TIISHE

"Darasimi, why are you still asleep it's seven in the morning. " My dad shouted as he entered my room.

"Good morning sir, I was just getting ready to go to the bathroom" I said as I knelt down to greet him.

"Morning, come and join us downstairs when you are through." He said and left.

"Okay sir" I said and entered my bathroom to have my bath.

When I was through, I wore my ironed red gown......................

I carried my small bag and put my phone inside then walked towards the sitting room downstairs.

As I got downstairs, I met my mum laughing at something my dad is telling her. She is wearing a ready made cloth which consist of white shirt that as a breast pocket and it has black strips, the skirt is pink and slitted.

She completed the equation with pink bag and shoe.
"Mummy you are looking sweet, in fact you are looking............"I said as she cut me off before I could finish.

" Be whining me there" She said jokingly.
"Mummy, I am not whining you oooooo, just see my daddy, daddy you are too handsome" I said and laughed.

He wore a pink senator style native top and trousers with black shoe and cap.

Why is everyone except me wearing pink?

We entered the car and that was when I remembered that I have not eaten, I don't know why we always fast to church but I didn't talk.

After about twenty minutes, we got to church, my parents gave me money for offering and left to the main church.

Well, the name of my church is Avengers.............just kidding.

It's The Mount Zion Church of Christ. My parents started attending this church after we moved to Ikeja when I was four years old, my mom is in hospitality unit while my dad is part of the deacons in the church.

I'm in the sanctuary unit at the teens church. Before and after the service we will sweep and arrange the chairs, drums and make the place neat before the service.

I walked towards the teens church that is behind the main church in a  different building, beside the teens church is the pre-teens church next to it age five to seven's church then other till age seven months.

The age of teens church is thirteen to eighteen. I till have to stay in this teens church for three years.

I entered the teens church and met Tamilore sitting down on a chair going through her phone while others are busy making the place neat.

I went behind her back to slap the back of her head.

"Ouch, why did you do that" She asked as she rubbed the spot on her head where I hit her.
"Why are you sitting while others are working" I said.
"I am tired jare"She said.
" Tired?, let Mr Aina catch you" I stated and went to join others.

Mr Aina is our Sunday School teacher.

When we finished Mr Aina entered the class, he wore black suit with white shirt and blue tie with black shoe.

"Good morning, Tamilore come and give us opening prayer" He ordered as he looked at her.

She murmured and went to the front to pray.

After she prayed, I went to the front for praise and worship with Adaeze, we met in the church two years ago when she came to church. She is very nice and different from some girls in the church that think they are assistant Jesus.

******During sermon********

"Praise the lord" Mr Aina shouted.

"Hallelujah" We said.

"That hallelujah is too small for our God, He kept us alive from the beginning of this year to thus month September, we are hale and healthy, we are not on the hospital bed, we are not in the prison, we are in His sanctuary and not in the mortuary, for this reason let's shout a thunderous hallelujah, praise..........praise........praise the lord" He shouted st the top of his voice.

I'm sure at the end of this service he will have to lick TomTom, his throat will be dry.

"Hallelujah" I shouted as I stood with others.

"Let's have our seat" He said and we all sat down. I am sitting down at the middle of Adaeze and Tamilore at the middle row of the church, Tamilore was still with her phone.

Is this girl possessed?

"You have been with the phone since the beginning of this service, it's time to hear the word of God, you are still with it " I whispered to her.

"I have heard, I will put it off" She said and dropped the phone in her black cross bag.

Thank God she heard, I can't even use phone in church, the last time it happened, I didn't know the person that went to tell my mom and I was not even using it during service, it was before the service, I listened to ten minutes lecture about using phone in church from my parents.

"Who can tell us what we did last week" He asked and Aisha raised her hand to answer. She is also one of my friends.
Then someone entered and I was shocked.

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Aderenle

Last night, I talked to my dad and found out he married an Igbo woman and she has a daughter, he didn't give me a concrete reason to why he did that.

I guess a lot of things are happening in my family that I know nothing about and it annoys me.

I guess, I have to find out myself. I have to activate my detective mode. Yeah!!!!!!

I woke up, took my bath and went to the dining room. When I got there, I saw dad and the rest.

"Good morning" I greeted him and his wife.

The woman is fat and has an average height with an oval shaped head. She wore a peach floral gown and sat down beside my dad.

"Good morning Aderenle, this is your mother Anita and her daughter Chiamaka" He said and pointed to a petite girl at the opposite side of the dinning table.

Abeg (please) I have my own mother at home.

"Treat them with respect" He said as I sat down and smirked.

That's if they treat themselves with respect.

"What class are you " She asked in an overly faked British accent.

I just met her so I probably don't know what to think about her, with time I will know.

"Senior Secondary School 3" I answered and continued to eat the white rice and chicken.

No ones food can beat my Mom's
food.

I rushed my food and excused my self from the table.

I guess her daughter is dumb because I haven't heard her voice since I came to this house.

Normally, on Sundays I attend church service with my mum and her family, it seems no one goes to church on Sunday here.

As I was going through Instagram, I heard a knock on my door and I got up to open it and saw her daughter.

What's her name? Chi.................Chi

"I'm Chiamaka" She said and brought out her hand.

Who would have thought she could talk.

"Just call me Ade" I told her and shakes her hand.

"Uhmmmm,would you like to go for a walk, its till nine am, the sun is not out fully" She asked me.

This is the perfect opportunity to know some things.

"Sure, let me change" I said and closed the door and changed into a causal blue top and jeans trousers and wore my palm slippers.

She was still at the door when I followed her till we got downstairs.

"So????" I asked as we walked beside each other towards the end of the street.

"So??" She answered in a small pitched voice.

"How old are you" I asked and turned to look at her.

"I'm fifteen" she said.

"So, what exactly is going on? I left Canada two weeks ago and my Dad didn't tell me any plans of moving here or even marrying your mom, I honestly don't understand what is going on." I told her honestly.

"Me too, it was one morning, my mom just told me to dress up that we were going for a wedding ceremony, it was when we got there that I discovered it was here wedding, we moved here last week and I haven't talked to her since then" She said and looked at me.

"Wow, you must have been really shocked" I said surprised.

"You can't imagine, enough about all this drama ongoing on , so you are a new student at your school, how was your first week? " She asked.

"It was okay considering I met my primary school classmates" I answered.

"Continue" She said.

"Well, they were girls one of them is sitting beside me and she introduced me to her best friend David"I said.

" Did they like you? " She asked.

"I think so except David, I guess he saw me as a threat" I said truthfully.

"Threat, how? " She asked.

"I think he likes Tiishe, the girl sitting beside me" I said.

"Wow, Are you actually a  threat? Or let me reframe that question will you be a threat?"She asked then I stopped.

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This chapter seems a little bit boring.

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