Hearts Entangled

from sleep, was the cold. Jinna sat up, her palms rubbin

t balmy and stiff

ad fallen asleep listening to her roommates gist, while it rained heavily outside. She had slept

d on the bunk edge, s

posture, that seemed more fetal than sleep-like, as if she hadn't yet left the womb and clearly had no plans of making any womb e

drip! drip!", Sound of rain drops hitting metal outside

, had no lectures. Friday mornings were secretly termed the beginning of campus weekend because most lecturers never showed up on those days and even if they did, most of the studen

ledge to study in such an expensive state school was something she could never afford. She had a goal to help her family and

she came out. Totally devoid of

y strewn across like some one had emptied a whole dust bin on the corridor. Not just emptied but had evenly distributed the dirty contents across the whole passage length of the corr

the corridor, since no one was awake yet and th

hell every morning. Girls even walked naked to their rooms without towels a

n", a sharp pitched voice c

cket of water beside her. Her eyes bored through jinna's body, the way men looked at her lustfully. In a way that felt like they we

hat Fikemi would look away or do something else but she

d again. This time she

our hair?.", Fikemi asked

o that at home"

croaked, looking a little surpris

am", Jinn

still have a lot of food s

my parents. It's been long". She re

nt. She watched Jinna scoo

ou come back?, She

ecturer will be by 9am. I'll leave th

ated. She looked disturbed. "

smiled

suprised

re anything wrong

eplied ignoring her question. It w

t a reply either because they both knew why and they feared talking about it. Jinna feared talking about it. Fi

ied any ways . It was

" N

a cord. Fikemi's cord and she

after she had tied her towel. Fikemi's face was

won't wai

, it's too c

", she

on contact with the skin if it were not washed out immediately. Jinna preferred to wash with dettol when it happened. Fikemi's dettol was on a

eturned for the first semester of their second year. She had become more mutable. Fikemi was never like that and Jinna hated to see her develop such moods. The moods that usually came w

later than most people she met earlier. Fikemi had come two weeks after she had met A

ical thick hair like her. The reason why she called her" Hair twin", sometimes and the so calle

ily opened up to her. She told her about the little conflicts her parents had seemed to always have before she even came from to the university. The trust issues that exis

the big break with her father. She couldn't believe that their family could go broken. That she would never really spend time with her father, her little brother or her mother again. That her

much more better. Fikemi was fun, caring,happy and naughty. Even more

way that she barely noticed being used to Fikemi. Taking everything

mood , even when Jinna told her to stop she would continue so that Jinna could get mad at her but it didn't always work Jinna secretly

d seen the way Fikemi shuddered when they climbed the stairs. The way her grip tightened in her hand

ise of endless chatter. Of bees buzzing at the same time, of everyone talking at the same