2022-03-01 16:09:06EVE | Then
Fear is the treacherous thing that tips the scales representing our minds out of balance. One moment it's up and the next, it is down. Up. Down. Up. Down. It was the reason my warped up brain conjured nightmares with different alternative endings of that night. Versions of scenarios that if Mama and I had ventured into our house to investigate further, we could have died. I'll spare you the gory details.
Fear made me wake up drenched in sweat, limbs shivering not from the cold weather but with it, sweet and unwanted fear, so I told the tale every terrified child would tell their mothers.
"No, Eve, I can't allow you to skip school, not even after what happened last night. But let this soothe your mind—you're safer at school than in this neighbourhood."
I knew she was probably right, but I couldn't help wondering. My safest moment was when Mama walked me up to a taxi rank and bargain
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Alice | Now The next day it rains, taking me by surprise. The rain droplets stain my bedroom window. The gutters are nearly flooded to the brim and from a distance, it runs through pleats in the low-lying streets, accumulating at the sides of the pavement so that when you stepped out of the house, your shoes get drenched. Desmond complained about it. He said it was raining cats and dogs and it was going to be difficult getting to the car in the downpour, making us late for the service. In my view, it is a gloomy day to go to a funeral-a day we bury Eve. The same day two other people are going to be put six feet under. When my aunt and uncle sat both Melly and I down after dinner to explain what happened, I got to know that it wasn't just Eve who died. Unexpectedly, both James and Annabel were gone too. Even though I never particularly liked my sister's best friend, I couldn't help
Chapter 17
Eve| ThenI was sitting in Doris's dainty candy shop when she first spoke to me about sex.It was inspired by her new tenants, a young couple from a slum settlement, Nima just on the outskirts of the community. She claimed they lied about their ages, twenty and twenty-three years old respectively but they looked anything but. I got a good look at them for myself and agreed with her that they did look younger, teens perhaps.I couldn't help but feel sympathy for her because it wasn't easy waking up early at the crack of dawn to sell but I was on edge. I had just come back from school exhausted, my legs were sore and weakened and I should have never greeted her, to begin with. She told me to stay away from boys, that they were bad news and sex wasn't for me at my age. I don't know why I let her talk because I did know what sex was. I was young, like thirteen going on four
Chapter 16
ANNA | ThenI stayed away the night after Eve met James. I was filled with anger and self-loathing.It just goes as well to say that I couldn't stand being in the same room with Eve though it wasn't her fault that she had no clue he was mine before she met him at Will and Ella's party.I waited two nights for him to call me only for me to remember that we hadn't exchanged numbers. A little internet surfing disappointed me as well, there were so many James in the world. About a million in Ghana, so many more in the US and UK combined. Although it annoyed me, I kept pondering over every single detail Eve narrated to me about their meet-cute.She was talking to Will when it happened. When she moved across from him to grab a drink from the bar and met him. They collided, she said. His martini seeped into her white blouse, the one I got from Primark, another gift from me to her. While te
Chapter 15
JEWELL | ThenI can't help but think of the woman for reasons I can't decipher. I blame it on my insomnia, having not slept a wink the night before, and there's nothing interesting to think about. The weather is dreary and I hate how the wind carries dust around, hitting me square in the eye as I make my way to my room. I ignore a couple huddled in the shadows not far from where I'm walking. They cling to each other, making noises that disrupt the cool, solemn evening, and I know for a fact that they are under the impression that no one can see.When I enter the room, a pool of darkness greets me and I quickly flip on the switch and instantly, I can see well again. I throw my messenger bag on the bed along with my car keys and set the grocery bag from the Night Market on the low-lying counter. I open the curtains on my high window to allow cooler breeze in because the room is stuffy. Moving to the kitchen, I settle into a comfortable silence
Chapter 14
ALICE | Now"Where's Alice?" I hear my uncle ask Tala when she steps through the front door and embraces him.It's dark outside, the bluish hue of the sky tell me it's probably past seven already. We hadn't anticipated the drive from school to be this long, but there aren't any short cuts from school to Golden Gate Estate. I grab ahold of my duffel bag and suitcase. As I walk towards them from the car, I'm greeted by the funky scent of curry from the kitchen, the words from the news playing from the living room TV invade my head.On the news: recorded rainfall in Accra which strikes me as odd because we are still in the dry season even though the cold winds are receding gradually back to the Sahara desert. It won't surprise me to see that there will be only crowded clouds insight and not a hint of rainfall but then again, what do I know?A collection of dust-covered shoes rests against th
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EVE | ThenPaul was everywhere.I saw him outside the gates of my school, on our living room couch, beside Mama in the kitchen, stirring idly at chopped vegetables sizzling in a frying pan while she poured wine for them. He went on dates with Mama. She didn't need to confide in me, I could tell I was twelve, not blind.There were changes to her I couldn't comprehend. The physical changes were hard to ignore; the new clothes, clean and straight, iron pressed each day. She looked nicer in her nursing uniform than ever before. She spent more time at Daawo's salon, coming home for a brisk lunch with hot pink rollers tucked in her hair. The bathroom even changed, a coconut milk and jasmine petals shower gel sat in a brown wooden basket, an oval-shaped stone for rubbing under her feet came along with the package, lots of scented perfumes and it was the first time I saw a facial wash on t
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