Finishing with my face, I picked up my hairband and packed my red hair in a bun. I often wonder who I took my hair from since none of my parents had red hair. My mum has a blonde hair and my dad had chestnut brown hair. Each time William wanted to taunt me he would stipulate that I was adopted, that was why I looked different since he managed to acquire mums straight blonde much to my chagrin
I checked up my face one last time and smiled at what I saw. The tiny freckles around my nose have managed to be covered by the powder. I sprayed in some cologne in the right parts before going back to look at my navy blue peplum hand gown. It hugged my frame like a second skin showing off my figure-eight body that mum keeps warning I show off so attract a husband. I guess she would be gooey when she sees me now
I turned and left the room with my bag bouncing at my side.
“ where are you off to?” Mum asked once I reached the living room. I blushed as I saw the way a smile crept up her face after her assessment
“How do I look?” I asked instead to avoid her question
She blew me a kiss “you look ravishing. Hope you are off to see a man?” She asked me in earnest. My eyes widened and sort out my dad who was on his favourite chair facing the television. He is a contractor and was always off to different states most of the time. But whenever he was around, he often spent time with us
“Mum I have to go” I made it to the door in fast strides
“ Be careful honey” Dad called after me.
I stopped on the terrace and watched at William still struggling to fix his car. He jumped into the seat and tried igniting the engine once more. I just wish it would turn on so he can drop me off. I hated driving
“Wo!” he squealed and ran out twirling as the car came alive. I blinked severally and trudged down to meet him, in the process getting wrapped around his sweaty body in excitement.
“Let go..you..you boar! You stink!” I hit his hard chest. My brother was one hell of a hot dude accounts for why all the girls kept running after him. He took after my father's build making him that cute.
Our parents had good genes and it rubbed off on us
“Can..you drop me off? Please” I pleaded with my poppy eye that he always fell for .
“Well, let's just say you are on time cause I was about to drive off to Phillips we have a hot party at his place tonight. Tell mum and die” he threatens. The state I am in right now I really don't care if he flys to the moon as far as he returns so I nodded with a smile
“Cool. A minute let me wear something different” he bellows before running off up the porch into the house.
I must say this. I don't know why but I have noticed that most of the time, any time I wished for something to happen, boom! It happens. It has been happening for a long time. I didn't notice until Cassandra had brought my attention to it
When I was in high school, I used to have this set of bullies. Nancy and Cecelia were the main chicks of the school and were really popular which made them bitchy. They often taunted me because Nancy’s boyfriend started chasing me so she became jealous and joined forces with her clique to make my school life miserable. Most of the time they left me crying by the school stairs all alone until Cassandra couldn't take it anymore and had stood up for me.
So each time they saw me with Cassandra, they would avoid me. But once am alone, they would swoop in on me. So one day, I was walking with Cassandra when she had been dragged to a corner by her boyfriend for a quick make-out. I stood close to a locker with my feet rapping on the floor in impatience when I saw the trio walking towards me with an evil smirk on having caught their prey without a protector
I was shaking and wishing Cassandra would hurry up with her boyfriend and help me and just like that she materialized before me which caused the bitches to stiffen to a point in fear. I laughed out loud at their stupid and had said I wished their faces would remain like that forever.
The kids didn't come to school ever again and when we questioned what happened to them, rumour had carried it that they had a face distortion and had been hospitalized. I didn't take it to heart but instead, I was happy that at least I was finally free in school.
But Cassy told me that she had noticed that each time I wished something, it happened so I should try not to wish ill on people. It scared me at first but one day I tried it on this guy that has been disturbing me but it didn't work out so I shrug away the thought thinking what happened to the bumblebees was a coincidence.
I think it's mostly an unconscious reaction.
As we drove down the road to Cassy, my breast was pummeling in my chest in anticipation.
Just as we pulled up in front of the park, my brother looked at me
“Can I come to greet your __”
“No, and thanks” I jumped out of the car running into the cafe. My brother has been trying to get the attention of Cassy for a long time which I have been warding off. I can't have him playing his childish games with my best friend.
“Yea!” I screamed on sighting her curly tinted pink hair and ran to crash myself against Cassy’s waiting arms garnering the attention of everyone present
But, one person in the crowd caught my attention.
I hugged her so tight again.“Oh my God Sandy I missed you so much!” “Me too! Look at you! just a few days away from me and you look__” she held me at arm's length and perused me about, making a low guttural sound down her throat before shaking her head in disapproval. “C’mon Sandy, I'm not that bad!”I rolled my eyes up and moved away from her. “Sit, sit we have a lot to catch up on” she pushed me to a nearby chair. “How's Mum and Dad? It's been a while,” she queried further. “They're good. Just there. Still playing the old goons.” “What brought you into town and why didn't you tell me on time? I was so shocked. By the way, you called to tell me you wouldn't be able to make it so_” Sandy flashed a suspicious grin at me catching me offhand. I knew that grin. Whenever she gave me that kind of grin, something fishy was definitely going on. “Spill it already. For
“Nothing, don't mind me, my mind just wandered off. I was asking about your Dad.”“And I said Dad is fine. He has been asking about you and hopes you come to visit one of these days,” said Cassandra.“Wow. So bad that we are soon going back to school, I can't wait. I've missed everything and everyone,” I croaked, sneaking a peek at the guy again. His eyes were on the coffee disposable which I noticed is the fourth one now. He looked so mysterious. I mean what kind of person walked into a cafe full of people and still retained his hood?Anyone Kimberly, you are just being paranoid. He may need his privacy and don't want anyone noticing him or maybe he was sick.Yeah right. I looked away to listen to what Cassandra was saying “Are you sure you are okay cupcake? You look distracted. Is it about Greg? Oh, my wide mouth I shouldn't have said those words to you about him! Now I have got y
“How is that possible? You and I both know all those are trashes and unbelievable! Why now would you want to join the entire race of disillusioned people to believe such balderdash? Sandy! Stop if you are joking” I was fast getting pissed.“I am serious, Kim. That is why I've been chugging down this milkshake. You know on a normal I wouldn't take more than one cup of this. But, as crazy as I would sound,” she leaned in again to my still shocked self “he bit me.” my eyes widened. “he said it was a form of claiming me and all that shit I couldn't make out because whenever I'm with him everything becomes blurry and doesn't make sense.” she searched my eyes willing me to believe her but, I was still in shock.“Believe me, Kim. You know I will never lie to you. Okay look at this” she pushed her round-necked swead down to show me bites scattered all around her neck. I tipped back in fright.
“Me?” I said out my thought. “No way! there's no way in hell am following you to a crazy___sorry a stranger’s house. It's more like leading us to a slaughterhouse. The only difference is that you brought this upon yourself while I'm volunteering myself as an escort to death” I waved my head at her.“Well, when that time comes Kim. For now, let's focus on the party. When the time comes, I would have to see how you would allow your one true friend to follow a stranger all by herself” she said the stranger with her two fingers crooked in the air.“Sandy, we have to decide this now before any other thing. We can't follow someone you just said bites you during” I gesticulated with my hands at her “Look at those marks. They look like snake bites. We both are like rags they could easily rumple us. We would be useless to each other. If you are deadpanned on going, then we would have to start now to
“Stop Sandy. I can't do what”“Why not?!” she retorted.“Because it's crazy!” she kept pulling at me.“Please, Kim. It's fun trust me. You have to unbottle pent up nerves” she pouted looking at me while the car was still in motion. I wasn't scared because I knew the car was automated and would take us straight home without Cassandra steering it.Her Dad had ordered the car for her after she bashed her former car which he had initially threatened not get another one for her if she lost it. But here we are inside this baby which he had called directly from the company to have them customise for his favourite baby on her 20th birthday.When she had called and told me about the car, I have been so excited knowing that our remaining school days is going to be suave with such a car. They were already gushing over us, not to mention when we alight from a car this posh, they would be
The next morning, I woke up as usual to the sound of my annoying alarm. I grumbled and wished the ground to open and take it's life.But blast me, it kept shrilling non-stop.“Can you shut the fuck up!” I screamed out my lungs at the still gadget. I rolled towards it and abruptly hit the stop button and exhaled in relief when it finally yielded.I waited for some time still drooling between sleep and reality when my head thumped. You know that feeling when you feel like you are about falling off an elevated space, only for you to realise it was just an illusion. That's it.I jerked up instantly with full force. In the process, the speed at which I jerked sent me rolling off the bed to the cold floor. I yelped and managed to wedge my hand between my torso and the ground before feeling my body hit the marbled white floor.I hissed in pain and muffed off the ground in gratitude that no one was there to
Meet againI could hear voices. Far voices. I tried to open my eyes but they seemed too heavy accompanied by a fierce migraine on my forehead. My hands went to my head and rubbed at it slowly to ease the pain.I tried again and this time managed to open my eye a fraction. I first saw the white plain marbled roof and waited for a while for my sight to adjust to the luminous light before roving to the side.I heard footsteps coming towards the room I'm laying in before the door flung open and the worried face of Sandy popped in. I hissed in relief and made to sit up.She rushed to my side “No babe. Just relax” where have I heard that before? Yes! The strange guy. My eyes widened and I looked about frightfully as if I expected him to still be around.“What happened to me?” I could barely hear my voice.“I can't tell. The sales lady had found you on the ground when I asked her to call you to
We had finished off and had left for our different directions. I had come home and gone straight to my room, grateful that none of my family members was in the living room when I walked in.It was evening and being a Friday, I assumed Dad might have taken Mum out and William would probably be somewhere with one of his Bumble headed girls.I entered my room and rode to the bed in exhaustion. I wanted to sleep off straight but the anxiety of dreaming about the strange man or any other thing that might be worse to a strange man, had me sitting at my desk with my phone to do some research on strange creatures.I clicked on the fearsome face of a wild looking creature and began to read about supernatural creatures. I read the meaning of packs and about pack rankings, including their assemblies and hierarchy of power within the pack.But what got my attention was the part where they talked about finding your mate and being