King

Chapter 2

Leah sat up straight on hearing the captain's announcement about their landing. Seated in the first-class part of the plane, she looked outside the window and was already seeing the tarmac and the plane slowed till it came to a final halt. When the plan doors were open, Leah as everyone else, filed out of the plan. The minute she touched the ground with her foot, she could already feel her home. It had been calling to her for a while and standing at the airport made the call sound louder in her ears. She took a few seconds to relish the cool air of the night as she closed her eyes and tilted her head backwards a bit. As to everyone who came from somewhere, this was her home, no matter how much her work made her travel, Nigeria was home, and she was glad to be back. A small smile appeared on her checks as the thought of home crossed her mind. Her parents, her room, her home, even her gateman, that one especially made her chuckle, because of his comic nature.

Being satisfied with the air she had taken in, and under the pressure to control herself so as to not look weird in front of others that were around, she brought her head down and opened her eyes. Besides why would anyone think her mad, this was Lagos, they were mad people everywhere, she thought to herself. She began to role her luggage into the airport, and on getting to the waiting area, she saw the man who was standing with a paper in his hand which had her name "Leah Onoja" written on it. She called to the man's attention by waving her hand at him, as he saw her, her began to walk towards her and she him. When they had come to a stop, having being in front of each other, they exchanged pleasantries as he took her bags from her and led her to the car he had waiting to take her home. As they head to the car, she hears her phone ring. She opens her handbag and brings out the phone, but seeing the name of the person calling made her smile more.

"couldn't you wait for me to at least get into the car if you couldn't wait for me to get home?" Leah asked as she answered the call.

"what are you saying. You must be jet lagged or delusional to think that your friends are that patient" Esther, one of her friends said over the phone.

"or maybe they have use some ogbodo's juju for ni?" her other friend Simi asked over the phone too.

"what?" Leah asked playfully with a smile on her face.

"oh, it's my friend? Friend!" Simi shouts over the phone making Leah to chuckle but to also draw the phone away from her ear as the shout was loud. In that time, she nodded a thank you to the driver as he opened the door of the car for her and she gets in, then he closed it behind her.

"it's now you are shouting? After having a line of conversation with me. You are crazy." Leah said as put the phone back on her ear and her friends laughed.

"I have to go guys; I'll see y'all tomorrow" Leah added.

"alright girl" Esther said.

"bye friend!" Simi and Esther shout, but shortly, then Leah ends the call. She smiles thinking about her friends, about seeing them again, especially Simi and her craziness. She missed it.

"shall we Ma'am?" she heard the driver say, bringing her out of her thoughts.

"yes, of course" she said with a glint of excitement and eagerness, though she tried to hide it a bit and wait till she got home before she fully expressed herself, there was no need to be caught acting like a school girl now, she thought to herself.

The car starts to move causing her to relax in her seat. She stared outside the window for most of the ride and all she could imagine was home. As the driver reached the Onoja's house, he began to horn but there was no response. He did it for a few more times again and there was no response. "what could be going on?" Leah thought as she tried stretching her neck a bit to see what was going on in front. She looked at her time and saw it was just 9pm, so she wondered, why was nobody answering, it was not all that late. And besides that, she had already informed her parents she was coming in today by a night flight, so they should be expecting her and so should Akin. And even if he were to be sleeping or had forgotten, the loud honking should have woken him up, she thought to herself.