Selah woke up late as usual and as she scrubbed her eyes with the back of her right palm, she sat upright and realized she wasn't dreaming; she was really at home, struggling to get off her bed to unlock the door which had YOU ARE AT HOME NOW, SO WAKE UP EARLY neatly written on a paper and pasted on her door. She hissed under her breath and walked into her bathroom to piss.

She came out of the bathroom, checked the time which wasn't what she was after; the hope that Ese or anyone will just drop a message to check up on her and luckily she found one....from Airtel NG

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Shattered hopes, she put on her data to check for WhatsApp messages, which came flooding in and slowly down her phone memory. She was added in new groups and then, she sighted a message from Segun and amazingly, he was online. She read the message which came with cute emoji's.

Segun : Hey beautiful😘

She smiled and replied

Selah : Hey someone's child. How far?

Segun : Someone's child, abi? You cannot be romantic for once.

Selah : 😄😄😄
Are you still in school?

Segun : Yes and No but you are not missing anything at all, school is dry as sandpaper. I miss you dear😍😘☺️

Selah : lol 🤗..........
This is so awkward. I usually have things to say but now we're far away, I'm speechless.

Segun : Have you eaten breakfast?

Selah : Not yet. I will eat soon, just need to clean up but sleep won't let me. Abegi, I will clean around 12:30pm.

Segun : That's how we used to say till time will catch up on our laziness.

She left the chat and played Bruno Mars The Lazy Man's Song. Ese is online? she asked herself when she saw online written beside his name.

Selah : Hi

Ese offline

She smiled. So because I sent a message, he went offline. Issokay.

She decided that cleaning at that moment was the best thing. She dusted the furnitures in her room, arranged the bedsheet and headed for her locker of books which she kept locked because her diaries from secondary school were all in there.

Opening the locker, she coughed from the smell of old wood and damp books; the locker had been locked for almost six months, so she pulled out one of her diaries and read the first page.

Dear Diary

I'm so lost in my thoughts these days but I'm still sane. I forget what I really want to write even though the words were memorized. I repeat it over and over again in my mind but when pen meets paper, it becomes speechless.

Q4U : Why is it that we love people who don't love us and hate people who do?....

Her phone rang almost at the same time. She checked and it was a number, so she picked

Caller : For English press 1
Hausa press 2
Yoruba press 3

She ended the call in anger. She recalled that she didn't buy the Airtel sim for Airtel to make her life miserable.

Kneeling beside her diary, while the next song on her playlist sang Afire love by Ed Sheeran, she continued reading, balancing her ass on the cold tiled floor and eyes peeled inside the diary

Why is gravity not balancing them up? I am so confused that I try rekindling love that rejected me and when my mind has sense again, I regret and hurt myself by crying.

She closed the diary and laughed but deep down, she knew it wasn't funny how stupid I was and how stupid I still am.

I have to clean up before mumcy comes back she said and got up.

Her holiday was going to take a different turn. It was Christmas holiday, and her plan was to enjoy the Yuletide season and hope that the next year would be different for her.

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