Alike episode 1
Alike episode 1
I have gone to live with grandma for the meantime, Because no one ever notice me if am around or not even my parents doesn’t… sometimes I don’t blame them, having so much kids and am just the 7th and older than four and how to get us fed and sheltered is enough trouble for them,
we are eleven, nine are from my both parents while the other two came from my mum, before she got married to my dad..
So the house is always busy and we sometime wish some people can just disappear so that we can feel important, seven girls and four boys is big enough plus mum and dad making it thirteen… so if some people can just go away …the house won’t be so crowded and no one has to feel he or she is more or less important or most favorite.
I like going over to grandma who lives in the village at least I will be far from competition, noise and crowded house. No one will notice am gone or even miss me because back in the house everyone is busy with their business so that you don’t get into another person’s trouble, thank God my parents put a ban for fighters like my tiger and Tigris sisters and brothers,
you will be starved for 2days after which you will pay a fin, everyone avoids this because nobody want to be starve for a wh0le 2days and still pay after been starved, the only thing we do is to shout at each other and write down offences in a book which we present to dad ones he comes back he will be the one to carry out the punishment accordingly, we avoid getting into anybody’s book but ones in a while we fall into a set trap… well there are some things you can’t escape when you have siblings like mine
Dad is a civil servant and mom owns a big buka, where she sales food and drinks, which she runs with the help of my other three siblings, they made it clear to us that ones we graduate from college the rest is up to us, to do whatever we want to do with our lives, learn a trade, work or even furthering of education, it becomes our responsibility not theirs, but they will strive hærd and make sure we complete our college education, put food on the table, pay bills, cloth and shelter us, that’s where there strength stops.
If possible they will support us in any way they can but nobody should put hope on them.
They tried to keep to their word. Sometimes my two elder siblings assist with some things at home but the rest only thinks of themselves, I also assist sometimes when I have.
Only one of my elder sister is married, another one is engaged… I sometime wish I will also find that special someone who can make my heart skip, I will marry him and that will be the end of my sibling war, but I’m young and still have a lot to achieve
After my college I tried doing a lot of things so that I can return to school, but nothing was working out, I worked in two different places but I just can’t save up.
I will be 20 by October and we are still in July, i cant wait to be 20years, the years are too slow, i wish it can be faster, maybe if am twenty years things will begin to fall in place for me
The last place I worked was in a factory, the factory engine almost chopped off my hand if not that i was saved on time …
so after the incident I have to resign from there and since then I haven’t had much things coming my way,
I was becoming bored, staying at home and searching for job,
I needed something to keep me busy,
I ones had a boyfriend who was never serious, neither was I, I was actually trying to see what having a boyfriend feels like, it was never love… the relationsh¡p looks unserious so I stopped seeing him. And haven’t dated after then, I imagined what love could feel like, sometimes I like being on my own, to just fantasies on my dream man, what he will look like, the kind of occupation he will fits into, how rom-ntic he will be, how many kids we will have. The imagination I planted on my head is always beautiful, sometimes I just love being in the future with the dream man I created on my head but whenever my siblings disturbed me while I’m enjoying a happy moment with my imagination man, I will get so angry with them,
I Try to make meaning out of my life… I guided my heart with all diligent so that I don’t fall a victim to love and end up loving the wrong person, i don’t believe in heartbreak, I don’t believe any man can break my heart, if it doesn’t work out I will peacefully walk away, love is not by force,I cannot be heartbroken for any man, is not worth it …
it has been like that for me until I visited my grandma…
So it was on this day I met him,
grandma has been having wa-ist pain… so she sent me to the chemist to get some drugs for her and this particular guy was at the chemist I have being seeing him and anytime I saw him my heart always skip… I was like his secret admirer but he never noticed me..
Right there at the chemist my heart started skipping so fast because I can smell him… he smells of sweat… I was standing close to him deliberately… I liked him right from the first day I saw him playing football with his friends I watched him and also saw him at the market place I intentionally moved close to him but he still did not notice me.
Right here at the chemist, I was happy he came and was close to me… I kept inhaling his smell like a dog, as crazy as it may sound I was enjoying myself… But he never turned to looked me, he was very handsome, and have fine body built, he was really cute,
I was admiring him until without any atom of shame or shyness he asked the chemist to give him 2 packs of c-ndom. The chemist smiled and throw jokes at him…
“it looks like you have a match to play in bed this evening …?
Yes oo.. Big match… there’s one naughty girl I want to arrange tonight and I need a lot of protection…. Hahahahaha… Because it will be all night match…
they both kept laughing as i kept thinking of what he want to do with the two pack, I was frozen.. My smile dyed off and my leg began to shake.. I held onto the wood close to me in other not to fall.. the chemist noticed my discomfort and stopped laughing he gave him sign to stop laughing…he quickly turned to me and looked at me as if I don’t exist… just a mere look he gave me I felt goose bomb all over me, I begin to wonder what is it about the guy that gives me so much discomfort, that makes me want to go crazy
“na wetin you dey look, na V-rgin you be..? Abi you never see codom before… You be fine girl sha…na your type I dey like… But you no fit give me the style I dey like for bed…you go dull my moral… See as you dress as if na you holy pass…
I felt so disappointed as i listen to him talk to me in that manner, I didn’t reply him, He left after paying for his stuff. I looked at my Long skirt and see there’s nothing wrong with my dressing,
The chemist man cleared his throat and asked me what i wanted to buy but I can’t remember what I wanted to buy again as I stood thinking of the drugs grandma has sent me to buy…