Let's Make A Deal

❤️ Chapter twelve

Simisola_

"Get up." Someone tapped me softly.

  "Okay, dad." I said and turned to sleep more comfortably as usual.

  "I'm going late, Get up."

I sat up immediately and rubbed my eyes with my hands. I turned to look at the person disturbing me.

Aunty Ifeoma?

"Good morning, ma." I said as I yawned. My gaze rested on her. She was fully dressed in a Pallazo trouser and a matching jacket.

    "It's almost seven, I've been trying to get you up." She sighed.

"Well, I'm up now." I said as I stood up from the bed.

  She rummaged her bag then she brought out a thousand naira note. She handed it over to me.

  "That's for lunch and transportation. I'm leaving right now. Make sure you say your prayer and take breakfast. There's cornflakes in the kitchen. If you wish to join your dad, you can dress up quickly and go with him. I couldn't fix my car during the weekend." She whined.

  Before I could process that, she already left. Wait, does she want me to make lunch for both of us or this is for my lunch?

   I sighed as I took out my toothbrush and proceeded to the bathroom. After thirty minutes, I was done brushing, bathing and dressing up. I went to the kitchen to make breakfast.

  I rushed my breakfast and did the dishes immediately. In no time, I was standing beside the mere road, searching for a good bike.

   It already seven thirty, dad must have gone to work thirty minutes ago. I almost cried because there was no visible empty bike. This is what you get when you don't wake up early. Almost all the bike men were carrying a passenger.

    I kept on checking my wrist watch as I stood there like a helpless girl. A bike man stopped in my front.

"You dey go?" He asked in pidgin.

I nodded immediately. "Brandish secondary school."

   "You hold change?" He asked again.

  This is when I realized that there were some evil forces that were Working and hoping that by all means, i went late.

  "I'm with one thousand naira." I said.

   The bike man just glared me, hissed and left.

   At this point, I remembered that I didn't say my prayer this morning. Aunty Ifeoma told me to say my prayers but I forgot. Maybe this is why I'm having bad luck today.

    When I sighted another empty bike, I flagged it down immediately.

     "Brandish secondary School." I said to him calmly.

     "Hundred naira." He replied.

"I'm with one thousand."

     "I get change." He replied then I got on the bike.

   In few minutes, we were in front of my school. I got down and started to search my bag for the money. I couldn't find it.

  But I kept it in this little pocket in my bag, right?

   "Aunty, no dey waste my time na." The bike man complained.

    I looked around. Nobody was even around because, I came late.

        "I think say you talk say you hold one thousand." The man asked again.

  "I'm sorry, let me still check." I said.