Must Read: The Player

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Must Read: The Player

I wanted to tell her to come back around in the morning. I also wanted to just shut the door on her and go back to sleep but I couldn’t.

“Yes”, I replied.
“Are you the Landlord?” she asked.
“Yes”
“My name is Kiki, can I see the room?”
“Sure”.

She took a tour of the apartment, spending more time in the kitchen and toilet.

“You live alone?”
“Nope, my younger sister stays here. She is with a neighbour now.”

She removed the shades and I saw the most beautiful brown eyes.
“What of your parents?”
“Dead”
“Oh my God”, she dropped her hand bag on the plastic chair that Ezenwa almost destroyed with his big yansh. She embraced me like a lost family member. She smelled great, her hair was inches away from my nostrils…I was in a garden of roses.

“It’s been a while, not a big deal anymore”. I still enjoyed the hug.

“Can I pay now?” she asked.

“You will have to come tomorrow, my friend that serves as my lawyer will have to be around”.
“Oh, you have a lawyer. That’s nice”.

“He is not really a lawyer yet, not even in a university yet”.


We both laughed.

“Sorry for disturbing so late, will come around tomorrow”.

“It’s alright”.

“Please reserve the room for me”.

“For a thousand years”.

“Awww, thats so cute, thanks. What’s your name?”
“Fifi”
“I am Kiki, you are Fifi. We are like twinnies”
I chuckled.

“I might be a bit older, but we would still be twinnies”.

I extended my hand to tell her goodnight. She brushed it off and hugged me instead.
“We would be the best flat mates ever”.

That night as I slept, I would rather have dreamt of Kiki but I dreamt of Ezekiel. In the dream, he was moving into the apartment with about a hundred bibles. I kept throwing them back out, but it was like they were duplicating themselves. When I woke up, it was Sunday and Hanatu was already in the apartment. She was making bread and fried eggs for breakfast.

“Hello mama, how was your night?”
“Fine bro, did you get any tenant?” she asked.
“Yes” I replied.
“Who are they?”

“One is a son of God”
“And the other?”
“Daughter of Eve”.