African Teen

The Death Of Juice

So it's been roughly a month since the lockdown started and staying home all day totally sucks.

I mean, normally I'd love the comforts of my room talking to absolutely nobody but these days, even I get bored.

I miss Tinuke, even though we still talk everyday and I've managed to see her again after the lockdown and oh yeah, I asked her out and she said yes so I'm not single again y'all.
Wish I could see her,hold her and talk to everyday.

Juice obviously freaked when I told him, he was so happy he almost lost in UFC, I've never ever beat Juice in UFC and my almost winning meant he was really off his game.
Yeah, he comes over and I go to his house a lot, both of us started learning Russian for some weird reason, when we resume school, we're going to torment the students by speaking Russian to each other and confuse them,Juice said it's the smartest thing any SS3 student in Nigeria has come up with.
When we aren't learning Russian, attending online classes or watching paintings on YouTube,we binge old sitcoms,play games and eat.

So it seems like the two key people in my life right now are Juice and Tinuke
Of course there's my mom, sister,Teni and Rasheedat(who took me as her guardian angel).

But this chapter isn't about me or any of them
It's about Juice and his heartbreak.

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So it was a Saturday and I was in Juice's house
I had been there since Thursday, my mom was at my aunts place with Demilade.

Juice's brothers were around but as usual, everybody stayed in their lane.
Two of Juice's cousins, Mayowa and Tomiwa,were around for the break,fresh out of boarding school, they were twins, Mayowa, boy and Tomiwa, girl.
Both of them obviously had Juice's blood in them since they were never afraid to express themselves,Mayowa wanted to be a Lawyer and Tomiwa wanted to be a Show Presenter,and they definitely had potential.
Remember I said earlier that most of what we did was play games, binge and eat.
Eat, yeah, we ate a lot of snacks, Tomiwa had a sweet tooth and she was a helluva cook, she could make any snack, you name it and she was in the kitchen everyday with Juice's younger brothers conjuring up another flour miracle.

So yeah, it was Saturday, we were munching on doughnuts freshly made by Tomiwa as we played games when Juice received a message from Amber,

"We need to talk",Juice read aloud,

"Ouu, bruh that's never good,at all",Mayowa says,

"Yup, what did you do?, is she pregnant?",Tomiwa asks,

"No, she isn't pregnant, let me call her",Juice says and walks into the closet,

"How far guy, are you ready for your usual beating?",Mayowa asks me,

"I'll end you",I tell him and carry a pad,

"Why do you guys never let me play?",Mayowa asks,

"You can't play, you're a girl,go to the kitchen or something",Mayowa says with an expressionless face,

"Wow, that is super sexist!",Tomiwa shouts,

"Calm down Tomiwa, he's just afraid you'll beat him and he'll end up crying",I say to ease the tension, Mayowa and Tomiwa are always fighting and it's almost always because Mayowa is a growing misogynist and Tomiwa is a growing feminist,

"No, I won't calm down, he says this all the time",she says to me and faces Mayowa,
"Do you know how many women in the world are top gamers and that there are also men who spend all day in the kitchen hmm?",she asks him,

"Do you think I actually care?,I don't even know how you're my twin sister, everytime, girls this, women that, abeg, cook and clean, cook and clean, that's what you should do",Mayowa says, normally, if it were anybody else, I would contradict what he just said but I know better than step in when both of them are arguing,