Life of Jiji

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ł ШФКΞ UP ШłТH a headache which only got worse when I turned to my side and had the sun shine its rays straight into my eyes. I groaned and jumped out of bed. I drew the curtains closed before noticing that Reya wasn't in bed.

Did she sleep over there? What time did they even end the party?

I made my way over to my bed and lay down closing my eyes again, trying to reminisce all that happened last night. From that Rachel girl coming here and telling us we were about to have the craziest night of our lives

Evans and his name which coincided with my kidnapper thoughts

Braid over-spiking the Chapman

I got a bit tipsy

Damian calling

I open my eyes and rush to check my phone, noting that the time was already 10:37am before checking my call logs.

Damian really called!

And he didn't believe I was in a party but he still thought I was drunk.

I laugh to myself.

Then he told me to go to bed and I did.

I frown.

Are you mad Ejiro? Since when did you do things because some boy tells you to?

Dragging my hand along my face, I got up and threw my phone back on the bed, suddenly feeling the urge to pee. Crossing the short distance, I threw open the bathroom door and a surprised Reya jerked up from her sitting position on the floor, her back against the wall.

Things that happened last night hmmm? Oh yeah!

My sister made out with a boy she just met and cheated on my stupid friend who never stops talking about her and who happens to be her boyfriend.

"Excuse me, I need to pee." I told her.

"I can't stand. Go ahead and do your business, I'll cover my eyes." She said and I sucked in my lips.

She actually looked really bad. She had eye bags and she probably threw up but I really didn't want to have sympathy for her right now.

"Please just go. I won't be comfortable." I said and she drags herself up giving me a wistful look just before shutting the door behind her.

After emptying my bladder, I go back into the room and Reya is on her bed and she's dragged the covers all the way over her head so I can't tell if she's sleeping or not. But before I could dwell more on that, a ding from my phone told me that I had a new notification so I crawled back into my bed.

The message was from Damian and without even knowing, my lips stretched into a smile. I caught myself soon enough and pulled my stubborn lips back down.

Not literally, of course!

This was the first time I was going to be chatting with Damian on WhatsApp and there were already four unread messages. My hand hovered over his name for a few seconds before I finally tapped and opened it.

The first message was, Hi! with the grey moon emoji.

From the time of the message, we were probably still in the party when he sent it. And he had to have sent the next one before he called me because it said,

Jijiiiiiiii!!! If you don't reply now, I'm going to call you. You can't be sleeping already!

An hour after that message was the third one. A voice note.

I pressed play.

"Hello Jiji Boujie...!" Was the first thing I heard and I paused it.

What. The. Hell! I laughed to myself

"I hope you've gone to bed like I told you to. I still don't believe that you were at a party and that you were actually drunk sha. As to why you were laughing like that, my theory was that you hit your head really hard. My advice is that next time you feel like practicing kissing with your bedroom wall remember that you and Damian live in the same city and he'll be happy to give you lessons for free."

I laugh and shake my head. This boy is crazy. I play the next one.

"Anyways sleep well, yeah? Dream of me wait, no. Don't dream of me. The handsomeness... I swear you won't be able to handle it. You won't even want to wake up again and I won't get to give you those lessons I promised." He paused. "Or maybe I will, after all that prince woke sleeping beauty up with a kiss, didn't he?"

By now, I couldn't pull my lips down if I wanted to.

The next message was a voice note too. Its the one he sent this morning.

"Morning Hamburger." I scrunched up my face Hamburger?

The next one said, "Don't tell me you're still sleeping."

I'm not! And, Hamburger? I typed in and pressed send.

His reply came a few seconds later. Another VN.

"But you were. And yeah, I was going to say sunshine or cupcake or ice cream or whatever it is people say but since I'm so unique, I decided to say Hamburger instead."

Immediately I finished listening to it, another message came in; a winking emoji.

Unique my foot! I typed, adding a laughing emoji before sending. Ice cream though?

"You don't think I'm unique? You wound me, Jiji." He said, another VN. I laughed at the last bit. He was so dramatic.

You're funny

"So I make you laugh, interesting."

I was about to start typing my next message when I heard my phones ringtone start to play. I started humming to Superlonely by BENEE before I realized that Damian was video calling me. I declined immediately and ran to the bathroom to check my face.

I hadn't washed my face. I hadn't even brushed my teeth. Oh my God, I look so awful! Damian called again and I declined again.

Stop calling! , I sent.

"Stop declining!" He sent.

What's with you and VNs anyway?

At this point, I really had to ask though. He hadn't sent a single regular message to me today. Was something wrong with his keyboard?

My phone beeped. Another VN. I shook my head.

"Are you serious? Where's the Jiji I talked to last night? The one who told to only send her voice notes because according to her, my voice is soooooooooo sexy. She also said that my voice makes her really wet and should I go on?"

Whaaaaaaaattttttt?????

That's not possible. I sent immediately.

Oh, but it is. He sent with a grey moon emoji at the end, finally sending a message that I had to read. Before I could reply, another message came in,

Can I stop now, though? Its getting tiring.

I didn't reply this time, instead I put my phone to charge before going into the bathroom. Just when I was done brushing my teeth and washing my face, I heard a knock on the door.

Jiji! Reya! Don't tell me you guys are still sleeping!

It was mom. I sighed in relief.

She began to knock again when I opened it and stepped aside before she could knock my head.

"Oops, hey Jiji. How was your night?"

"Good morning." I said slowly as I stared at her. She stepped in and shut the door before looking around the room. Her eyes landed on Reya.

"Your sister is still sleeping?" She asked turning to me again. Is there something on my face Ji? She inquired, probably because I was still staring at her.

But how? How could she act so oblivious? Like she wasn't a party to what happened last night! The supposedly craziest night of our lives?

"Nah. Never mind." I said and crawled back into bed.

"What are you doing? Get up jorhh! Arent you hungry? Have you checked your time? Have you seen the day?" She said, drawing the curtains apart at the last bit.

"Mom!" I groaned and Reya wriggled under her duvet.

"Oviereya! You had better get up from there. Do you think you can fool me?" She said sitting on Reya's bed.

When Reya still didn't answer, she started tickling her and Reya is very ticklish. She started screaming and my mom started laughing. I had to join in.

My mom though, not Reya.

Come on girls. I heard there's a lot of yummy stuff on the breakfast menu today.

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Hello!
Chapter 20 finally!!!

I want to say thank you guys so much for 1.8k reads on Life of Jiji. This means so much to me, you don't even know. I know I've not been very active and I'm sorry but you know, school and all that...

Anyways the holidays are starting and I'm really happy. Compliments of the season y'all.

What's your best part about Christmas holidays? For me, it's probably seeing everyone...

Catch ya later!

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