It was a lovely morning. The weather have remained the same from last night. Though the rain ceased few hours before dawn but it was still cold everywhere. Everywhere looked bright and clean. The air had a mixture of different smell, both good and bad as a result of the rain. 
          Roselyn had a long sleep. This was normal for her whenever it rains, right from her tender stage she sleeps more when it rains. She felt very weak as she woke but that was a sign of a good rest. She stretched and headed to brush and as well ease herself. When she was done she came to prepare her breakfast, but before that her phone must be visited. She's been acquainted with her phone more than anything, especially of recent. There, good morning messages from Richard were already waiting for her response. Wow! she was starting the day with a smile from someone her heart throbs for. She hesitated to figure out what could befit the message. While replying She had a knock on her door and familiar voices. These were Susan and Fatima. She let them in.
"Hey babe, I don't believe you meant those words that day" Susan said to Roselyn. Roselyn did not respond. she was just staring emptily expecting to hear what exactly was their mission this time.
"Me too, I'm surprise. No calls, no visit, it's not fair. that's not how friends do. Friends can fight and still stick" This was Fatima.
"We know you have gotten another friend you spend time with but at least spare out thirty percent of that time for our friendship"
"Rosy we didn't believe you were so pinched by what we said to you that day.We came to see you in respect of that, Look, we were not trying to make choices for you or force you into something you detest. We thought we were doing what good friends should do. Protection I call it. But since it turned out this way, we are sorry. It was a mistake. That shouldn't end our relationship. And I'm using this opportunity to promise never to oppose your decision...."
"That's Okay" Roselyn said spontaneously, gazing at their faces as to confirm if they were sincere.
"Are you saying you have forgiven us?" Susan questioned.
"There's nothing to be forgiven about. You just ought not to do too much this time"
"Our friendship is back! " Fatima screamed.
"That doesn't mean i can't treat your fuck up anytime you loose guard"
"Abegi! Forget that one. Nothing of sort is ever happening again. Did you cook anything?"
"I knew it! you can't be this humble if you ain't paving ways to strike. I suspected this. You came for food not for what happened. I don't know how many times I need to remind you girls that this place is not a restaurant. I think you have to be going, it's still early to demand food" Roselyn joked but by then Susan was already going to check what was on fire.
"You should always appreciate us for managing your food. This way we make you feel like you know how to cook"
"Chimo! inukwa? " Roselyn exclamed in her language. meaning MY GOD! YOU HEAR? "Is this what I get from feeding the poor? You girls are very ungrateful. Do you know how much food stuffs cost in the market? Not just the cost, how about my efforts and skills i put in preparing it. See girls, if my food is that bad I beg you to always leave it for me"
"We will be hurting you. we know you don't mean it. See another reason I like eating your food is that you often prepare igbo foods and I like igbo delicacies" 
"Okay, as you can see there's water on fire, I want to make akamu. That's a general delicacy isn't it? Not igbo's food. You don't have to eat it. Is the same as the ones you have been eating"
"That's the more reason we need to taste it to know if your procedure makes it tastes different"
          There was noise on the corridor, like people chasing something. She went out to check. There she saw Agege and Flesh fighting over a plate of rice. They were dragging it.
"Agege you don't even fear that one day you might explode. Don't you for once consider your weight?" Roselyn, castigated.
"Tell him, Rosy" Flesh supported, making Agege to pause as though he was controlled with a remote.
"He doesn't pity me. He eats both his portion and mine. That's why I go dry everyday"
"False claims, Flesh. You are not different either. Even though you eat ten people's portions at a spot you will still maintain being a skeleton" This statement made Agege jeer knowing he wasn't facing the insult alone, while Flesh was disappointed instead. He thought Roselyn was going to support him all through.
"Uju, why?"
"Am I lying? Have you not been eating all your life, what shows? look at your flat stomach like someone starving for years. You shouldn't be eating, you are simply wasting the food"
"Tell him! I'm in support of that"
"Same goes to you Agege. You ought to have quit eating. You have enough stored in your body, I'm sure you can be sustained for the rest of the year"
        The two guys were now shocked that this lady came out just to insult them altogether. The looked at each other befuddled. Before they could fight words up she already shut the door.
"She's gone" Agege said
"This girl, she is lovely same way she has bad mouth. See how she finished us"
"Seriously. But I like her. She's fun and simple "
"I agree with you on that. If all girls were like her this world will be sweet. I envy her boyfriend. He is very lucky"
"They match. The guy too is a figure. good looking and .... he does behave cool. I like them together. I wish I have such a sweet life. Sometimes I wonder if I'm invisible to girls. They don't notice me at all. I have only guys as friends. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever find someone for marriage. This love of a thing is practically for a certain people"
"I have two of my friends around. I can pair you guys together" Roselyn said from the window. They were surprised she was eavesdropping on their conversation.
"No, those ones will kill us. They are not like you" Agege said.
"Then leave here. gossip men. I thought only ladies do such"
              Immediately they walked out giggling. From what she heard Flesh and Agege discuss about her revealed to her that her relationship with Richard was obvious to many and her joy is that they are saying good things about them which means she's not making any mistake. She felt satisfied to feel this special thing called love on a first trial. She wasn't forced to love him for any reason, not because she needs to taste love, not because her friends are dating and also not because she needs help or being persuaded by someone. She chose him because she found him perfect, she was ready, in fact she was not in control of the situation. She suddenly found herself falling everyday. And not pulling herself away from it, despite all doubts coming up was the best thing she's done. She sighed peacefully.
             When her friends were ready to leave. She saw them off. they walked down the street. It was a place where a single person would be acquainted with thousands of people especially extroverts, but Roselyn was the opposite. She's actually an introvert yet she has many calling, greeting and waving at her whenever she comes out due to her outstanding beauty. This also contribute to some of the reasons she doesn't like falling out in her street. She gets shy when it looks like everyone want to be her lover. Sometimes she tried ignoring some, but she consider that to be rude. So, the better option was to stay hidden.
             Susan did most of the greetings as the walked. Fatima saw two guys stand having a private conversation under a roadside tree.
"Some guys really have no choice. As ugly as that girl is this guy is humbly and wholeheartedly giving her sweet lines to woo her, ... of all girls" Fatima said. That got the other two to look.
"Guys? Very cheap set of humans with no choice. Just to go through the opening between those legs they can say or do anything. A guy can even tell you he will give you the world when he's actually squatting with someone or you mean the world to him when he virtually has countless girls on his list. if a guy tells you you are one in a million he actually means it. You are definitely one of the millions she deceives. Who knows what he is telling that girl? He could be telling her you are the most beautiful lady with the purest heart I have ever seen" Susan said and they laughed. Roselyn could not hold it back but joined.
"Do you realize ugly girls marry faster than beautiful ones?" Roselyn asked. 
"Maybe"
"Not maybe. See, guys see them to be easier to woo. less admirers or rivals to contend with, as one may call it, they stick to whoever gives them attention and loves genuinely. Some guys, to be honest doesn't plan a serious relationship with girls like this, they only want to have them around to help quench the urge when it rises but unfortunately they ends up taking in"
"Ugly girls are fertile. No matter how many protection you wear, just a tip of the mic touching the lips they have contacted pregnancy. Yes, I call it contact because the speed at which they get pregnant is unimaginable. Also ugly girls don't accept abortion. You must marry them because they can't combine being ugly with being a single mother. Their life will be totally messed up so they get a forced marriage which sometimes becomes perfect"
"You get the point Tima. Beautiful girls on the other hand feels like marriage or dating one guy is a bondage as they will be limiting themselves to some beautiful life out there. They need to enjoy life first, they want to taste every single thing life can offer, they want to find the best guy, they are well sought after so their value is still high in the market, They are too good for some guys. They make themselves too classic to afford. Some people hold back seeing their posh kind of lifestyle knowing they are way beyond their league. So, such ladies mostly marry in their thirties to forties, probably when they have become scraps" This made them laugh hard.
"Hope you are not talking to yourself? You know you should come to the mind of whoever knows you, as the first person when talking about beauty"
"Well, maybe. but I'm trying not to leave that kind of life"
"Babe, this life must be enjoyed. And that should be now, not when you get old. when you cannot walk, chew, see clearly or even do the sweet thing"
"What sweet thing?" Roselyn asked knowing she was becoming naughty.
"That thing of cause. You can't do it by then because you are beginning to malfunction like an overused electric device"
"So living a fake life for the reason that you want to enjoy is the best?"
"If that makes me happy" Fatima concluded.
             The conversation continued until Roselyn reach her end and reversed. She was coming alone with her head down trying to avoid gazes.
"Aunty, there's a big fight upstairs" This was from the girl that plaited her hair the other day, sounding happy as if the problem she was talking about was supposed to be a good news. What was she talking about? Roselyn asked confusedly. Although she could hear voices of people quarrelling, but what exactly could it be?.