#NoChill #HappyValentine's from us @evaandcaesar – The Valentine's Gift! I sat in my little corner of the dorm, wedged between the bunk bed and the wall. I didn't mean to pry but I just couldn't help overhearing the conversation that rocked the center of the room. The loudest voice as always, belonged to Aisha, a small girl with a very thin neck that barely supported her rectangular head. A mop of thin lengthy jet black hair sat on her head in three equally shared cornrows. "I am half fulani," she had told us one day in the beginning of the term when someone in the dorm had asked why her hair was so curly. As if that explained anything. She stood now in the middle of the room, gesticulating with her hands just as quickly as the words swarm out of her small mouth. "It would be a serious problem if Nnena does not declare for Sonia," she was saying to everyone who had cemented their attention on her. It was indeed difficult not to be caught up in whatever Aisha had to say. She always had the latest school gist, verified or not and even when she meant to talk to only a few people, she always ended up entertaining any and everyone in range of her snickering fast paced voice. "I don't know about any other couple in school right now as important as Nnena and Sonia. That girl in Emoyan house that is goezing with Chinwe, what's her name again?" "Uju!" An avid Aisha-supporter chimed in response. "Yes! Uju! Walaihi I hate that girl fa. She just disgusts me. Kai. The other day in the dinning hall I almost slapped shege out of her face when she stepped on me." Aisha was beginning to drift as always, but we waited for her to get to the point. We always did. I sat in my spot, a chemistry text book in my lap, pretending to read it while also tuning my ears to Aisha's frequency. "Sha sha, Uju told us that she was one of the people who helped Sonia bring her gifts into school. You know Uju and Sonia are family friends." No we didn't know that, but everyone in the room nodded, a few "Oohhs" and "Aahhs" bounced off the walls in response. "She said all the gifts that Sonia bought for Nnena was almost worth one hundred and.. **Full Post on my Blog, evaalordiah.com link in Bio*
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