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"Amy, mumm- eeshh!" My little brother, David, cringes, rushing to cover his eyes, after rudely barging into my room. Foolish boy. Next time you'll knock.

Joy and Enny shriek as they hurry to get decent. They insisted on wearing just their bras while they applied their make-up.

"Our tops are going to get stained with the foundation." They had said.

"You can open your eyes now. Next time knock." I say to my brother. Joy and Enny were already covered with my bed spread.

"Mummy is calling you. She's in her room." He lets out awkwardly and leaves right after.

"I'm coming girls. Let me check what my mum wants." I make to leave the room. "Don't touch my perfume o." I yell before closing the door.

"Mummy, you called me." I slump down on her queen-size bed once I get into her room.

"Have you greeted me this morning?" She says searching for something in her wardrobe.

"Oh, mummy good morning." I greet and let myself fall back on the bed. It was just so soft.

"Mummy, what of daddy?"

"He has gone to work. Since. Ehen come and see this dress." She says to me.

I rush over to check out the dress.

"We're going to visit Mummy Ebuka today. I can wear this dress abi?"

Ehn? Who are the we?

"Mummy you and who?" I ask carefully, in order not to sound rude.

"C.W.O. I'm going with them to visit Mama Ebuka. She gave birth the day before yesterday. Beautiful baby girl."

Phew. I for fear.

C.W.O was a church organization. A group of catholic women sha. They should enjoy themselves there.

"So should I wear this dress?" She asks me.

"No o. I don't like it. Wear this one." I bring out a short straight dress.

"Oh yes. This one is better. Thank you nwam(my child)."

I told you I had good fashion sense.

"Help me iron it fast. Go, go, hurry up." She pushes me out before I can protest.

Oh no.

After ironing the dress, my mum leaves, giving Nonso some money for our "upkeep".

I quickly rush to my room, meeting already dressed up babes there.

"Damn girls, y'all look friggin hot." I exclaim dramatically.

Joy was dressed in a pink jumpsuit. It made her ass look even bigger than it already was and the colour pink really made her brown skin glow. I haven't even said anything about her flawless make-up.

And to talk about Eniola, she wore a tight crop top that showed off her cleavage. Damn. She coupled it with these really nice Palazzo pants.

My friends were hawt. No cap.

"Enough of the hype my dear. Dress up." Joy says to me.

I take out my clothes and quickly change into them. I wasn't doing the make-up thing.

"Fuck. Joy check out Amy's curves!!" I hear Eniola shout. Well not to brag but I do have sick curves.

"We killed it girls." Joy cheers, twirking to the song we let play in the background. Oh yeah baby. I join in the twirking.

What? I can let loose too.

Very soon, the three of us were dancing in my room.

Someone knocks interrupting our little party.

"Come in." The three of us yell together. I guess we already got excited.

David peeks his head in. "Nonso said I should tell you guys to hurry up and stop making noise."

"Tell him to shut the fuck up."

"Heyy." I slap Joy's arm as a form of scolding. My brother is too young to hear words like that. David leaves shutting the door behind him.

"Babe, when do you plan on doing your make up?" Joy asks me.

"I told you no make up na."

"Oya take only lip gloss." She cajoles.

"Fine."

She ends up using lip gloss, foundation and eye liner on me. What a girl. After wearing my wig, I look in the mirror and damn... I was on fire.

We decided to make a Triller video. We used "Pawon" by Olamide. After everything, Nonso ordered an Uber and we were set to go. Imagine, Nonso even took his time to dress well. He had these killer shoes on and wore a bucket hat. Remind me to steal that later.

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"Mad o." Eniola says as we gawk at the huge duplex in front of us.

"Are you sure this is the right house?" Joy asks.

Nonso hisses. "See question." He leaves us after he recognizes one of our classmates.

"Beatrice's house is fine sha. No wonder why she's always acting like madam." I say and they mumble in agreement.

"Babe. Fuck babe, you're looking so ugh." Someone says from behind us. I watch as Steve goes to give Eniola a big hug.

Chai. God when?

Eniola leaves Joy and I still standing in front of the building as she makes her way in with her guy.

"Let's enter na." Joy says, dragging me in.

Alright then.

We ring the doorbell and we're welcomed by the birthday girl herself.

"Welcome o." She opens the door, smiling brightly at us.

"Happy birthday baby." Joy says and hugs her. I follow suit.

Beatrice really looked beautiful. She had on a white dress that did nothing to hide her features. After complementing her and all we went into the house.

To my surprise, the sitting room was as scanty as anything. Are we too early or did people just decide to ditch?

"Everybody's at the back yard." Beatrice says as if reading my thoughts. We follow her and we're met with a huge crowd of bubbling teenagers.

The party was already in full swing. I recognized a lot of people from our set, the set that already passed on and even some juniors.

"Hey Joy." Someone calls. We turn to see one of our former seniors. Joy squeals excitedly. I smiled too because I recognized him. I didn't rush to hug him like Joy did though since I was a hundred percent certain he didn't know me.

"How far now? Long time." He and Joy immediately start off a conversation making feel terribly left out. Great.

I sit down and bring out my phone, pretending to use it so I don't look like a lost cause.

"So you came to party and you're pressing phone. You should've stayed in your house na." I turn to Samuel with a small smile.

"There are stages?"

"Yes there are stages."

Ugh

"So stage one... identifying our targets; done. Who are our targets by the way?" Joy asks me.

"Philips and Samuel." My statement comes out more of a question though.

"Right. Stage two is flirting. Hmm? What did I call it?" Joy asks wiggling her brows at me.

"Flirting." I repeat after her.

"Nah, I was just checking something jare." I say to him, standing up. "You look like a human being today o. First time."

Does this count as flirting?

"If he flirts back, continue. If he doesn't, abort mission. As in abort. Sho gbo (Have you heard)?" Joy instructs. Eniola and I laugh at our nutcase bestie.

"Yes ma. Mo ti gbo( I have heard)."

He stares at me with a smirk. "So you're even fine like this. Ivory Gates school uniform is wicked o." He says, laughing. "The uniform just covered everything."

Is he flirting back? OMG, I think he is. So I'm supposed to continue abi? Jesus, what will I say?

"Gather around. We want to Spin The Bottle o. Gather here if you're interested." Kelechi, one of Beatrice's friends, announces, drawing everyone's attention.

"Come and play." Samuel pulls me towards the already formed group. Someone calls him and he leaves me to attend to the person.

"Sharp babe. I underestimated you sha." Joy says, catching up to me.

"Come and gist me na. I saw you and Sam talking."

"Nothing happened o. Just normal something." I tell her. Abi did anything happen?

"What's normal something na?"

"Come are you girls playing? Time is going." Dammie says, interrupting us.

Must this one talk like mumu everytime?

We sit among the others. I was seated in between Joy and one Olu from science class AKA woman wrapper of our set. This boy ehn, he should better not disturb me.

"Ah, oluwa o. You guys see Amaka. I no know say this babe fine o(God. You guys see Amaka. I didn't know this babe was fine)." I hear the fool suddenly say. How can someone be this loud?

Some people murmur words I could barely make out while others tell him to shut up.

I roll my eyes and take out my phone. I hope that bottle doesn't touch me sha.

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