CHAPTER TWO
" Thank you Isa , you're the best! How about supper at my house ? Please don't say no.." Isaac pleaded, he lives right above me he's very kind and too goody shoes always ready to help even if it costed him.
"Mmmm.....okay I will" I agreed , couldn't deny those puppy dog eyes now could I?
"Whaaaat ! No way in hell!" I could hear the boys getting excited about something
"What I mean she never agrees to anything, what spell did you use bro,"
" Hahaha...nothing I didn't do anything I just asked her and she agreed" Isaac replied.
They have been after me the day I stepped foot in this building, but I couldn't fall for their foolish tactics. That's me, am a hard nut to crack.
Growing up with a father who was not always there, distant brothers and not so available sisters kind of made me unresponsive to love. The crazy part is I never had a boyfriend or a lover while growing up. You could say am afraid of love.
But you know what am not against couples, my next door neighbor are two lovebirds, am happy for them but at the same time I never wanted to have a partner.
"Isa! Isa!....helloo.." Isaac called
"Yeah am coming...!"
"Cool..."
"I've always wanted to have you eat at my house, never thought this day will come so soon." Isaac commented shyly.
"Hahaha...why would you wish so, I mean you could invite whoever you want it would be the same.." I said.
It was a bedsitter , you know having everything in the same room. Looking at the table he had prepared fried rice and peas, couldn't deny he knows how to cook,it smelled delicious.
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"Times are hard Isa.."
"But am not the one who made them hard , why should I suffer?" I asked my sister Nora tears in my eyes.
"Well , life has no balance, my husband doesn't have enough money to feed us all, it can only be used to take care of the baby and pay the house help, there's nothing to do as you can see I don't have a job"
"But Zac and James don't have a big house they're staying in a bedsitter, they are boys and am a girl," I pleaded referring to my brothers.
"You know things could be better if you listen to me, my hands are tied"
"Fine, I'll go and pack...." I replied helplessly leaving the rest to the heavens.
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I woke up sweating, I have been having this dream for sometime, well it's not a dream that came out of nowhere, this happened when I was in highschool. From then I never trusted Nora , though am still staying in her house, that's how she broke my trust.
