Chronicles Of A Runs Girl - S01 E06

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Chronicles Of A Runs Girl - S01 E06

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Kike confirmed my theory: “When I sent him my picture he recognized the room. That is how he knew she was lying to him. Now he thinks we are playing game with him.”

I looked at the boy. A lot of everything still didn’t make sense. So, he realised that Janet and Kike knew each other, and he thought they were conspiring in some way to do what to him? Didn’t he sleep with both of them? What did he expect? Unless…

I suddenly felt terribly bad for Kike, and at that moment Janet’s treachery felt exponentially viler. Kike likes the boy; we all knew that. But the boy had also fallen for her.

The first slap was so loud it would have woken up Sleeping Beauty, but Janet knew better than to fight back. The boy stepped in before Kike could land a second.

“There’s no need for that,” he said. Kike held her arms up to him but he gently brushed them away. He looked her in the face as if he was searching for something, then he looked at Janet and shook his head.

He had made it to the door before Kike dashed to stop him from leaving.

“Baby please, I didn’t know anything about it. I didn’t give her your pin,” she pleaded.

The boy turned round to take one last look at Janet, Janet boned, then he looked at Kike.

“I didn’t know you were an ashewo like that,” he said. And with that parting shot, he left.

That night Janet did not sleep in the room (till today she denies spending the night in Baba Gori the gateman’s shed), Kike was inconsolable, Mama BBed everyone to let them know what had happened, and we turned the mattress over but it was wet through so we slept on the floor.

As I drifted slowly into sleep I kept going over his words; there was something peculiar about what he’d said: “I didn’t know you were an ashewo like that?”

Like how, exactly?

Are there different types of ashewo? Did he, from time, consider her one – but of the type he found acceptable? Had she now shown him that she was the type of ashewo he took exception to? What makes a girl an ashewo, in the first place?