"I wish I could travel back in time," Rekka said, smiling as she struggled to stand up from her bed. She just woke up after a long afternoon nap on a Sunday afternoon. "And may I ask why you've been smiling for almost ten minutes while sleeping?" her younger sister Tina said to Rekka after standing outside her room for close to ten minutes looking at her elder sister smiling while in bed. "Are you spying on me?" Rekka snapped at her sister, who was ready to leave her room's doorstep. "I wasn't spying, ma'am; I was passing by and your door was open, so I decided to check on you. Was that bad?" Tina replied and asked Rekka as he left for the living room.
Rekka stood up and headed to the living room, where she met Tina switching the television to different channels. "Sundays should be a special day; TV is supposed to be showing interesting movies," she said angrily as she dropped the remote control on the sofa where she was sitting. Rekka smiled and tapped Tina on her cheek, then sat beside her. After sitting, Rekka sighed heavily and said to Tina," Those generations in the 70s, 80s, and 90s sure had a nice year, unlike our generation when everything is disrupted." Tina looked at her in a confused manner; she was trying to understand what Rekka meant by her words.
"Why did you say that, if I may ask?" Tina said to Rekka. Their grandmother had come to visit a few days ago, where she spent two nights with the girls just to keep them company because their parents had traveled out of the country. "Remember grandma's last visit where she told us a story about her childhood and how she lived her life as a teenage girl? I had a dream about it this afternoon where I traveled in time to when grandma was a teenager," Rekka narrated to her sister Tina. Tina laughed hysterically and shouted, "Really! Tell me more, please," as she sat facing Rekka.
"I was a friend to Grandma during her teenage years; we are best friends, and we do things together, and everyone in the community knew us to be good friends. I was known as Abike while Grandma was known as Asake," Rekka said, smiling as she narrated her travel-in-time story to Tina, who had been laughing since Rekka started her story. "What's funny?" Rekka asked Tina, who was still laughing.Nothing, , sis I was just imagining how lovely it would be, please, Tina replied.
"Asake, a concert is being held today at the town hall. We will be going because the popular Apala musician will be coming to play," Abike said to Asake. "It's going to be an interesting event; what are we wearing?" Asake asked her friend Abike. Abike replied with a smile, "I'm thinking of the new oleku (native attire in the Yoruba tribe) we just sewed; that will be the best." Asake shouted and stood up from the chair she was sitting in and said, "No one has that design yet in this community, and we will go to our hairdresser to style our hair with those new old-school styles; it is one of the best hair-dos in our time."
After dinner that day, the two friends stepped out to go to the concert. As they moved closer to the town hall where the concert would be held, they saw a big flyer with the write-up, "Welcome to one of the biggest 80s concerts." The two friends shouted and hugged as they made their way into the hall, where a loud song of Ayinla Omowura was blaring from the hung speakers in the four corners of the hall. "We are here; it's going to be a wonderful night," Abike said to Asake. "But we have to leave early; I didn't want my neighbors to report to my mother when she is back from the neighboring village where she went to sell her wares," Asake replied to Abike, who was grossed by the song being played. They danced and had fun all night.
"This was my dream before I woke up; that was why I was smiling, like I saw grandma in the 80s and I was her friend; can you imagine that?" Rekka said to Tina, who was busy laughing and almost fell from the sofa. "Sister, so you are Abike while grandma was Asake; that's splendid, and you went to one of the biggest concerts in the 80s; who could have thought?" Tina said as she hugged her sister, who was smiling. "It was a nice experience. I wish I could travel back in time to that day in the 80s, but unfortunately, all was a dream," Rekka said as she stood up and headed to her room.