Midweek update y'all. I declare this part OPENNNN
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ERLING'S POV
(Erling Tobechukwu Kingston)
"Country home, take me home to the place where I belong
West Virginia la la la la la take me home" Idara's voice rang through the walls of the kitchen
I chuckle at her lyrical knowledge, that is definitely not how the song goes. My cousin has one of the best voices I've heard, something along the lines of soprano. I've only heard one person with a better voice, a singing voice I've not heard in ages. She always rang in my head how she sings a mixture of countertenor and sometimes alto, I'd recognize the voice anywhere
The house is more alive because my dad is away for the weekend, coupled with the fact that Idara seems to have gotten Amanda warped into one of her activities. She is way more down to earth than I could have imagined, it surprised me that my initial judgement had been wrong, my judgement is never wrong
Ding! My phone notification sounds from chair adjacent to the one I'm sitting on.
I stretch my upper body hoping my hand would impossibly grasp the leather case of my phone but I guess my body could only stretch as much. I decide to ignore the ring of my phone due to laziness hoping I'd check it later when I can finally stand up and walk to the other chair
Ding! It sounds again, this time making me realize that picking a doorbell sound as a notification sound was a terrible idea- you can't just not answer it
I stand up slowly, gently placing my bowl of chips on the stool, Idara would kill me if I made a mess
I muted all groups, muted some of my classmates too- whom I've mentally crossed out of my potential testers list- who would that be?
Aidan 💯
Dudeeeee
12:04pm
Aidan 💯
Message don land oh
Decathlon is by February oh Edmond has confirmed
12:05pm
February? What the
Me
February? Ain't it supposed to be March ending?
12:07pm
Aidan 💯
Normally oh, I no get wetin dey do this NASEE people oh
12:07pm
Me
We have less time to prepare
12:08pm
Aidan 💯
Exactly my worries
Wait man, shebi you're back on the team?
12:08pm
Somehow I knew this was coming, everyone has tried so far to appear to be keeping up with my well being but they've not failed to slip in the little detail that I HAD to be completely back after Christmas.
Me
I dunno man😶
12:10pm
Aidan 💯
Don't tell me you've still not been in water ever since 🤦♂️
12:11pm
Me
I'll be back this holiday, before Christmas
12:15pm
Aidan 💯
You better be 😒
He doesn't get it, no one does. They all saw it as a mild injury, the boy who grazed his arm in an accident. I saw it as so much bigger
It was more of a mental than physical accident, I literally developed a fear for open water bodies ever since. Idara chose that as the best time for us to go to Hawaii, to rent a beach house, to observe nature. I snapped too hard that day, she didn't even understand what she had said wrong. I remember how frightened she looked when she walked past me, I'd have held her back to explain but my right bicep was held in castes and I couldn't move it much.
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