𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚃𝚘 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛'𝚜 𝚂𝚘𝚗 ||ℭ𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔢✓||

Chapter 4

*EDITED*

"Oh gawd!" Amara whined, an annoyed look marring her face in her sleep. "Leave me alone! I want to sleep some more!" Amara said as she rolled on the bed and snuggled with her stuffed animal. She owned a lot of them and couldn't sleep without snuggling with at least one of them.

"Sis, get up. Mom will be here to wake you up, and if she still sees you're sleeping, that wouldn't be good. And you know how she is. Why are you still wasting time? It's morning already, and you have school... Remember?" Chioma said to her and she grumbled something incoherently to Chioma. Amara finally got up, rubbing her sleepy eyes and murmuring with an annoyed look still glued to her face.

"To hell with school! I'm tired!" She whined, as she once again, plopped on her bed. "The teachers are paid to be there, while I'm being forced. So, fück school!" Her use of strong language, made Chioma cringe. She'd never heard Amara cuss before.

"Silly girl. You need school, it's very essential and really important" Chioma said to her, in a calm tone, sitting beside her on her bed.

"I didn't beg them, did I? I want to sleep!" Amara murmured as she drew the comforter over her body, on attempt to block all Chioma had to say.

"I'm calling mom, if you don't get up in the next five minutes" Chioma threatened, and Amara hurriedly jumped out of bed and threw her comforter away from her body.

"What?! You wouldn't dare!" She yelled in fright, of what her mother would do to her, a daring look on her face.

"Are you testing me? 'Cause it takes nothing to call your mother up here" she replied and Amara shut her eyes in exhaustion, and groaned.

"Fine, I'm up! I'm up! But just know this isn't over" and with that, she got out of bed, and grumbled her way to the bathroom.

Chioma laughed hollered after her.
"Love you!" She yelled and Amara snorted;

"Don't give two shits about it!" She yelled from the bathroom and Chioma laughed again and left, heading to her room.

Once inside her room; she sat down on her bed and then her phone made a ding sound, indicating that she had a new message. When she retrieved her phone from the side table where she had earlier kept it; she saw that it was a message from her best friend, Amanda.

"Hello?" Came Amanda's voice.

"Girl, there's fire on the mountain" Amanda replied, earning a confused look from Chioma.

"What...? What are you talking to about?" a confused Chioma, asked.

"I'm even surprised you don't know what happ—"

"Just get to the point already and quit beating around the bush!" She demanded, cutting her off abruptly. "What actually happened?" Chioma asked again.

"Ebuka happened!" She snapped. "I just got news that he's getting married to some other girl. I'm so sorry, girl. I just... I don't understand why he'd do something like that to you. For Pete's sake, you're his girlfriend! And for five whole months!" Amanda replied, solemnly.

The minute Chioma fully registered what she'd said, she gasped for air. Her heart shattered into a thousand pieces and she wished it were all false and she'd heard wrongly.

No, no. This can't be true. This cannot... This just can't be happening.

She thought, as she felt the hot tears prick her eyes, and she tried so hard to keep them at bay.