Saturday 1 April 2017

Novel by DadaDupeola - You RIP what you sow AT THIRTY ---Chapter 4



Chapter 4
Home alone the next day late in the evening on the sofa in the sitting room, Angela is in front of the TV and with the remote in hand she mindlessly switches channels hardly staying on one station for more than three seconds.

Bored, she stops and picks up her notepad to draw. Angela is making a sketch of the picture of her mother in her wedding dress placed above the TV beside her father's picture. Both portraits are black and white showing that her parents married in the early 80's. Angela's mother found her sweetheart in a neighboring village while fetching firewood one day. Angela's father is studying Engineering in a school in the west and he had gone home on holidays when he set his eyes for the first time on a beautiful damsel who came to his village to buy firewood. He is tall, dark complexioned with a properly shaved beard and is smitten by this chocolate brown lady who is beautifully shaped in front and back. She is endowed and Angela's father followed her home that day to meet her parents.

Two years later, after graduating with honors from the university and getting a job in Lagos, the first stop Angela's father makes before relocating is to marry the woman he couldn't take off his mind the whole time. He didn't even mind that she is 19 years old and had finished secondary school. He wanted to start a family with her and that is what he got. After 10years of marriage, 3 kids; a girl and two boys, and owning their own small bungalow, Angela's father gets transferred from Lagos to Abuja and he has been shuffling the two states. He takes his two boys along with him and leaves Angela with her mother but that changed because Angela's father insisted Angela will school at the University in Abuja where he resided.

He feared Angela's mother isn't harsh enough, and he needed to hold Angela with a strong grip especially now that she is going into the higher institution. Angela's mother who needs to stay in the bungalow to manage its affairs because they had built 2 boys quarters at the back of their building which they collect rent from yearly and mummy rose; the gossip is one of their tenants. The money they got from rent helped with general upkeep and paid the rent of the flat Angela's father and her 2 brothers lived in Abuja. So, typically due to financial reasons Angela's parents decided it is best Angela's mother stayed with Angela in Lagos and her father lives with the boys at Abuja.
Angela is enjoying herself drawing claws on her mother's fingers when she hears; knock knock at the front door.

She drops the note pad, walks to the door and opens it to find Phillip at the other end.

"hi" "You didn't send the picture yesterday and i didn't see you all day in school so i came to see what the hair looks like myself," Phillips says
"I completely forgot" Angela says as she lets Phillip inside
"Its beautiful" Phillip says
"Thanks" Angela responds blushing
Phillip moves in and seats beside her note pad
"I saw your mom leave with mummy rose so i knew you were home alone and decided to keep you company. We could take a stroll down the street" Phillip tells her
"Okay" Angela responds, it was a welcomed distraction.

In no time are they out of the house, holding hands and walking down the side walk of their street.

Angela is beautifully dressed in a blue jean skirt, a white blouse and blue slippers. Her dark complexioned skin is radiant in the evening moon as she laughs and nods listening to Phillip talk about a movie he watched.

"I cant believe you haven't seen the movie I.T" Phillip says
"My mum wont let me watch movies rated 18" Angela responds
"You shouldn't be looking at those movies either, they are a little too old for you" Angela continues
Phillip stops walking and looks at Angela, surprised.
"What? I am 16 years old... I think am old enough to watch pornography if i want to" Phillip says
"Eeeeuuuuwww, why would you want to watch such nonsense" Angela says squeezing her face in disgust
Phillip draws Angela close to him, she brushes on him and their faces are very close together as Angela looks into Phillips brown eyes and her heart starts pounding in her chest. She gives a distance between them looking down at her feet embarrassed.
"We should go back. My mum will skin me alive if she finds me outside at this time"Angela says
"Lets go to my house" Phillip suggests
"I cant, I'll get into trouble if my mum comes home and doesn't find me there"Angela responds
"Scary cat" Phillip calls out
"I am not" Angela replies
"Bed wetter" Phillip calls out
"Stop calling me names" Angela calls back

She turns around and starts to walk towards her house with tears in her eyes

"Duck" Phillip says pulling Angela behind a tree just as her mother turns towards the street and walks past them.
"Oh great, that's my mum and she is going to kill me" Angela says
"Ssshhhhh, don't let her see us." Phillip says
They watch Angela's mother walk away for awhile before stepping out from behind the tree and walking towards Angela's house.
"I am so sorry Angela" Phillip says for the 10th time as they get to the gate of her house.
"It's okay." Angela says as she walks into the compound leaving Phillip behind


...To be continued

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