Chapter 168 - The Human Girl, Aderonke

The girl with the all-back braid hairstyle commonly plaited in the Western Part of Nigeria stretched from the bed and yawned out her sleep as her eyes flipped open. 

She had a somewhat oval face except that it had a strong edged squared jaw at the bottom of the face. She had some little freckles just under the side of her black hooded eyes, on the cheeks. Just underneath her eyes were some marking of black that appeared as though it had been painted there and freshly too, on purpose due to how strong the black hue was. Her nose seemed somewhat elongated than normal and her lips were luscious and looked very parched. 

Her hair had some stray strands that made the whole a hairstyle she had on rather messy. Just beside her was a black hair net on the blue and white polka dot pillow which she had her head on. It depicted that she was a rough sleeper being hat she had actually removed her hairnet as a result of her tossing in the bed. 

She had on her body a while vest, baggy in form while her lower half was dr.a.p.ed in just stone jeans blue bum shots, a term used to classify a pair of very short pants usually worn by ladies. She lay on the bed, sprawled in a spread-eagled position, the right legs wide apart. Her skin has a chocolatey hue to it, and despite the freckles on her face, the skin is rather neat and appears well taken care of. Her bedspread which had been crumpled and rumpled all over the bed and under her has a polka dot colour of blue and white, the white being the dots. But due to the way it is rumpled, other parts of the bed which are at her head side and feet side do not have any covering of the bedspread. There is a duvet of brown, soft material from the way it looks but it appeared as though it had been balled up and shoved towards the wall. 

The weather had been hot and in recent times, the harmattan season had decided to resurface itself. This meant that the mornings were going to be very cold that the lips would appear frozen and then break while in the afternoon, the weather would rise to insane heights. It was due to this fact that she had not bothered to use any of the bedspread or the duvet to cover herself as it had been hot, despite the black standing fan in the room had been blowing rather consistently. 

Her bed was the top layer of a double bunked bed. The bunking was made of polished brown wood with a barricade erected just at the end of the bed with the intent of guarding her against sleeping ad rolling over to the ground. The bed frame was against the wall and so, the place was her head was to was against the wall, just a little away from the top of the window bar. 

She stretched again and then sat up, stretching her hands in an attempt to touch her spread legged toes. She did touch them, although with a bit of some straining. After that she sighed and then put her hands to support her on the bed, behind her. 

Her black eyes darted left and right. The first place she looked up to was to the wall adjacent to her. It was just about 12:13am but she had already gone to sleep. Actually, the house rather early on the days when the power holding company did not distribute the electricity as at when expected. But if it was done properly, they would have been up for longer. 

"Uhm… Why did I wake up now?" She asked herself, scratching her head with her left hand. "It is not because they brought the light now, right? I mean, they brought it since and I woke up to switch on the fan so, why did I wake up now? I feel like I have forgotten to do something." She grumbled to herself. 

Just after her was the stairs with which she used to get to the top bunk. After that was the brown doored wardrobe and then the wall on which the clock had rested on. The wall led on straight to the doorpost, the door itself being ajar, its hinges on the opposite wall to herself. 

Her room was simple. Or so it appeared. It was the room that she shared with her siblings. Just after the door was a cabinet, big and fancy and some of the drawers were left open, items like books and clothing spilling out of them. It was messy most of the times except when she had the time to yell at them or when her parents had decided the room was untidy enough. 

Usually, when she would wake, her eyes would go to survey the length and breadth of the room as during the times when she had left the room to have an early sleep, she could almost swear that her siblings would wreck some disaster in the rom before she woke. So, it had become a part of her to survey for anything amiss just so she would know how to go about =t her way later the day. 

The same wall on which the head of the bunk is placed against, just before the window. After the survey of her eyes, she sighed. 

'Room looks neat today. At least you guys slept early with us too." She mentioned and then shoved herself over to the steps of the bunk which she took and then walked down to level ground. 

Just by the side of her stairs was a neatly arranged shoe cabinet but then a doll gown was placed at the foot of it while some toy combs and whatnot used for fancy doll dressing were just against it. She peered closer at the shoe cabinet only to shake her head at the sight of some miniature plastic shoes, no doubt, the shoes for the doll that they had laced with. 

"You girls eh!?" She muttered, walking around the rack and then coming to the bed, the lower bunk where her siblings were. 

In contrast to her, the two of them were all wrapped under the blankets. The girl frowned and gave a funny face at the sight of them, seeing as sweat beads formed over at their temples. The faces of the girls depicted that they were in their young ages, the both of them arguably less than 10 in age, having rather innocent faces. And the both of them, fair complexioned, had a hair cap of native material Adire over their heads.

"If someone did not know you guys now, they would think the both of you are angels, eh!" The girl said and then stretched over them to pull the blanket of their bodies. "Just don't go and suffocate yourselves. Every time, always covering yourselves."

With the covering pulled and rumpled at their feet, the girls adjusted themselves as the air from the fan began to touch the now. They both had silk white night gowns on and were not tall enough for their legs to touch the end of the bed.

After doing that, the girl straightened up and then stretched her hands, holding the elbow of her left as she did so. Then, she tuned around, making her way to the door. 

She stepped out, walking into the corridor or passage that was just about the outside of her room. Outside now, there was another door which was directly opposite to their room door. The insides of the room were dark, the light bulb had been turned off. 

To her right was the doorpost but after that was the end of the corridor. Not end, per say. 

Rather, it had a door which was just in line with the restroom door. The door itself was shut closed but from the spacing between the door and the doorpost, a piece of the green linen curtain was trapped in it.

"Pretty sure those girls did not bother to check the door after closing it." She grumbled again as she made for the door to open it. As she did that, she pushed back the curtain and then shut the door now.

"Aderonke, is that you?" A voice called from the dark room, the sound of it making her pause before turning around.