The Secret Diaries 16

So I ran…

Out the door…out of the house.

And I didn’t stop until two streets after. I hailed a cab and got in quickly.

“Banjo street.” I said.

“Na one thousand ma.” The cab man replied.

   That was outrageous! My apartment wasn’t far enough for that amount. A bike man would have taken me there for just 200 and people complain about bike price beingreally outrageous…but I didn’t care. I just wanted to get home, away from Daniel and his messed up situations. I felt too young to be dealing with stuff like that. What was that stuff people said?

Live. Love. Be happy.

How did that have to do with my situation, I don’t know, I just know it kept ringing in my head then. Nothing was going to make me unhappy, nothing was going to make me not live life…a good one at that.

Not even Daniel.

  
 The cab pulled up at my apartment and I paid the cab man. Good thing I had my purse with me when I left. Good thing I had Nigerian Money in it.

I used my key, hoping to steal inside the house without Kendra knowing but luck wasn’t on my side. The door was bolted shut from inside, so I knocked. It took a while before Kendra opened up. She practically jumped me as soon as the door opened. Her excitement knew no shame…the neighbours must have been wondering what was up.

“Where are your bags?” she asked, looking behind me.

“My bags?” I was a little confused, I wasn’t thinking straight.

“You went with a box…and I expected you to come back with others so where are they?”

“Oh! “ I exclaimed. “At Daniel’s.”

She looked at me closely then, “Are you alright?”

“Of course, why wouldn’t I be?” I replied in an annoyed tone. 

  
 Just then, my phone rang. I looked at it…Daniel. Bad thing I had turned it on as soon as we landed. I hissed, then pressed the side button to keep it from ringing out. Kendra cornered hey eyes at me and I shook my head and went inside. I went straight to my room…and she followed me. She sat on my bed as I undressed. I needed to shower but the will to just be in my bed, with the sheets over my head was stronger.

“Bibi…something is up.” she said.

“Nothing is up.” I replied without even a single glance at her.

“Then why aren’t you excited, telling me how the trip went.”

I ignored her.

“Why do you look upset?”

   I began to pull on my pyjamas. “I don’t look upset, I’m just really tired.”

“Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder remember?”

I tried not to look at her, I concentrated hard on buttoning up my pyjamas shirt.

“And why would you leave your f***king bags at Daniel’s?” she finished, waving her hands vaguely.

My phone rang again. It was beside Kendra on the bed. I went to pick it but she beat me to it.

“Daniel’s calling.” She said.

I tried to take the phone from her but she snatched her hand back. “Fine.” I say. “I’m not even in the mood to talk.” I climbed into my bed.

Kendra’s expression looked like she had just solved a puzzle. 
“So there’s really something up.” She said, feeling smart. “What happened between you two?”

“I don’t want to talk about it.” I said with a bit of force. 
I wished the girl would just leave me be but the girl’s my friend Kendra and Kendra never lets stuff like this go. I noticed her about to pick the call.

“Don’t.”

“Tell me what happened!”

“I can’t…”

Her thumb went to the blue button on the screen but before she could click it, the ringing stopped.

“Look Kendra, I really don’t want to talk about it right now. Can you at least respect that?”

“No.”

“No?”

“No. You can’t come back…your first trip out of the country and not tell me about the minute you get…blah blah blah.”

Okay, not that she said blah blah blah but that was it to me…blah blah blah.

She babbled on, torturing me into telling her and so I gave up.

“Daniel’s engaged…to someone else!”

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