𝟑𝟎 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥

~~ 18. ~~

"Demilade." She said and she pause to stay calm. She feels like hitting the jerk in the face. He looks at her. "I don't want it. It's not my money but I can't accept it. And I offer a suggestion."

"Well, what do you want me to do with it? Do I look like I wear a necklace? It's yours now. If you don't like it, do whatever you want with it. You can sell it or probably give it to your friends. I think they will appreciate it better. Whatever it is, I don't care. "

"What? I..... "

"Look, Lola, it's quite early and I am busy..."

She cut him short. "Do you know you are crazy?" She hates to use cuss words but she can't help the anger building up inside her. The guy was making her mad.

"Excuse me!"

She had the gut to insult him. She is angry just because she bought her a gift and he offers her suggestions on what to do with them when she said she doesn't want it.

Does she want him to take it back? And do what exactly? Who did she think he was? So it was a crime to tell her his mind or to buy her a gift? What kind of woman is she?

"You bought a gift of almost a million naira. I appreciate it but I told you I can't accept such gift."

"And I told you what to do with it if you don't want it!" He snapped.

"Don't you dare raise your voice at me? You open that mouth of yours and tell me to do whatever I want with it or sell it if I want to. What do you take me for? Uhh? Some cheap thing? Some desperate being? Is that how horrible I am to you? That's not quite the problem. The problem is your stupid pride and extravagance. That money you spend on such an expensive material that seems so important to you can feed a whole family for at least six months. And you talk so nonchalantly that I should give it to my friend. Is that how you see people like me? Do you have so much money that you want to waste it? If you are short on what to do with your money, they are beggars on the street of Lagos who need that money. They are people who need that money to eat. Some don't even have enough money to buy three square meals. And they will be very grateful to you if you could give them one-third of the money. So think of me as anything you like, it's your fucking thought. And I don't care. I don't care who you are Demilade. So let this be the first and the last time you throw my poverty on my face." She yelled at him and storm away.

Demilade stood bewildered and astonished. He couldn't believe what his ear just heard. Lola just said her mind open to him. She didn't even think about the consequences. And the funniest part was she said she don't care who he was. And then threatened him.

Those didn't matter. What matters is what she said about him thinking so little of her and wasting his money on things that aren't important.

He admits he thinks little of her. He saw her as someone who would do anything for money. And her reasons don't matter to him. But he had been having second thoughts. But she didn't have the right to tell him how he could spend his money.

Had he done a bad thing to buy her a gift?

She is so unbelievable!

§§§§§

Lola storm up to her room. She didn't even know when she start crying. She isn't so weak to cry at things like this. But she had always hated people talking so low about her or her family. And she locked herself in her room.

§§§§§

When Demilade returned to the living room his mother was talking to Deborah. They seem to be in a serious conversation. And his mother was angry.