The Rare Ones

*19*

Hi!

This chapter is going to be pretty long, so bear with me🥺💖.

Enjoy the read, it's gonna be a bit of an emotional roller coaster, sha.

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It's been a long time,
without you my friend.
I'll tell you all about it,
when I see you again.
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- Charlie Puth~Wiz Khalifa
(See You Again)

Chetachi

Gasping, I shot up in bed and clutched my sheets.

I breathed steadily to quench the nausea built up from the nightmare I'd just had.

My phone rang abruptly and I picked it up without bothering to check the caller ID.

"Uhh....hello?" I said, scrubbing at my eyes.

"Rarity, dahhrrrling!" the shrill voice sounded through the voice.

"Grandma?"

"Yes, my dear. Just called to wish you a happy birthday, dahhrrrling!"

"Wha-?"

Pulling my phone to face me, I saw that it was 4:00 a.m, 8th of October.

My fucking birthday.

Our fucking birthday.

"Your 17th birthday, dahhrrrling," my grandmother said.

"Um, yeah, thanks Grannie," I said, swinging my legs over the edge of my bed. " Where exactly are you, though?"

"At the vacation house in St. Lucia, sweetheart."

"Papi?"

"Taking a synchronised swimming class with a few of our neighbours."

That made me chuckle the slightest bit.

I put my phone on video call.

Immediately, I was blessed with a clear image of my gorgeous grandmother, her defined square face devoid of wrinkles as usual and her whitened hair still as thick and as long as ever.

She smiled a regal, almost condescending smile at me.

It was no surprise that she and my grandfather had jetted off to some tropical destination just for kicks.

Not to brag, but Adigwes came from old money, and I'm talking old, like from the time when kings ruled.

Our family is known to produce the best lawyers in the country and the continent at large.

Well, my dad's side of the family is.

"I sent you some money, dahhrrrling. A couple thousand dollars to spend as you like."

My heart thudded, remembering the time when she'd given Tochi and I money on our 9th birthday and we ended up spending most of it on ice-cream.