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Jeremy standing in front of me. He was there in my fath

ng my eyes with the bac

e red soil in the backyard of our compound. I looked down at my self, I was wearing the same faded burnt looking black gown I had been wearing all morning. It was so dusty as I had been doing a

even war

t him in the front instead. So, Uloma saw him. Her friends saw him too! I knew then that I would never hear the end of tha

ow what else to say and he wasn't saying anyt

ft with just your voice. I saw your face clearly, plus it's a small town. Everybody knows eve

l?" I

alked like Ariel disappeared after saving prince Eric. You disappeare

shook

I thought you've seen it. I didn't mean

worry." I a

ared re

d moving towards the

small chair. This place will spoil your cloth." I said slo

I didn't listen and hurried tow

ng on the pavement, smiling s

is grin widening and his dimples thre

ly, holding the

He said reaching for the knife I

tting the stool aside. "It will mak

could and wouldn't let go wh

Igbo. He burst into laughter, a hearty bubbly laugh that lasted for a long mo

when he controlled his laughter for a moment. "If words were wea

shot at him with the last stri

My grand mother." He laughed again. "I'm not even sure

en." I cor

't take life seriously."

rown, racking my brain fo

peel yam, wear cloth f

He joined me in the laugh and we laughed for an awkward long moment, then

" I asked for want of something t

o talk some more." He answered, starring me dead in my eyes until I had to

the knife to me. Then he leaned on his upturned palms which he wedged against his