Alarming

Lanre took the bag her mother was holding and walked away without paying her mother a word. Mrs. Olayinka picked offence when Lanre did not say anything. Yet would she had picked offence of Lanre had answered her as well.

“Omobirin buruku! You will not talk when you have done something wrong. You want me to die of heart attack. I only have you and Olamide o! It is not you that will kill me”. The mother kept yelling.

Lanre dropped her mother’s in her room and left for her own room. Then she locked the door. She hates being nagged. She hates all these talks that seem not to have a stopping point. Her mother should be happy that she was fine. But here she was nagging till infinity.

Lanre laid on the bed. She closed her eyes and counted numbers. She counted till she got to one thousand and was running out of breath counting nonstop. Seeing she was not sleeping and Kehinde was not coming, she stood up from the bed. She pulled the dress she was wearing and changed into a grey joggers and wore a black polo on it. Then she picked up her headset and left.

“Where are you going to?” It was her mother who was seated in the living room. Lanre told her she was going to get something outside and that she won’t take long. But actually she just wanted to walk around. She was feeling suffocated.

“You are not going anywhere. If you can’t see what you like in the kitchen, then go to your room. You are not leaving this house for any reason whatsoever”. The mother said to her. Lanre looked at her mother with annoyance.

“I am not a kid! I am twenty two, almost twenty three”. Lanre said to her mom. The mother mimicked her mockingly. Then she told her that as long as she was still under her roof, she was a kid. Then she stood up from the couch. She showed Lanre some keys. It was the house keys.

“You are fond of leaving the house after you have done something wrong. Today let me see if you will disappear or you will break the door”. The mother said and went to her room. Lanre collapsed on the couch.

She bit her lips fighting the tears in her eyes. “He is not even coming”. Lanre muttered. She laid on the couch while staring blankly at the ceiling. Just then a message popped into her phone. She checked it to see that her account has just been credited. The amount credited into her account was alarming to her. Fear immediately crept into her because she had no one who could possibly send her such a huge amount of money. She was astonished. Then she concluded it must have been a mistake. The money must have been sent to her account by mistake. Perhaps the person wanted to send it to another person and had missed some figures. If not that, who will send her 5 million naira?