GOLDEN

Chapter Twenty One

School feels boring without Stephanie. I desperately wish she will resume soon. Her absence makes me home sick and lonely and really I miss her crappy jokes and tease. She hasn't resumed yet because one of her cousins is critically sick and I guess they are really close.

Even Tife hasn't resumed. His absence has given me some time to garner my feelings. Well, my feelings. I guess my heart keeps betraying me, have you ever started thinking about someone and you are just smiling. Love, feelings and emotions can be crazy at times. Now I know why they say ' Love is crazy'

Reminds me of Jesus' love for us and God's selfless love. For he to leave his glory in heaven and make himself as low as us to die for our sins. That's the greatest love that can ever exist because when we think of it, we aren't even deserving of his love. God also had to look away from his only son because of our sins he bore while he suffered on the cross. That love grips me hard, I still praying to God to help me with my feelings because I don't want to get too distracted by them.

During the holiday, Tife and I chatted a lot and I always made sure we weren't having late night conversations. Stephanie once mentioned that late night conversations can make you catch feelings so I was avoiding that. Our chats always start with him complementing the pictures I post because I take a lot of pretty pictures now that I have an iPhone.

Then we will talk about random, funny and interesting things that will just keep me hooked and most times I will stay glued to my phone smiling. Jidenna told me I don't necessarily need to avoid him, he said I just have to make sure I am careful with my feelings.

I get hooked with most of conversations because I noticed we liked some common things like movies, football and yeah, unconsciously I started liking football and It's probably because of my Dad, I sit with him while he watches football, we are usually the only ones sitting in the sitting room.

Grandma always like to watch Yoruba movies on Africa magic Yoruba and my Dad dislikes it because he would want to watch news on Channels Tv and Grandma will be headstrong on her Yoruba movies, most times I low-key support my Dad because I don't know if it's just me but most Yoruba movies I have ever watched at night scared me even more than some American scary movies.

The witches, ghosts with white wrapper and powdered faces together with the eerie sounds some Yoruba movies makes usually scare me and so to avoid further disagreements because my Grandma will not back down no matter what, my Dad installed her own Tv and decoder set in her room where she can just watch whatever movies she wants to watch. So we will sit in the sitting room and watch Football and news and seeing him so passionate about it somehow attracted me to it and so I started watching it consciously.

Before I started sharing in the excitement of football, when my Dad screams ' goal' I will always subtlety tell him to calm down because when they are sharing their money, they wouldn't share it with the spectators or the Nigerians that will always scream with their veins popping out of the skin of their head and necks. Another thing about football that surprised me then but I can understand a little now about my Dad was how much he loves Messi.

My Father loves Messi like his own son or let me say brother. I don't understand till now why my Dad loves Messi, Apart from when Nigeria is playing maybe during AFCON or during the world cup, my Dad supports every club Messi plays with. Before it was Barcelona and now it is PSG. Anyways, I prefer Ronaldo to Messi and Tife also prefers Ronaldo and so we click from there. Sometimes also Tife and I would talk about what is happening in the country.

I noticed he likes talking about the country's finance and he gets so engrossed in it and sometimes say ' Wura can you imagine. Our economy is going on a vehicle to nowhere. Getting bad everyday' That's how colourful my chats with him are. He looks so passionate about his course Economics and with his influence I have been trying to find passion and zeal for Accounting, the course I'm studying.