Fisayo was out.
I didn't want to stay in the hotel room again, I felt strangely uncomfortable with him .

That didn't stop me from acting stupidly desperate the way I always brought food for him or acted nicey nice whenever he was close by.

He didn't bring up Timi's matter or his trying to strangle me or me hurting him with a vase.
I wanted us to talk about it but I needed him to bring it up.

Getting a new car was useless.
I couldn't drive, I tried going to a driving school during the last weekend but I thought the people working there were all silly.
Some people who had also come to learn to drive were placed in a small class and each road signs were being explained to us.

I couldn't concentrate, I needed to learn how to drive as soon as possible and not to understand some bunch of stupid signs.
While the man with huge ugly tribal marks explained what each signs meant, I concluded at the instant that I wasn't going to continue again.

The next Sunday that followed, Aisha offered to drive Debra and I to church and while she drove I kept on staring, I might learn some things from her, but the only thing I got was her constant flipping of hair and her habitual hand gestures while she talked. That wouldn't help me to drive!!

On our way back, Debra suggested I took the wheel this time.
Aisha was at the front, Deb was behind.

I turned the key, and I remembered how Aisha rolled her eyes before she placed the gear thingy on drive.
I rolled my eyes the way my friend did and did the same with the gear.
When the car moved forward, my heart almost jumped out from it's position.

"just imagine this is Dr driving 3" Debra advised.
I loved that game more than my phone.
The car went on with me hitting the accelerator gently. I felt a bit proud of myself.

Different cars drove by and there was this one that kept on overtaking me.

"pass that one na " Debra hissed.

I pushed on the accelerator again and when the car moved faster than expected, my friends started yelling" hit the brake, hit the brake "

Confusion set in, I couldn't differentiate the accelerator from brake again.

" Jesus! Which one is the brake again? " I yelled

" are you serious? "

Just when Aisha bent low to point at it and I managed to hit the brake, I had already hit the other car.
Aisha quickly reached out to turn off the car.

" Jesus! " Debra mumbled.

I watched as a lady probably in her middle thirties came out to check the back of her car.
I stared on in horror, it didn't look badly damaged but it was anyway. It was likely my car had also been damaged too.

The lady marched to my car furiously. She hit my window.

"what was that all about? Just look at what you did to my car, ah ah, abi can't you drive? Get down jhor, you'll go to jail today "

I didn't know why but I wanted to apologise, it was very unlike me.
Debra was furious, the lady didn't have any right to hit my window that way. She got down first, I followed and Aisha did the same.

" aunty calm down now can't you see we just got back from church, don't let us sin abeg " Debra yelled.

" look at this small rat oh, do you know me at all,do you know who you're talking to? do you know my name " the lady asked

Debra laughed and asked " why would I know your name, you forgot your name and you're expecting me to remind you "

The lady was irritated, she ignored Debra and a smiling Aisha then she faced me being the driver, grabbed my wrist and she pointed at the back light stuff, it was cracked.

" you see what you did, you cracked that thing there, it's about 30k,i need that money now or hell would be let loose " she yelled again

Debra jumped up " 30k?? How much is the car sef, just an ordinary Camry, this car wouldn't even be up to a million, 30k for what "

I could hear Aisha "I can even buy this car now now, it's not that expensive"

While my friends tried to help me, I could hear Timi's voice in my head.

"you're just a spoilt little girl "

I shuddered, I could see people looking at us. I knew I was wrong, I hit her and I wasn't going to let my friends make me do stupid things as we usually did.
Maybe Olivia was right all these time, maybe we didn't want to grow up, I would prove her wrong.

"see Ben, if you want to give her anything, we won't give her more than 10k " Aisha offered

" 10k for what? 7k should be okay " Debra growled in annoyance as she adjusted her flay gown like she was preparing to bring heaven down.

I smiled at the lady as I pulled my wrist from her grip. I didn't know how much it was to fix the light thing on her car, she could have added more to the actual price and Debra might be right saying it was just 7k, she had more experience in car dealings.

"just give me your account number, I'll transfer 30k to you now " I said still trying to smile.

Debra as I expected wouldn't hear of it.

" look Benny, I'm going to call my mechanic now, this lady will just play you 'mugu ' 30k for what? "

She called her mechanic while the lady kept on yelling at us saying we were immature and rude.

The mechanic said 10k would be enough, I ended up transferring 20k to the lady.

My friends got angry at me. I did something that I'll never have few months ago.

They were both surprised I could tell.
Aisha drove us in silence. I didn't like it one bit but I didn't regret what I did, when the lady told me 'thank you', it was something I thought I wouldn't forget in my life.

My years on earth, I had always been rude and reckless. My attitudes were not not something to talk of. The simple 'thank you' she told me made me realise that sometimes, it's actually okay to be nice.

I'd prove to Timi that I wasn't a 'spoilt little girl'.

Why did I need to prove anything to Timi???

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"you're not seeing that guy anymore, are you? "

I was in Fisayo's car, he just got me cold stone, the evening was quite hot.
I swallowed hard, he had finally brought up Timi after all these days.

" I'm not, I mean I haven't seen him since he helped bring you to the hospital but honestly I just want you to know he's just like a friend to me "

I didn't know if he cared to hear all these but I had to let him know.

" he has a girlfriend already, he's even way older than I am. Honestly you have to believe me, you should know me well enough to know I wouldn't want to cheat on you, he's not even my type.. You're my type, it's you I love, it's you and...

"slow down baby, I believe you " he cut me short with a light kiss on the lips.
I smiled at his sweet gestures, I couldn't think of loving somebody else.

He spoke of Olivia and the things she told him. He suspected something was wrong and he said he wouldn't want me to have anything against her since we've been friends for a very long time.
The more he kept on talking, the more my hatred for her increased.

Days later, I asked Fisayo to teach me how to drive.

He strongly disagreed and asked me to go back to the driving school.

Later on, I finally made him agree to teach me.

We were in the car when my eyes went to the little scar close to his forehead.

"I'm truly sorry for that " I said as I touched the scar.
I know he was at fault for trying to strangle me that day but I still felt bad whenever I saw it, I had apologised several times.

He smiled "I am also sorry for um you know what happened too , please can we just stop bringing this back"

I nodded, "yeah, I'll stop, it's just that I keep on wondering, if Timi had not showed up to help you, I wonder what would have happened."

"look you should also stop talking about Timi" he yelled.

Why was he yelling?
What's with him sef?

"must you keep avoiding the fact that the Timi you're always avoiding saved your life "

" well were you not the one that broke my head? "

" are you serious? Weren't you the one that tried strangling me first "

He hit his hand on the wheel
" if you were not fooling yourself around him maybe I wouldn't have done that in the first place "

" don't you dare hit my wheel again" I growled

"or what, you'll break my head again?"

We were yelling bad. I didn't care though.

"you know what, you're sick upstairs, you don kolo"

With that I got out of the car slamming the door behind me, that was because I temporarily forgot it was my car and not his.

And I ended up still not knowing how to drive.

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Exams were near, I'd have to concentrate more.
I trusted myself well enough to know I'd do well. My friends too no matter how stupid they were, they weren't stupid academically.

I hadn't seen Olivia and Jenny in days. Whenever she showed up it was just to get some outfits and go back again.

Timi too, I was quite glad he hadn't called me for a while.
At least Fisayo wouldn't have any reason to be angry at me.

About Fisayo, he came over to apologise with lots of chocolates trying to be sweet. It was adorable and I had to forgive him.
He had spent more than the two weeks he had initially planned to spend and he finally had to go back home.

I wished I could go back with him I missed home.
He promised to check on me regularly since he wasn't going back to school any time soon.

Aisha had broken up with her boyfriend Dike.

She had a new one, Hakeem, his father being the current senator's son made her love him the more.

I felt bad for Dike because I had grown fond of him. He was no nice and gentlemanly and yeah, he was also rich, I didn't think she'd ever leave him and when I asked her why she left him, she told me he was always unreasonable, he didn't understand her and she couldn't continue with him.

I harshly asked "and you think Hakeem would be reasonable, why? Because..... "

" because his dad is a senator " Deb answered laughing. She shook her head in disapproval

" you're psycho.. You're a slut but still a psycho " I spat at Aisha.

" honestly Aisha, Dike is a nice guy " Debra said, I nodded in agreement.

Aisha laughed, she knew we liked Dike because he was truly nice and we had even gained a lot from him. He bought us gifts all the time being his girl's best friends.

" don't worry, you guys would love Hakeem, he wants to meet you guys and believe me, I can make him take us to Dubai for shopping this weekend " she offered

My mom had taken me to Dubai twice but with Aisha, I had gone there like five more times, she thinks of Dubai as heaven.
With the permission of her parents, we'd sometimes go there during holidays. We went there almost all the time and we still wanted more.

"this weekend? Hmm, I think Hakeem would be a nice guy, he'll be very reasonable, I think you should give him a chance " Debra said laughing.

I didn't mind going to Dubai again, I needed new clothes, the last time I went shopping was the time I went to see Timi at the mall and I didn't even get clothes that day. It was chocolates I was busy getting.

" I don't need to see him before knowing he'll be good for you , he'll be okay to date, let him just make up his mind for the shopping spree abeg " I answered and my friends laughed

Deep down, I still felt sorry for Dike but I needed new jeans abeg.

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