FORBIDDEN LOVE 2

The next day, when I woke up, I got down from my bed, went on
my knees and said my morning prayers. You already guessed what I
did next, I reached out for my phone from under my pillow, but I
couldn’t find it. I rolled my eyes…..
I rolled my eyes…..
knowing that my sister probably took it since she already told me she
would always use my phone to play games. “Esther!!! Esther!!!” I
yelled out my sister’s name as I went into the sitting room to look
for her. I didn’t know my mum was sitting down on one of the
couches so I continued yelling. “so you cannot greet abi”, my mum
said. “oh! mummy, sorry. I didn’t know you were here. Good
morning!” I greeted. “Ehen, morning! why are you looking for Esther
like this” she replied. “I don’t know if she took my phone”,
“E biago ozo!(meaning: you have come again in Igbo language) If you
guys like, don’t get ready for church. I and your father will leave
without you guys and you’ll have to trek, so if you like, get ready,
if you don’t like, don’t get ready” My mum said and exited the room.
I left the sitting room as well and headed for the kitchen. That
was when I found Esther using my phone with Frank. I quickly
went to them and grabbed it from her hand. They both growled,
but I scolded Esther for not asking me for permission before taking
it. “Na because say you don get phone now, that’s why pesin no go
hear word”Frank said. I looked at him with an angry look and left
the kitchen as Esther followed behind.

 We went to our room to prepare for Church and not long after, we were ready. We could hear the horn of our dad’s car signaling for us to come outside so
we could go to Church. I put my phone into my Church bag as I always called it and left the room with Esther. After Church, my parents had a meeting in Church both for men and women as usual and so we hung out with our friends while we waited for them. I was talking to one of my friends when I heard my phone ring. I checked the caller ID and realized it was my uncle calling so I excused myself. All my friends were already jumping upband screaming excitedly when they saw my new phone because they taught I wouldn’t be getting a phone anytime soon. “Hello?”, I said as I picked the call. “My baby, how are you?” uncle Sam said. “I’m fine” I replied. “This one you’re sounding so cold, what is wrong with you?” he asked but I told him I was fine, I just needed rest and so he got relaxed. He said he just wanted to hear my voice since I didn’t reply his message yesterday night so he told me to end the call so we could text each other instead. I ended the call and a minute later, I got a message from uncle Sam and we started chatting, but I went back to meet my friends while we were
chatting.

Meanwhile, my friends were still hailing me and I felt my cheeks turn red with excitement and embarrassment. A few
minutes later, my mum and dad were through with their meeting so
we all left for the house. When we got home, I went straight to
the room, took off my Sunday wear and switched into more
comfortable clothes. Immediately, I took out my phone from my bag
and continued chatting with uncle Sam. We were chatting about
random things until he texted “Meso, I want to ask you something
and please be sincere with me oo” I looked at the text confused
because I couldn’t guess what he was going to ask me. “Do you
have a boyfriend?” The next text read. I opened my mouth when I
saw this because it never even crossed my mind and It was weird
that my uncle had to be the first to ask. I replied with a “no!!!
uncle Sam, I’m still a small girl now” but he just replied with
“hmmn, small girl ke. Do you know how many of your mates that
already have boyfriends or are even married. You’re talking about
small. You’re not a small girl oo”, “But my parents still say I’m small,
and if my mummy should even find out I have a boyfriend, she’ll
bury me alive” “hahahaha, meso you’re so funny. I’ll tell your mum”
“Ahh uncle sam, please oo. I’m just joking oo” “I know, I wasn’t
going to tell anyway. That reminds me, I want to take you out”, he
finally said. “Oh!! but we are yet to have our first term exams so
mummy and daddy will not want us going out”, I replied.
“who is we?” he asked. “Esther and I now” “No I don’t mean the
both of you, I want to take just you out”. “But why would you
want to take just me out?”, I asked. “Because it’s your turn this
time, next time it will be only Esther but that will be after your
exams since you’ll be having your exams now” I agreed and so he
said we’ll talk later. I smiled at my phone and was just so excited
that I was now taken as a big girl. In a month’s time, I would be
turning twelve and I couldn’t wait.

Two weeks later….
I was sitting all alone in a class, waiting for one of my friends to
be done with her extra lessons when Micheal, one of my class
mates came in. “hey meso!!” he called out. “hey mike”, I replied.
“senior Daniel is calling you” Micheal said. I couldn’t figure out why
he was calling me. Senior Daniel was one of the ss2 boys who
people said was wicked. I was very scared of talking to seniors
because I didn’t want to be punished for any little thing. So I
summoned up courage and went to the ss2 floor, looking through the
classes hoping to see senior Daniel who called me. Before I got to
the last class, he came out from the class and smiled at me when he
saw me. I smiled back, not knowing the reason for it. Immediately,
he told me to follow him and I followed behind. We got to a bench
not too far from the tuck shop, where they sold snacks and food,
he sat down on the bench, gesturing me to sit beside him and so I
did. He started off by asking If I was scared and I told him I was
scared a little, but he just told me to relax, that he meant no harm
and so I became at ease. Senior Daniel just told me he wanted to
take care of me as my school father, he told me he was ready to
help me with anything and since I would be starting with my first
term exam as a jss1 student, I shouldn’t hesitate to meet him if I
needed any help. I just couldn’t understand where all this came
from because I had never even spoken to him. I nodded because I
knew it was normal for a senior boy or girl to make you their school
daughter or son. Before we left, he asked If I had a phone so he
could always call to make sure I was okay and so I said yes and
gave him my number. We left the scene and I went to check if my
friend was done with her lesson. I was a bit excited because I now
had a school father. Some of my friends were already posing with
their school fathers and trying to make every other person Jealous.
When I got home, it was a few minutes past 4:00pm and so I
went into my room to take off my uniform, Esther was already
sleeping as usual. Before I could even take my clothes off, I got a
message. I didn’t want to open it just yet because I needed to do
some things so I dropped the phone aside and left to do what I had
to do.
To be continued….