Amanda kept looking at the plate in front of her. She felt annoyed. Normally, whenever she prepared her favorite meal, she'd be ecstatic. She'd be like a little kid with sugar rush but now it felt like the food was Sophie's favorite meal that she didn't like, unripened plantain porridge. She gagged as she looked at it and she quickly pushed it away.
"Mandy, wetin happen?" Sophie asked as Amanda stood up and hissed.
"The food dey do me somehow for body," Amanda said as she picked up the plate.
Sophie looked at the plate of food that her friend was holding before looking back at her.
"Ah ahn!" Sophie exclaimed. "You never even chop am, and the thing don dey do your body somehow. Wetin be that one?"
"I no know o," Amanda said as she gripped her stomach. "That drink eh, e don mess up my belle."
"Ha! This one day surprise me o. Your favorite food for that matter. See as the food just look appetizing. I don already post am for my whatsapp status and everybody just dey comment on am. Even Prince say make you keep im own," Sophie said as Amanda hissed.
"The food still plenty, make them come chop. I no dey chop abeg," Amanda said as she she went to pour back the food into the pot. She entered into the room, went to her bag and took out a 500 Naira note.
"Where to?"
"I wan go buy bread and beans."
"From where?"
"That woman for front na."
"But you said the lady isn't clean."
"I swear that's what's I'm craving,"Amanda said as she wore her slippers and left the room.
Amanda got to the small fast food joint in front of the building and saw a girl of about her age there, busy with her phone.
"Good morning," Amanda greeted the girl as she looked at her.
"Morning," She said sweetly. "What do you want to buy?"
"Do you have beans?" Amanda asked praying the food she craved was available.
"Yes, Jollof or white?"
"Jollof. Let me see the one of 100 Naira." Amanda said as the other girl nodded.
"Takeaway or you're eating here?"
"Takeaway," Amanda said looking at the surrounding. There was a big gutter by the side and Amanda thought she'd feel disgusted by it but she didn't. She suddenly had the urge to go over and look into the gutter. "Oh my God!" She said out loud as the girl paused her action to look at Amanda.
"I'm sorry, is everything okay?" The salesgirl asked, making Amanda snap out of her thought and look up at her.
"Uhm, yeah, I am," She said hesitantly because she wasn't even sure if she was okay.
"Right," The other girl said as she continued her business. "This is 100 naira beans."
Amanda looked at the beans and it was quiet big. "Yeah, put rice 100," She said as the girl went over to another cooler. "Do you have kpomo?"
"Yeah."
"Is it soft? I want soft ones abeg. I have baby teeth," Amanda said making the other girl laugh.
"You're hilarious," The girl said as Amanda laughed.
Amanda found the girl sweet and friendly. "What's your name? Sorry if I'm being rude."
"Not at all, darling. I'm Chika," The girl said smiling at Amanda before turning back to the food she was serving.
"I'm Amanda," Amanda said.
"Good to know. You stay in that hostel,"
"Yeah, I do."
"Is this all you're buying? Anything else?"
"Yes, thank you," Amanda said as Chika gave her the plastic bag.
"That'll be 300 Naira." Chika said as Amanda handed her the 500 naira note and Chika looked into the purse that was around her waist and pulled out a 200 naira note and handed it to Amanda. "Thank you."
"Thank you, Chika. Bye," Amanda said as she left.
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"Oh my God," Sophie exclaimed as she entered into the room after bathing.
"What's that?" Amanda asked confused.
"You really finished that food along with that big fanta?" Sophie asked looking at her friend who was lying down on the floor with her legs and hands spread and the empty plate of food and bottle in between her legs.
"I was surprised too but I was really hungry."
"Okay o. Remember Prince is coming over soon. You might want to freshen up," Sophie said going over to the dressing table to apply her body lotion.
"I'm tired o," Amanda whined, closing her eyes.
"Oh my God!"
Amanda sat up quickly to look at her friend.
"What's that na? Why are you just shouting anyhow?" She asked starting to get angry.
"Mandy," Sophie said coming over to squat in front of her friend so they were face to face. "You're- you're pregnant."
Amanda frowned. "You dey mad? Which kin talk be this one na?
"I dey serious na. No be the same way you feel the other times you get belle?" Sophie asked as Amanda suddenly became quiet. "Think about it. You threw up and couldn't eat your favorite meal. You ate food from the place that on a normal day you wouldn't and to top it all off, you finished a meal meant for two people. You sef, you know say on a normal day, you no go fit finish that food no matter how hungry you dey."
"Oh my God, na true."
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