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I ran with my feet at my head, she was calling me and I know it better be food.

"Ngoo!, Ngozika!, Ngozichukwuka!" She screamed.

"Yes mommy!." I arrived. "Mommy you called." I said as I arrived my eyes glued to the pot of rice still boiling, I had checked and it was almost done a few minutes ago, she then came in, and I believe she's calling me to come take my food.

"Yes I did, like five times, is it that you don't hear well or, talk let us know now, let me see what your father and I can do o." I rolled my eyes and gave a small smile, Mom was always capping.

"Mommy dey play." I thought to my self, FYI, my parents and a few other people are speaking Igbo, but I'll leave it as English in most parts... Most!.

"Anyway pass that bowl of water."

"Which one mom?." She eyed me up and down.

"The one on my head, olodo."I looked around well and finally found it sitting on the counter by her left hand side, I rose an eyebrow, did what was requested of me and shifted aside through the walls to finally cry like a widow whose husband's death was the beginning of all her life's problems. Rice wey don almost done, she go pour am water, chai I don die. I said with my hands on my head, stamping my feet on the ground, my back still backed to the wall, soon my father was passing by and saw me, peeped into the kitchen and shook his head with a frown.

"She put in more water when the rice was almost done?." I answered on the positive, and he sat down with me on the bare floor and cried... Well he pretended to which always made me laugh, his own little way of cheering me up, soon we were rolling on the ground laughing, we laughed our hearts and before we knew it, mommy came to call us.

"Bia bulu nni ngina Nna i." I rose up with the speed of light and saw already dished out plates of rice, veggie stew and chicken, I gently took dad's first outside to the dining room then came for mom's then mine finally, all on trays, I know, I was washing up this entire pile of plates when we're done eating, but I didn't mind, we were three and the meal was delicious, classic mom.

Damn, sorry I didn't introduce myself earlier, I am Ngozichukwuka Patricia Ibezie from Ogbeozoma village, and those of course were my parents Onyemaechi Augustine Ibezie and my lovely young sexy mama... Cringe right?, I know, she's "Nkiruka Patricia Ibezie, we lived in the village and our life was simple and lovely, I had my family and everything I needed, but we had one problem, everyone else had money to send their kids to school and they did but not mom and dad and I wondered why, I was the only daughter and child and I still didn't understand why they couldn't send one child to school, still I never let it bother me, I learnt how to speak English from being around my educated friends, you know what I always say, you are who you're with, and my parents could speak a little though but not all that fluently.

After breakfast on this beautiful Sunday morning, I did the dishes and went out to play football with friends, good to know in my county there wasn't a gender bias and that was good too cos girl could I play ball too. I met with Chidera my girlfriend, and we ran to hug each other like we had not met in years... We talked like damn yesterday night.

"Eiiiiih, Ngozi, how are you?." She asked as she dusted my clothes from dust I could even see.

"I'm fine o my sister, how was church?." I asked, but my focus was on the ball.

"It was fine o, eeeeeehennnn," Chidera said slapping my arm and waving dramatically whilst talking. "It was that pastor again that preached, the one that likes looking at us in the children section and licking his lips, we're planning to..." Chidera was still talking when a player scored an awesome outside eighteen goal and I gently pushed her aside to join in celebration and also protest so I could join in but Chidera was in the least pleased.

"I know I like ball o but have I ever ignored you for any reason?, and you have mind to walk out on me pushing me self because of ball." She shouted at me and tears began to roll down her eyes and she clenched her fists in anger and walked away.

"Well this ball is ruined for me today, gotta go make the love of my life happy again.". I murmured to my self."

"Please go o, it's very important, odi mkpa." A friend of ours, Nkechi said to me as I walked off, I suddenly turned and saw seated next to Nkechi... HIM!, damn that gaze could cut right through me, I wouldn't have noticed him had I not done a double take, I ignored him and walked off, I knew why he was staring.

When I got to her house, the door was barely locked, I just walked in and locked it behind me, her parents were by far richer than mine, their house was like from the movies, with the fancy squeaky doors, a car, a garage, a house help and everything, when I went in I headed straight to her room and saw her sobbing.

"Well that's not very pretty of you." I said as I approached her, she ignored me and turned around on the bed backing me, I simply knew she was just happy I came, but she wanted to hand play it cool, good thing I was sly. "C'mon, you're getting yourself wet with all this tears, you're wasting pretty tears because of something silly I did again." I made to touch her and wipe it off from behind, but she shook it off. "Babe, I'm sorry, it won't happen again, I won't ever choose football or anything else or worst any one else over you." She hissed and lay down on the bed covering her entire self with a wrapper, I knew she was trying to smile but wanted to fight it. She removed her wrapper, cleaned her tears, but they were still dripping had, damn I had hurt her.

"Me crying for you or what you said?, lies, when I was leaving I hit my leg on a stone and that's why I'm crying, me cry for you?, lie lie." I smiled as she said that hands folded looking sideways not trying to look me in the eyes.

"Oya Chidera..."

"Okwo mmua oya?."

"Sorry, Chidera, I'm very sorry for ignoring you it won't happen again I promise."

"Again with this your whining, no dey try whine me this girl, you say this all the time"

"Oya see, I'll do twenty frog jumps, so you know I'm serious." She hissed, and I began, I looked at her, and she was trying to smile but was fighting it. "Girl, I see you trying to smile."

She then finally let out the laugh she had been holding in a long time and threw her arms around me and I hugged her back. Chidera Mildred Mbakwe, my best friend, the love of my life, my cry baby, nwa mommy, we were like two opposite sides of a coin but yet, God made us one, I could never stand seeing her cry or sad, that's why I almost made one guy lose his teeth, he had broken her heart when she caught him kissing another girl in the school backyard, and when I confronted him he further insulted my parents, so that was it, I knocked out his two middle teeth and shoved it into his mouth after he had spat them out, a few weeks after the incident he left the county, I wonder why. Soon, our perfect little lives was perfect again, I wonder why he had never reported me, I was sure ready to face my punishment, it was Chidera who always taught me all she knew and never criticized the seeming poverty of my parents, born a year after each other, she was older by age, mentally, character and other intellectual stuff, I was older socially, sadly, she never really had eyes for anyone again and mostly stayed by herself except hanging with me, and I'm almost never attentive, infact I think I have a low attention span, I loved this bitch, and clearly she loved my real bitchy ass back and hard too, two peas in a pod, I hugged her tightly and kissed her cheeks and forehead. "I love you psycho." I said to myself.

"I am... I am." She said laughing hard. "I love you girl." She said finally tightening the grip of the hug.

"Yeah me too." I said with a smile. She came out of the hug.

"This is what happened last week, and you did this, trying to whine me and you're at it again."

"Chidera, I know, but we all make mistakes normally... But... Oya wait, see." I knelt down, "I promise I won't do it again, pinky promise?." She looked at me with a huge frown which slowly turned to a smile, She slowly brought out her finger and crossed it against mine.

"So school tomorrow na?." I asked trying to hide the fact that I was not happy but one who knew you well, knew you well.

"Girl chill out, you see school?, education?, you'll be educated till the level you want, through Jesus Christ who lives and reigns forever."

"Amen." I said still not feeling good, she decided to cheer me up.

"Let's head on to the parlor and watch some Netflix and also chill ok?." She tapped on my shoulder repeatedly and tried lifting me up a bit, I was way heavier than her, and she couldn't really get me up, so I simply pushed my self up.

She came behind me as I stood up and moved away a little from the bed, she tapped on my ass and grabbed it and put her hands round my shoulders so I could carry her to the parlor. "Your chariot awaits you, my lady, the people's princess, Lady Diana Frances Spencer." I said and she hopped on laughing it up all the way, her laugh did always make my laugh to laugh... Inside joke... she tapped on my ass harder and we left the room laughing hysterically.

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