Chapter 32: 💔30💔

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The contract

By Oyinkan_05,

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Picture of Idara's gown up ☝️

MERCY'S POV

"So you're leaving today?" Teni asked as we walked out of our last class for today .

"Yeah , I am. What will you do during the weekend?"

"Uhm maybe I'll go to the hospital, and check up on her."  He said back.

That was nice since She still in the temporary coma.

"That sounds like a good idea ....." I was cut off by Esther who turned her direction from her argument to us .

"Lovebirds , please oo help me tell this Dayo that he's wrong." She exclaimed making me chuckle.

They were arguing about one of the craziest thing ever as usual, they were arguing about who dressed up the most today.

Esther said it was me while Dayo said it was Atami, that's what they've been arguing on .

Today everyone was dressed in native attires , i wore a tight simple yellow Ankara plaited gown which reached a little above my knee. There was a black belt around the waist making my waist look smaller . I killed the look with a white heel sneakers and packed my braid up.

Well Atami is another case entirely.she dressed in her usual style but today she added more effort. She was dressed in her usual long gown but this time it was more fitted. She added gelee ( hair gear) making her face look smaller.

And now the whole class decided that we were part of the top five most dressed ladies.

Today was pretty fun with some ladies who went over the top with their makeup.

"Mercy.." I heard someone call my name making me look back.

It was Atami , she waved at me and I slowly walked up to her. I could feel lingering gazes on us , and why? I don't know.

"Babes , I wanted to collect your number." She said making me chuckle. The girl is a real definition of crazy. She took pictures of the ladies with excess makeup and the funniest thing is that they didn't know.

"I wanted to ask for yours too but I forgot. Okay so..." When I was done she dialed it and saved the number on her phone.

She gave me a brief hug , before walking away in the opposite direction.

I walked back to where everyone was waiting for me but the rest were already at the front leaving only Teni to wait for me.

"Sorry ." I said as I got to where he was leaning on the wall. He pushed himself forward and placed his arm around my shoulder as we started walking .

"I don't like that girl." He said almost making me scoff. He's always not liking everyone. First was Hakeem which I understood and now Atami.

"Why?" I asked back ,

"Well you told me how crazy she is and then why is she pretending?always looking quiet and gentle." He said and this time I couldn't help but reply back.

"Teni , stop it . Don't judge people easily. She might be someone who likes to study someone before showing her real colours but you're already judging her as if you are better." I said back .

He pulled his arm from my shoulder and stopped walking.

"What do you mean by as if I'm better?" He asked ,

"Well you remember what you did right? Look ...." I decide to stop before I say anything worse. The look of hurt was so vivid on his face.

"Teni , stop . Stop looking at me like that."

"I'm sorry, I didn't know that I signed up for constant insults." He said back , okay my controlled self was actually losing itself.

"You didn't sign up for it Teni , the wound is still raw , you kissed someone last week , today makes it a day less than a week and you think I'll just miraculously forget about it. I forgave you , yes but I didn't forget." I said back angrily , I'm sure imaginary smokes were coming out from my ears.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know." He said back in a low voice.

"Yeah , I'm sorry too , for snapping like that. I just don't know what hit me to do that ." I said and he just nodded.

Okay now I was feeling bad , he was doing like a kid who begged for a candy from his mum but was rejected. He had that sad look and I guess I caused that , well he caused that for himself.

"Teni , I'm sorry for how I talked okay ? I guess I still feel bad. "

"I know it's my fault. I just need to show you that I won't make that mistake ever again."

"You better should not make it."

"Yes ma'am." He said back ,  I stopped walking and gave him a hug . He wrapped his arms around me too ,I pulled back , and was about to kiss him when that dayo decided to talk

"Please please we are here too oo and we didn't sign up for kiss scenes."  He said ,

"Shut up fool." Joy said replying him making all of chuckle.

..............

"Mummy ooo!" I called out as I  entered into the sitting room. I dropped my little back bag on the chair and walked to the kitchen where I heard her talk from.

She was leaning on the counter and was on a call. She turned to the door and walked up to me, she gave me a brief hug and soon enough she ended the call.

"My baby , omo mi." She said as we both walked Back to the sitting room.

We sat down on the same brown leather couch ,

"Why are you getting lean like this , when is your exam coming up?" She asked , told you guys that I was getting thin.

And that yeye Hakeem was complaining about my weight , I almost laughed out at the memory.

"I don't know , maybe next Month cause of Christmas." I said back

I lied down and picked a remote, I turned on the wide flat screen and connected it to Netflix.

One of the advantage of coming home , I need this.

"We're going to Atalanta as usual. I don't know why your sister can't face her fears and just come back home instead. But it's better sha , I haven't seen mummy Yeni in a long time."

They still believe the big lie she dropped and she was right, it's good like that . I've missed Yeni and her younger siblings. They always make Christmas fun and the thing I missed the most was their mansion and swimming pool and my fixed room in their house.

"Mummy who's doing that event?" I asked , I scrolled through the various movies.

One was catching my attention,

"Your dad's company struck one deal with one aeronautical engineer company and that company is doing their anniversary so they invited the company. And since your dad is one of the top shareholders , he was invited." She said and the amount of times she said company was even confusing.

I nodded and faced the television back , she kept on talking about all her customers at her shop , oh I didn't mention that she had close to ten shops in Lagos where she sells clothe materials like Ankara or lace  , cloth itself , shoes and other accessories . Her shop was quite well known.

When I heard the governor's wife , I turned my half attention to what she was saying,

"What did she come to do after everything?" I asked

"Iwono osobe (you also said that) I wonder. After promising that she'll buy from my shop and now went to that fool's place to buy everything. I just looked at her like this ehn" she said making me laugh hard .

My mum can use this her shop for drama like this Jennifer's own. The drama there and the competition is just too much .

"Ehehn that reminds me , the outfit I bought for you , follow me." She said ,

"Mummy show me later." I said back and the next thing I received was a spank on my back. I quickly turned back to her ,

"I'm telling you something, you're saying later. Stand up jo." She said standing up from the couch. She picked her glasses from the side table and walked towards her room.

I stood up too and ran after her before she starts with reasons.

When I entered the cool room , the feeling of sleep just came over me. With the sight of that their soft king sized bed really made me feel like sleeping.

I walked towards it and lied down. I turned on my side and watched as she opened one bag with her shop's logo on it.

She brought out a deep red gown , she raised it up and it looked good well good fashion sense is in our blood.

"Oya come and wear it let me see if it will size you." She said , I groaned on the bed and she looked at me with those her 'better do it.' look.

I stood up from the bed and collected the gown from her. I shrugged off the top I was wearing and placed the gown over my head.

When I was done , my mum's big grin greeted me ,

"This is perfect. Off it and sleep if you want to sleep." She said and walked out of the room probably going back to the kitchen.

Thank God I could finally sleep , I walked to the ensuite bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror.

It really looked perfect , there was a slit from my lower thigh and if I wear a heel it will look so much better.

I smiled at myself and quickly shrugged the cloth off. I wore my top back and quickly jumped on the  cool , soft ,bed.

...........

"Let's go ooo , for crying out loud !" Dad shouted from downstairs.

Thank God the makeup artiste was done with mummy's gele (head gear) if not dad will just leave us here. This wasn't the first time it would have happened , let's not go that part , let's go back to now.

I buckled my heels and told mum bye oo. She was still pulling on her clothes and with the way dad was shouting it will be better to just stand beside him while he's calling her.

I picked my clutch purse and catwalked out , yeah I need to practice for the red carpet  , like I said I catwalked downstairs.

My braids were down this time and since it wasn't much or full it fell to my back , it was long and just above my butts .

"Me I'm done oo." I said as I walked downstairs , he just looked at me and hiss ,

"I don't know what the two of you will be doing. Makeup oo , this one oo, better go and tell your mum to come downstairs now." He said making me chuckle.

"She's almost done , just for her to wear her heels or something." I said back and brought out my phone to check the pictures I snapped.

"This your gown is fine oo , but how did it tear?" My dad asked almost making my eyes pop out. Did he just say the slit on my gown was caused from an accident.

Ahhhh , I raised my eyes from the phone and stared at my dad open mouthed ,

"Daddy the gown did not tear ooo , ahh. It's mum that bought it like that , it's called a slit."

I said back , he turned to me with a glare.

"Is it because I did not tell you to off it , you're now telling me the name. Children of now adays." He said ,

"Daddy now. " I whined back making him laugh.

"Better know that it's because I love you that's why I didn't tell you to off it." He said back

"I know already." I said back and blew a kiss to him . He was about to catch it when mum interrupted,

"It's okay oo let's go." She said making everyone laugh. Dad stood up from the couch with his white agbada , he arranged it and walked closer to mum with his black shiny shoes.

"My one and only Arike , my wife." He said as he hugged her , my mummy herself was dressed in a sexy gown similar to mine but her own didn't have slit and she also added touches of the material dad used for his fila (cap).

Finally after their romanctic romance we walked out of the house and into dad's new jeep. The smell of new car engulfed me as I sat down on the passenger's seat.

Rounds of picture later. Thirty minutes later , we finally entered the compound which resembled a whole estate. I looked at the fountain that was at the middle of a garden and the statue that greeted us as we entered, this place looked so good.

It was like we were no longer in Nigeria , I've seen lots of house structures  that could leave you mouth opened but this, this topped the whole list.

When we reached the entrance of the house where the car was supposed to park under a pillar for the passenger to drop out , our car parked.

I stepped out and like I said the red carpet and paparazzi were waiting.

The driver opened the door , dad came out first and stretched his hands out to mum who gently grabbed it and stepped down too.

The dramatic step out from the car didn't go unnotice by the paparazzi who kept on clicking their cameras.

We walked on the red carpet and into the mansion itself.

let me mention something, the inside was so much more magnificent than the out.

There was a big chandelier hanging from the high raised ceilings immediately you enter , someone greeted us and  checked our IV before pointing at a door at the right hand side.

We followed her instructions and walked in that direction , the whole floor of the house was tiled. Different paintings were hung on the walls.

One even caught my attention , it was a picture of an African girl holding a calabash , it was a normal art to see , yes , but this one had that special unique touch to it.

We entered the room which was quite beautifully arranged , we said our names to the people standing at the door and we were led to the table were a card with our names were placed.

It was a little close to the front so we had a good view of what was happening on the stage.

Yeah , things like this were always boring, I brought out my phone and sent a picture or two of me in my outfit to Teni , I also used some for my status on wattsap.

After an hour of sitting down and listening to speech , it was finally time to eat and thank God they did serve yourself.

Everyone stood up and walked to where the food were displayed.

After the long queue it finally got to my turn , I gave myself a good size of the variety of foods there when suddenly I felt a tap on my back.

Is this the day where someone will find out I serve myself?

Who's at my darling's back o?

And one question,

Was it right for Mercy to snap at Teni like that?

For me I think she's still angry.

Okay away from that , like I said another update might come.

And did I mention

My birthday is just two days away!!

It's on the 25th

So a special chapter will be there.

*Winks*

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Eniola 💗