THE ILLITERATE BABYSITTER - CHAPTER 9&10
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***BEWARE OF ERRORS
*OUTSIDE
“Your medicine”she said and he took it from her with the bottle water with her.
“Make I call your mama or wetin?”she asked.
“No, I’m fine as long as you stay with me”he said and she looked at him before hissing.
“Wetin he dey talk”she muttered.
“You like Finch?”he asked.
“Yes na, why I no go like am”she said.
“What about me?”he asked.
“You? You like me way I wan like you”she hissed.
“You don’t….”
“No talk again, make we go”she cut in and he began walking in while she followed.
By now, they all formed a circle, ready for the truth or dare game. They’re all one hundred in total.
“Over here June!”Finch said and she walked to him smiling. Xavier went to sit with Noah and Mimi.
“Okay everyone, the rules of the game, if you can’t answer the truth or do the dare, you’re going inside the pool till the game is over!”Gold said and sat down, she’s also beside Finch which makes him in-between her and June.
A student rolled the bottle and it stopped in front of Gold.
“Wow!!”
“Truth”Gold said.
“What’s the best word you would love hear always from your man when you get one?”
“It will be three words instead. I-L-O-V-E-Y-O-U”she stretched the words and rolled the bottle it landed on a student.
The game continued. Now it’s Diamond asking Finch.
“Truth”he said.
“Name of the girl you have eyes on?”she asked.
“June”he said instantly.
“I mean girl not lady”she said.
“What’s the difference, just the names”he said.
“So you’d get married to your big sis then”she said.
“Even June says it’s an abomination in her country”Noah said.
“And we’re in America not Nigeria”he said.
“Guys let’s roll”Gold tried changing the topic but everyone is already into it.
“But she’s a Nigerian”a female student said.
“Are you my mom nor dad to detect what I want?”he said already annoyed.
“Hey, Finch it hasn’t gotten….”Gold tried talking.
“It has exceed what you think it has gotten to”he scoffed and held June, walking out.
They got out and June slowly removed her hand.
There was no translator app on all through the game but she understood little of what they said.
“You like me?”she asked slowly and he turned to face her.
“I cannot?”he asked.
“See, we get different like, maybe na family own, friend own, love own dey, which one?”she said dramatically and he smiled.
“Everything”he said.
“Ehn?”
“Can you just pretend like nothing happened in there”he said and she brought out her phone.
“Talk am again”she said.
“You should be asking if I’m alright?”he said.
“I wan ask after you answer the one way I ask”she said and he smiled.
“Let’s go”he held her hand and they walked back in.
The game was still on but Gold and Xavier quit.
“Hungry?”Finch asked.
“As you ask I con hungry”she said and he shaked his head as he chuckled.
“Wetin happen?”she frowned.
“I think I am instead of what you just said”she said.
“We no dey learn now na”she said and he laughed, dragging her to the kitchen. They met Gold but she walked away.
“We no dey pursue you na!”June said and Finch smiled.
“What do you want?”he asked as they stared at the different food and fruits in front of them.
“The thing way I feel like chopping no dey here”she said.
“What is it?”
“Eba and egusi soup way Pomo, fish, dry fish and meat dey na wetin dey hungry me”she said and he laughed.
“No laugh na, you ask question and I answer”she said and he pretend to cough but he couldn’t control the laugh.
“I no go answer your question again”she scoffed and picked a plate as she picked different fruits.
“Okay….fine I won’t laugh”he said but she walked past him. He quickly dished his own food and ran after her. She’s already seated in the dinning.
“I’m sorry June”he smiled.
“I dey vex ooo”she said and he pushed back the laught that was about coming in.
“What should I do so you no go vex?”he asked and she looked at him.
“You say no go vex nownow, who teach you?”she said.
“My phone, I learnt it”he said.
“Ehn ehn, very soon now, me and you no go need the thing way dey talk for inside phone because we go dey speak the same thing”she said.
“But you should learn mine”he said.
“I go learn I go learn”she said, nodding her head.
“Give me your phone”he said and she did before continuing eating her fruits.
“I’ve download the app”he said.
“Which thing?”
“Where I’m learning your language from”he said.
“You go teach me how to use am later, make I chop first”she said.
” Guys. It’s movie time”Diamond said.
They all walked to the cinema area. Girls on their own whilst boys on their own also.
After that, they retired to sleep.
Xavier couldn’t sleep In a joint room, so he’s outside staring at the sky.
He turned to see Finch beside him.
“Can you stop coming to me”Xavier scoffed and face the sky back.
“Stop dreaming”
“You shouldn’t play with her heart”Xavier said.
“She’s not like the girls here Xavier, you wouldn’t know that even if you live with her for ten years and stop trying to come in between us, you never liked her”Finch said.
“What if I do?”Xavier faced him.
“I’m sure you don’t do older ladies”Finch smirked and he scoffed.
“And again, don’t try what you did tonight again, I might loss it cause I don’t deal with babies”Finch stood up and Zac did already angry.
“Should I take her away from here, I did win”Xavier smiled.
“That did show how stupid you’ve already been”Finch said and walked away.
**
They all went to their various houses since they don’t have morning lecture.
Xavier and June just got home only to see Ma Angel.
“Mom!”
“Good morning ma”
“You didn’t sleep home last night, you switched off your phone”she said strictly.
“Sleep over at the Mila’s Mansion”he said.
“You shouldn’t be around noise!”she raised her voice.
“You’re doing one now”he said.
“Leave us alone”she said and he walked away.
Ma Angel walked to June, standing in front of her.
“You should know better, I mustn’t hear a call of him not feeling well”she said and the translator machine on the table translated.
“Yes ma”
“Did you watch him all night?”she asked.
‘i no go sleep na, I come this world come suppose on top your pikin ‘ she said inwardly before replying.
“Yes ma”she said and Xavier gasped from the dinning.
“Lier”he muttered.
“Focus more on study son and don’t forget, you can tell me anything”she said and he nodded.
“Be safe”she pecked his forehead before walking out.
“You lied, you didn’t even know where I slept last night”Xavier said.
“You no look like person way no sleep well na”she said and the translator machine translated.
“Wha…. what? Do I have to look like one?”
“See Zavier, I no get power to talk too much, go baff so you go eat take your drugs”she said and walked away.
“What the hell? What in the world is she”he muttered before heading to his room.
Few minutes later, both are back to the dinning eating.
“When you go go school?”she asked.
“1pm but I’ll skip it”he said.
“Ehn!”she shouted and he closed his ear.
‘ ah, person no go fit shout again ‘ she said inwardly.
“No vex”she said and he brought down his hands.
“Why?”she asked.
“Cause I don’t want to”he said and she stood up.
“You must to go ooo, Finch go dey wait for me now”she said.
“I don’t care”he said.
“See Zavier, we go go the school wether you like am or you no like am”she said.
“My drugs”he said.
“I dey follow you talk you dey change topic, you no get respect ooo”she said.
“But I want my drugs”he said and she brought it out, not without eyeing him.
“I wanna go take a nap”he stood up after taking the drugs.
“Time na after nine, I go come wake you when he be twelve”she said but he said nothing.
“I no dey play ooo”she said.
**
*12PM
June pushed the door to Xavier’s room open.
“Time don reach”she said. He’s reading a novel.
“I don’t wanna go, moreover I’m the one going to college not you”he said and she smiled. She already put on her app translator.
“I go count one to two, if I say two again, I go beat you”she said but he scoffed, laying well on the bed.
“One……t….”she didn’t complete it as she spank his butt with her and he jumped up.
“You go go wear better cloth or na mop I go use next”she said and he ran into his dressing room, holding his butt in his process.
“You think say we be agemate”
TBC