Cynthia stirred and opened her eye.
“Mummy good morning,” she
greeted.
“Morning. How are you
feeling?”
“I am fine.”
Mabel got up and
confirmed the time her mother had told her.
“We slept too long,” she said.
“You need the rest,” their
mother said. “I have done all the morning chores.”
“Why?”
“I came in severally to check
if you are awake but you were sleeping peacefully. I didn’t want to bother
you.”
“You mean you washed the
plates?”
“Yes.”
“You swept everywhere?”
“Yes. I also mopped the
kitchen and toilet.”
“You wouldn’t have bothered
yourself. I would have done them whenever I wake up.”
“Who does them when two of you
are not around?”
“But we are around.”
“Don’t worry yourself. Your
breakfast is on the kitchen table.”
“You are the best mummy in the
whole world,” Cynthia said.
Mabel yawned and
said to her mother, “You could be late for work o.”
“I am leaving now. Take care
of Cynthia.”
“I will.”
As their mother got to the door, she turned and asked
Mabel, “Are you going out today?”
“I don’t have plans to go out
unless something comes up.”
“Ok.”
She left. They
saw her off to the door and said good bye. Chuka was outside and heard them
biding their mother good bye so he left what he was doing and came to them.
“Your love is coming,” Mabel
told Cynthia and smiled.
“Who even told me to come out.
I will just go inside now.”
“You will do no such thing.”
Chuka came close
and exchanged pleasantries with them. then he asked Cynthia how she was faring.
She answered him as casually as she could. Mabel went inside and left them
standing at the door. When Chuka had exhausted all he wanted to ask, he still
stood there stealing glances at Cynthia. Cynthia kept wondering how to dismiss
him.
“Should I come in?” Chuka blurted
out.
Cynthia was taken
aback. She didn’t expect that question.
“I thought you were busy with
something?” she asked him.
“It can wait. You are more
important to me than any other thing.”
“I need to do some things now,
take my drugs and rest.”
“Ok, I will come later then.”
“Is ok.”
Chuka left shyly.
Cynthia went in and met Mabel peeping through a window.
“what are you listening to?”
she asked Mabel, laughing.
“Love nwantinti.”
“I don’t like him. Period.”
“Then let him know.”
“That will be cruel of me.”
“it will not. Every man
deserves to know the truth about a lady’s feelings.”
“Even if I like him, what will
I be doing with him now? He is not ready for marriage any time soon. I don’t
want any boyfriend.”
“Yea yea..”
“Leave me joor.”
They laughed and
went to the kitchen.
“You will not brush before
eating?” Mabel asked her.
“Who said I am eating now? Let
me see what mummy kept for us.”
They saw two
plates of food already covered. Cynthia was the first to open hers.
“Yam and sauce,” she said.
“Nice.”
“Mum is such a darling. As if
she knew what I wanted to eat.”
“Me too.”
“But you are not feeling fine
and you are on drugs. You are not supposed to have appetite for food like
this.”
“Story for simbi. Even if I
have to eat it through my nose, I must eat this yam and sauce.”
“Let me freshen up. I counted
my own o. Don’t even remove anything from it.”
They laughed.
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