I No Want Trouble

Lanre woke up very early the following day. She had woken up long before dawn. She smiled when she realised she was awake. This was the reason she had decided to sleep early, so she can wake up and revise on the work she did. She wanted to do it while Ify was still asleep so that before Ify would wake up, she would have taken her bath and would be leaving for school.

So she decided to read from 2am till 5am, making sure her work doesn’t seem strange to her in anyway. She also took out time to ask herself questions which were likeable questions lecturers and professors would ask. She would make sure she answered those questions as well as get points outside what she had worked on. Her project work had been on “Media system and its downsides”. She hated the last part, which is “its downsides”. If her project was to be for her to work on Media system alone or go ahead to talk about “Media system and its effect to society”, she would have done that to the point of over satisfaction. But talking about the downsides had given her trouble, since she could barely find any documents on that. She had to work on that part offhand. And then most times, she would get her facts from social media platforms picking things up from there, always ensuring she got her reference correctly.

But either ways, she felt it was worth it, at least her work had some ingenuity to it unlike most people. Some do not even do their projects themselves. Sometimes she would wonder how those people were going to defend what they had no clue how it was put together. Once they say it, they will forget about it. And if you should show them that same work in the next six months, they would find the work strange.

Lanre finished revising what she had done, as well as getting more information. So she stood up and left to take her bath. Immediately she got into the room, she saw that Ify was already awake. “Good morning!” Ify said to Lanre when she got into the room. Lanre replied her greeting while making ready what she would wear for her project defense. It had to be cooperate wear. She made sure it was their usual Monday cooperate wear, sky blue shirt and black trousers. She had picked that up due to so hard nut lecturers and professors who would prefer them as mass communication students to wear their official cooperate wear.

“Is it blue on black we are to wear for the defense?” Ify asked directing her questions to Lanre when she saw her bring out her clothes. Lanre frowned, but she answered anyways.

“No!” She said. “But I’m doing this to prevent any lecturer's wahala. I no want trouble”. Lanre said to Ify again. Then she went into the bathroom. She sighed when she finally got in. She told herself she wouldn’t want to get close to Ify as she had done before. According to her, “see finish de bring too much insult. And the one I don receive, e don do”. This means that letting a person know everything about you is what gives them room to hurt you. And the one she had received was enough.