Happy Easter in Arrears ❤️

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"Did he really have to come with us?" Joy asks, glaring at my cousin, Nonso.

"Nonso, you look like a fool." Eniola says admist laughter. I stare from the shoes I was admiring to the fool in question. He had on a waist length wig and was making different poses at the mirror in front of him.

What kind of human being is this bayi?

We were already at the boutique. Mum insisted that Nonso followed me. Either that or no shopping.

"Guy have sense na, do you want them to throw us out of here?" Joy says to him.

"I'm sorry, what? I can't hear you over my really long hair." He says dramatically, striking another awful pose to the mirror.

I shake my head, laughing.

"You look like an idiot and you're going to spoil that wig. Your head is too big for it." Joy says again. Their banter has started.

"My head is too big?" Nonso asks, chuckling. "Have you looked in a mirror recently? If my head is big, your own is now what?"

Enny and I burst out laughing. It was funny because it was true. Joy had a big head.

"What? You started it na." Nonso says after noticing how Joy was glaring at him.

"So what do you guys think about this top?" I ask. I show them a flowery top that I found really pretty.

"Ew. Throw that away." Joy says immediately, scowling at the top like it was some diseased animal.

"Yeah please, throw that away." Eniola adds.

But-

"Why? What happened to it?" I ask, evidently hurt. They just indirectly insulted my sense of fashion so, yeah, I'm hurt.

"First of all, the color is disgusting." Joy says, straight faced. Did she just insult green? I love green.

"I agree and second, this is a birthday party not a church service." Eniola adds once more.

Offensive

"And thirdly-" Nonso starts

"No one asked you." Joy interrupts. Hehe.

"See this one." Eniola hands me a red camouflage crop top.

Cute.

"Oh this is so nice." Joy gushes. "I wish I could get something like this."

"I don't think pregnant people wear crop tops." Nonso says without looking at her. Eniola and I burst out in laughter once more. Mad o. Joy didn't have a flat tummy like the rest of us. This Nonso is just too wicked.

"You're senseless. You're very senseless." She says. Awwn, my baby is pained.

"Nonso, oya stop it's okay." I say to him.

"What? Did I mention her name? I only made a statement."

"You're very sick." Joy says to him again.

"Don't mind him jare." Eniola says, consoling her.

"Have you girls found what you're looking for?" Eniola's mum says coming around to us.

"Yes ma, it's remaining some trousers or skirt for Amy." Joy answers.

"Oh come with me. Let me show you some really nice clothes."

She takes us to another part of the boutique. There were clothes in a pile on the floor; about to be hung up I guess.

"Just dig in around here. You'd surely find something. They came in yesterday."

"Oh okay. Thank you ma." I reply.

We found this really nice white leather skirt. It was tight and not too short. I loved it.

We paid for everything we bought and were on our way home. Eniola's driver dropped each of us in our houses.

"Let me see what you bought." Mum says immediately I get in.

I drop the bag of clothes with her and go up to my room to change out of my school uniform.

After changing into my night wear, I turn on my phone and my mobile data. As usual, messages from my set's group chat come flooding in. I open my Whatsapp and notice I have one message from an unknown number.

OMG am I finally having a social life?

Hey

You're coming for the party right?

Who's this one?

Hey

Who's this please?

The person reads the message at once.

Oh sorry, it's your seat partner🙂

My seat partner? ohh, Samuel.

Oh, hey, Samuel

Yeah, I'm coming for
the party

Why?
✓✓
He already read the message. I turned off my data and went downstairs for dinner.

"Nne bia (come), that skirt is too revealing." Mum says as soon as I get into the kitchen.

"Which skirt?" I ask.

"Ajuju(question). Which skirt did you bring into this house?"

"Oh no it's not revealing. I tried it there."

"You'd have to wear it for me to see o."

"Ah mummy na. I'm tired." I slump down on the chair eating the rice mum dished out for me.

"Okay. But just know that if I see that skirt and find it revealing, you're not going to any party tomorrow."

"Yes ma."

I go up to my room after dinner. Turning on my data, I expect a reply from Samuel and get none. How mean. He actually left me on read. Idiot. And he is online o.

I open my Instagram and browse through my feed. I haven't been here in a while. After a while I check the time. Geez. It's almost midnight. How time flies.

I go to bed then after turning off my data and plugging my phone.

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"Amaka, your friends are here o." Mum's yell wakes me up the next morning.

My friends?

What friends?

"Amy. Chai. By this time, you're still sleeping. Stand up jor." Joy barges into my room, slapping my lap.

"Oww na." I cry out in pain. "What are you guys doing here by this time?" I squint my eyes at the brightness in my room, making out the faces of my two besties.

"We said we were coming here yesterday on the group chat na. You can check." Eniola says.

"Yeah,we are getting ready here and going to the party together so stand up now." Joy says and I grumble.

"Do we really have to go for that party? It's going to be wack." I try changing their minds.

"No baby. We're going. There's no two-ways about it. Besides, stage two of our plan is supposed to happen today." Joy tells me.

"Stage two of what plan?"

"Stage two of your boyfriend hunt plan na."

"There are stages?"

"Yeah there are stages."

Ugh

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-lisa ❤️