The Reunion - Episode 2

Choices

It was shaping out to be one of those weekends when Mariah wondered why she decided not to go for the reunion, on one hand, it could be fun, she thought to herself …but then again, fun wasn’t her priority in life, she then thought of the people she would get to see, what if this was a sign from God, telling her that she might meet her future husband, after all …she was currently 27 and she wasn’t getting any younger and her mother’s voice in her head wasn’t either, as she contemplated her choices, Lisa walked into her room with a bowl of cereal in her hand .
‘So what have you decided?” Lisa said with a mouthful of cereal, she sat comfortably as she crunched away.
“I don’t think I will go, I don’t like cameras anyway.” After a long glance at the invite that was sent to her email, Mariah sort out various things she didn’t like about the reunion, things like; the fact that cameras were arranged all over the place, this was attributed to the fact that it was a semi reality show produced by Stevie King, as a publicity stunt …then there was the fact that she and her a 100 of her high school mates were literally going to be under the same hotel roof for over a week or so …the list just went on and on in her head.
“Babe, think of all the hot guys you will meet.” Lisa said loudly
“I don’t want to meet any hot guy.” She clearly lied; all she wanted to do was to meet a hot guy. “Besides …I have a job, I can’t just leave for over a week.” She continued.
“What job is that?” Lisa asked with nothing but love “it’s as easy as quitting now, many other supermarkets would be here by the time you return.” she continued.
“What if I don’t get another job? Would you pay my half of the rent?” Mariah asked seriously as the thought of going to another city for up to two weeks scared her, but her serious thoughts were received with one of Lisa’s hysteric laughter.
“Because I have turned into Otedola’s daughter, abi is it Dangote?” she asked sarcastically

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. “Fine, tell them your grandmother died.”
“You mean, I should lie like you?” Mariah wasn’t one to lie on a job; she didn’t like the sound of it.
“Yes now, you will go to this reunion …whether you like it or not.” Lisa replied sternly as she snatched Mariah’s phone away, she had been glaring at the email and Lisa was curious to see what she was glaring at.
“Give me my phone back.” Mariah stood up, and that’s how their rat race around the room began.
“Dear Mariah.” Lisa read the invite pretentiously. “Blah blah blah.” Lisa yapped as she skipped all the formalities. “Oh my!” she exclaimed as she stopped dead in her tracks. “Is this the same Michael? “She finally found what Mariah was staring at. “Michael Seyi? “She asked again as she burst into fits of laughter, they continued the rat race as Mariah tried to get her phone back. “It says here, that he is one of the guest celebrities in your set, what is he now?” Lisa asked seriously.
“How should I know, I haven’t seen him in ten years, the last thing I heard was that he went out of the country to study.” Mariah replied defensively
“You were staring at his name, weren’t you?” Lisa asked with a mischievous grin on her face.
“No, can I have my phone back?” she said as she reached out to Lisa, and this time …she got it back.
“We are going for this reunion.” Lisa said as a matter of fact as she threw herself on the bed
“We? I am not going, neither are you.”
“You are, and I am, it says there that you could bring a date …and can you think of anyone better? I will be your wing woman, trust me.” Lisa replied, all in one breath.
“I think they mean an opposite sex kind of date.”
“M …this is the twenty first century, date means whatever you want it to mean.”
“Not in Nigeria my dear, although it could work in the girl bestie context …assuming I was going, and you were my plus one, what of your job?” Mariah asked worriedly.
“I’ll tell them my grandmother died.” Lisa replied confidently.
“You told them that the last time you spent a week with le boo.”Mariah replied.
“Shey I have two grandmothers?” Lisa replied with an evil smirk. “So are we going?” she asked excitedly
“I don’t know, maybe.” Mariah replied, as much as she didn’t want to go, she also badly wanted to go …she was curious to see how Michael turned out, he had a celebrity status after all, she expected nothing less from him anyways. Her thoughts were cut short because of Lisa’s loud scream of joy, which was followed by a long list of rants, from how Mariah needed a new wardrobe, how they both needed to shop for sexy swimsuits to show off their hot bikini bodies, how they needed to come up with the money to travel, but most of all …how much fun they were going to have. It was safe to say that Lisa was more excited about the reunion than Mariah was, Mariah had weird butterflies in her stomach any time she thought about the fact that she would be reunited with all of her mates, or at least the one that mattered and it was only a matter of days.