Chapter 24| New Year!

It was very hard the first few days we started selling fish, there wasn't much sales and we kept eating the same food all over, I ate rice a lot that I vomited. Lovina went to stay with my dad for sometimes because of some job opportunities she saw there and after then, sales started getting faster, thanks to the money my brother sent to my mum, she was able to pay off the money she borrowed to start selling fish and she could buy one carton of fish. And since then she has been selling a carton of fish for every two to three days.

Of course I was happy, my brother called my dad and talked to him, even my mummy brother talked to him, Lovina also said she did, and he has really regretted his action, she said he rarely eats, he talks to himself all the time and he has sworn to start going to church as from next year, two weeks to go and we'll be in 2023. I taught I said I wasn't bothered about moving into a new year but now I am, I've been thinking of how I'll spend the ten thousand Naira my dad sent to me, things are now expensive and I'm still reconsidering plaiting my hair, why do I want to plait it anyway?, for new year and I take it away few weeks later.

We talked to my mum and she said she'll come back but she isn't taking all her things which I agree with, he's going to get her a shop, that for sure and that means I'll be able to go back to school!, keep that a secret. I told Grace but I haven't told Charity yet which I still will and I'll tell them to keep it a secret. I just pray nothing change, I pray everything goes like I want and I'm looking forward to 24th of December and 1st of January, I'll be going to a wedding party on 24th and all my siblings are gonna be around on the 1st, I pray my mum will be there plus there's splendid food.

I read 'Fiona' from the beginning and I found out I had so many happy moments then, Eliot and I broke up after ten or eleven months after his graduation, it wasn't painful because we both understood why and we've been talking about random things after then. It's funny how we remember each other when we look at the full moon, he used to tell to look at it whenever we are chatting at night, I miss him. Although he's an ass.

I read a book on 'inkitt' recently titled 'Sorry Can't Save You', I was so into that novel and I wanted to know the serial killer until one faithful night when I was reading it and the app told me that story was no longer available, I later found out the app the novel was, but my phone IOS is too small to download it, I'm beginning to hate my phone, I can only be on Facebook and WhatsApp, all the other apps wants me to get an upgraded IOS for me to download them.

Mary plaited my hair for me when she arrived and it was very nice, we decided that my dad should come and pick us, so that we can put some things we needed in his car and we agreed that he was going to pick us after he gets back from work, but my dad being very impatient didn't go to work and he came to pick us early. I was so surprised at how he still knows the way to our new apartment and he seems very happy having us back, family is important right?

January 1st, 2023.

Yes, my dad followed us to crossover at church, I wore the new crocs I just bought and the short Rachael gave to me and crossover was fun. After greeting my siblings, parent and some of my friends "Happy New Year", I thank God for letting me experience this new year, it's a big privilege. I met my long time crush outside the church and I summoned enough courage to hug him. He did hug me back and he told me "Happy New Year", we also held eye contact for like three seconds, and I was so happy. He was in all black and he looked so hot, I could melt in his arms, Buh my siblings were at the back so I had to play cool. I was really happy that something happened, even though I had promised myself that I wouldn't message him anymore which I'll stick with that because he hasn't replied my recent message.

I'm angry about it but, it is what it is, it's not like I'm looking for a relationship with him for now. We invited few people because we killed a ram and not a cow. It was very stressful because of the cooking and everything and my mum wouldn't let me rest, I did most of the job in the house that day and my brother came by. I'm looking forward to the beautiful things 2023 will bring to me and my family