chapter four

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Ivie woke up feeling revived,she and joy had talked well into the night, watching movies, playing whot and ludo game,she couldn't remember the last time she had so much fun" she thought as she stood up yawing loudly.

She had a wonderful sleep, the bed was so comfortable and the duvet provided enough warmth against the cold weather.

As she walked into the bathroom she caught a reflection of herself on the mirror, she took a step back and stood in front of it  to have a better view, she admired her hair which looked beautiful in a bun, joy was not joking yesterday when she said she would give her hair a golden touch,her gold coloured hair looked so shinning and well moisturised. She traced her fingers over her face as she examined the three tiny painful pimples that has suddenly appeared. It will soon be that time of the month and the feeling of dread wash over her, her cramps can be pretty bad along side with her adversion for food, the vomiting and sometimes stooling that follows.

"Well, what can a girl do" she thought as her focused her attention back to her hair

She had always hated her hair colour and was fondly called an albino which made her at some point took to dying  it, but within a week or two week her hair will become a mixture of colours, she eventually resign to fate.

She decided to go downstairs to help Joy with some chores as she came down she met aunt mabel in the sitting room already dressed for work, she was examining her light makeup with the small hand mirror which she dumped into her bag when she was done.

Good morning ma" she greeted

"Morning dear how was your night"

"It was fine ma" she replied

Mabel stood up and when she got to the door she called Ivie back to pass some instructions to Joy.

"I'm going to work,you guys can eat whatever you want to this morning but tell Mabel to prepare melon soup for dinner,I left some cash on the dinning table "

"Alright ma"

"Asher!! Asher"she called

"Coming ma" he replied

He jogged through the stairs quickly,as he made way to the sitting room

"Morning ma" he greeted

Ivie eyes widened in disbelief"James" she thought

He saw her shocked expression and he was  shocked too that ivie was their house guest but did well to concealed his expression, he had thought their guest was a total stranger and he had been hiding in the comfort of his room because he wasn't too good with strangers.

" you will drive ivie to her aunt apartment later to pick up something and please help me put that in my car" she said pointing to a neatly packed sack lying close to the dinning table.

"Alright ma" he said as he got to the sack lifted it up  like it was a piece of paper unto his shoulder.

"Wow what is he? Superman "Ivie thought as she  watched him  walked out with his aunt following closely behind.

He dropped the item in her car booth and bade her farewell as she drove off.

On getting to the sitting room he meet ivie standing on the same spot she was when they left
"So you are Asher" she asked quizzically

Yes"

"How come you are James?"

"People can have multiple names can't they?" He rhetorically queried

" But why weren't you answering Asher in school!"

" I used both Asher and James but just that most people call me James in school but at home it Asher" he exply

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