My bestie

chapter thirty seven

"Wakey wakey Sleepyhead". Someone sang softly in my ear and I relaxed more snuggling into the blanket with a smile on my lips. "Wake up you dummy." The person shouted slapping my shoulder hardly making me to wince and I opened my eyes slowly adjusting to the light rays.

Why is mum suddenly wicked? Astagafurullah Astagafurullah Astagafurullah! God forgive me but I didn't mean to say that.

"Khair wake up. Is this how you will behave in your husband's house? Waking up by nine in the morning huh?" The voice hissed and I definitely knew its my mum. She's the only one that talks about husband's house on any little thing.

"Ok mummy,I'm up already. Pls haba". I said the lastly part very quietly. "Who's your mummy? Wallahi if you did not stand up now,I will pour water on you." She scolded and I quickly got up rubbing my sore eyes so that the remaining sleep will vanish away.

I turned my head to greet my mum but who I saw make me started running into the toilet.

"Ke Khair why are you acting as if you saw a ghost Dan Allah? Its just me your bestie." She shouted.

Is this part of the dream?

"Maya?!" I called her in a questioning form just to be sure.

"Its me girl." Maya said and I turned on the faucet washing my face quickly. I turned the door knob slowly and coming out to face the person who claims to be Maya.

And behold! Is the real Maya sitting on my bed and typing away on her phone. I moved close to her,collected her phone and kept it on the bedside without uttering anything. The look she was giving shouted 'the butt are you doing?'

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ooooommmmmgggggg Mayaaaaaa" I shouted pouncing on her and she was caught off guard making us both to fall of the bed. "This girl wants to end my life before I even get married to uncle Haroon. What cause this rubbish and oh....god yo...you're chok....choking me with yo....your hug....release me abeg". She said pushing me away but that didn't stop me from coming for another hug.

All what I planned to say to her when she pick my calls just ran away immediately i hugged her. I became instantly happy that my mouth was unable to scold her.

"Toh its okay"she pulled me off her gently with a smile. "Maya how?" Upon all my vocabularies,that's all I remembered that moment.

"You see,I came to your house back in Abuja two days after we came back from school. I knocked at your gate for bad forty minutes and..." I interrupted her story.

"Why didn't you call me?" I asked gasping. "EXACTLY! I didn't call and I don't know why. I guess I just didn't remember to do that." She said scratching the back of her head like a nervous school boy.

Ughhhhh. This girl is such a dumbo sometimes.

"And as you knocked for ten minutes, aren't you suppose to just go away?" I questioned again raising my eyebrows. "Stop asking questions and let me finish the story". She whined almost at the point of crying. I urged her to continue and she smiled.

"Ok so I knocked and knocked until one of your neighbours got annoyed and came out of his house. There,he kept shouting and shouting but I was just staring at him. He told me at last that you all were not around. I asked him where to and he hissed. He went back to his house and I went back to my job of knocking. He came out angrily again and told me you went to Kaduna. I smiled at him and his face expression was priceless".she finished laughing at the innocent man.

"I begged my dad to let me come to Kaduna but he bluntly refused saying he won't allow me to come alone. I begged him for two straight days and the problem was that Habiba went back to Heidelberg in Germany cos her holidays were over. After I got my dad to agree,he made me come with a company and guess who?" She asked smirking.