{Day one: Resuming college}
Alright today is the day I am supposed to resume at my university campus, I feel so nervous and shaky I can’t explain how I feel but I think it was more of a weird feeling than butterflies. I mean what if I don’t fit in here? What if coming here was a big mistake? God I should have talked to my pastor about it. I groaned knowing there was not backing out from this because I chose to do it.
‘Lorena, it is not everything you got to tell your pastor, look for instance the word sex and baby making.’
“I know but don’t you have better examples?” I cringed at how dirty my other self was.
‘of course I could bring suggestions like no other, but you know what I mean when I talked about the pastor thing’
“I could have agreed with you but I can’t and that is not the reason I am bothered.” I tell Lil ora.
{continuation} I am positive I spotted a man standing behind that phone boothacross the road,something about the way he stared at me was very strange, andadding the fact that he hid very quickly behind the booth when he discovered I noticed him staring. It all becamesuspiciousto me and stirred a little amount of fear. The traffic was a bit intense, with my mind going here and there of possibilities from being kidnapped or attacked by a serial killer I could not help it but think when I wasn’t supposed to. ‘Lori… you cannot afford being crazy this time, do something to busy your mind and pass time’ Lili ora tells me and I agreed with my lil devil. So, to pass time I took out my phone to playa few gamesthat would work my mind out of thinking.I don’t understand where this feeling came from but I had the urge to look out the window again but ignored it several times. Troubled by my own thoughts andcuriosity,&n
We both entered the luca carrier as Linda calls it. From my thoughts and slight fear for elevators I expected the old fashioned thing to fall off, hang or do something out of this world, but I can’t believe it actually worked perfectly. My percentage for trusting this thing was very low that I was very positive it won’t be able to carry both Linda and I, much less carry much weight like my heavy bags. But- but it proved me wrong and carried us to the third floor without any problems and for the first time my phobia didn’t embarrass me.Linda opened the skeleton door for us and gave me some room to push my trolley out. I quietly followed Linda through the narrow hallway but I wasn’t sure when we will ever stop with this large door to door rooms and unending hallways, then I chose to start a conversation so as not to make things more weird.“Um Linda, can the luca carrier be also used as an elevator? Um- just in case we need some lifting asi
“From him?” I got confused by her answer. Who is this him she is talking about, my, my I need to be more sociable.“Yes from him- forget it you won’t understand. He promised to send me one last month so he sent two this month to make up for last month. It’s how we say sorry to each other.” Janet spoke in a dreamlike manner. She is sure in her own fantasy ‘weird roommate’“Are you a foreign student?” I changed the topic, I think I was done listening to her weird love tales. If I want to be friends with her I need to know who she is and what she’s capable of.“Not really.” Janet shrugged and kept patting this parcel she was yet to reveal. Not that I want to know what is in there but we are humans and humans get curious ‘Lorena do not try to peep into the parcel’ I warn myself.“Not really?” I repeated her question.“Yeah I am sort of in between
Freddy’s povAt the hotel…Freddy leaves his premium suite accompanied by three hotel staff. His three weeks stay just ended which means he had to continue living in his house among the high rise. Freddy didn’t pay much attention to the men checking out of their hotel rooms but got caught in when they talked about a certain woman similar to someone he’d met.“Hey have you seen the girl who lives in room-- gosh! I don’t know… I don’t remember the room number. She is very gorgeous and pretty though.” One man compliment to the other.“I know right, but I bet she is not from around here.” The second man replies.“Yeah Gabe, I know. I like her voice and the way she walks… it’s so-- pleasant.” The first man commented with a dreamy smile on his lips. From the corner, just few rooms from them. Freddy glared at both men. He hated the way an
COLLEGE LIFE DAY 2:School resumption. Last night was a different story. I woke up early this morning for my first day just as Janet told me, we have to be in school on time. I lazily reached out for my phone on the dresser by my bed to check the time ‘6:30 am, still early for me. If I can get ready within an hour, thirty minutes is a small time to dress up. Our bedroom was dimly lit, when I looked across my bed Janet wasn’t on her bed. I assumed she might have woken up earlier and probably gone downstairs. Living in a five-star hotel dorm tempted me into missing my first day, no, no I am not taking that chance. So I got up, took my clothes from my last bag that I haven’t sorted out, and head to the bathroom. I’ve calculated my timing, everything I am about to do, out of thirty minutes I used fifteen minutes to shower. It was amazing, my body felt great from the warm water beating softly against my skin. After my bath, I got dressed then arrange
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"No I'm not." I told her bluntly. I was not going to be the devil's workshop in some sort of conspiracy because I wanted to stay in another man's country."Lorena I know you want this, look at this as a grand opportunity, stop fighting it.""How could you be so impossible, you yourself know we hate our guts.""I thought you hated him first?""We are not compatible." I reminded her. Janet needed to stop persuading me into things I hate it irritates me."That's why he is the perfect fit.""How does that relates with me not wanting to get married to him.""He hates you, you hate him. He wants a fake wife and you want citizenship.""Are you saying I am a gold digger?""Never Lorena. I can never call you that, you are my friend and I love you that will be so low of me to think or say.""Then what's your point?" I asked Janet, she was now getting on my nerves with her constantly pressuring me to marry Freddy as my cha
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