Living In The Ghetto - Episode 33

 

Adanne days in the secondary school looked miserable for her. She missed her elder brother and the protection he offered to her everyday. She felt lonely at most of the times she wasn't hanging out with the classmates she could relate with. She reminisced her primary school days with Timi and thought it was better even without her brother than how it's now.

Her bag slung to her back while she walked home slowly after the school hour. Simi stood on the slab with her friends . Amina and Amaka were already a class higher than Simi. She was made to repeat when the invigilator caught her with a keypoint during their junior secondary school examinations. The punishment was for her to retake it, and that made her to be in the same class as Adanne which she loathed and felt as an insult. 

Simi had been terrorising Adanne with threats and her facial expressions. They sat on the same long two-seater chair adjoined with a table and during tests and class works, she threatened Adanne to open for her which she succumbed to. Thier teacher had been thinking repeating  the class had really helped her until she found out what had been happening and changed them. They were reshuffled by the teacher through balloting. According to her, she doesn't want them to seat with their friends to prevent gossips and allow them to bond with people they never related with.

"I want everyone of you to make friends with people you hardly talk to

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. Relate well with everybody and assist others academically so that you'll ace your coming examinations."

Adanne walked past Simi and her gang and one hissed immediately they saw her. She kept a straight face avoiding an eye contact with them. 

Amaka took glances at her other friends. "Make we treat this girl fuck up, abeg," she said.

"Please, free her. Maybe another time," Simi replied.

Aisha laughed, followed by Amaka. "I been dey think say you no like am and this one her brother no dey this school again, you fit beat am wella make her body dey okay," Amaka said.

Simi winced and tapped Amaka. "Abeg calm down. I no fear her brother sef. That one na smalls," Simi said.

Aisha moved backward and took a glance at her. "Really?"

Simi nodded. 

"Okay. Me wan make she fear small Sha. She bin dey feel fly these days," Amaka said.

Simi raised her elbow. "You can go ahead."

Amaka stood up immediately and cleaned off the dust on her buttock. She looked forward and Adanne had gone a bit far but she could still hear the faintest of their voice if anyone screamed.

"Adanne, stop there!" she yelled. 

Adanne pretended as if she didn't hear her.

Amaka fumed. "I said you should stop there! Are you deaf? Are you mad?"

Adanne looked back immediately, looked down at her sandal to check if it was well buckled. She turned back quickly and took to her heels.

"Hey, you don give this girl liver sotey, she no dey fear again. She dey run abi?" Aisha asked in a rhetoric.

Simi stood up immediately. "Pursue am. We fit catch am," she said.

They all pulled off their leg wears and ran after her. Adanne got to the heart of the ghetto and ran to a shop as she kept panting heavily.

"Who dey pursue you? Wetin happen?" a woman that stood there to buy something asked.

The seller paced around in the shop while she searched for her customer wants. Simi and her cohorts hid by the side of the tree and peered at her.

"Make she run comot. We go get am immediately. Her house still dey far small from here," Simi said.

The woman tapped Adanne slowly. "Calm down, Ada'm," she said. 

Adanne's eye balls lit up immediately and she looked up.

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. "Oh, mum it's you," she said and hugged Mama.

"What happened exactly?" Mama asked.

Her eyes moved everywhere around the shops and she saw the children playing and running helter-skelter. She wished she would go back to being a kid, as she let out a piercing sweet smile. 

She heaved a sigh of relief. "Nothing, mum. I'll tell you when we are back home," she replied.

The seller walked out from the shop smiling. Adanne saw a smile that was unwarranted and wished she would stab her for meddling in what is not her bisiness. "Na wetin you buy be this," the seller said handing the goods to Mama.

The seller noticed the sad look on Adanne's face. "You know wan tell us wetin happen na. Why you come dey frown face," she said.

Adanne hissed. The woman laughed and Mama tapped Adanne. "Don't ever hiss again on someone that's older than you," Mama said.

"I am sorry," she said.

The woman smiled at her courteousness and accepted the apology while she rubbed her back and Adanne smiled. Mama paid for what she bought and they both walked away not knowing what awaits.