Life of Jiji

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"ЛФ, ΛϾТUΛŁŁЏ." ЯΛϾHΞŁ SΛłÐ. You're Amanda's daughters are you not? She asked.

"Umm, yeah" Reya replied awkwardly.

"Didn't she tell you about the pyjama party?"

Since we didn't still understand, Rachel had to explain from the top and it so happened that most of moms friends children were also in the hotel and they planned a little get together so now, she was here to whisk us away to the craziest night of our lives.

Hmm.

"So are you guys coming or not?" Rachel asked.

"Do our parents know about this?" I asked and Rachel breathed heavily.

I don't want to sound like a baby and I'm sure Reya doesn't either but this is Nigeria sis!

"So, are they coming or not." A suspiciously boyish voice came behind Rachel. Or manly maybe?

Kidnapper...? Time to close the door Reya.

A boy (possibly the owner of the voice and not the height and stature I was expecting for a kidnapper) and a very familiar looking girl came behind Rachel. Both in their PJs.

"Dunni?" Reya said, obviously recognizing the girl.

"So you guys are the goody-two-shoed descendants." Dunni said laughing hysterically and Reya blushed.

Turns out, Dunni is one of Reyas friends from school and she's also one of the 'descendants'. We finally allowed ourselves to get dragged away by Rachel and co to the lounge of an extra-large suite.

"This is Lady Ds suite. Shes the party host." Rachel told us. "And over there," she said, jerking her head towards a girl in a very tight excuse for PJs, "That's Demi D, or at least what she used to be called. Now only the grown-ups that know Lady D call her that. We teenagers just stick to Dianne. She's Lady D's daughter. Could be a bit snobbish."

I nod, not saying anything. And to think I planned to go to bed before 12am tonight.

"So, do we have everyone here?" The boy I was suspecting to be a kidnapper asked.

Some people said, 'Yes'. Some said, 'Guess so' Me? If your guess was that I said nothing, you know me too well.

"I'm Evans." He said, introducing himself and I chuckled.

I definitely wasn't expecting everybody to turn to look at me. Including a very intimidating looking Demi D. I blushed and raised my phone as an answer to Evans raised eyebrow. Let him think I was laughing at a meme or something.

"Rachel." Rachel said, waving from where she sat crossed legged on the carpeted floor.

Everybody caught up with the trend and started to introduce themselves. There was a Daniel, a Georgia, an Olivia, a Tobe, a Halima, a Temi, a Braid (Dude refused to say his real name o. Said he was going to keep calling himself that till his mom realized that it was his destiny to braid his hair and finally let him). There were two Favours and it was a bit of an argument on who was going to be Favour 1 and who would be Favour 2. There were others but some names just flew out of my head. We're a lot more than Disneys Descendants, that's for sure.

"Ejiro." I said when it was my turn.

"Ovieya." Reya said.

"Hey, hey, hey." Rachel said. "None of that formal bullshit sis."

"Yeah." Evans piqued in. "Your mom said we should expect Reya and Jiji not Ovieya and Ejiro."

Umm, okay. Me, I'm still wondering how mom forgot to tell us to expect all this.

"It's whatever actually." Ovieya said.

Demi D was the last to introduce herself and she just like Rachel said, she introduced herself as Dianne and not Demi D.

"So, what do we do first?" Evans asked the room just as Dianne put on the music.

Everyone started vibing to the music immediately while games suggestions were thrown around. Finally everyone agreed on 'never have I ever.'

"What are we going to do about the shots? I hope you guys know that wed have to do the game without it?" Dianne commented.

"It's only Alcohol." Braid said. "You know, C2H5OH Don't be a pussy."

"I have one, thank you very much." Dianne said and everybody laughed. "Evans?"

"Dianne is right, actually." Evans said. "We're still underage and we all know our parents won't permit this. We could get our host into trouble. Both Lady and Demi."

Dianne scowled at that, probably because of his last phrase. The other people though, groaned, complaining that their parents wouldn't mind if they took a few shots even though we all knew that our parents actually would.

Finally, Evans agreed that we could use chapman as a substitute and the next minute, Dianne is phoning the kitchen and ordering non-alcoholic chapman and shot glasses to go round. Few minutes later, the chapman arrives and the people who were dancing to pass time, go back to the bean bags while Braid spikes the chapman with vodka from his secret stash.

The thing though is that Braid said he was going to spike the chapman not dilute it but that's what happened anyways so now were in the third question round and some people are already acting crazy.

"Never have I ever stolen cash from my parents." Dunni said and half the room took shots, while Rachel went to refill them.

I didn't drink, Reya didn't drink either. Probably because we are not really allowed to go out and there would be no use for the stolen money

"Next person." Rachel called, her voice higher than it needed to be. Tobe waved his hand indicating that it was his turn before saying his own never have I ever.

"Never have I ever..." He started, then grinned mischievously pausing long enough to make people start begging him to continue.

"Never have I ever..." He started again and stalled until even I started to get impatient.

"Talk na." Dianne said and I turned to her, surprised that she even spoke. I thought she wasn't playing. "Yeah, I'm not playing but we all want to know don't we?" She said in answer to the few eyes that had turned to her at her previous statement.

"Fine, fine." Tobe laughed raising his hands in the air. "Never have I ever been caught wanking."

"Whats that?" Someone asked.

"Please don't make me explain it." Tobe begged and everyone laughed including me, actually.

Yes, I know what it is and dont worry, you have every right to be surprised but I won't be drinking to that, sorry. When nobody drank, Tobe cleared his throat,

"Let me rephrase." He said, "Who has ever wanked before? You know... soapy?"

The whole room erupted into laughs but then people started lifting glasses to their lips, encouraging others. Okay...

"Ladies! Et tu Brute!?" Dianne cried when a few girls took shots too, laughing for the first time tonight.

"I'm honestly surprised." Tobe laughed and for some reason I laughed along with him. "Tell me, do you guys really use cucumbers or that's just a myth?"

"Tobe!" The whole population of girls screamed while still laughing.

"I don't think any of us would go that far." Halima said and all the girls concurred.

A few more rounds and I started to feel a bit tipsy. My phone rang and people shot me annoyed looks. I stood up, taking care not to trip on anyone and Dianne pointed in the direction of the bedroom.

"Hello." I said when I picked up.

"Hi, Ejiro?"

"Um yeah, its me. Who are you?" I asked suddenly realizing that I just picked up the phone without checking the caller ID.

I was about to end the call when I saw that it was an unknown number but then the person spoke.

"Its Damian. Khadijah gave me your number."

"Oh, hi Damian." I said, feeling very awkward, I'm not one for phone calls.

"Yeah, I wasn't really expecting you to be awake... did I wake you up?" He asked the last bit after a short pause.

"No." I assured him.

"Good. What are you doing up anyways?" He asked and I thought for a second on how I was supposed to answer that.

"You wont believe it even if I told you." I said finally.

"Try me."

"I'm at a party." I said.

"Nice try. Jiji." He said, adding my nickname last minute.

"I'm serious!" I said, laughing. I knew he wouldn't believe me. "I even had a few shots. Chapman shots actually but shots nevertheless." I said and he laughed. Maybe it was the alcohol, but I laughed too. When we finally got quiet again, Damian spoke,

"Come to think of it though, you do sound a bit drunk." He said and I burst into another giggling fit. "You never laugh this much on a normal day Jiji, don't you think you should stop drinking? If you really are, though. I'm still not sure if I should believe you."

It was silent for a while before I realized that I was supposed to reply. I was sitting on the floor now and Damian has such an amazing phone voice, I wish I was on my bed right now and he just kept on talking till I fell asleep.

"Damian?"

"Yeah?"

"You have a really nice phone voice." I told him and he chuckled. I tried to imagine his face in my head.

"So, its not nice in person?" He asked, amusement laced in his words.

I shook my head before I realized that he couldn't see me. "It is, but not as nice as it sounds right now. When we chat I want you to send only voice notes." I told him.

"Go to bed, Jiji." He said laughing. "You're sleepy."

After ending the call I went back to the room and Dianne shot me a look as if to ask, 'What took you so long?' I shook my head and looked around for Reya. I wanted to take Damian's advice and go to bed. Not just because Damian said to, but because I actually felt really sleepy.

"Where have you been girl!?" Rachel asked me just before I could ask where Reya was. Why wasn't she here? "We've switched to 7 minutes in heaven. She was saying. "Guess who's in the closet."

It began to click, but I wish it didn't. I didn't want to guess, I didn't want to know but I realized I already did. I looked at Dunni, but she looked away. This wasn't right. Mitchell...

Few minutes later, Reya stepped out of the closet with Tobe. I stared at her angrily. How could she do this?

"I have a headache." I said to the group. "I'm going to bed now." I added as I walked to the door.

"Jiji!" Reya called but I was already at the door. I contemplated ignoring her but I decided that would be a tad too dramatic.

"Goodnight." I said turning to the room one last time before opening the door and closing it behind me.

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Haven't got much to say...

Hope you enjoyed your day.

See you soon!

Hopefully...

Tena!