CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX (FORGIVENESS)

VALEDICTORY SERVICE DAY

Zainab would have been so angry if she didn’t find it too funny, few hours ago she couldn’t sleep and now? She didn’t want to get out of bed. She had been getting congratulatory messages from family members and friends but she had opened only one; Adesua. She had even ignored Tristan’s message, Funny shit.

She probably wouldn’t have gotten up if her mum hadn’t dragged her, literally out of bed.

“Laide? Are you not attending your V-service again?” Alhaja asked

She grumbled “mummy”

“Better stand up before I go and tell your father” her mother threatened

Zainab could care less “okay”

Alhaja chuckled and pulled the duvet from her “get up”

“Can I just go tomorrow?” she asked foolishly

Alhaja laughed “of course, your V-service can be withheld till tomorrow” sarcasm “as if”

She had barely prepared herself when a knock came through, Yetunde walked in with flowers, red roses to be specific.

“Aunty Yetunde? Who own those?” Zainab asked