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#21 - Me And My Situations

Chapter 21

Authors note at the bottom, please do not skip. Enjoy.

Family.

The dictionary defines it as a group of peoples related by blood or marriage or even adoption.

My family and I were basically strangers. My mother was only ever around when it was time to cook and visit other family members but asides from that, all she did was work.

My father. The nice guy. The family guy. He was always around but we barely ever spoke, I was still scared of him, even though he seemed like a teddy bear.

I only enjoyed the company of my cousins and aunts and sometimes uncles. Those were my closely blood related family in a cute way. They were always there to have fun and enjoy family stuff with.

My real actual family. They were online. They were the weirdos I could count on, some of them from school, some of them from church, some of them from only God knows where.

There was the obvious Glory, Maureen and Love. Then there was Kevin my brother, Chioma my sister, Oreva my twin, Ebuka my husband, Juliana my mum and my 2 besties, Ejiro and Ife.

Those were the people who actually made me smile. Everyday I'd anticipate the moment I'd get home to text them because online we were all different people. Online, we could be anyone.

It was an absolutely terrible Monday. Maureen's birthday. I hated it. Not only had she unknowingly rubbed her newest flirt in my face, but she had also made me carry part of her large amount of gifts to my house too.

I was worn out. I was tired. But my mind, my thoughts, they couldn't rest one bit, they just kept on buzzing with so many things. There was Kenneth, the mystery boy online, whose profile picture is an anime grim reaper. There was Daniel, stereo boy. The one who had just asked me to be his girl friend. There was also the new guy, Emeka. He was funny, in a weird kind of way. But my heart belonged to that fool. Joseph.

"Can we meet there tomorrow? Oh don't worry, my daughter would be in school around 3.... Yes.... this time Central Soup. Goodnight."

Once again my father was meeting with an unknown person. He was in his room with the lights off as I passed by, he didn't want me knowing he was up. That he was doing something suspicious behind my back, behind mums back.

The only difference this time was I was going to find out. I was getting sick of being in the dark. What ever was going on between my father and my mother would be brought out of the dust very soon.

Walking straight to my room, I made sure the door was closed before hoping into the bed and taking out my phone.Home, here I come.

Messages

Onwere Chioma

Mumu girl, hw Fr?

I tapped on Chioma's name and as easy as that, I was transported into my own world of friends and family. Just us and Social media.

After about 3 hours of endless laughter and sarcasm, i was unfortunately brought back, allowing the sad thoughts catch up with me and I ended up bumming everyone out. So I decided to just slide myself out of their DMs and group chats and sleep.

Sleep. My other escape. The best one.

But then I couldn't. I kept thinking. Why was I starting to get a warm spot in my heart for that Daniel boy. Usually in movies, the main character never ends up with her crush, but with the other guy. The Hero.

Was Daniel the Hero of my story? But what about Kenny, he made me smile, even for just a while, if only I knew who he was, things would be so much easier. So much clearer.

Boys were a hassle. They made my brain hurt and my heart thump. I didn't like this, not one bit. My eyes were trained on the ceiling. Why couldn't I be like Love. She probably didnt like anyone. She was too harsh for that.

But maybe she did like someone. Maybe none of us knew, the way none of them know about me. Maybe we all like someone and we're all afraid to say something. To be just like the people we trash talk all the time. What if they were as scared as I was.

Maybe my mother went through all this. Maybe she did well with this, maybe she closed everyone off like she normally did. Maybe I should try that sometimes, but would that really help me?

I always get sad when ever I remember that my life isn't an American teen drama and everything might not just be fine at the end. I just wished things could go back to normal. But I was well aware things wouldn't .

My bestfriend and my crush had a thing going on, my parents were separating and I was featuring in a stupid game of Catch the crush. Wasn't my life just prefect.

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Hi Everyone, Kelly here. If you are actually enjoying this story and are looking forward to updates, I'd just like to see your comments. It would probably motivate me to get a schedule, an actual update schedule, so you can look forward to having a chapter at a certain time. That's just what I wanted you all to know. Have a great day, hope you enjoyed the chapter though. 😊 Bye.