most people, professors and lecturers inclusive.

Lanre finished with Anita’s makeup within the fifteen minutes time frame she had set.

Anita went to stand before the mirror she can see her face. Lanre did not let her sit in front of a mirror.

Looking at what Lanre has just done, rather than saying “thank you” to Lanre, she told her she was sorry.

Lanre smirked. Even if Anita is sorry right now, it won’t change the fact that she had insulted her. And the fact that she had insulted her and dismissed her from being her maid of honour won’t make get a lesser Lanre.

It is just that the deed has been done. And it can’t be changed.

“It is almost time. You have less than forty minutes to leave for the venue”. Lanre said. Then she looks at Ify.

“Sit let me do your make up as well. The maid of honour should look honourable and gracious”. Lanre said to Ify.

“Lanre, it’s you who is the maid of honour”. Ify said. Lanre wanted to laugh. But she kept it in. She then turned to Anita and said to her to sit down. “Someone will wear you your shoe as well”. Then she asked Ify to sit down already.

Anita was tempted to tell Lanre to be her maid of honour again. But that was till her mother cuts in.