Wake up Selah! Wake up jhare! You are dreaming she told herself. She used to watch these cheating stuff in movies or hear people's experiences but she didn't imagine the same thing will happen to her. Still standing by the door, she clapped her hands like she was being gisted tafia  by her friends and laughed loudly.

The girl sat up, buttoned her top and picked her bag. My friend come here. You are really stupid...ashawo like you, find your own, you no gree. Everybody come out o, come and see ashawo.

Selah watched the girl walk out. She couldn't move or talk. Segun walked up to her and tried touching her hand, which he successfully did. She stood, mouth open and staring at the bed. Abasi mmi...mkpoh anam mien she said in Ibibio.

'Oga wehdone,' she told Segun and walked out, picking her book, phone and bags.

'Selah please wait,' Segun called after her; wore his shirt and followed her. He didn't want to find out what her silence meant.

She cleaned the corner of her eyes and blinked back the tears. God this is not happening to me. I haven't offended anyone na so why are my village people following me,eh? God abeg o. All attempts by Segun to get her to stand still and talk was futile damn you're too fast.

Segun stopped chasing her and called her line. She looked at her phone and ended the call. He kept calling but she ignored it. She smiled at the security by the gate and walked into the school premises. She called Rachel.

'Bitchhh,' Rachel yelled, 'You don fuck man finish abi? Did you forget condom, this one you're calling?

'Are you in your room?' she said, fighting so hard to hold the tears down.

'Yes. Do you have money?'

'I'm coming,' she added, ending the call.

When she got to the hostel, she walked straight to Rachel's room. She smiled and sat down, picking her phone and checking messages from her WhatsApp.

'What is wrong with you?'

'Nothing. I'm just tired.'

'How far your boyfriend?'

God wee punish him...he's an idiot. Do you know this guy cheated on me and now he wants to apologize. When he was sucking the girls brezz, he didn't know he'll say sorry o. I just feel like killing the fool.

'He's fine. We walked back to school together.'

'You don collect finish. Why you no go tire. Doggy, piggy, even small house rat position, you dey collect,' Valerie said and paused her movie.

Message from Chris

Chris : Hey Ma

If you had just been nice and romantic, this shit I can't still fathom won't have happened to me.

Selah : Sir

Other messages

Three Niggas : 
Rachel : Bitchess introduce yourself
Valerie : stop making noise. We're in the same room and you still created group for us
Selah : 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Tonye : Hey Selah what's up?

Selah got up, walked to her room. Her roommates were not around. She entered, locked the door and laid on her bed. The afternoon scenario played back to back like she was enjoying the almost live porn in front of her. She didn't know when the tears burst out. She cried, her chest and head hurt badly.

She saw Segun's 20th missed call. She ignored it and cleaned her eyes. This is my fight song kept playing in her head. Strange magic is really playing in my life for real. Should I end the relationship or still continue? I don't know what to do in this situation, oh God of my ancestors she cried the more.

Every good time she spent with him came back. The time he took her to the beach and they had picnic like the Americans do; he took her out on his birthday and bought things for her like it was her birthday and did more after he recovered from the accident on her birthday.

She could hear her roommates voices approaching the room, so she hurriedly opened the door for them and laid back before they could notice her swollen face, stained with tears and her red eyes. Her pillow had been soaked in half with tears, so she turned the other side of it and laid her face back.

'Roomy,' Cynthia called but she pretended to be asleep.

'She's sleeping. So what if someone came in and stole our stuff, would she say she was sleeping?'

Tamar laughed.

'Is it not our roomy that people were talking about in 100l that she slept with that Segun guy?'

'My dear,' Cynthia replied, 'just in 100l o and she had opened her legs. God have mercy.'

They discussed some more, about her and other random things. The tears dropped again, and more this time. This girls can poison me o she thought to herself.

Almost immediately, her phone rang and she opened her eyes to check. It was Segun. She hissed, put the phone on flight mode and turned her face. At this point in her life, she felt like God had abandoned her, so it didn't matter if she misbehaved or not. There was no point in serving Him when he let bad things happen to her.