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2023-12-01 15:15:06A day after . . .
02:16 pm, September 11
Kogi State.
Eniiyi limped down the porch steps down the street towards the neighbour's house, headphones turned up to a high volume just to block out her surroundings. She was angry, frustrated and sore from yesterday.
Grandma had come home later in the day, dragged her out of her hiding place by her ears with a long, slender, flexible cane in her hand meaning to flog the life out of her, but she'd been saved by the person she had least expected to: Taiwo. Why, she'd tried her very best to be extremely rude to him, but he'd obviously not taken her behavior to heart. He'd spent about twenty minutes giving Gma reasons she shouldn't punish the nine year old. Which was all good for the girl. She'd been planning to pull fainting act anyway but had doubted it'd work on her grandmother.
It hadn't ended there, wicked Grandma had taken her round the houses of all the women present earlier and had made go on her knees and apologize to each and everyone of them. As a result of that she'd gone to bed on an empty stomach, numb, and with aching bruised knees. Her poor knees still hurt till now although she'd been given food this morning and afternoon. It was all so painful she couldn't cry, even if she plucked her fingers deep into her eyes.
Thinking about all her woes just made her angrier, at herself, at the whole god-damned backward village, at her cold unfeeling parents for dumping her here. She was already starting to nurse the idea of running away. No one was going to miss her. No, not her parents they never loved her before, anyways. She could run away to the East and pretend amnesia, nobody would ever find her there. She sighed in frustration, it was easy to propose, but difficult to accomplish.
She sighed again and turned the volume to the highest. Sia's Move Your Body Remix boomed out from the pair of speakers.
Immersing herself in the music she quickly reached her destination; the residence of the baby mother. She'd come hoping to touch the babies since that was the only thing that gave her joy in this mind-numbing backward village.
She turned off her headphones then knocked on the door once, twice.
'Ẹ̀ wọlé,' a voice said, inviting her in.
She pushed open the door into a living room. The babies' mommy was sat back in a recliner. An older woman was sat in an adjacent chair, cooing over the babies.
Eniiyi greeted both of them and relaxed when they answered back. Their cool attitude meant they hadn't heard about yesterday's incidence. She went over to sit by the woman who started to sing a song to the happy babies.
Agile monkeys full of pranks
If I had you, I would be glad
Princes among children
Even if you're rude, I'll follow you home
Shove me off and I'll not depart from you
You entered the house of the poverty stricken
And transformed the fortune of your parents
You entered the home with only two children
And enlarged the family beyond measure.
The woman had sang it in Yoruba then English and Eniiyi tried hard to comprehend the meaning of the song but it remained blank to her.
'What does the song mean, ma?'
The older woman smiled at her fondly. 'Twins are special children that arrive in a home to bestow wealth and good luck on their parents and those who contributed to their upkeep . . .' the woman started to explain when a knock came on the door and Taiwo came in.
He looked like he'd run all the way here. He was out of breath.
'Taiwo,' said the mother of the twins.
'Ẹ káàsán, Mommy twins, Grandma,' he greeted then turned to Eniiyi. 'Come quick, your mother has called from Japan.'
Eniiyi sprang up, excited. She hurriedly said her goodbye and dashed down the street to their house.
But to her total disappointment the network had disappeared and disconnected the call. Her heart sank from her breast down to her moccasin shoes.
She went and locked herself into her room in dejection.
*An ethnic group living mainly in Southeast Nigeria.
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