Let's Make A Deal

❤️Chapter ten

Daniel_

  "Don't forget to bring it."

      "Yo, man." I said over the phone.

"Okay, talk to you later." Deola said.

        "Yeah man, bye." I said and hung up.

"Dindu, it's five already." Mum yelled from her room.

   "I'm ready." I told her.

I packed all I needed in my old school bag and then my school books and whatever I needed for school in my second school bag. I carried them to the living room and waited patiently for Simi and her dad to arrive.

  "Mum, they're here." I screamed at her when I heard the door bell.

   "Coming.." She yelled back.

I opened the door and Simi and her dad got in. Her dad was holding a big duffel bag. She was holding her school bag, two fancy bags and a nylon bag in both hands.

  "You know it's just three months, right?" I asked her.

   She looked down to my school bags before she replied me.

  "Well, it isn't my fault that you own only two pair of jeans. Oh three, I mean plus the one you are putting on."

  "Hey, both of you shouldn't start right now." Simi's dad commanded.

   Both of us decided to shut up.

My mum came down after some minutes. Simi and her dad were seated already.

   They did the usual exchange of pleasantries.

  "So have you fixed your car yet?" Mr. Samuel asked my mum.

   Why can't they skip all of these adult talks and continue the business. Like, you know, a seller and a buyer don't talk too much unless they were bargaining.

  I noticed Simi was bored too. She excused herself and went outside.

   So I'm left here with these two peeps?

     I decided to while away time by pressing my phone but my mum's voice stopped me.

  "Chidindu, why should you be pressing your phone when adults are talking? It's like you want to spend three months without that phone abi?"

I shook my head. That can't happen. I won't survive it. That can't...

  "Infact, give me that phone." She added.

  What did I do now?

"Mummy please..." I almost cried at the spot.

   Thank God Simi isn't here to see me or else, she would use it to diss me for months.

  "Ifeoma, take it easy on him, don't seize his phone, please." Mr. Samuel said.

  "He doesn't read because of this phone. He is so addicted to this phone. His elders are talking and he's pressing phone." She complained.

God!! They were talking about cars and work and churches and... What does this has to do with me.

   "Take it easy." He begged again.

"Children of nowadays eh." She hissed. "Try it next time and you will be phone less."

  I'd love him forever. Yes, I'd love Simi's dad forever. He just saved me from..

  "And he's not even grateful sef.." My mum added. "No thank you, no nothing?"

   "Thank you." I mouthed.