~Auti
After ending Alya's call, it took a whole fifteen minutes to get Aisha to leave my house. When she finally left, I left for Alya's.
I soon arrived at the gates of the large light yellow mansion. No sooner than I clicked on the bell than I heard a voice from a small speaker stationed next to me.
After I had given my identity, I waited for a while before the smaller gate rolled open.
Even though I had been there almost a million times yet, those guards could never let me in without first confirming. Talk about bizzare.
The first thing I saw on walking into the house was a white girl sitting in the sitting room with a glass bowl full of popcorn watching a horror movie.
I watched as the excorsim took place.
"In the Name of Jesus Christ our God and Lord, strengthened by the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Blessed Michael the Archangel, we confidently undertake to repulse the attacks and deceits of the devil. We drive you from us, unclean spirits..."
"Excuse me?"
I turned to look at the girl.
"Why are you here?" She asked.
"I'm here to see Alya", I said. Why on earth am I even responding?
"I suppose you know the way to her room", she said returning her attention to the television.
Who the hell was she to begin with? I made my way for the stairs and I was barely on the second step when I heard a screech.
I immediately returned to the sitting room alarmed. I looked around and found the white girl standing next to the giant chandelier near the dinning area.
"Oh My God!" She screamed.
"How did I not see this? This is SO PRETTY!" She gushed.
I shook my head. I ran down here thinking she was hurt or something and she was just gushing over a chandelier.
The chandelier was really pretty, I must admit. The prettiest I had seen and first that ran from the ceiling to the ground.
I was about to leave when I heard her scream "Wait!"
I turned around.
"Could you help me take pictures?" She asked.
Did I really resemble a photographer?
Before I could answer, she tossed her phone to me. I quickly tried to catch it making sure it didn't touch the floor.
I looked up to see her already heading for the chandelier. Was she crazy? How could she just toss her phone like that?
"Can you please come over here?" She asked.
I don't know why but that also sounded rude. I walked to the spot she had requested anyway.
I started taking the pictures and got a bit carried away. Taking pictures was one of my hobbies and she just resembled a model.
"Auti?"
I turned to see Alya looking discombobulated.
"I actually started to think the security had gone crazy after I was informed you were here and I didn't see you", she said.
"Sorry about that. You said you wanted to talk?" I asked.
"Yeah. Let's go to my room", she said and we started heading for her room. Until I heard that rude voice.
"Can I get my phone back?"
I considered tossing the phone back to her the same way she did but I wasn't as terrible as that.
When we were finally in Alya's room, I asked her, "Who's the rude girl?"
"Rude girl? Hold on, she didn't tell you her name? Weren't you just taking pictures of her?" Alya asked at once.
"That's not answering my question and yeah she didn't tell me her name. She was way too rude to converse properly"
Alya just stared at me. The expression on her face was worse than when she first saw me taking pictures of the rude girl.
"You wanted to talk?" I said trying to change the topic when Alya just kept staring at me in confusion.
"Yeah. I just felt pretty down", she said sitting on her bed. I sat next to her.
"You know Kelvin right?"
"You hate him?" I guessed. She hated almost everyone and everything so it was reasonable enough that he would be one of those she hated.
"Why was that the first thing that came to your mind?" She asked not looking amused at all. I shrugged trying not to infuriate her further.
She sighed.
"Well, he's this guy I used to like. You remember the last long vacation that 'I went missing' according to you?"
"Yeah. I didn't see you until I went to visit my brothers"
"Yeah. I went to this holiday resort with Kelvin and his friends..."
"How did you meet this Kelvin?" I had to ask.
"Um... They were from Imperial college. The school that came to ours during the inter-house competition. Him, Veronica, Olisa and Olayemi. They seemed like really nice people and I became quite close to them but not very close. They were basically like the only friends I had..."
I gasped placing my hand on my chest in mock hurt.
"...Apart from you and Chinano of course", she said laughing at me. After her laughter, she continued speaking.
"As I was saying, I was close to them, yeah, but I didn't let them come to my house because well... you know why. Then one day when I was visiting Veronica, Kelvin came to her house.
"I thought it was just a normal visit since they were friends. I didn't know they were dating. It was only after hugging her that he recognized my presence.
"He expressed surprise on seeing me and that was when he let me in on their vacation plans and invited me to join them. I declined but when he and Veronica kept insisting, I agreed. I found out that Olisa and the rest were also going to be there..."
"Did your mom have a problem with you going?" I interrupted her.
"Well, as you know, she has a problem with everything. So yeah, she had a problem with it but Stephanie stepped in. You know, that's why I love her. Although she did receive a life long insult from my mom, I still got my way at the end.
"As I was saying before I was interrupted again, we stayed in this really nice resort on some vacation Island..."
"Woah! That means they were really rich", I commented.
"Yeah. Not all of them though. Kelvin made me believe he was from a poor family but I don't really know if that's true since the only thing he ever told me since we met were lies. Veronica's parents on the other hand were really rich", she said.
"How long did you guys stay?"
"I think we were supposed to stay two weeks but it was cut short due to all the ruckus Kelvin caused. It was during this trip that Kelvin asked me out. Long story short, I accepted and later found out that he was dating Veronica. Everything was turned on me and I was made the bad guy.
"I think Veronica later broke up with him because he started dating this miserable girl that I really hated, well the feeling was mutual. I got hospitalized when I walked into them making out", she said laughing at the last part.
"You got hospitalized when you saw a guy that broke your heart making out with a girl?! Who are you and what did you do with the Alya I knew!?"
"Chillax bro. I left in anger after seeing them. I was basically just annoyed that he could be happy after ruining my happiness and as a million thoughts of how to make him hate his life were running through my mind, I fell down the stairs", she said laughing lightly.
So basically, she was still hospitalized because of a guy. I never knew this part of Alya. It is almost impossible to believe. I was really at loss for words.
"So what happened to this Kelvin guy?" I asked.
"Well... He came here today. Apparently, he is about to die or something"
"Ouch. That's painful. Did he know about your mom?"
"No"
"And he came here?" I asked surprised.
"Yeah. No need to worry about that. I got all of Ami's pictures taken down after Chiamaka visited. I know she's so gonna loose it but I'll deal with that when she's back"
I nodded.
She stood up and headed for her wardrobe. She entered it and came out in a few minutes wearing a gown hoodie.
"Can you drive me to a church?" She asked.
"A church?" I repeated surprised.
"Yeah. Don't you know where to find one?" She asked.
"No. I was just..."
"Or don't they do masses by this time?"
She looked up at a clock.
"It's five pm. They don't have masses by now?" She asked.
"They do..."
"Then fucking get off your freaking ass and come drive me to a church", she said leaving the room.