DANIELLA✔

Chapter twenty-nine

It was two days to Christmas and there were no Christmas vibes in the city like there used to be in the village.

A week before Christmas in the village was all exciting and fun. Schools would have vacated. Many children would have been outside throwing knock out. Families would be running after various fowls on the street to kill for Christmas. There would be new faces of people that came from the city to spend their Christmas with their relatives in the village. I always made sure to make those city people my friends before they left. Also, children bragging about the Christmas clothes their parents bought for them.

It was all festive when it's close to Christmas in the village. But here in the city, it didn't look like Christmas was around the corner. If anything, the atmosphere was even drier than normal days.

Oh how I missed village!

I had missed mama and papa so much. I wondered how they were fairing in the village. If I had known better, I wouldn't have moved to Lagos with aunt Caro. She had literally denied me of all forms of communication with my grandparents. But come to think of it, were mama and papa missing me as much as I was missing them? If they were, they would have called and insisted aunt Caro gave me the phone in order to speak to me. Who knows, maybe they did, but aunt Caro lied to them that I wasn't around or I was sleeping or something of that sort. There's nothing that wicked woman can't do to achieve what she wants.

Daniella you have a phone now. My subconscious reminded me. That's right. I did have a phone. But how to get mama and papa's phone number from aunt Caro's phone book was the big deal. I needed to think of a plan to do that. Maybe I should sneak into aunt Caro's room when she wasn't there and get the phone number from her phone. That would be a bit dicey, I don't need anyone to tell me that, but I was ready to do it nonetheless. I just had to wait for the ideal time.

I was presently in my room. Or maybe I should put it this way: the room where I slept. I was lonely and bored, so I decided to come online on social media. I tapped on my chat with Peter, but he wasn't online.

I dropped a message with him nonetheless.

Hey boo! Come online. I'm really bored and I miss you.

I checked through my other friends to see who was online. Adam and Gbemi were. Thank goodness!

I tapped on my chat with Adam and dropped a message.

Hey bestie!

He replied almost immediately.

Hey sweetheart! How are you doing? I've missed you o.

I've missed you too. Everything's just boring here. How are things over there?

Well, not as boring as yours might be, but it isn't all that fun here too. Hope your guardians are not still treating you badly.

Hmm, they are. In fact, it's worse o. I'm tired of this house. Anyways, is it just me or there's no vibe for this Christmas.

So you're still looking for Christmas vibe? You think you're still a child?

Is it only children that vibe with Christmas?

What vibe exactly are you talking about?

As I was going to reply, someone barged in the room and I quickly hid my phone under the pillow.

It was Annabelle and Amanda. They looked like they were ready for war.

"Hey bitch! Return all the clothes we gave to you!" Amanda snarled, folding her arms around her chest.

I looked at both of them standing in front of me, surprised with what Amanda just said.