Painful Addiction
"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?
Gifts!
I wasn't sure if it was just my parents or parents everywhere, but mine never remembered my birthday on their own.
Over the years, I would be the one to wake up on my birthday morning, run to their room and bounce excitedly on their bed, all the while screaming, "It's my birthday!"
I began to do that at the age of six because they wouldn't remember my birthday that early until their calendars reminded them or it popped into their minds in the late afternoon.
There was one funny and also despondent memory that happened when I turned thirteen and I wasn't sure I would be able to forget it in a long while.
My father walked into my room that evening, bespectacled and in his favorite shorts and I thought that he wanted to discuss with me or seize my phone as I had been operating it since the crack of dawn.