Queen, don't bother yourself they are never going to come; just forget it.
" Mom, what if they finally come? If I don't add them to what I am cooking, I shouted from the kitchen.
My mom replied He's always making those promises, and he never keeps them; later, he will call now, and I tell you that, work this, work that.
"Mom, I have a strong feeling that he will come; remember, he promised that he would be introducing his wife-to-be to us.
My younger brother, who was just walking in, asked if it was my brother that we were talking about, and my mom replied yes.
Brother James will never make it; he always disappoints, says my brother.
My mother says, please set the table; if you finish cooking, call your grandmother to come down and eat. Let me go and distribute goods to my customers, I will be back soon.
My mom left, and my younger brother came to meet me in the kitchen and said, Sis, let's bet.
I just turned and looked at him. Bet on what, he had this wicked smile on his face.
Boy, I don't trust you at all. What is that smile for? He didn't bother explaining; instead, he went ahead to ask me the question.
"Sis, are you in or out he said.
Ok, I am in; let us hear it.
Let's bet on brother James; I am betting that he won't come; I just look at him; who bets like that? You didn't even ask me if I was going to bet if he would come or not; you just chose and left me with one option. Anyway, I bet he will come.
He was just happy about the bet, and as he was about to leave, I called him to come back. I called him uncle in a teasing tone. Are we not going to add a price? I asked.
He just casually says that the loser won't eat his meat for three days, and the winner would do the person the honor of eating all.
I love meat a lot; I'm not sure that my brother would make it because he always comes home once in a blue moon. Well, I agreed, and then my younger brother left humming a song as if he had won the lottery; he was so happy that I started suspecting him, but I couldn't do anything.
Later that day at around 3 pm, my younger brother came down and was just throwing side talk. I hope some people won't cry if they lose their meat.
I can only stare at him. I went outside to call my brother to make sure he was coming, but alas! I was directed to voicemail each time.
Now I was restless; I was just pacing up and down in the living room when my mom walked in and asked me. Nne m, meaning (my mother), why are you pacing like someone who was duped?
Seriously, Mom, it's not funny at all, I said, frowning more. I then asked her if my elder brother called her. Yes, your brother called that he won't come today again, she said
I didn't know when I shouted aha, no now, he can't do that. My mother was stunned at my sudden outburst; she asked me if I was okay. I just said yes and went to check on what am cooking.
Inside the kitchen, I was almost crying cause I just lost my meat for three days. Then came my younger brother with a smirk on his face, telling me to take heart that some days are just like that, and I shouldn't have trusted that my brother would make it.
I just gave him a bombastic side eye, if eyes were guns, I probably would have shot him at that point.
With a crack in my voice, I asked him, what do you want, he said that our mother was calling me.
I went to answer my mother and she asked me to set the table for dinner. I said okay. I set the dining and called everybody to the dining for dinner.
As I was waiting for everybody to come down, my younger brother came to whisper to my ear that I should remember to give him my share of the meat, and I said I have heard, try rest abeg, I said in anger.
After everybody came down to eat, there was a knock on the door. We all looked at each other cause we were not expecting anybody else, so I ran to open the door, lol; it was my aunty and her children. I just sighed, then closed the door to go and sit down, then came another knock.
Because I wasn't happy, I shouted who is that now? As I opened the door, standing before me was my adorable, most handsome elder brother. I shouted once in a blue moon is here. You can all Imagine my younger brother's face.
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