Chapter 4: Chapter 4
By home I meant my uncles house. He was a priest and a retired lecturer. My parents had practically forced me to live with him since he was the parish Priest of the schools chaplaincy. The chaplaincy was in school and close to my faculty and they didn't want to spend on a new accommodation. The reasons for my staying here were too plentiful to count.
I didn't really like staying in the chaplaincy even though it gave me comfort. On the bright side there was water which was a luxury in itself in the city of Enugu the land of coal. Enugu unlike Delta state where I lived with my family lacked water. Back home I got to waste water, I could bathe with seven buckets of water and wash with ten but here, you dare not. Water was a luxury you dare not waste because it took a great deal for them to get it. The ground was filled with solid coal and you had to dig over 30 feet's to get clean water. People here bought water distributed in tanks.
So I didn't get to buy water like all other of my classmates. I had food prepared for me three times a day but mostly, I loved my bed. I was lucky enough to get an orthopedic bed I loved so much because I most times experienced back pains. I used to sleep alone but now I shared the bed with a cook and I had three roommates now, very bad. We all know that girls hardly leave together in peace.
There was bound to be drama and there was nothing I hated more than drama, when it doesn't involve a boy that is.
I went into the room with a smile plastered on my face. A smile that quickly disappeared when I met two of my roommates quarrelling.
I breathed in and walked in. I was In no mood to indulge them. Although the smile on my face disappeared instantly, the traces remained in my heart. The fluttering feeling of many butterflies.
"You are very stubborn! Someone would be telling you what's good for you but you still go ahead to do what you want. I've been doing this before you and I know how it's best done." That was Kachi, the former cook, giving one of her usual speeches of presupposed knowledge.
Sometimes I wondered if being there before made you somewhat wiser. Did it? Maybe i don't know.
"I'm not giving you the list that's all. No matter how you shout I'll write it the way I want." The cook, Ada said calmly. Her calmness was what infuriated Kachi the most. Because we all knew she wasn't calm. Her being calm is her mocking you. Instinctively.
She was lying on the bed facing the wall whilst ignoring Kachi who sat opposite the bed.
They kept arguing about the list while I walked in, each ignoring me and I happily returning the favor.
It was funny how Kachi still wanted to retain the Rights of a cook when she was no longer one. But the problem was not entirely hers, my uncle had a share in the blame.
If she was no longer working with us why is she still here. Though she taught now in the church's school but and so? Teachers didn't live here.
I didn't say anything for a thousand reasons. I didn't also try to settle them or reason with them.
Reasons being that,
I was asocial, tired and a law student. Law student had egos as big as skyscrapers, we had to show class Every time. And besides quarrels are settled in the court with facts not bickering and shouts.
I didn't believe in getting involved in petty fights. You know what happens when they reconcile. They turn you into a gossip subject.
I pulled of my white and black, changed to my home gown, put on my earpiece and slept off like a Queen.
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