I Let the Fine Boy Ruin Me
Chapter 9: Final Confrontations
But Amina no fit hold am again, she burst.
That day, she just scatter. Her mouth sharp, her body dey shake. Everybody dey look her.
“So you fit avoid me for Halima front, but now she no dey and you still dey form loyal.”
Her voice high, almost shout. People dey look, dey whisper for back.
“Sani, you sure say you no like that bookworm?”
She dey point my direction, eye red. My heart beat fast.
Sani face change, he push her away with vex.
He vex scatter, shout. E no dey care who dey hear.
“No be you say make we bet?”
Him voice crack. E dey pain am say e reach like this.
“If I no dey loyal to her, how you for take collect first position?”
He open hand, dey explain like lawyer. Amina just dey cry, dey point finger.
“Now wey you don get wetin you want, you dey bite back?”
She dey remind am, but Sani no send.
“No be me send you reach this level.”
He turn face, voice low. The room cold.
Amina hold him shirt, dey shake.
Tears dey her eye. Her voice small now. "Where una two dey hide since WAEC finish? Wetin you and that winch do? Talk true!"
Me, I just dey hear dem, dey calculate my next step. Life be like game, na only the wise dey win last.
I turn waka comot, sun dey shine for my back, but my shadow long, heavy with all the things wey I leave behind. My hand dey shake, but my mind strong like iron pot. For this Naija, na only sharp person dey last. I ready for anything.
