"What happens when a nerdy girl falls for a playboy?" "They say that pain is a sign of weakness leaving your body but in my case, it's a clamp that refuses to let go of my heart no matter how hard I try." Chisom has had a complicated life but when she meets him, the world seems brighter and everything feels a thousand times better. Even though Chisom masquerades as the strongest person she knows with nothing being able to move her, deep down, her emotions are as fragile as an egg: easily shattered. Meeting him was one of the best things to happen to her. He was her first love but would he be her last?
Who would have thought that the peaceful Christmas morning would turn into a tumultuous evening sprinkled with loud knocks, screams, cries, anger-laden voices, and a soft, tiny voice begging and pleading for the noise to cease.
I wouldn't be able to talk about Christmas without mentioning Christmas eve.
The day that sowed the seed that would grow rapidly into a giant, hulking tree of conflict and disarray on the bright Christmas afternoon.
I spent most of Christmas eve with Oluebube, to the intense annoyance of my mother who wanted me to help.
However, as I had made myself deliberately absent from my house and perched myself in my uncle's house: my dad's brother's house, she had no other option than to enlist the help of the children of our extended family, mainly her brothers'-in-law children, in cooking and serving the guests.
Initially, I planned to help her.