THE AFRO-NIGERIAN

~Chapter 8

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"No, I am allowing her to choose freely so her childhood won't be ruined" Mom said and stared coldly at her sister and her brother in-law. Now when my Mom gives that stare it means she is dead serious and that is very rare.
After that stare nobody said anything until we finished eating. So I took that opportunity to go and look for Ire. I found her upstairs curled into a ball in one part of her room.
"Hii" I said taking her by surprise. She saw it was me so she started to wipe her tears away.
"So sorry you had to see that but I don't really know why some parents claim to love their children but then they are selling them literally removing them from their lives just for money" she said and started crying again.
"Don't say that. I am sure they are doing that for a good purpose or look at this way they want you to live wealthy." I said and that made her smile.
"So tell me who your betrothed is?" I said in a sing song voice.
"Well his name is Bayo( Meet joy), he is 29 years old and he would be 31years by the time we should get married. He is filthy rich,arrogant, proud and annoying. I am going to be his first wife and he told my Dad he would marry me since I was 2." She said and gave me a small smile.
"So how is Tope like?" I asked.
"She is just like her brother but meaner." She said and we planned something (operation disaster).
I went to my room and went to change to one of the cutest dresses I had. It was a white and pink flowered dress that had no sleeve and was fitted up to my waist. I wore my sneakers and ran downstairs to meet Ire.
"Mom I'm going for my tour" I told Mom while going out the door.
"Ok have fun" Mom said and I closed the door.
We walked for like 2 minutes before getting to a big house. It had a nice front lawn and huge space and I'm guessing it belongs to a rich family.
"This is Tope's house" Ire said and smiled.
Now time operation disaster!!!.

We went to knock on the door and a maid opened the door. She and Ire started speaking Yoruba so I just stood there and in another moment the maid went back inside.
We stayed there for 2 minutes before the maid came out and said.
"Ko sin le /koh-sihn-lai/ (she is not around)".
"Well tell her that my cousin from America wants to see her" Ire said and gave the maid a fake smile.
The maid went in to deliver the message and when the door opened it was not the maid but a slightly overweight looking girl that had her hair done in a nice style and wearing the native attire with a lot of bangles  (now that is a lot of bangles I'm guessing she probably rich and she is trying to show it of)
"What is it now Ire and where is that your cousin cause I know you are lyin-" she said and cut herself short when she looked at me.
"Umm... haillo how ya doing?" She said trying to make a fake impression of an American accent.
"What did you say?" I said normally cause I know I have an accent.
"Umm Hi I'm Temitope but people call me Tope for short" she said and extended her hand out to me.
I didn't shake her hand and I guess she was wondering what happened so she slowly put her hand back.
"Come into my house" she said and gestured for us to come in.
We entered and look around but it was not what I expected.

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