All Chapters of Me #1: Chapter 31 - Chapter 36

Have you ever had that feeling of triumph, when your hard work isn't in vain and you end up reaping what you've sown, yeah? Well, that was what I'd been feeling over the past few weeks. You see, after the little incident with Maureen. More people were now aware of who I was. That's right, I was noticed now. A million different views on the incident were being shared almost every day for a whole week. Some people said I was the one who jumped her, some people said we were both fighting over Daniel, worse ones were that we were lesbians and I had finally cheated on her. A whole lot of nonsensical theories that were far from the truth. My friends, well ex friends still weren't talking to me. Instead after school or during break or in rare occasions where we had few periods together, I now hung out with Daniel, Ebuka, Emeka, Mercy, Stephanie and Aliyu, sometimes Oreva joined in. Honestly, they were real

I didn't believe in coincidence. To me, everything that happens must have been calculated and worked out by Baba God above. Yes I was a Christian. Most times, people mistook me for some atheist idiot who had no morals but shocker, I wasn't. It wasn't a coincidence that she had stumbled into my life again. I had changed schools multiple times but how could it be that she managed to be in the exact same one my dad had promised would be a permanent placement till university. This had the Lord's doing written all over it, I was sure. "What are you thinking about now?" Aliyu was quick to knock my blue face cap off my head, throwing a cocky smile my way, like it was a huge achievement. "Is it your business?" I shot at him, roughly forcing the cap back onto my head. I grabbed my phone off the cream coloured circular table and checked the time. The cafe in the mall right beside the cinema was pretty rowdy, as it was Christma

I placed my hand onto the metal handle and sighed, I needed to do this. The more I hid things from her, the heavier my heart got. She didn't deserve this, not at all. I pushed down the handle and pushed open the door, my eyes searching the room, only to fall on the two girls who seemed to be embracing each other while laying on the floor. I furrowed my brows in confusion and almost laughed as they both scrambled onto the bed. I recognized one of the girls as my disheveled daughter and sighed for the umpteenth time today, this girl just kept surprising me. "Daddy? Do you need something?" My daughter managed to sputter out awkwardly while her cousin apparently found a sudden interest in the flower print note book beside her.  If not for the love I had toward them both, I would have cut the awkward tension with a laugh. But teasing the children was my sole purpose as a parent so I kept my face neutral.