Our Naija Babe

Preface

I tucked in my file to my bag....I hope I wasn't forgetting anything. Eniola and her parents were so nice to accommodate me.I had come to Ekiti to write the school of nursing exam. Not like I actually liked the idea of school of nursing buh I have no choice. I wasnt able to get nursing in Obafemi Awolowo University, instead I got microbiology. I'm not a dumb student neither am I a smart kid, but I'm overrated by my mom of course. She wants me to study nursing but she won't just understand.....I am the only one that knows my capacity....I just had to do what she wants me to.... cause a mother always wants the best for her children. Just then, my phone rang....it was my sister.

"Kennnnnnnyyyyyyy" I heard her scream...not only her though...someone was with her and the voice sounded so familiar

"Taiwoooooooo" I screamed with Glee.....omo I've missed my twin sister...even though we were not the regular kind of twins...we weren't that close and we didn't look alike too. Taiwo gained admission to study languages and linguistics in Uniben. She has been disturbing me to come and visit her.... My sister is a kind of person that needed help when she wanted to talk with people....she didn't know how to start up a conversation but once she did, she knows how to keep her conversation going.

"Well-done o....it's only Taiwo you want to greet ABI" I heard someone say...wait that's seun....my best friend...she didn't tell me she was in Benin.

"Seuuuunnnn.....I didn't know you were there....when did you travel to Benin"I ask

"Since last month" she said....if we were to judge friendship based on the way we call and text.....I'll probably be the worst friend in the world.....I found it hard keeping in touch with friends...."I came to see how the school was before I start jupep." She says.

" Which one is jupep again" I ask

"Ehen that's true sef....why don't you come and do  jupep here.... it's just a 9 months course and after the 9 months you'll write the exam and gain admission to 200 level" My sister said. My guy didn't even allow seun to talk, she was so desperate to have me there with her.

" See I don't know o..I already wrote the school of nursing exam already." I said, not sure about going to Benin to school.

"How was it self" taiwo ask

"Twas okay jare .....I'm even packing my things already I'm going back home today"I say

"Kenny see the time, is it not late" Seun asks. I checked the time and it was just 2:34.

"Ahan.....Ado to akure is just two hours journey na, and besides I already told mommy I was coming home already".I say

"Okay....just be careful Sha"Taiwo says"I'm almost out of airtime.... I'll call you later".

"Alright bye" I say and with that I finished packing up my stuffs and headed to the park. Well not after saying bye to Eniola and her parents.

I've been sitting here for almost 15 minutes and I was getting impatient. I didn't want to arrive at Akure late. I got out of the car and moved to the front seat. Yes car.....a bus cannot take you from Ado to Akure because of the short distance. I walked up to the corn seller to buy corn....I bought for the driver too cause we were the only ones in the car that time. After another 15 minutes of waiting, the car was full and we started our journey to Akure.

Dear reader, may I add that this was the most horrible journey I've ever embarked on. The road from Ado to Akure was very bad with very large pot holes and as the car was bumping into pot holes, it started disorganising my stomach. I felt like throwing up. Apart from the road dealing with me, the fat woman beside me was not helping the case. I felt all the shades of discomfort within 20 minutes that the journey started.

I started having double thoughts about schooling at Ado.....one the environment was very local, instead of me to explore knowledge here, I think it's knowledge that will explore me. Lol. 2. The road from my house down to Ado was bad....it's either I get sick or get uncomfortable like this. Wait let me shift first. God this woman wanted to crush me with her body. I felt like a whole bag of rice was on me. God please help me.

I didn't want to be rude by telling her that she was too fat to sit with me at the front the other time but she was supposed to consider now.

As if God sensed my discomfort, the driver looked at our side and opened his mouth wide.

" Ahhh....you have killed this girl"  he said in Yoruba while  parking the car. The driver then begged her to sit at the back and that one  guy should come and sit with me at the front. Don't worry about those at the back, they were very thin people and they won't be affected if she sits with them.

"Thank you sir" I muttered.....that woman literally squeezed the whole oxygen out of my lungs.

Again our journey continued. I watched as our car tried to overtake the dangote trailer in front of us. How  did he want to do that, the trailer was at high speed. But our driver pressed on, passengers started begging him to slow down but he didn't listen. Just then our car overtook the trailer and the driver smiled to himself.

"You guys should try to calm down sometimes" he says in Yoruba again "see the way you were all tensed......" He didn't get to finish the statement when something happened.....it happened in a flash, the next thing I knew was that the car was tumbling

I thought man could easily cheat nature when they're about to take their last breath by quickly asking for forgiveness of sins from their Creator.

As the car kept thumbling and everyone started shouting blood of Jesus. I just sat silently as everything happened in slow motion.....I thought about my twin sister who called me earlier to tell me to come over to Uniben to register for the jupep program, but I refused saying I wanted to be a nursing student. She called me with my best friend she she was also registering for the jupep program.the both of them wanted me to be around so badly.

I thought about my parents, what would happen if I die I haven't even achieved anything yet I have not successfully dated anybody I have not achieved any of my dreams there was no way I'm dying now I joined others in screaming the blood of Jesus and as if Jesus heard our cry from heaven, the car stopped tumbling and everyone jumped out of the car except me. I couldn't move, my feet went numb and elderly man came to carry me out of the car.

"You are fine, just calm down.....take a look at yourself" he said in a thick Ekiti accent. I was fine....I wasn't dead....I wouldn't call my mom so she won't be scared. This is it.....this is my sign.....I'm not going back to Ekiti again.