Now
Now they will tell you something but you refuse to listen. The hand weaving through me doesn't deserve this rubbish.
"Bless me father for I have sinned. Its been eight months since my last confession." I told the priest, after he made the sign of the cross. His head was bowed down, as if he knew what sins I was about to confess.
"My sins are lying, being disobedient..." My breath had caught in my mouth, "and fornication."
An image of Somto comes to mind as I say this last part. He was my first love.
The first time we kissed, was at the back of my mother's shop. My mother owned a big restaurant and he was a regular customer, always coming with his BMW to buy akpu and onugbu soup. Then he would finish it off with a bottle of beer, Star. Other days he would request for take away and would go wherever he goes to eat it. On some occasions if he had change left, he would ask me to keep it. Then we would talk till he had to go or my mother called me.