Up, Yet Upside Down

The waiter packed Lanre’s food up in a takeaway. Okechukwu asked her why she did not want to eat there anymore. She told him the girlfriend was always releasing spittle. And she did not want her food to get contaminated before she even started to eat it. Then she paid for what she had ordered. After paying, Lanre walked away from the eatery.

Okechukwu wondered if Lanre was ever going to change. She was always hard on people. He sighed. He stood up and went after her. He did not care anymore. Monica did not care when she opened her mouth wide to talk as if Lanre was a celebrity. It had annoyed him what Monica had done.

“Lanre! “ Okechukwu called after Lanre right outside the eatery. The more he called her name, the more it was as though he did not call her at all. It was frustrating calling her and she was like he could not hear.

Okechukwu pulled Lanre’s arm and ended up making her lose hold of the bag she was holding containing the food she bought. “Hmm! Heeii!” Lanre exclaimed. Then she placed her hand on her waist.

“See me see trouble o! I de my own o!” She exclaimed saying trouble has come to meet her. She was on her own. Lanre told Okechukwu to pay for any the food that fell down on the ground. He told her she could just pick the bag. Lanre frowned at Okechukwu’s suggestions. She was sure that the food had already poured and she was not going to pick it up.

“Okechukwu, you know your head can be up and yet it is upside down”. Lanre said to Okechukwu. “You made my food to pour, you get mind de tell me to pick am myself. Like, how do you think?” Lanre asked Okechukwu. At the end of everything, Lanre had to leave. She went inside the eatery to get food. She got what she wanted and left. She felt Okechukwu was lucky that she was having a good day. If not that, she would have not left him like that. She would have ensured that he paid for the food. And he would have never tried it again in his life.

Lanre got to her apartment and saw that it was still locked. She sighed heavily. Then she tried calling Ify. It was the same thing as at the first time she had tried to reach her. Lanre became vexed. If Ify actually blocked her number, then she must be childish. Lanre decided to go knock on Fred’s room .

When Fred opened his door and saw that it was Lanre, he wanted to lock the door. But Lanre pleaded with him. Then she told him that she brought food. When Fred heard that. He stepped out of the apartment.

“Lanre, you are a very wicked person. So because of small argument we both had, you decide to poison me like the way you did to Chibuzor, right?” Fred asked.