#Surpriseawaits 2

I couldn't settle down,I kept prancing up and down the entire sitting room,Karl asked me to calm down as Mom would eventually come home and tell me where I'd  landed this job which from the tone of her voice earlier, sounded like somewhere really major.

I sat down half-heatedly,taking deep breaths to help calm my soul,I whipped out my phone from my pocket and pressing a shortcut button to my music playlist, filtering out was the sonorous voice of beyonce's "XO" which felt like  soothing balm to my frayed nerves .

Time slowly dragged by  until early evening when at the blare of the familiar sound of her car horn,I sprinted to the gate as a smiling Mom drove  in a crescent through the interlocked grounds of the compound to park the car in the garage,she stepped out of the car with a spring to her step,beaming excitedly, she told me she knew I must have almost died of suspense,my eyelids fluttering in mock-anger with my lips in a pout,I quipped,

"ofcourse mother! You just left me high and dry,it's unfair na"   

#Surpriseawaits 1

At the dinning table,Mom's piercing gaze swiveled back and forth between Hamz and I,eagerly waiting for a response...my rather moist eyelashes blinked rapidly which drew her angry gaze towards me...slowly letting out a long exhale,I sputtered with a rather croacky voice from palpable fear of how she might react,

 "Hamz ...didn't have a ....virus,it was just a case of benign tumours sparingly spread across the center of his scalp..."

Close shave

If there's something I dislike so much about Mom,it is her penchant for embarrassing her children to make herself look good. She has a habit of calling out your flaws in public...(by public,this means mostly amongst family members and friends) to show people she's doing her best to correct you but you've refused to heed her calls.

The looks I threw my Mom albeit furtively that fateful hot tuesday afternoon could literarily kill an elephant,I was beyond pissed. Admittedly,I don't pray the five daily prayers as often as I should and at the right time which I know is not something I should be proud of but the way Mom called me out that hot afternoon in the presence of her siblings and their children in our compound was so humiliating,comparing me to my cousins whom I witnessed when they were born as the former threw me a condescending look of pity and I couldn't do any thing as Mom already disparaged me before their eyes,I angrily walked past her into the house as she followed me,asking me to stop,I didn't and kept walking on,my anger level rising steadily,she kept shouting and when I'd had enough,I swiftly turned around to face her and told her to stop comparing me to other people's children so I won't compare her to other people's mothers,

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