HE SAID NO.
EPISODE 24
Grace was feeling weak and dehydrated, so she was excused from work to go home before noon. She had been stooling and feeling funny days before then but she thought the diarrhea would wear out but she was wrong.
She boarded a taxi that took her straight home, on her way home, she sent a text to Mike to tell him she was indisposed, just in case he doesn’t get to reach her, afterward, she switched off her phone. She was glad that her neighbors won’t be home as she wasn’t ready to entertain any question.
The house they lived in had two floors and she was staying on the ground floor, they had 5 other neighbors. As soon as she entered the compound, she first went to the backyard to pick her clothes which she left on the dryer so that she won’t have any reason to go back outside before evening when everyone would have gotten back.
She was surprised to meet her door open, at first, she was scared and all the feverish feeling that she had earlier disappeared momentarily.
“What is going on here,” she thought to herself as she peeped in. She heaved a sigh of relief as soon as she saw Blessing. She was on the phone and she was talking in low tones, she did not know that anyone had entered.
“There is no way I am going to bake that cake, certainly not on my big day “she chuckled over the phone, “What happened to hiring a baker? “
“What big day? Blessing is at it again,” Grace thought to herself with a sigh, she wanted to go in to meet her, but on second thought, she decided to wait outside for her to be done with her call.
“Yes baby, that’s better. I’ll be back soon,” she said while walking her hands through her hair, “Muaaah!” she concluded before hanging up.
“Ehn Ehn!” Grace said as she banged the door behind her, Blessing was rattled, she looked back instantly with shock written all over her face.
“Grace! I thought you would be at work, what are you doing at home?” she asked, trying to mask her surprise.
“I should be asking you that question,” Grace said, folding her arms around her chest.
“You are funny, it’s like you have forgotten that I live here, ”
“Sorry, you live here? Oh, I didn’t know that, I have been the only one living year for over a month now, I used to have a roommate but she left without prior notice,” Grace said weakly as she flung her handbag towards the bed before she followed suit.
“I didn’t know that I now have an elder sister oh, so I now have to report myself to you ehn?”
“Don’t I deserve to know, where have you been? ” she asked, lying face down on the bed, her fever had resumed duty.
“Its work oh, Grace… “
“Is this about cake or some other work I don’t know of,”
“Ahn Ahn, what other work do I do?”
“I don’t know, maybe keeping secrets,”
“Wait first, what are you doing at home by this time,” she asked, cleverly changing the subject of discussion.
“I am here to see my lost but found roommate after weeks of silence from her end, ”
“Talk jor, “
“Isn’t it obvious, I am a little indisposed,” she dragged as she covered herself with a blanket.
“Yeah, I noticed you look thinner and pale, what’s wrong, hope you are not pregnant?” Blessing chuckled as she moved from one end of the room to another. She seemed to be looking for something really important.
“My name is not Mary, Its diarrhea,” Grace seemed not to be in the mood for jokes.
“Where did you get it from?” Blessing asked as Grace laughed lightly.
“See question, I collected it from where they are sharing it,” she hissed before turning her back to her.
“Why won’t you purge, your bad mouth na follow come,” Blessing ranted as she ransacked her bag, it was obvious that she had come to pick some more of her things.
“Who were you blowing kisses to over the phone?” Grace asked.
“So, you were eavesdropping, how long have you been at the door?” Blessing said while glancing briefly at her.
“That’s what you do when you want to dodge questions, ”
“How about ‘the ancient Bro Mike’?” Blessing asked amidst laughter, expecting her to retaliate as she would normally do but she got silence instead.
“You will not answer now,” She said while hitting Grace with the skirt she was holding but Grace did not budge one bit.
“She has even slept,”
Blessing packed the rest of the things she needed into a box that she brought along with her, she tidied up the room, she was ready to leave after a few minutes, she deliberated on whether to wake Grace or just let her be, she felt her body temperature, it was high. She decided to let her rest.
Grace woke up a couple of hours later with an urgent need to empty her bowels, while in the toilet she remembered that she saw Blessing before she slept. As soon as she entered the room, she glanced around and noticed that Blessing’s bag which was formerly hung on the wall had disappeared alongside some other things.
“This girl has left again,” she said as she unbuttoned her shirt, she was too tired to undress when she got home initially, coupled with Blessing’s presence. She sank back into bed almost immediately and while deliberating on what to eat, her mind drifted back to Blessing.
“Blessing and her drama, I just hope she won’t get into any more trouble,” she said with a sigh as she closed her eyes yet again.
To be continued,
Written by Sodamade Olamide Tolulope.
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