COLD (a nigerian story)

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I mistakenly hit the vase and it fell drawing attention to myself, everyone including my sister looked at me.

Way to go Yemisi. Way to go.

"Um...Hi? You look like me. Are you ... What's her name again sorry" YInka whispered the last part to my parents.

I felt my heart drop. She didn't know who I was. She had forgotten me. Everything we did together. 

"Um..Yemisi? Yemisi?" She called. I snapped out of my little trance and looked at her. Of course she had changed. She was skinnier, she had died some strands of her hair white. She was prettier and looked flawless.

I didn't say anything to her, I just glared and ran away to my room.

Minutes later, the door creaked open. I turned and saw my dad "why'd you do that?" He asked softly.

"Well..Why not?" I argued.

"Yemisi that's your sister. The one that was Missing for almost a year and half..the one th--"

"That has forgotten about me" I snapped. "What's the point dad? She has forgotten me.. Everything we did together.The times we played tinker bell and harry potter together. She forgot !!"

"Well..do you blame her for it??! After all yo--"

"How can you forget those kind of things? H--"

"Stop this nonsense this moment! You think she would want to forget?! Do you think she wanted to forget huh?!"

"Just..Leave! Get out please!" I yelled angrily throwing a pillow at him. He stood up also angry and then walked out of my room. 

I buried my face in my pillow and for the first time in weeks almost a month, I let tears flow freely from my eyes. I sobbed, clutching onto the pillow. I was so done with life.

the door opened again. "Please go away" I whispered weakly, unsure if they heard "Yemisi?"

I heard her. She sounded the same.

I didn't answer her, I still sobbed. I didn't care if she saw me as a weak and pathetic person. All I wanted to do was to cry. I was confused, I didn't know what to feel.

How do you react when your long lost twin has come back and doesn't remember you? All the fun you had--

"Look..I'm sorry" she apologized her head hung in shame. "I-I don't know what to do or how to react to it. I was told that you're  my twin. I know it sucks that I can't remember and I feel really stupid for forgetting and I can't forgive myself. I know I meant a lot and you probably meant a lot to me too b-but I can't."

I sniffed and sat up looking at her with red eyes. She also had red eyes and looked like she had been crying. She wrapped her hands around me hugging me. I also hugged her back tightly.

"So..you don't remember anything? What about the time we were-"

"I remember our love for lollipop. I always knew that there was someone who loved lollipops. I knew I had something in common with someone.  I felt like I was missing something. A big part of me"

"Please think harder. Can you remember what happened before you lost your memory?" I asked hopefully. 

"What's up? I come back home to hug and greet you only t-- is that Yinka I'm looking at? Or my eyes are tricking me" Temi said entering into the room. She walked to the bed and threw herself on it.

"Oh! Who are you? Not to be rude" Yinka asked. "I'm Temi.. I was adopted or I don't known how to explain. I'm sha your sister I guess"

"Oh. That's...uh..good? " there was an awkward silence. I couldn't bring myself to talk but after a while, I just had to. "Do you remember anything Cotton?" That name slipped. We called each other nicknames. Mine for her was cotton while her's was candy. get it?... Cotton Candy

"Eh..no offence but I'll go with Rita. I'm used to that"

It was like a stab in my chest.

She didn't want that name.

Of course she wouldn't she forgot everything

Temi looked at me with concern but immediately I looked back at her, I looked down. I wasn't going to be weak. I wasn't going to cry. What had happened, has happened. It cannot be changed. I stood up without replying to Yinka aka Rita and for the second time that day, I ran out of the house.