Pidginenglish Stories

Jasmine Oluwasolape Favour is a Lagos woman with a soft heart and a sharp mind, unfortunately, Lagos men keep testing both. Twelve men. Twelve personalities. Different faces, same audacity. From Snapchat connections to fast tracked relationships. From friends with suspicious energy to secret babies, secret wives, secret lives. From gaslighting, manipulation, lies, love-bombing, financial audacity, emotional wickedness, and men who swear they're single, on God. This is not a love story. This is a Lagos survival manual. Each chapter exposes a different kind of man, a different kind of heartbreak, and a different lesson Jasmine never asked to learn, but Lagos insisted on teaching her anyway. But above all the chaos, Jasmine remains a lover girl.

This isn't really a book. It's just a collection of random thoughts in my head and moments from random days in my life. Nothing too serious-just me sharing things I've experienced, conversations I've had, and how I feel sometimes. Some days are funny, some are confusing, and some are just there. But they're all real. And maybe, in some way, you'll see a bit of yourself in them too.

These are pieces that I have written for fun. Some pieces came from my creative writing class. Some from the heart. Enjoy.💛

It is said that poetry sees and speaks from the heart, love and Truth are the major content of good poetry. In this piece, I wrote my truth, with love in these lines of poetry.

"Hey four eyes!" "Hey big head" "My head is not that big" "Well if you don't like it, don't call me four eyes" A story about a girl who trips on air, whose laugh sounds like a generator, socially awkward with a low self-esteem but finally learns how to accept and love herself and learns how to be confident in her own skin. And also maybe finally finds love along the way.

Kemi Olamide Bello is a Nigerian who happens to be the daughter of a chief unknowingly to her, mysteries of her mother was becoming a question to everyone around her. As she also finds it difficult in her own country she meets a grinch who happens to be a foreigner in her school, Roland Smith who happens to get unhappy going to Africa but later with the help of Kemi she shows him the wonders of Africa and its hidden facts.

MARIAM THELMAN That's my name, but I hardly hear people call me that, it was either Mimi, kawana or Uniform. I am a shadow uniform prefect in my school, my term results always come out good, if I'm to fail a subject, I'll get a C there. All my problems are being solved with money at home But... That's the first side of my coin, the other side I also got to know, and when I knew... SIMEON SAMUEL He was called the new kid, that arrogant one that thinks he's better than everyone, but at the same time secretly admired. He's so oblivious to the fact people listen and admire him when he talked, and sincerely speaking, most people are now thinking of giving the position of head boy to him... But then, the new people always have what they are hiding, don't they? KUCHELI OMARI She's the best friend to Mariam, has always been supportive of her ever since junior class but as the years go by, she's trying so hard to control her jealousy, Miriam's house, Miriam's bank account, Mariam's everything looks so much better than her and it looks like her bestie likes her, no she won't agree... But it's killing her inside and she can't just say what she knows will shatter her and Miriam's world... MALIK OMARI Aside from the fact that he was Simeon's best friend, and they met in a very odd place... prison. He was also Kucheli's cousin but then he left the school for a year and came back the same year Simeon entered... Was his coming back a coincidence? Why didn't he tell Mariam the truth about him going to prison? What else is he hiding? Why does he support his cousin silently, even when he knows she's hurting their friend and it's breaking their friendship? What will happen when everyone finds out that something is linked together? And the worse thing? Life has just started because they are in secondary school... Two Sides Of Their Coin... Please excuse grammatical errors, it hasn't been edited yet... #wattysNG2020 #wattysng2020