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~KUNMI~
The room was silent for two or three minutes, a deafening silence that made it even impossible for me to hear my thoughts.
Maybe we should all leave.
"Oh My God!" Gabriella's voice diverted all our attention to the bed, except Sophia who looked like she couldn't even see us, as if she was alone in her room. Gab was initially lying down but now, she sat up with a start and she stretched, moving her body that way and this way.
"This silence in this room is so loud that I can't even hear a thing from the audio book I'm listening to. This is supposed to be a birthday party, not a funeral."
A birthday party with just four people? Five including the celebrant, the celebrant who looked like she'd rather be anywhere but with us, like our presence was even causing her more pain than anything.
"You know what?" She asked, standing up from the bed and walking towards the door. "Lemme get the cake, there can't be a birthday party without a cake."
And she stepped out before I could even bat an eyelid. I was still trying to wrap my head around how we were supposed to make this work when the door opened again and Gab stepped inside carrying a huge box of cake that even appeared to be bigger than her. She walked to where Sophia sat and she put the cake right in front of her. The movement seemed to jolt Sophia out of her reverie and she looked up, more like look at everybody blankly before her eyes settled on the box in front of her. She just kept looking at the box blankly and when Gab opened the lid, her expression faltered for a second and then she smiled, chuckled even before she started laughing, a full blown laughter that made me to move back on my seat but I seemed to be the only surprised because if the others showed any sign, it was that of relief, Adam's shoulders slumped in replied, Alex removed his hand from Sophia's shoulder and Gab sat down beside her, a full smile that lightened up her whole face.
They were relieved that she was laughing at nothing after being extremely moody for what? Almost an hour?
"God! What do Stephanie take me for?" She asked, more to herself, in between laughter and she even had to tilt her head backwards, wipe her eyes with fingers to stop the looming tears because she was laughing so hard.
On God! I looked at the door to check if it was locked or not because, you never can say.
"God! Look at me, I was expecting a cake that'd complement my age and look at what she got me? Sponge Bob? Sponge Bob? For fuck's sake, I'm not 6."
"You're 6..." Adam started to say but he trailed off when she glared at him. "I mean, you have the brain of a 6 year old..." He trailed off again and realizing what he just said, his left hand found its way to his neck. "Sorry, that came out wrong, what I mean is you act like a six year old."
Aah! I tried to stifle my laughter but I failed miserably and before I knew it, I was laughing the rest joined in too except Adam who was trying hard not to laugh and Sophia who was looking at him, mouth slightly open as if she couldn't believe what he just said.
"Wait, wait," Sophia started to say before she trailed off and she pointed her index finger to herself. "Did you just refer to me as a 6 year old? Me? As in me? A whole me?"
She sounded incredulous and that made us laugh even more.
"Oh, come on, Adam, o wrong now, how can you refer to my cousin as a 6 year old. That's a huge insult to the actual 6 year olds." Gabriella said in between laughter and she moved completely away from Sophia who raised her hand to smack her but missed narrowly.
"Alex," Sophia started to say and what surprised was how meek and coy she sounded. Even Alex seemed surprised because he swallowed, I noticed that from the way his Adam apple bubbled up and down and he pulled at the collar of his turtleneck. "Can you believe these two, isn't that a direct insult to my..."
"Well, you can't blame them, they were just saying the tru..."
"Get out!" Sophia shrieked, cutting him off and cutting off our laughter. "All of you should get out, everyone except baby Kay, we're enough to have the biggest blast."
Definitely not my Baby Kay, I'll definitely sleep off.
And wait, did I just refer to myself as Baby Kay? Really?
"Well, she is leaving if I should leave so..."
"Shut up Adam, must you always flaunt the fact that she likes you more than she likes me and you're just being delusional, even Baby Kay can't say that?, right, baby Kay?"
She turned to look at me, more like turned to do puppy eyes at me and I could only stare at her in surprise, wondering how possible it was for her to switch like that. Looking at her now, she looked nothing like the girl from 15 minute ago, she looked nothing like the girl whose life was falling apart, now, she just looked like a happy girl, she looked like Sophia Williams.
Was that even possible for a normal human? That kind of switch? Even people with dissociation can't switch like that.
"I'm not mad, if that's what you're thinking." Her voice jolted me out of my reverie and she was looking at me, a small, almost petulant smile on her lips.
This Girl Is Not Normal!!
"Well, we both know that you act like you're mad sometimes but that's not even the conversation for today, just make a wish and cut this cake."
The girl in question looked away from me to Gab who was now lighting the candles on the cake.
"Make a what?" She repeated dumbly. "Why would I make one? Why are you guys treating me like a child? I'm not a child!!"
"You're a child and besides, it's a birthday tradition, just make a wish and let's get this done with."
"You know the only wish I'd make can't happen, let me just blow out the candles and eat the cake."
Then without waiting for Gab's reply, she started to cut the cake but the former slapped her hand off and that made Sophia to look up at her.
"Just make the wish, be optimistic, who knows? A miracle might actually happen."
Sophia actually scoffed, the corners of her lips twitching up before she closed her eyes and made a wish we couldn't hear. Knowing Sophia, she might have faked it, well, she definitely faked it.
"Now, that's that about that. Since you guys are here without an invite, what are the plans?"
"What plans?"
"Don't be dumb, Adam, plans to entertain me of course. Don't tell you guys actually came here without any plans to entertain me?" She replied with a nonchalant shrug and she leaned back against the sofa, one of her legs outstretched and her knee raised up to her chin.
"Oya, you guys should start, Gab and Alex, you guys should take the lead, start the strip show you guys prepared for me."
There was another stunned silence for a moment or two before we all burst into laughter. It started with Alex who was sitting beside her, his shoulder quaked visibly and he grabbed his stomach as he laughed uncontrollably and all of us joined in, well, except Sophia of course who from the bemused expression on her face, looked like she did not understand why we were laughing.
"I'm still trying to understand why you guys are laughing."
"You can't understand it, your brain capacity can't..." Gab started to say but was cut off by Sophia smacking her but that only made her laughter to deepen. After Sophia and Gab's bickering, which was cute to look at her by the way and Sophia hoarding her cake from us, maintaining that she wouldn't allow us to eat from the cake her sister got her, Gab suggested we all play a game, I have never, Alex was to go first and the guy just shrugged and said,
"I've never kissed a girl."
Hmm? I exchanged a glance with Adam who seemed unfazed that we were going to have to admit that fact to the general public. Three people weren't enough to be called the general public, two excluding Sophia who was always seeing things and walking into things.
"Me neither," Sophia replied before she started to move closer to Alex who eyed her warily before he started to inch away from her. That made her to move even closer to him, him to inch further away from her until he was at the edge and he had no where to move to again. For a split second, I did not even what to think would happen but Gab yanked Sophia away from him, more like picked her away from him because she did it with the ease of picking a feather.
Sophia probably weigh less than 15kg.
"Ma fi ara buruku bale, Sophia and Alex, see how you just opened your mouth and you lied, that kind of huge lie, aah ahh, what kind of... How can you even...?"
"Shut up Gab and just continue the game." He replied, his tone light and full of laughter. I could see the small smile playing at the corners of his lips before he leaned against the backrest of the sofa and turning his head up so he could stare at the ceiling. Gab looked at him for a minute longer than usual before she shook her head.
"Well, I guess we all know the answer to mine so Kunmi and Adam?"
"That's a lost case." Sophia answered Gab before I could even think to reply. "A lost cause even, the answer is obvious to even a lame man, let's move on to the next thing."
Oh My God! What kind of girl was this Sophia of a thing? How was I supposed to get used to her weirdness and randomness?
"Sophia, ever heard of learning how to keep quiet and keeping things to yourself?"
"Yes, pretty boy but my mouth isn't there for decoration." She replied casually before she cut off a huge chunk of cake and putting the whole chunk in her mouth at once. A I myn't models supposed to be super conscious of their sugar intake because this girl here had been stuffing her face with the cake since Gab brought it up and all the while slapping Gab's hand away whenever the later attempt to cut a slice.
"I've never smoked or tasted alcohol before."
Now, it was both Sophia and Gab that exclaimed, both turning to look at Alex with wide eyes.
"Now, I'm starting to think you mean the exact opposite of what you're saying."
His reply to Sophia was a non committal shrug while Gab just looked at him, mouth slightly opened before she shook her head, muttering something incorrigible to herself.
"Well, I'm not going to lie against myself," Sophia started before she stretched and even yawned. "I've tasted alcohol before, more like I was forced to by Gab here." She pointed to Gab who suddenly did not look like the nerd who was obsessed with books but rather, an average 16 year old who liked to have fun, who'd even go out of her way to gave fun.
"Long story cut short, Gab forced me to sneak into their wine cellar when we were fourteen. It was a one time incidence but that's me speaking for myself, knowing Gab, she must have..." She trailed off, glanced at Gab who was just looking at her as if she had grown two heads before she shrugged, "That's for Gab to reveal anyway but the second one, it's a no no for me please, I won't even look at smokers not to talk of smoking myself."
I don't know if it was what she said or the way she said but whatever it was made Adam's hand to go slack around mine and Sophia darted a nervous and very brief glance at him. Both the glance and his hand slacking around mine were all so brief that I must have imagined it. I turned to look at him but his eyes were fixed on Sophia with some sort of bemused expression, then he turned to look at me, his lips stretching into a smile when our eyes met, that kind of smile that made a million fireworks to explode in my chest. The sound of a song playing from a phone disrupted the booming moment and we both turned to the direction of the intruder. It was Sophia's phone and she was looking at the phone, eye brows and the corners of her lips twitched up as if in disgust before she threw her phone on the sofa.
"I wonder how our classmates got my number, it's really annoying, all these stupid calls and text messages. I feel like, I'm being stalked self."
"That was who?"
"Who was that, Alex, the correct question should be who was that but now isn't the time to talk about your weird choice of words and that was Rahmon, very stupid and useless boy. My phone is literally littered with his messages."
Just the mention of his name left a bad taste in my mouth, remembering all his rude and snide remarks ever since I joined the school and the fact that him and the other two guys always seemed to find something funny to laugh at whenever I was passing or ran into them wasn't only allowing, it was embarrassing because I had an inkling of why they were laughing.
Judging from how the mood in the room changed at the mention of his name made me realize that I wasn't the only one who disliked him, Alex's face turned into a deadly scowl and Gab hissed so loudly that I was sure that must have taken up all her energy, only Adam remained expressionless at the mention of his name but he removed his hand from mine and when I raised my eyebrows at him, he was quick in throwing his hand around my shoulders and moving closer to me. The gesture made me smile.
Even though deep down, I still did not understand why...
"Gab, please, come closer, hug me, let's hug each other while we wait for our Prince charming to come and sweep us off our feet."
Alex rolled his eyes and he shook his head. I understood that because that's the major reaction Sophia would be able to get out of people. I expected Gab to ignore Sophia and her words all together but she really surprised me by pouting, making puppy eyes and actually moving closer to Sophia and throwing her arms around her.
The Gab tonight ehn.
"Did you guys sneak into the wine cellar again or what?"
"Pretty sure they did," Alex replied Adam with a dramatic shake of his head. "And on nights like this, Gab and Sophia is the worst combo ever."
Their reactions to his words was to look at him blankly. With the sides of their heads pressed together and their faces mirroring the same expression, I was starting to think they were actually the worst combo ever.
But then, what the hell happened to Gab tonight?
Afterwards, Sophia made all of us to sit in a circle, forced us to wear stupid birthday headbands and that made me conclude that Gab was right, referring to her as a 6 year old was a huge insult to the actual 6 year olds. When Adam insisted on not wearing one, she reminded him of how excited he was to wear one just last year and then she jokingly added that he must be forming hard guy since the girl he liked was present.
At that point, I just had to remind myself to try not to get surprised by whatever come out of Sophia's mouth because the girl would just open her mouth waah and close it waah.
The night went on with mostly Gab and Sophia displaying varying levels of madness. At one point, Alex attempted to use his earpod so he'd listen to anything to block out the noise Gab and Sophia called entertainment and the force at which Gab snatched the earpod away from him made me conclude that the earpod would never work again.
In the long run, Sophia decided to sing for us and that was like the real disaster, Alex cringed and covered his ears, Adam looked embarrassed and bored out of his mind, I was amused and I was laughing before I could help myself and Gab was just cheering her up.
"So guys, rate my performance on the scale of 1-10." She asked after she finished singing, the folded notebook she had used as a microphone still pressed against her lips.
"+100."
"None existent."
"-0." Adam replied in a very bored tone and then, it was my turn.
"10?" I said-asked and Sophia's smile deepened.
"See? Baby Kay is my only friend in this room, the rest of you are just stupid munchers."
"Don't worry Coz, they'll all join the queue to collect your autograph when you blow." Gab said, blowing imaginary dirt away from her shoulders but Sophia shrugged her off.
"Adam, who do you think is the prettiest in this room?" Sophia asked out of nowhere, surprising me because I had no idea how one minute, she was singing and the next, she was asking a totally unrelated question.
How her mind works is a complete mystery that can never be unraveled.
"Kunmi of course. Should that even be a question?" His reply was instantaneous and that made me smile even though I knew that was a lie. Gab has to be the prettiest in the room.
"You did not even think about it for a second. Oh my God!" She sobbed before she turned to look at Alex who was looking at her as if she had grown thirteen heads. "Alex," She called out with that same meek and coy tone she used earlier "Who do you think is the prettiest in the room and don't you dare say Gab.."
"Of course, it's not Gab, it's..." He trailed off, eyes fixed on hers and she started to smile before his gaze flickered to me. "Kunmi of course."
That wiped the smile off her face and she looked at me, that petulant smile on her face while I had to pick my imaginary jaw from the ground. Hmm, really? Sophia and Alex were just showing me that there could be varying degrees of weirdness.
"At this point, I think I really need surgeries, both plastic and cosmetic or any kind of surgery that'll just give me a changeover. Baby Kay and Gab can't just continue to steal my sh..."
"You need it," Alex interrupted and a loud silence followed his words before we all burst into laughter, all except Sophia who buried her face in her palms and she started to fake-cry.
"You must sha be weird, Sophia, don't you..."
"You're more weird." I blurted out before I could stop myself and three pair of eyes stared at me, three instead of four because Adam was now distracted by his phone's occasional vibration and he was frowning at the phone. Alex looked surprised, Sophia looked stupidly grateful that I had come to her rescue and Gab just looked like she just heard the most incoherent thing in the world.
I bit the inside of my cheeks, turned to look at Adam who was still looking at his phone. He must have noticed that I was looking at him because he turned the screen off and he smiled apologetically at me.
I couldn't smile back, the insecure part of me wondering what that was all about.
"So, you think Alex is weird?" Gab asked, jolting me out of my reverie. "Really? But he's perfectly normal, ain't you, Alex?"
Aahh! Oh lord of weirdness! Even Gab can't be normal.
"I'm not sure. Am I really weird?" He asked, pressing his left palm against his forehead, a thoughtful look crossing his face.
I almost burst into laughter at his expression and the fact that he was actually asking himself that question? Really? Beside me, Adam was looking at the trio as if he did not understand how in the world he ended up with people like them.
"The fact that you just asked yourself that question confirms the fact that you're weird." said Queen weirdo and Gab shook her head.
"I don't agree with that. Alex is just like an open notebook."
Ehn ehn? She must have noticed my expression because she smiled at me before she continued.
"I mean he is easy to read and to figure out what's going on in his mind."
This same Alex that'd be one thing one minute and a totally different thing the next minute or another Alex that I haven't met.
"You look like you don't believe me. I can't even tell you what's going on in his mind right..."
"Gab, just shut up!" The guy in question interrupted but from his tone, he wasn't angry, if anything, he was amused and that made me wonder if Gab was actually saying the truth, about being able to figure out his thoughts.
Oh, come on, ko possible.
"He's thinking about the girl he likes." She deadpanned before bursting into laughter, Sophia joined in too and the guy in question just looked utterly embarrassed and he even buried his face in his palms.
For some strange reasons, that piece of information did not sit down well with me and with the way Adam had suddenly gone quiet beside me and with his eyes fixed on Alex, it did not sit down with him either.
"God! Gab, how do you do that every single time? Are you a witch or something?"
"It's not my fault that you're that open. Just look at me, no one can figure out what's going on in my mind." She replied with a shrug and she even proceeded to spread her hands akimbo.
Sophia and Alex scoffed simultaneously before they both said:
"You're definitely thinking about how you'll catch up with reading you should be doing at the moment."
Her mouth dropped open before she muttered bursted and she burst into laughter. Soon, enough we were all laughing at her sheer silliness. Even Adam, even Alex and most definitely Sophia and now, it looked like centuries ago when we arrived and Sophia looked extremely dejected, now, she just looked like a girl who has it all.
"Okay, Okay guys," Sophia said and she clapped her hands together to stop us from laughing. She smiled when she finally got our attention and she even sat up straighter. "Now, all has been said and done, my birthday gifts please." She closed her eyes and she stretched out her hands, one towards Alex and Adam and the other towards Gab and I.
We all exchanged glances and from the looks of things, nobody brought a gift. Sophia's eyes were still closed and she was still smiling, arms outstretched and waiting for us to start dropping her none existent gifts. I wasn't to be blamed anyway, I had no idea I was going to here until this morning and then, what kind of gift do you get Sophia Williams? She looked like a girl who has it all.
"If you guys did not bring any gift, be gone before I open my EYES!" She shrieked the last part and we were all standing up before we could even process a thing.
Sophia ended up following us downstairs and from the rather long walk from her room to the front door, I noticed how quiet the house was. There was no trace of any living soul, not even that of her sister or brother and that made me wonder if that was how quiet the house used to be everytime and if Sophia's mood was going to that sour one once we were gone.
I looked at her small frame that looked even smaller in the oversized turtleneck she was wearing. We said our goodbyes once we stepped outside the gate and Sophia proceeded to hug everybody.
When she hugged me, I expected her to let go immediately as she did for the others but that wasn't the case, she just held on till I started to wriggle myself out of her grip.
"Thank you so much for coming, it means a out."
That made to relax and to actually hug her, my hand patting her back. I heard her sniffle but when she finally pulled back, her face was radiating so much happiness that I was sure I imagined hearing her sniffle.
Gab and Alex entered their car, their driver had waited for them and Adam and I walked off but not before I noticed a figure blocking Sophia from entering the house.
I did not even need to look twice to know who it was.
Hmmm, omo, people are really weird in this book ehn.
So, who do you think is the prettiest in the book, I think it's Gab but then, I'm starting to think it's Kunmi.
The surprise I mentioned was supposed to be a double or triple update but my brain right now ehn 😪😪
What do you think is going to happen between Kunle and Sophia? Because well, we'll see in the next update.
See you guys on Monday ❤️❤️
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