Yup I’m back so quickly. I like writing this story because I just write like no worries of overworrying. It’s like a stress relieving story for me. Anyway so I came up with this chapter without any planning, but it turned out pretty well. Enjoy!

Chapter 12: Daggers and Secrets

Tireni calmed her trembling fingers and put on the perfect face of happiness. They both started laughing as they headed towards the table.

“We are back” said Tiwa when Patricia caught her eye. Patricia looked over at Tiwa to see if she was acting normal. Everything appeared normal to her, but she was still worried.

“Hey Tire, are you better now?”

“Yeah…yeah. I am. I guess I was more tired than I let on. I mean we did talk all night and I did have a long day yesterday.”

Tiwa smiled internally. She remembered how good an actress Tireni could be at times. After all, she had maintained her role through all this time.

“So what were y’all talking about when we left?” Tiwa asked

“Oh nothing much” Ayo replied in an indifferent tone.

He had just lied through his teeth. He and Patricia had talked about the entire experience the day before. Patricia said she had accidentally seen a plane ticket stuffed in Tireni’s purse which meant that she had tried to travel away. She also explained that Tireni had only said that she wanted to pay a quick visit to relative in Anambra state. Ayo didn’t believe that and the same applied for Patricia; however, she didn’t want to question it. While they were arguing about why Patricia let Tireni get away with secrets, that was when Tiwa and Tireni came back, so they played it cool.

Ayo pulled out a seat for Tireni and then settled on the seat beside her. Tiwa punched him in the arm, pulled out her own chair, and said

“Thanks for the help bro”

“My pleasure” he said in a sarcastic, sweet tone.

The air was still as Tireni and Patricia kept on quietly munching on their food and Ayo with Tiwa kept sending each other eye signals. After a long silence, Patricia dropped her spoon in frustration and said

“Okay! Since no one wants to address the elephant in the room, I will. Apparently, this crazy dude thinks that Tireni is apparently a long lost wife called Sophia…” Ayo raised his eyes in surprise “Tomiwa told me. But that is beside the point. So I am guessing you have brought this girl to help prove your point?”

Tiwa raised her right eyebrow in question at the comment “this girl”

“Isn’t that a bit rude, Patricia?” Tireni whispered

“Rude! Oh don’t get me started on rude. Didn’t they just barge in on our breakfast?” she exclaimed

“Ah ah so your blood dey hot like this!” Ayo yelled

“Yes o. Don’t think that because of how I acted before, I am some kind of nice girl. I appreciate your help in helping me look for Tireni, but now that she is back. I see no reason why we are going to try to be friends. I mean I and Tireni definitely don’t know you from Adam and we are already busy enough with our dance schedule. So I’m sorry if I seem rude, but we have to get going. We have rehearsals in an hour”

 

Tireni smiled apologetically at the two of them and got up with their duffel bags. She didn’t really mean the apology to Tiwa, but she did feel sorry for Ayo. I mean he had just officially met the outside Patricia and everyone who did regretted it. Tiwa gave Tireni a nasty eye that sent shivers down her spine as she left with Patricia. She seriously hadn’t been expecting T.K to be Tiwa, the sister, sister! of Ayo. Even just thinking about her made her want to throw up as she absentmindedly grazed the scar on her belly that was hidden by her sweatshirt. She was surprised at herself for maintaining her cool so well, but she knew her losing it would mean losing everything. As Tireni mulled over these thoughts, Patricia was busy thinking about all the controversies coming about Tireni. She had only known her for a short time, but she had started to trust her already.

“Could she really be another person?” she wondered as they got into a ‘maruwa’ with their bags.

Meanwhile, Tiwa and Ayo were engaged in a conversation about Patricia’s attitude. A vein on Ayo’s forehead was pulsating as he thought of how rude she had been to them. He wanted to talk to Sophia more, but now she had dragged her away.

“Ayo, calm down jare. Abi, she was rude to me too!”

“What’s her p gan?”

“I dunno o. Probably personal issues. Just forget about it and let’s go.”

Ayo took a deep breath and then smiled eagerly

“You saw she was Sophia right!”

“Oh definitely her! No mistake there. I just wonder why she’s doing all this” Tiwa lied. She knew the actual truth surrounding Sophia, but there was no way she was going to tell Ayo. She swore she wouldn’t and she still maintained it.

“I have other family that are more important” she thought to herself. She put her fingers into her purse and caressed her signature mini-dagger, engraved with the letters T.K, which she didn’t have to use on Tireni. She was disappointed by that, but then she smiled to herself as she brought out her phone on her way out with Ayo.

“She stayed” she texted to a secure number.

“Another day, my friend” she thought with a smile plastered on her face as she grazed the cold sharp metallic edge of the dagger, licked the blood that had spilled from the cut and continued walking with Ayo as he kept ranting about Sophia.

 

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