Chapter 36

It has been two days since I had been to the parish dinner, thanks to my night rendezvous with Emeka _ now that I was hear it felt a bit alien to me.

I was someone who quickly got used to something and vice versa so it really affected me any time I stayed away from a habit even if for a short while.

Stepping into the dinner now, I felt so uncomfortable and weird. I so did not want to be here but I didn't have much of a choice.

I kept my head up with a confident smile as I walked in then I strolled to my own seat which was by the Parish priest.

Everyone of us had our own seats to avoid more unnecessary drama.

I returned from giving Emeka the food I bought for him exactly during dinner time and I could not be happier. He wanted me to stay behind a little more but I insisted on leaving. First of all, I hated standing in front of his hostel because of the eyes that threatened to eat me raw and the smell. The horrible, horrible smell coming from the hostel was appalling.

Plus, It was a place too exposed and so wasn't my kind of place.

I had missed dinner for two days. It might seem like nothing to the average person but in this house It was something, a big something. I was sure I was going to be interviewed on and on for it and was sure to be given the you have become rebellious eyes. I didn't want to stay away for another day, that will sure triple the questions I would be asked and then inadvertently triple my presumed discomfort.

I was about to stand up to bring my phone because I had just remembered that I had forgotten it in my room but the priest walked in just then.

I was going to be bored to death in the dinner without my phone, usually if I was not with my phone I just end up looking around their faces like a fucking dummy. Anyway it helped me know who was who.

The priest prayed immediately he walked in and after he prayed Ada started dishing out the food. Our eyes met but I looked away instantly, she wasn't exactly my favorite person but I maintained a fake smile on my face.

After a while eyes moved around and small conversations were mad. I was starting to feel comfortable a little but

the sound they were all making from their cutleries made my heart jump. For me comfort was really really a hard thing to get in this dinning.

Then worsen it all the food was so tasteless. Thank God I envisioned its tastelessness_thus I asked Ada to put only a handful.

I was literary forcing myself to eat the little I was given.

Anytime I looked up I found Kachi making faces at me_ one of disgust and irritation. Her facial expression said two things. That the food sucked as usual and that she wanted an ally in her hate game. I sent her a rather mixed glance and she smiled shaking her head in response she was thinking that she had found an ally.

Oh my!

God knew that the least thing that interested me was their fucking petty fights and hatred.

"So Mira why have you not been coming to Dinner for the past two days now?" My uncle asked, his eyes were still on his food but it might have well been on me.

I swallowed hard.