Alike episode 2

Alike episode 2
 
“Buy okro we Will mix it with that small ogbono that is left, then buy smoked fish, pepper, onions and maggi from the market, we have every other thing… Go and get paper and write it down so that you won’t forget like the other day I send you to the chemist to buy me drugs, you came back with something else..totally different from what i sent you to buy…because you forgot which made you to go back twice… Alike go and write the list of item you are going to buy in the market… And please keep the money safe, So that you won’t forget again or end up buying another thing… Or even losing money ..I won’t be happy if you do such mistake again…I don’t have money to be sending you on an errand twice for same thing.. Go and write it down now…
” ah ah grandma I’m not a child na…I will remember everything…I don’t need to write it down when is just 5 items, they are very simple to remember… I can’t forget this one grandma… Even if they are up to 10 items I will still remember all.. I’m not forgetful.. I use to be one of the best in my class when I was in school…I was very good in cramming things into my head… So you see grandma this items are even very small for me not to remember, Let me take bag and be on my way…
I left for the market happy, I put the money into the bag I was having since my cloth does not have pockets, I was cramming all the item into my head, wanting to prove to my grandma that I’m not forgetful, what happened with the drugs was unexpected and it won’t happen again, that boy that even made me to forget what I was sent to buy was a stupid boy, he Even insulted my dressing.
I don’t even know why I liked him at first… Maybe because he fit into my dream Man, he was cute and the Man that i imagined myself with must be very cute..so I thought that boy was going to be the man..and I was so disappointed…
I was still in my thoughts when I heard somebody whistling behind me from a distance, I turned and he was the one again, my heart Skip, he beckoned on me to stop, I looked away and started working so fast, as fast as my leg could carry, my heart was beating faster, I looked down on my Long skirt and begin to wish it was shorter, I wish I wore a short skirt because he mocked my Long skirt at the chemist place the other day, maybe I would have also applied small makeup to look more beautiful, if I try to adjust my skirt now he will see me, I robbed hand on my face to smoothen it, just within a second he was already walking beside me
“Hey..i was calling you to stop… You no hear me dey whistle?… All this town girls wey dey like to form nonsenses…na village you dey now.. no be town, so you better behave because na we dey run things for here.. Wahala no dey sha… So na wetin be your name..
I looked at him and rolled my eyes before making a loud sigh, he was still smelling of sweat, he hærd a mischievous Smile tug at one Corner of his mouth, he sounded so authoritative and he was already pissing me off, i continued were I was going…I wanted to tell him my name but I wanted him to asked me politely,
” I dey ask you question you dey give me attitude, you know who I be?…this girl….you dey take me play o..
He was surprised as I turned and answer him, his nonsense was getting too much for me
“Who are you, ant abi na c*ckroach, which one are you exactly, because you are nothing, just some village boy that can’t speak common English ..? Eeehn…I don’t want to say my name is it by force… Why are you trying too hærd to be what you are not… Leave me alone please, I don’t have time for village boys like you..
“Ah ah…you too dey vex.. na play I dey play na, calm down, your blood too dey boil, abeg no be fight… I can speak English only that I prefer the pidgin, especially when I’m with my guys, I’m use to it through, baby you are too harsh, I only speak pidgin when I want to show myself, Okay let me get serious, I like you.. My name is Huna, I’m sorry to disturb, but you are new around here that’s why you don’t know me, I’m very popular in this village, girls are always tripping for me, i don’t approach girls, they approach me, but I really like you that’s why I came up to you because you are special, what is your beautiful name… Where do you live and where are going to
” whatever ”
“Is whatever your real name…
I boast out laughing and he joined in, I was already feeling special as he said I was special for him to have approached me, and even happy he can even speak English not only pidgin.. I smiled shyly before saying
” how can whatever be my name, I’m Alike, i live with my grandma and I’m going to the market..
Huna walked with me to the market, I forgot all my worries about him and felt relax as we talk and laughed, he even helped me to carry my bag, I was already loving him and his company, I forgot all about the incident at the chemist, I laughed at things that was funny and things that was not funny, I was enjoying the moment with Huna my crush.
as we got to the market, we were touring the market, I have forgotten the things Grandma sent me to buy, just being in Huna’s company can make you forget everything,
he handed the bag to me and said he was going to somewhere he will check me up later, he left quickly,
I started listing things that I was sent to buy on my Head, but stop after three items, I mentioned crayfish, Maggi and dry fish, Wait…is it dry fish or smoked fish, I can’t remember again, then I remembered the fourth item, was it ogbono or okro Grandma sent me to buy, I remember she mentioned ogbono and okro but which one I’m I going to buy among the two,
if i know I would have written it down,
so I went ahead to buy the items that I remembered, as I bought crayfish and deep ma hand in,side the bag to collect money to pay, I did not see any money, the money was all gone, I scattered my bag and search my cloths but there was nothing, the woman collected back her crayfish from me as I was searching for money,
I was confuse, the bag where the money is does not have a h0le, so how did the money fall off without me and Huna noticing, I don’t have any money to replaced it, Grandma has already warned me of not having another money to waste, what I’m I suppose to do, I can’t go back to my grandma empty handed with the excuse of losing money, how can this happen when I’m not a child,
I decided to go back to the road I came from probably I will see it before somebody picks it, if I don’t see it then I will wait for Huna to come and see if I can borrow money from him, I Will beg him and will pay him back as soon as possible, but what if is Huna that took the money without me knowing, if he stole the money then he has crashed my heart for the second time,
Well I don’t think he will stoop so low to steal the little money that my grandma sent me to the market with,
I went in search of the money, my grandma will kill me if i don’t find it because she warned me very well before I left for the market….
 
Tbc