Hadiza's Pov
"Hadiza come here fast with your cap",Stella called me as she took pictures for matriculation.
"I can't believe we are in just like that...how I wish Mama was here and didn't go back to Enugu",she said to me as we were beaming with joy.
"Even me too oo..Aunty Lisa and Aunty Aminat are there talking to someone but I dont know him o".
"Ehnehn I am coming,please wait with the photographer",she said as she quickly walked over to where I pointed.
Over the past few months,I wrote to my mother and she wrote back too even though she wasn't that good but I figured the words out clearly and Hauwa too wrote back only once and after that I didn't hear from her but my mother always said she was fine.
"Ok so let us take a group picture",Aunty Lisa said to us as we were complete.
"So let us leave you girls to go back to your hostels now abi?".
We just hugged them and went our way as they did too.
Classes were going on well but Stella was getting distracted along the line.She was always going to see one friend or the other within the short period we resumed to school.I had friends too but I saw them only when I had classes.I couldn't afford to waste the money Aunty Aminat was spending on me because she reminded me everytime to face my books and participate in social activities once in a while but it wasn't really my thing.
Luckily for me,I and Stella were in the same room.
"Hadiza come and see oo",Stella came in to show me the new things she just got.
"Where did you get this from ?",I asked seeing the nylons she was holding.
"My friends bought them oo,they just said I should tag along to the supermarket".
"These your friends,do they really have money to buy all these things?",I said checking inside the nylon on the table.
"Why are you doing interview for me na?",she asked.
"I don't mean any harm oo,just asking to be sure".
"Ok oo,but this one is for you".
"Thank you for remembering me",I said to her as I collected the nylon from me.
"I want to quickly take my bath..I am coming".
"Hmmn Stella I want to talk to you when you come out from the bathroom".
"Ehhehh just talk now I am very tired".
"No when you are done",I said as I checked my phone for any messages or missed calls.
She just murmured something under her breath and left to the bathroom.In a hurry,she came out in anger asking if I knew who dropped her sponge on the floor.
"I dont know about that but maybe the breeze blew it now and if I went there..I would have picked it up and washed it for you".
"The breeze no blow anything and you see that stupid yoruba girl,Ajoke abi what's her name?I will change it for her today because I know she threw it on the floor ",she said in anger.
"Just take it easy,she might not have done that on purpose...Stella don't fight her oo just ask her".
As we were still discussing,Ajoke and her other friend that were our other roommates came in and just greeted us like we didn't mean anything and that was the moment I knew something bad was going to happen.
"Ehnehn Ajoke were you the one that threw my sponge on the floor?"
"I didn't oo and if I did what wants to happen",she said looking at Stella from up to down.
"Wait oo is it me this crayfish is looking at like that,you no even fear height talkless of size because if I pounce on you ehn you wont walk for a month".
I made signs to Stella to be patient."You can't do anything",she said almost poking her fingers into Stella's eyes.
I didn't believe what happened next because Stella twisted Ajoke's fingers so hard that she started screaming and wailing.Even Ajoke's friend got scared and couldn't move near them
"Ahh Stella please leave her before she attracts people to this place" .
But that was too late because 2 or 3 people were already by the window side wondering what was happening.It took so much efforts for me to draw her away from Ajoke that was on the floor already.
"If not for this place you no fit see me for road dey talk rubbish,who born you?".
"Stella,it's enough just leave her now".
Stella snapped her fingers at Ajoke,hissed and went back into the bathroom.
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