Reasons Why

8) Surprise

Patricia laughed when the girl started pulling at her hand. She leaned backwards as if she wanted to lay down until her back actually touched the ground. She quickly relaxed her body to increase her weight.

"Jesus Christ. Patty, you heavy o."

"I'm not heavy please. I have weight."

Flora snickered. They had been taught since their second year that human beings or living things could only be heavy when they no longer had life in them. "Heavy mama." She jiggled the girl's boobs, knowing she hated that.

Patricia immediately slapped the girl's hand and stood up with the speed of lightning to run after the girl that had left her room screaming loudly. 

Flora wasn't a good runner so she was soon caught. She screamed when her friend slapped her bum a number of times and held her in a headlock. "Rape! Rape o!"

"Shut up there, idiot! After you don look for trouble." 

Patricia could recognize the voice of the Gorvo (governor or overseer) of Captain Hostel. The guy was just entering into the compound, his car keys swinging slightly on his index finger as he locked the gate behind him. "Welcome, sir." She smiled while she slapped her friend's back so she would stop moving so much.

The older male smiled and shook his head. "Ah, Patty. Suffry beat this girl. I know sey she is very naughty. But na my pikin o. Nor go kill am for me abeg."

"Leave them. If Patty kill her, she go resurrect am. Fire mama, I greet you." A girl coming out from the room beside Flora's room with jean knickers, pam slippers, a big black polo shirt and facecap bowed jokingly. She was referring to the girl's anointing. It wasn't a secret that last year the girl actually raised a girl who was confirmed to be dead after drinking Sniper because her boyfriend broke up with her. The girl was her roommate. Personally, she was a Muslim, but after that ordeal, she had started attending Patricia's church.

"Aminatu, how fa na?" 

Flora sighed and sat down on the ground when Patricia released her to do a bro shake with her neighbour. "Wahala be like Patricia o."

"Hey, hey, sister Flora. This is my mentor right here." Aminatu pointed at Patricia who stood beside her snickering silently. "Wahala be like friend wey nor dey celebrate grace o."
The Gorvo and Patricia burst into laughter at how much Flora's face changed dangerously in a second.

"Sha let me be going before somebody wound me this morning."

The Gorvo also excused himself and left the two friends to sort themselves out.

Flora was still glaring at the gate Aminatu had just passed through. "Shey na this hostel she go still enter?"

"Unforgiving spirit, sister Flora." Patricia laughed and dodged the slippers the girl threw at her and ran into her room before quickly locking it behind her.

"Ey God o. Patty, you locked me out of my own room?"

"Who sent you to throw slippers at me? My dear, you are sleeping outside today." Patricia expected to girl go throw a tantrum or at least beg after a while but when she heard nothing, she became cautious. "Flora?" She thought it was a trick so she waited for a whole fifteen minutes. When she didn't hear anything, she got worried. Where did this girl go? 

With questions on her mind and her friend's name on her lips, Patricia opened the door, only to stumble when she saw someone she least expected standing by her door. She was ready to wedge herself on the ground. This would always be that one scene in movies where the boy would catch the girl and stare into her eyes with romantic music playing from absolutely no where...but then, this is reality so Patricia was sat on the floor, glaring up at a familiar idiot who had an annoying smirk on his face.

"Hello, my love."

A/N:

Pidgin terms used

Nor vex - don't be angry

Oya - depends on the context it's being used. In this context, "oya, don't be offended" means "okay, don't be offended"

Shey you want me to choke bayi? - so you want me to choke right?

Unkor - it's a bit difficult to translate this to English, but in the context it was used "...before we entered into your room unkor", it's like asking the question "what about the girl you insulted before we entered into your room?" 

Joor - please

Oya, oya, oya - in this context, oya means "quickly" or "fast"

Suffry - gently or be careful

Pikin - child

Wahala - trouble