NORAIt's a beautiful day and a start of a new week,Nora's mom walks into her daughter's room, sheslides the curtain open and the hot sun shining brightly peeped in. Nora stretches as she rolled off her bed, she greets her mom who in return said some prayers for her as she hugs her.I pray God provides a home for you my daughter so that I can come and visit you anytime I like rather than lie about my health just to drag you down" Nora shakes her head and smiled at her mom "But I have a house you can come to anytime, no one is objecting..." Her mom ignores her and walks straight to the door which she shut as she got out of Nora's room.Nora checks the time on her phone and exclaims "Oh my Godness! it's nine already!" She can't remember the last time she had slept this good, even during weekends at her place, there is always one or two things to keep her up late at night and wake her up very early in the morning.She smiles to herself "no matter how beautiful the city you journeyed to
NORANora's phone rings interjecting the music being played on her phone, with high hopes that the caller would be Spence, she applies her lipstick and rushes to the phone to pick it up before it trails off "hello" she speaks seductively, "Hi Grace.." the voice from the phone replies, Nora looks at the screen of her phone confused "this is not Grace, you must have dialed a wrong number" "No, it's not a wrong number... Grace, Why have you been avoiding my calls? I recognize your voice anywhere I hear it, this is Alfred" the voice added before Nora could cut him off "Oh, Shit!" Nora muttered quietly "Hey Alfred! Been a while, what have you been up to?" Nora manages to sound friendly knowing that she has been caught and there is no way she could pretend to be someone else, Alfred on the other end of the phone starts a conversation swiftly narrating what he has been up to, and how he has relocated to another state due to a job transfer. Nora who is at the other end of the phone rolled h
NORAThe sound of plates and forks filled the air as they settle discourse on the table. It was a busy morning that day, waitresses and waiters keep going back and forth attending to orders and clearing tables. Nora clears her throat as she gulps down a glass of juice, she can feel his eyes on her, stinging her like a little fire placed behind her earlobe, but she finds it hard to meet his gaze. She drops her cutleries and moves the plate forward a bit to indicate that she is done with her meal. Spence couldn't stop staring at her, his meal has barely been touched, while she ate, he watched her eat instead. He has been stupid all along, young and dumb perhaps to must have allowed her to slip off his hand despite every green light she gave him, he wonders why he stayed away for long and never even tried to speak to her once when they were younger. His phone buzzed, and for once he took his eyes off Nora to look at his phone, he put it on silent instantly and returns his gaze to Nora wh
SUSANThe alarm buzzed for the third time, this time itgets louder as it is nonstop, Susan stretches herhand out of the duvet to put it off. She feels tooweak to get up to prepare for work, not after thewhole drama and chaos she experienced overnight. She stretches lazily as she decides if she was going to be sleeping in today or will resume work late. She picks up her phone to call Bode who picks up at the first ring "Hello" she calls out sleepily "Heeelllo! What on earth is your ass still doing in bed?" Bode replies surprised at the sound of her voice "Can you please cover for me? I will be coming late today, I'm very weak" Susan pleaded but Bode cuts her quickly "Susie, if you are not physically fit to be here, stay home and rest, nobody will fire you for getting sick" Susan knows no one will get mad at her for missing work one day because she is the most diligent employee in the firm who has never called in sick nor waited to be corrected before she did her job, she is more o
SUSANSusan arrived at the International Airport five minutes before her requested time elapsed. With her phone in one hand, she hangs tightly onto the bag on her side with the other hand as she walks around, scanning and searching with her eyes for anyone who could look like Henry as she keeps dialing his number. She knows she is too nervous to drive so she had to get a cab down, while in the cab, she made sure she looked at his pictures on her phone more than a hundred times so as not to mistake somebody else for Henry. Congestion at the Airport wouldn't make her call connect but she didn't stop redialing till she finally got through, he informed her that he is waiting next to the carousel with his traveling bags which is the most noticeable spot in the airport, Susan wonders why she missed him while skimming. As she walks forward, she caught the back view of an elegantly looking 6ft gentleman, dark in complexion, straight and built, as he turns towards her direction, Susan catches
CHICHIChichi stretches and yawns as she wakes up, she clears her throat and says good morning to Susan who was supposed to be on the bed with her but it's rather filled with fluffy pillows. She groans lazily as she sits up on the bed wondering where Susan must have gone, the right side of her head aches badly, a cup of coffee would definitely come to her rescue.She gets up from bed and massages her head as she walks towards the kitchen hoping to see Susan there "Susan! You woke early so you better be cooking, I'm feeling so sick you know, food will really help" surprisingly, she meets the kitchen empty "where is this girl? I hope she hasn't gone to work?" she goes to Tade's room, knocks, and opens it. The smell of alcohol filled the air, Tade is still asleep on the rug, empty bottles of whiskey and her glass cup, disposable plates are on the floor while her clothes are thrown all over the place "Jeez! How much did she drink?" she picks up the empty bottles one after the other to dis
NORANora lays on the bed fantasizing about Spence, they have spoken that day yet it still feels like a dream, she wonders if this is how her mind will keep being preoccupied with his thought "Is this love?" Well, she loves it, at least she has more than work and what to cook to think about now. Her mom knocks on her door and walks in "Nora, how are you?" Nora sits up as she sees her mom's face "I'm fine mom, what's wrong? You look troubled""Nora, help me talk to your sister, they are through with their exams but she doesn't want to come back home" Nora shakes her head as her mom speaks, she knows what it feels like being policed around and she is glad her baby sister wouldn't accept that, at least she is braver than her "Mom let her be, she is not a baby anymore, you don't need to watch her like a mother hawk, she is twenty-five mom! Let her do what she wants, she will come home when she feels like" she advises her mom who immediately flares up"Mbanu! I won't tolerate that, her mat
SUSANSusan listened to Henry receive and make calls all through their ride home, it got irritating at some point that she wished she had given him the work excuse when he called her this morning to request that she picked him up at the Airport. She whined down the window to allow fresh air in while she used the time to appreciate her environment as she watches the tall buildings on the street of Lagos. Henry hangs up and apologizes again like he wouldn't take another call if his phone rings "I'm sorry babe" Susan ignores his apology "where should the driver take us to? Anywhere in mind?" Henry smiled "Home! Let's go meet my mom first then we can talk" Susan changes the address on the app so the driver can change his route. She opens her inbox to read Bode's reply which really cracked her up, she laughs deeply while Henry watched and wonders what could make her genuinely happy as this, she hasn't laughed like this since he arrived, he holds her hand and looks at her jealously "Hey! Wh