I don’t like what I saw
happening in the sitting room right now, the way they both are sitting. Go and
make sure you are with them till they are done and all go to bed, Mr. John told
his wife Grace at exactly 3.00 am on Wednesday morning.
Andy had slept over his
sister’s house to help her daughter his niece, Sheila out with some assignments
which were given her from school for the summer break.
The assignments are
bulky and more complicated than you can handle, Grace told her daughter when
she came to show her the assignments, you are 14, and these teachers have the
nerve to give you children these kinds of assignment, no worries I would tell
your uncle to help you out. As far as their house was concerned, Uncle Andy was
the best computer wiz there was and he never disappoints instead he would use a
crooked method to get any computer related problem solved.
Uncle Andy is around?
She asked her mother with an anxious look on her face because she had grown
fond of him and they were really close lately since he decided to stand in as a
big brother they never had but he was always travelling so his presence was
always cherished because it was limited. Yes, she replied. He called me today
while I was out so don’t worry about the assignment that much our guru is
around, they both laughed and Sheila went into the kitchen to keep the sack she
collected from her mother while she analyzed the size of the yam tubers brought
from her grandmother’s place with amazement. Big mama as the children called
her always selected the best of her products either from the farm or from the
stock she got from the market for her children who were married.
The next day Grace met
her brother, Mai ka rike a hannu- what
are you holding? She asked, Riga -clothes,
I went to amend them since they are bigger than I want, he answered. After a
lot of catching up on old travel gist that Andy usually shares whenever he
comes back, she told him all about the assignment and he promised to come check
it out on the weekend at the house since they already had a family computer and
her husband recently got a personal laptop. Ya
mijin ki-how is your husband? He asked in Hausa, Lafiya she replied meaning he is fine. After a long visit and
family gist about siblings, he left.
On Sunday, Andy was
his usual jovial charming self he met his nieces and nephew before the church
service began, Sheila and Amanda came running towards him while Jake walked
already grown. Blessing and Loveth were engaged seriously playing with other
kids. When did you come back? Sheila and Amanda asked almost together making
them all laugh before he answered then he asked them all about school. Jake was
all stretched and a grown man from when Andy last saw him, they had a little
boys talk before he and Sheila began walking into the church together talking.
The service was interesting especially the Sunday school which was interactive
and had Andy involved a lot. People laugh and danced during the praises while
Andy played the drums making funny faces. After the service, Grace and Andy met
then she asked him za ka bi mu ko? (You
are coming with us, right?) He nodded in confirmation as he tried talking to a
woman from church Mama Ada who was interested in his hairstyle telling him it
was not Godly. Andy cut his hair the day before so it was still neatly seen, a
mow-hawk style with a zigzag design at the left close to his ears, he just told
Mama Ada that it was his identity since he was a disk jockey (DJ) so she could
not make him change his hair style just because she didn’t like it but in a
funny way so she didn’t get annoyed instead they all laughed at his speech and
he succeeded in diverting their attention to another matter. He got in the car after
he and Mama Ada were done and waited for his sister and her family so they would
go home.
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