Tiwa The Therapist (Vol 1)

nine: "...a cup of water"

Nine

"...a cup of water"

"Yes, I did. You know the school?" I feigned pretense and luckily she was too drunk to catch it because my acting was terrible.

"You're asking whether I know the school? Sis! my dad basically owned the school!"

'Wait what?'

"Really?"

"Yes!.. wait a minute, the year...we were literally in the same year!"

"2014?"

"Yes! How come you didn't recognize me right away? I was pretty popular..."

"I didn't really care about the popular kids. I was always in the--"

"Wait a minute! You're Tiwatope Ayanda?! The Tiwa Ayanda?! You were a popular kid sis! You're either battling amnesia or you're just plain lying at this point because we were pretty close! My God!" She kept looking from the plaque to my face like she had some kind of epiphany.

'How do i get out of this? how do I get out of this?'

"I really don't remember what I ate last night, so, you can imagine?"

"Want me to help juggle your memory?"

'No thank you! I'd rather we talk about your marriage.'

"Uh..."

"Tiwa! we literally watched that junior school girl get raped that night!"

'Oh! Shit!'

I wanted to pretend like I had no idea about what she was talking about, but I knew that pretending would only lead to more traumatizing revelations.

"Ohmigod! It's you!" I had both of my hands over my lips in shock. I deserved an Oscar.

"Yes! It's me!" she twirled slowly.

"Wow! how time flies!'

"I know right? Girl! we should ditch this shit and go out; catch up on old times and all!"

"Hate to break it to you, but, this shit, is my work, but I promise that we can get a drink sometime this week. Let's just finish up!"

"Oh! Nonsense! Of course you don't really expect me to divulge my marital laundry to you anymore, you're not a stranger anymore!"

"The more reason why you should share the burden in your chest with me then. It could be our own crazy form of 'catch-up'."

She gazed at the cloud for a minute as if giving my words through thoughts before she saying, "I cannot believe I called you a quack! damn! I'm so sorry, Tiwa!"

"It's absolutely fine. You didn't know."

"No, It's not. I mean, at this point; It's safe to say that Rotimi might just be right about me being a completely horrible person." She placed both hands at both sides of her head for a second as she took quick and heavy breathes.

"Hey, hey, hey," I arose from my seat and ran to the hyperventilating woman, ",take a deep breath. Come, have a seat." I grabbed her by the arms and slowly took her to the seat. She smelled like heaven but now didn't seem like the right time to pay such compliment. "I'll get you a cup of water."

"No, no. It's fine."

"Are you sure?"

She sniffed hard and gave me a thumbs up, "I'm fine and you are right. I need to speak about this. It's really eating me up deep inside." At this point, it seemed like she was telling this to herself and it broke my heart to watch her struggle with whatever she was struggling with. I walked over to my seat and picked my note.

"I'm ready when you are" I smiled.