Alright, sorry for cutting the story short again buh I'm just suspensive in nature 🤫🤫, so here's it...
Ivory's POV:
As I and Ivory chatted, I secretly plotted how to show her my secret hideout, I couldn't wait to see the look of surprise on her face, so I grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her upstairs.
When we got upstairs, April looked curious as to what I was about to show her that she hadn't seen in the room before but she was so,so,so wrong, I pulled her towards an old shelf by the side of the room, that looked so dusty and unpleasant no one would suspect anything not to talk of inspecting it because it was everything but suspicious, I could see the look of confusion in her now narrowed eyes as she said "why's the part of your room so dusty compared to the rest parts??", I looked at her and her expression showed she new I was cooking up mischief because I noticed she walked a step back,As I unlocked the mystery behind with a slight tap on three boxes,A hidden compartment emerged, The air got a little comfier as we walked in, and there.. my babies stood, looking all pretty and proud stood my collection of limited edition clothings, designer shoes and majority of the expensive dresses in the country!!
I could see April's awed expression as she stood rooted to the ground for a sec,we both walked through the seemingly endless closet as we feasted our eyes on the masterpieces,At the end of the magical walkway we held each other hand as we went to a corner of the room which contained our childhood memories, my laptop and some snacks, I could see Apri was very touched as we both ran our fingers crossed them and we both fell into reminiscing, each with a different memory.
My memories.
I looked around the strange place, aunt brought me to, she looked around as she whispered, one day..., just one day..., I'll come for you, now run, run and remember if anyone asks you what you're doing, say you're lost and the rest of the other things you memorized, okay!! She screamed after me, maybe I was just dizzy after all that running, I saw twin drops flowing from Aunty's eyes, from my eyes and it flowed like a river when I saw her back, I hated her,yet I didn't, It felt so painful down here,in my throat, It was as if I was choking my eyes rolled and I fell straight to the ground...
When I woke up I was inside a room, it was like a hospital room but not I knew it was not because Mom's was very different from this, I jumped out of my thoughts as a young black woman came in,dressed as a nurse and with a stetoscope round her neck, she walked towards me with a beautiful smile and there and then I put off that mentality that blacks were ugly, Tomorrow is my retirement day so practically, this is my last day here.. and you're my last patient. She said with the kind smile still on her face, she sat on the edge of the bed as she opened a bag which I didn't notice she was carrying, she took out a thermometer from the bag and touched my hand gently as she inserted it in the area opposite my elbow as she slowly closed them together, Her eyebrows furrowed slightly after some time, Hmmm not good.. she muttered as she gently lay me back, down on the bed. Child, you haven't been eating well, have you?, she whispered as she looked at me in pity, that was when I noticed she had grey hair and the few long lines of wrinkles on her old forehead, I was lost and didn't notice she was waiting for a reply and that was when It dawned on me that I had flaunted aunt's rules,we memorized my new name, identity and a small speech together and that was the first thing I was supposed to tell the first person that saw me that wasn't(her) Aunty,I came back to my senses and quickly held her by the wrist as she turned to leave accepting her fate, like a robot I fluently said exactly what Aunty told me "My name is Amandi, *chuckles, sorry Amanda and I'm lost, I don't know my home and I would like to stay in, Lucian's charity organizations, orphanage, school and motherless babies home, repeat after me! " , I could vividly recall that she laughed so hard she staggered, she clutched her belly as she almost lost her balance, I loved the way she laughed as if she didn't have a care in the world, I wished mom did that, I also which Aunt will,at least she's alive..., I thought as tears unknowingly rolled down my cheeks, she paused and sat back, this time very close to me, Ohhh,such a cry baby, you were also crying while unconscious, did I scare you?, I forgot that white were very conscious with their interactions with we, blacks... ohh what to do with this poor child..., she said still with amusement in her eyes but I knew she was a little hurt as she moved away from me now clearly conscious of her appearance, I unconsciously grabbed her hand and for the first time ever today, said something of my own will, It was not memorized or forced, I just said It to make her feel better; "Sorry..", she looked surprised as she stroked my head slowly, it's fine, child..., it's fine, she continued and I fell straight back into sleep.maybe it was my imagination but I thought I heard her chuckle as she muttered, ohh such a cutie...
I woke up later to meet a stern face of a middled age man with a tie on his neck that seemed to wave back and forth as he placed a picture close to my right cheek, seemingly comparing me with it. I was wondering what made his eyebrows brows so furrowed and his nostrils were so wide with his large belly that was suppressed when he was bent when his deep voice jerked me from my thoughts, Nope, definitely not the same face,he said as he stood up to leave but paused probably when he noticed me straightening my strained limbs,he turned immediately and looked at my face with eyes that seeked answers, answers that I didn't give him and never gave anyone except April, you're awake,he said, that was when I noticed that there were people apart from him in the room, majority were kids like me, some teenagers and the rest kindergarten kids, Nurse Mira said her name was Amanda,they whispered among themselves but silence immediately followed when the principal waved his hands, wow... impressive, I thought as I surveyed the soldier-like man as he signalled to the door,A plumpy tall woman came in and stood beside him, "she's not one of them, is she?", she asked but it felt like a statement "then that's good,we won't have to worry about the station since they said no one filed a report case and we already gave em a pic of the kid,mehn... this kid needs alot of enough Chef Tina's cooking, can you look at those dry legs", her voice was totally different from what I had imagined or even what her appearance said, she looked the mommy, housewife type buh her voice..., it was sharp, it was the giving that Black American nig** vibes, The man looked at her and back at me helplessly, his expression like "It's not my fault, I'm a victim of her sharp tongue too",All the kids and I laughed except one a stout chubby one that kept looking at the ceiling as though she was new here, you're welcome to Lucian's charity organizations, orphanage, school and motherless babies home!!, I was in awe and almost jumped for joy,As the man walked away, the other kids ran towards me asking questions like ; Is your name really Amanda?, Did you really get lost?? And a lot more of reallies, obviously trying to befriend me but I wasn't interested in them, I was interested in the short quiet one, The others seemed to notice my line of sight as they looked at the girl and scolded "April!!, didn't you see us coming to greet the new sister?" , Her cheeks turned a bright shade of red as she ran outside the door in a haste, April.., I muttered as I looked at the door, how cute..
Out of reminiscing.
I looked at April and almost burst out in laughter, she was the cutest then, I stared at her for a longggg time before I snapped when she started looking at me strangely, I walked towards her as my eye fell on the invitation card, Ohhh!! , Nicole's birthday, tonight..How forgetful I was, I thought as I hastened my steps and quickly told April about it, I knew she was about to decline so I put on my limited edition puppet eyes and even gave her a dress that cost thrice my house and car, I used my weapon when I saw she was contemplating back and forth, pleasssse, I increased my puppy eyes to the max, and I knew she couldn't help but agree, I jumped for joy as I pulled her back to our pictures as we laughed and talked about our childhood memories in the orphanage and I being talkative as I was, gave her a full recount of my crazy experiences, she didn't know about, April couldn't stop laughing as we both unconsciously layed on the fluffy carpet munching on snacks and catching up on old times, After some time,we drifted off to sleep while in a cuddle in each other's arms.
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