BEING SKINNY IN NIGERIA

Just Me :Chapter 23

School have been hectic as usual, chinyere resumed and also resumed with her awful self and her stupid minions making life unbearable for me. Remi resumed with us, his results came out towards the end of September and he aced the exam, so he was awarded full scholarship, we all celebrated, it really was a wonderful moment, I saw how happy his mother was, and I felt that was enough for me to be happy for him, cause he deserves it.

I was also happy cause he didn't have to leave immediately but January, so he would be with me throughout this school period, up until new years. I wanted to experience Christmas and new years with him, his mum is a Christian so they do celebrate Christmas, and I want to be there with him.

His mum already prepared the divorce documents, and the whole process is still on going in court, she found a small apartment, so they had to move out from his step dad's home, so technically his mum separated with the man but they aren't divorced yet.

I've never seen Remi so happy, I know he's always smiling, but there's a different glow to the new him, although the distance of his new house is very far and he had to stop coming to school, but that didn't stop him from visiting me almost everyday of the week, and although I begged mum to go for the weekend in his place she refused. And I understand actually, I too would not dare let my child.

We continued to go on different dates, that were close to my house cause mum refuses to let me go as far as around his house, she says the distance is too far, she's already been so much understanding unlike most Nigerian mum's, so I had to respect her.

Eno had tagged along in most of our dates too, and also bayo, but I don't think there'll be anything happening anytime between him and Eno, they are not just interested I eachother. Their words not mine.

On Christmas eve I, Remi, bayo and Eno went to a Christmas eve party, it was wild, Eno and bayo made out but they said it meant nothing, we'll I'll try to believe that. I and Remi took some crazy pictures in a picture booth, had drinking competions and also the person who threw up more, cause alcohol was not for me or him, bayo kept laughing at us, even while he and Eno were both drunk too. We threw some fireworks, and went skinny dipping. We were all drunk, we'll most of us, I and Remi were already a bit sober cause we already vomited some of our contents, but bayo and Eno, we're crazy drunk.

After skinny dipping we wore our wet clothes very early in the morning and walked into a catholic church to pray, even if the Christmas mass was already over by the tune we got there, people around the church kept staring at us, we looked crazy.

We all arrived at my place at 2am in the morning, and let's just say my mum wasn't very happy with me, she was so angry and she scolded me, but didn't report to thier mum's tho she doesn't know who bayo was.

Bayo and Remi had to leave very early in the morning, and Eno left a bit later, her mum will skin her alive for missing Christmas eve mass, which her family never missed, or attended separately.

New years was a bit boring, Eno's mum refused that she left the house, she was still angry about the whole christmas issue, she found out Eno got drunk and was mad, she scolded me too. I stayed at home as I messaged Remi throughout the day, we couldn't meet cause he was visiting an aunt with his mum, so I spent new year with my whole family, dad came back home and he brought lots of presents, and we also went out to a two days trip to paris, best two days with my family in a long time. I was "Aishat" for that trip cause I took alot of pictures that I sent to Remi. Aishat herself even got angry with me cause she took all my pictures, and complained through all of it.

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Time passed by really fast, Remi is leaving tomorrow, and I haven't stopped crying, I can't believe I'll not see him for a long time again, I'm loosing him, and he still doesn't know how much I love him. Mum is driving me to his place tomorrow morning, his flight will be leaving by 5pm tomorrow, I begged mum that I wanted to spend a day with him and she was kind enough to agree to drive me there and back.