So a few months after my 18th birthday I decided that I was now a big babe with mind.
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I’m grown now and nobody can tell me what to do!
And so I made plans with my friends to go for a late night party.
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No dulling!
I knew my parents would not allow me to go.
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“Go to where? It’s like you are not okay.”
So I made plans with my best friends to sneak out of the house.
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As per Jamesina Bond!
And be back in before 5:30 when my parents wake up.
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No one would ever know!
The great day (abi night) came.
I dressed up in my “baddest babe in Nigeria” outfit.
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Yasss!!
Made sure my make up was on fleek.
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Very subtle look.
That’s how I got downstairs to the sitting room and saw my mother.
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EWO!
But wait, there’s more oh!
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Ahn ahn!
Her whole women’s fellowship was there, doing prayer meeting!
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I am in big trouble!
I was there in my bad gang clothes and make up.
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Which kind of explanation can I even try and explain?
Stammering and sweating…
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“G-g-good afternoon I m-mean g-good evening ma!”
That was how I joined our church’s women’s group that very night.
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Yes oh!
And ended up doing prayer meeting while my friends grooved the night away.
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“Somebody say Amen!”
I also had to apologise to my mother almost everyday for six months!
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“Plis ma it was devil oh!”
Any small thing “is that not how you wanted to do night waka waka?”
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Ahn ahn!
“Children of these days have spoiled!”
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Okay oh!
I wish I could say I learned my lesson…
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For where?
I just learned to be more careful!
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“I ain’t sorry!”