JULIET
By: Oluwasola Abiola Elisha
The broadness of his shoulder felt like heaven, I rested my head and fell asleep. It was the sound of “Owa o” that woke me up at the Bus-stop. I did not want him to go that fast, but he had to, more so he was to have test the following day and he was expected to be prepared. Unconsciously, I gave him a surprise peck before he dropped off at Fajuyi hall bus-stop. We agreed on parting ways there to avoid further distraction, and like that he was gone.
A reflection on how the week concluded, and how the new week was beginning made me to blush a little before highlighting from the bus at Moremi hostel bus-stop. My room felt like my room again and I was eager to give Tobi every gist she has missed but her attitude sent me back. It was unusual, she has never been that cold towards me and I was left to wonder to why such a thing will happen, it felt really strange that I was a little bit confused.
“Tobi, is anything the matter?” I finally decided to ask her when I was done undressing. She refused to answer at the first attempt, and I felt perhaps she was not interested in raising her voice to talk about it. To satisfy my curiosity, I went to her corner in my bikini, gently sat beside her as she seemed to be lost in thought.
“Tobi” I called out to her almost whispering.
“What!? Leave me alone, just let me be” she harshly responded. That was strange and I was more confused and lost. I did not remember doing anything to hurt her, we just came back from her church where we at the beginning of service started a gist we needed to conclude and I was even eager to give her more gist. I felt a little bit embarrassed, but luck enough for me, other roommates were not yet around.
“What is between you and Femi” She asked unconsciously as I stood up to make a transfer of myself to my corner. The corner made me to pause and had a quick thought on whether to answer her or not.
“Why have you asked” I answered with another question.
“Just answer me or we close the chapter” She said with a voice baptized in anger.
“Maybe, you should tell me what has suddenly come over you, then I will have a rethink to either answer your question or…”
“Can a guy come in?” That was the regular question that has always stopped conversations in the room. Quickly I ran to my corner to cover and protect Femi’s property. I was doing that when Tobi answered yes and I became more furious because I was still looking for what to wear or cover my body with.
“Nooooo!!!!” I screamed giving her a look that was capable of starting a war. She hissed and went to open the door for the visitor who turned out to be one of her friends. I was able to put on one of my big tops that at least covered my pants but awesomely revealing my thighs. I settled quickly on my bed and covered my laps with my rapper holding a novel I was not reading. The guy came in and after some minutes, they were both gone, leaving me alone in the room. I could not still processed what was wrong with Tobi, she just betrayed one of the agreements between us as best friends. We agreed to always tell each other everything and anything and just when I wanted to give her every missing gist about Femi, she decided to start misbehaving and not ready to tell me hers, rather asking me questions my head was unable to process.
Instead of worrying myself over that, I decided to something meaningful with my time – I decided to communicate with Femi.
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