I had stepped out early that saturday
morning with the sun shining brightly in the sky gradually heating up
everywhere as temperature steadily soar high, running errands for Mom
feeling like I might pass out soon from thirst and exhaustion from
trekking around the estate... earlier that morning, I had grudgingly
climbed out of bed after she called me through her phone and I knew
instantly she was feeling too lazy to either call out my name from her
room or come in into mine to call me, so I threw my blanket aside,
climbed out of bed, then went out of my room and towards hers which is
adjacent to the room I share with Karl.
Still sleeping on her bed, she
handed me her atm card and asked me to go and make withdrawals from the
atm machine at the entrance to our estate by a new generation bank
situated there, I wanted to grumble but cut myself short before I even
started when Mom said it is so I could get us bread, milk and tea for
breakfast and I knew I would get to keep the loose change from the
transaction of buying those aforementioned items...I don't know why but
since I was a child, I have had an obsession with keeping loose change
when I buy things. So on getting back, my hands laden with bags of
goodies for breakfast and my lips parched with thirst from trekking the
whole distance from home to bank then to the store and back with my
armpit and chest area of my top damp with sweat which were kicking my
nostrils as I hadn't showered before stepping out and my feet dirty
with dust, I just wanted to get inside and quench my thirst then jump
inside the shower but on getting inside our compound, I heard voices
apparently belonging to my brothers arguing back and forth and from the
tone of their voices which seemed angry, it looked like the boys were
close to exchanging fistbumps and I wondered what could have happened in
the short while I'd been away...could it be hunger?