Today is my birthday.
My siblings,sang and prayed for me.
My friends called to wish me well,my elder brother decided to be the chef for the day, by cooking Jollof rice,fried rice,fried chicken and bought the drinks…guy even invited some of his friends over when it's not even his birthday.

Our neighbors came to wish me happy birthday and of course to eat my special day's food.
I couldn't be more happy but I wasn't happy.
I ate to my satisfaction, chatted through the day till evening then went in to watch a movie and that's when my mum's call came in.

I met her at the front of a shop close to our house.
She handed me a big birthday cake after saying some hurtful things.
You know when your mother is angry at you and still buys stuff for you but she would not give you until she says something like"I'm not doing this because of you ….I'm doing it because of God not because of your character oo hmm if it's because of your character,I will not do it".
Then she says take and you collect.

I looked at the cake then to my mum then I whisper Thank you with a fake smile on my face.
She said her farewell before taking her leave.
She didn't come into the house for reasons best known to her.

Any child would have been happy…I wasn't happy at all besides,I didn't really like cakes.
Everybody loves cakes,I love it too especially when it is well decorated.Its the eating part that I don't like.For me,I feel it's too sweet so I can't eat too much of it.
My siblings on the other hand Will not let me hear word.
They kept saying that mummy often does the nicest things for me.
If giving me a cake was her way of saying sorry,it has failed already but I knew my mum.My mum is not a woman to easily say sorry unless she's being dramatic which I'm used to.
I don't know why she is doing this.

She's my mum,she loves me after all.
She just doesn't want to say it, so she shows it.

Later that evening,my aunt came with a gift for me, snapped with me, turned the whole thing into a party and left at night not without over hyping me and asking me to bring my boyfriend home…bla bla bla talking about marriage etc.

Me like this…ahh  I was just nodding my head while smiling sheepishly until my cheeks hurt.
This woman will not kill me oo.

I remember the day I posted a boy's picture on my status,she was like,is this him?

This woman will not kill me for my father.

I'm glad she didn't bring that up when my father was around cause the kind of gaze  she will get from him will notify her to keep quiet.

I clocked twenty today, just this today I became or have become an adult and someone is already asking me to get married A.S.A.P for what?
Why the rush?
I already have enough on my plate,my Dad doesn't want to hear anything like boyfriend sef talk more of marriage hmmm.

My own wahala ( suffering) is too much.
To avoid thinking,I went to bed quiet early that day, leaving my siblings to a cake party.

The day was fun though.