SCHOOL SHOPPING

CHAPTER ONE:SCHOOL SHOPPING

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NORA'S POV

"aunty check here"

"fine girl na wetin you wan buy"

Jesus! I felt like a celebrity,mom and I were going shopping for school supplies and the sellers at the market refused to give us a break,am sure if mom wasn't with me,I would have bought everything in sight.

"madam try this shoe on to see if it fits" mom's voice breaks my thoughts,I did and the shoe didn't fit.

"mom it didn't size me o"

"haa! see as the shoe fine for your leg,nor worry take am,e go expand later" the man that was selling the shoes said

The thing with these sellers,they just wanted to sell and God blessed them with a sugar coated tongue,but we are used to them by now.we didn't buy the shoe and instead settled for another one that actually fits!

By the time we got home,I was too exhausted to be excited over the fact that I'll be moving to school soon,I knew mom's lecture was coming,but my brain was already doing kpom kpom kpom from all that trekking around the market earlier,my head had just touched the bed when I heard my name being barked.

"Eseosa!!"

"somebody cannot sleep in peace in this house",i grumbled but every Nigerian kid knows not to ever,I mean EVER ignore your parents call,so I answered even if I'd have wanted nothing more than to just sleep.

"Maaaa"!!(in an equally loud voice by the way)

I made my way to my mom's room,dad wasn't back from work yet,he was barely around anyways,when mom and I made eye contact I just knew the time for the sending-your-child-off-to-uni talk has come.

Mom cleared her throat,well here we go I said to myself

"Ese,my daughter,I know you have an idea why I sent for you,soon enough you are going to be on your own,no mom,no dad,you've to make decisions for yourself,you see my dear,a university is like a very busy market,like one we went to earlier,different people from all works of life come to buy and sell,but they are also thieves and the likes in the same market,so you see,you would meet different people,some with good intentions,others with bad intentions,please don't forget to always remember where you are coming from,I know you'd make us proud"

"yes mom,thanks mom",some real heart to heart right there,I love my mom and she loves me too,we just have a weird way of showing it.

I left to my room,but sleep refused to come,so I started thinking about my siblings

my big brother was also in the university,but a different one from mine,university of Lagos UNILAG

then my baby brother and sister were both in boarding school and I hardly saw them...my thoughts wandered away from my siblings to the new school,I felt giddy inside, I am now an UNDERGRADUATE,its not easy abegg.

sleep is indeed mischievous,I was still busy imagining doing this and doing that in my new school when it came to snatch me away in its embrace.

Glossary

fine girl na wetin you wan buy(pidgin):fine girl what do you want to buy

haa! see as the shoe fine for your leg,nor worry take am,e go expand later:(pidgin)exclaims! look how good the shoe looks on your leg,dont worry take it,it would fit later.

kpom kpom kpom:the beating of a mental gong,in Nora's case,the pulsation of her brain

abegg:(pidgin) please.

xoxo Doreen