Adenike (The Crown)

k. It was mild Dawn but a silenced night. The eart

ay. People already on their way to farms, some to the market, the children run

iy

o mu iy

toot

ọn ibukun t

pẹlu

ect as she danced beautifully to exerci

aling glances at her

i ụtọ na

happy with her Father. She stopped dancing,

ed her. She sighed

u both bombard me with

her left foot on the g

ou look like those troublesome

topped, unfolded her arms and

ami

call

d her Father, pop

. meaning

dy used since there were few or no

nothing con

It's been like this for ov

do your

ng along. She walked to the backyard of the hut and took her pot to

rth it. On her way she welcomed a lot of stares, no kiddi

mooth and flawless both in looks and personality. She was tal

you going to the st

lked closer to her only

firewood instead on our farm. I insisted on fet

icking on the piece of

s ok

g, if it's Chi, I know m

and they b

, did yo

pathway to be comfortable

l never

gist is very releva

IKE'

he sun was set and i wasn't b

g me details that we both weren'

ine is it if the king's firs

st

know he had mor

an outcast anyway so what

tand out, my ebony beauty doesn't help either

hen I heard footsteps, turned to look around and no one was there. I con

eam alone because I've heard stories

I wasn't a stranger of the land and I've

and moved it slowly. Someone s

n then found myself in the

, I could still see the stature of

an't

ater have his way. Different thoughts fi

't get back h

p I need Could the person b

have enemies, no

aughter of the land? But

nning out

me by my waist pulli

the ground but I was totally too

hest till I threw up all

nd coughing profusely

you o

tting on my

scare you and I didn't realiz

nded re

ine. M

hed with

ill the pot then brought

pots and I don't intend to, especially now t

et up and he

u" I smil

ump out on you like that

l coughing profusely. He beat me to it and c

amiliar, I've never seen him around. ma

I feel a little better now. Aside

started walki

me get the water home

be jocu

ped to

yourself be doing helping a mai

my gaze

p with cooking too with the

laughed again. H

unced like it is som

tream far from

ould get scar

lly.He dropped the p

sorry a

, I nodded and smiled. I stood watch

that yo

my mother's v

stream, he saved

ry unintentionally. She exclaimed

try to swim when y

ine mo

et back home,. I and your father

d, part

I would've perhaps gotten to the stream be

young man? Wha

nd I scratc

ow" she looke

tchen, your father will leav

ed before w

ask him his name, he also di

ot from the ground and trailed behind m

ring crowing of the early cocks meaning

r on my eye and stood up f

mother must be out to the marke

have such parents who bother

n without being asked or forced b

sometimes I wonder why they've made it a tradi

k one of the two brooms we have a

bed one would always wake up to dry

e compound before bedtime since it was no

nd dropped the broom

kaa

s. I stood up helping her

nd went ahead

ka ị

how I wa

ng pleasantries in one diale

m m

ore continuing

w I was going to struggle learning my local dialect co

id well in offering me both untill they insisted that

I'm grateful that I get to speak two

" She asked while taking

at the mar

y, I saw nn

water and I knew what

her usu

chuc

rried the baske

an be trouble when she wants to but

d her brother inherited mor

ll be waiting for me on the

e, I should hu

mornin

e waited so long and s

pleasantries before she

re" I w

cally indicating that only royals

lau

ic, I'm going to get my f

before

her gisting

soma talk to my mother. Mmesoma k

ore yesterday when I met that you

news of some Prince returnin

telling mother about

you still think

stoo

he village with the king's announcement... My dear

nd dragged Mm

e rumour and I ignored her, s

s go to the main

from here, this

ke you're in haste to

ing to bed but I on the other hand have a lot to do a

et's go to th

gave

am, we only went there to avoid going back home early at bad situations sometimes maybe after receivi

the name of the man

r saw Emeka with a maiden under

s we fetched water while I was busy roam

ik

led and

es

something or should

ould I be looki

soma tapped me on my back twice

e stood a bit from the

n't think I've eve

whispere

t out and dropp

here

before goin

tiful

smi

oung

staring deep at me, he

here today, I couldn't ge

iled s

back, his clothing beautifu

eni

id b

he meaning is beautiful and m

s at first and coul

ba?" He said

t a bad

eaction and was ready to

y.. it's just that you look too b

be w

Hem of my wrapper so I could co

ong... The East has a reputa

ll behind and his

meaningless argument over such mere

is words or argument will change who I'm p

is gaze to Mmesoma wh

friend, Mm

a, this

, he chuckled watching m

ice meeting

smi

o" she

They say it's rare to see two ver

and to his chest and b

smi