Perfectly Imperfect

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Warning!!! Triggering contents ahead.

My body feels tired and worn out every day, it's so exhausting.

Aminah Abraham.

KUNMI

I'm not...

These things can't be happening.

It can't... It can't...

No, please. No ooo. God!

I can't do this anymore.

What has Aminah done? What has that girl done to herself?

What...

Kunmi, it's Aminah.

I couldn't get Gab's voice out of my heart. Like a broken record, it kept playing, it kept repeating.

"Kunmi, stay calm. I'm sure it's nothing big. Your friend will be fine."

Mayowa was telling me from the other side of the car where she was driving.

Yes, we were currently driving to the hospital where Aminah was. After Gab's phone call, Mayowa and Junior had rushed to my room at my scream. I did not even know I had screamed and in a state of total panic and mad anxiety, I had to tell them what Gab had told me.

"Hello Kunmi, it's Aminah.."

"Someone called me from her phone around midnight last night because I was the last person she spoke to."

Mayowa overtook a car narrowly and sharply and it made me jolt out of my seat. Behind us, I distantly heard the driver scream curses and obscene words at us. Words like "Olosho driving their sugar daddies cars."

"We're almost there." Mayowa was telling me again and she darted a worried glance towards my direction before she faced the front again.

I knew we weren't almost there. We couldn't be almost there. It was more than an hour's drive from our house and we've not even driven for 15 minutes.

I closed my eyes, tried to calm down my racing heart but it wouldn't calm down, it wouldn't calm down, it wouldn't stop racing, wouldn't stop threatening to burst out of my chest.

Oh, God! Aminah!!

"They found her unconscious in a park around 11:30 pm."

She was found unconscious in a park around 11 pm to 12 am. What was she doing outside that like? What was she looking for? What...

It made me remember too, how she'll disappear late at night during the Olympia to the field and only God knows where...

Why? Because of what??

After Gab ended the call, I wouldn't stop panicking, wouldn't stop shaking, wouldn't stop crying... I didn't know what to do. I couldn't sit still. I wanted to leave the house, I wanted to go to the hospital immediately but it was 4 am, the estate gate wouldn't be opened and no excuse will make the security open the gate especially when mom and dad weren't around.