Sholly
I got home just in time to fix dad and I routine meals. Gone were the days when the kind of food told the time of the day in our house…a dilapitated building if I wanted to be sincere. It was hardly half a decade since mom died and we barely had enough to feed on…dad would gamble on anything valuable he found. Just a month ago, he had gambled and lost and so he had to literally tear down a part of the roof to pay back. Femi; the man dad lost to had been kind enough to exchange his roof with ours but dad was too lazy to fix them properly, reason why I hardly slept the night it rained.
I searched the cupboard and sighed. There was hardly enough groundnut for the groundnut soup I intended making. Tears began to well in my eyes…I missed mom. Just as I was about to sit on the floor and pray earnestly for death like I always did whenever hunger dared; I heard a knock on the door and snapped back to present.
‘Sholly!’ Adesoji shouted ‘let me in’
I brightened immediately. Soji I was my classmate and friend and I owed most of my lunch in the last few years to his benovelence.
‘Hold on a minute’ I shouted back. I was glad to see him.
‘You busy’
‘No, not exactly…just fixing dinner’
‘yummy yummy’ he said excitedly.
‘Any problem?’ I asked
‘No, not at all. I brought groundnut…would you mind…err…errr’ he stammered.
‘Let me see’ I offered ‘making groundnut cake?’ I attempted to complete his sentence.
‘No, groundnut soup…I’ve never had it before …I want to know what it taste like’
I immediately grabbed the nylon of groundnut and commenced preparations for the soup. Maybe God really cared, I thought.
Soji I kept on complimenting the soup and me while eating ravenously. ‘I’ll tell mom to cook this some other time’ ‘Yummy’ he continued.
After eating, I kept dad’s portion aside in his room before seeing Soji off.
Dad didn’t get back until later that night and as usual; he didn’t make any winnings. I wondered what part of the house he lost again.
Later that night, as I lay on my bed; I thought about how life had been so far. As the night crept in, so did my thoughts grow dark…I remembered how the boys in my class gazed anytime I walked past because of my big bum. I always knew I was ‘blessed’ behind but I was beginning to learn the effect it had on boys.
Aida had told me she over-heard Soji telling the boys that he liked me and I had tried in vain not to look pleased when she said so. But then, I remembered something. I was flat chested…I wondered if Soji would like me for long. I knew he had a thing for sumptuous boobs cos I caught him several times staring at Aida’s big boobs. ‘God give me big boobs’, I prayed.
Soon, I began to have this tingling feeling down below. ‘I should have taken my bath’ I sighed and shortly drifted to sleep.
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Somewhere on the other side of the world; Adesoji laid on his bed restive. He replayed the day’s scence over and over again. He was just 14yrs old but he had little doubts about the love he felt for Shola. Maybe he’ll marry her in the end…he hoped she’d be mature by then with big bouncy boobs. Oh how he loved boobs!
He woke up with slightly damp shorts the next morning…he’d just had his first wet dream. He had just become a man but that wasn’t enough for him. He wanted to become Sholly’s man; he began working towards that.
Taking a cold shower in preparation for school, a soothsayer needn’t be consulted to know Soji was in high spirits…who wouldn’t be?
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To be continued
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