IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

’Oh yes you will – now stop being dramatic! Debbie, if I heard you well, you said you guys didn’t have sex for the first five months or so. If he wanted to use you, do you think he would have been that patient? I think he wanted something more – what it is, I don’t know. Perhaps you would find out someday or maybe you’ll never know. Either way it’s time to move on’’ ‘’He was looking for the total package and he got it in me. Oh Kiki, I was so stu.pid and you warned me oh! He didn’t even care for me to help with common school fees; even if it was just to enter the school sef! Oh I don suffer nor be small! NEVER AGAIN; I SHALL NEVER BE THIS STUP.ID IN MY LIFE!’’ ‘’E don ohhhhhhh! This your own pass x10 oh!’’ ‘’Kiki, he could not even call me. Since that incident, do you know his phone has been switched off? Two full weeks and it’s like nothing happened. I’m the biggest foo.l that ever lived; sometimes I ask myself why I’m even crying. Its like was dating myself so what is the tears for?’’ ‘’E don do oh!’’ ‘’Kiki, shebi I’m too small to tell sorry abi explain to? Do you know he is no longer in that compound? Chai, I don suffer!’’ Suddenly her phone began to ring and Kiki stretched out her neck to see the caller – it was Igho. They watched the phone in silence before it went off. Then Kiki cleared her throat and announced ‘’you were just lamenting about not being able to reach him yet you allowed that call go like that? DON’T YOU THINK YOU REQUIRE AN EXPLANATION? You may be a young girl but you are a human being with feelings’’