Africanah

Chapter 3

I Remember waking up on that faithful day, the day I traveled out of Nigeria. I stayed up all night texting people and saying my last goodbyes that I only got two hours of sleep.

"Rereloluwa"

No answer

"Rereloluwa"

She said this time entering my room as I could tell from the sound of her voice.

"Yes mummy"

I turned to look at her and for a second everything was blurry.

Oya dìdé kòó ló wé  (Stand up and go and have your bath)
She said making her way out of my room.

Huh?
I rubbed my eyes and wondered why there were bags and boxes all over my room. And then it clicked.
Today is the day!
It's may 25th!!
I'm leaving Nigeria!!!

I ran to the mirror to see how my hair turned out because it was my first time in three years that I wasn't on low cut.
One of the reasons I was happy  to leave Nigeria. But I was going to be separated from best friends, Pemi and phebe which was really sad. Now I'm sad, I don't want to be away from them.

Then I had a mini flashback about the day before and I was happy again.  Bolu and Esther came to my house. We had a mini get-together, we ate, watched Korean movie, danced, gossiped, cried, they literally tried on all my clothes and took the ones that fit and also helped fold my clothes into my box until my mom started  adding more things into it.

"Rere"

"Yes mummy"

"Add these ones too. She said as she handed them over to me. It was three packs of attachment( hair extension). Every year she'd pack em' for my sisters because they were into hairdressing and it was easier if they didn't have to buy extensions every time they had to do someone's hair. As time went on,  I got tired of my mom's "add this" requests and went to my bed to relax and watch  "the heirs".
My phone vibrated, it was Daniel. My heart fluttered just like it does everytime he touches me or calls my name. Daniel was my boyfriend from Jss 1 to the beginning of Jss 3. We were the "perfect couple", the one everybody looked up to and admired. Although  we already broke up , we had a special bond. One that no one could break except us and now,  there was a 50-50 chance that we might lose it. I thought as I picked up my phone, opened WhatsApp and read his message.
"Hey baby"

"Wassup"

"I'm tired jare, just finished packing and all. Mumsi is stressing me ehn. "

"Aww sorry love"
"Shebi it's you that wants to leave naija na😏😛"

"Abeg lemme joor😑"

I wanted to talk about us... About what will happen when I leave Nigeria, about how he felt about us.  Despite our breakup dilemma, Daniel and I were tight asf.  He was and still is my realest G, we went through a lot together and though a lotta people tried to separate us they couldn't because we were stronger. We only broke up because something came up and we just had to. But I stopped myself from bringing up the topic with the mentality that if he didn't bring it up, I wouldn't either.

"Sha don't forget me o because you'll always be in my heart no matter where you go🙂❤".

"Ahan forget you ke?  I don't have the mind na.
Awwnn that's so sweet you'll make me cry now😭"

"Hehe Cry cry baby😁"

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Put your phone away, you're gonna take a pop quiz now.  The Spanish teacher, ms franey said.

Wait what?  I snapped myself back to the present day. 
Pop quiz?
I can't even make a statement in Spanish without biting my tongue and  saying it all wrong and I have to take a whole quiz!

God I'm so stressed, I said to myself as I tried to browse through  my notes before franey gave me the quiz sheet.

When the bell rang I packed my things, carried my backpack and walked out the door.  I definitely did not do so well on that quiz. I sighed.

"My God rayray you never walk fast" diane said with a sarcastic grin as she walked up to me on the other side of the hallway.

"But you still love me" I laughed,  pulling her hair all the way to my knee.

"Bitch you tryna fight? "  she turned her head and widened her eyes in an overly dramatic manner.

"Hell no, I'm way too tired for that"

"Of course you are, chicken"

"Excuse you? "

"You're excused " we both turned to face each other and pretended to fight but stopped because of the way people were staring at us. That's one thing everyone would be interested in, "two black girls fighting".

As we proceeded to enter my English classroom, I yelled out in frustration  "I freaking hate this class"

"Why, because of those bitches? "

"Yeah"

"Yo I already told you.... If you need me to say something, I gatchu and if it leads to something physical, imma fight for you.  It's really not that hard juat say the word"

"Aww sweet but no diane,  I know you"

"Okay ma'm,  it's your decision. "

The bell rang again, this time it was the late bell.

"Diane, go to class "
I said as I pushed her towards the door

"Nooooooo,  I wanna stay here with you... I have studyhall(break)  anyways".

"Mm mm you mean you want to see Robbie" I winked at her.

As I finished my statement I noticed  her expression had changed  and she looked really sad. 

"You good? I said pretending not to notice her mood change

"I'm aight"
"Bye ray" she turned to leave.

This my big mouth sha I thought, feeling bad for mentioning Robbie's name. I knew things weren't quite fine with them but I didn't know it was that bad. But really, honestly speaking, I never liked the guy anyways.  There was something unsettled about him and besides he was a big ol' flirt.  Before diane and I even became friends he was trying to mess with me but I wasn't having it until I found out he actually had a girlfriend and till today, diane doesn't know about it and maybe she shouldn't. And If you haven't noticed, I have a thing for being mute about a lotta issues. 

"SSR guys, SSR" ms. Wallace yelled across the classroom. SSR stands for "sustained silent reading"
It basically means you get to choose any book of your choice to read for the first 20 minutes of the class period but of course most people just used their phones. Me, I love reading so the activity was very convenient.

"Hi ray ray" jack said waving at me as I entered my history classroom.
"Hey jack" lol I don't even remember how jack and I became friends or if we're even friends. I just know everyday when I walk in our history class, he says hi, I reply, and we go to our separate seats. It happened everyday... almost like tradition.
History was the last period  of the day and the least stressful class. Thankfully I don't have to go through an hectic class before going home. Maybe, just maybe my day would be better now. I imagined.

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Hey there! It's been over a month. I've been soooooo busy. Btw the picture above is a screenshot of my chat with diane asking for my permission to fight "the three musketeers". Now I think she just feel like fighting 😂😂

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