<p style="text-align: center;">Page Three: The Twin </p><p><br/></p><p>Dear Diary,<br/></p><p>I’ve always thought life is funny because the moment you stop doing the things you normally do, only a few people actually notice.</p><p>Honestly, I never expected these people to care about me like that.</p><p>I had been keeping to myself lately. I wasn’t really doing much, I didn’t feel like talking to anybody and most of the time I just wanted everybody to leave me alone.</p><p>Then someone asked me if I was okay.</p><p>I said yes.</p><p>Then another person asked me the same thing.</p><p>At that point, I started wondering if I was looking that miserable. 😭</p><p>But I can’t even lie, it was nice knowing that people actually noticed when something was wrong with me.</p><p>Although, there was actually a reason I had been acting like that.</p><p>My period.</p><p>And this one was doing too much.</p><p>The next day came so fast, and that was how I dragged myself to school with the worst mood swings. I kept praying that my belly wouldn’t start hurting because it had already been three days and I was honestly tired. 😭😭😭</p><p>I just wanted to survive school and go home.</p><p>But during break, my stomach started hurting.</p><p>Omoo.</p><p>I didn’t want to talk to anybody, so I went outside and sat on one of the school benches to get some fresh air.</p><p>I was dying.</p><p>I was just there holding my stomach when the twin came over.</p><p>Yes.</p><p>The twin.</p><p>And before you start asking why I keep calling him that, we had never actually spoken before.</p><p>Not once.</p><p>I had seen him plenty of times, obviously, but we had never talked.</p><p>Which is actually funny because after I found out his brother already had a girlfriend, I legit said I would go for the twin. 😭</p><p>I was joking.</p><p>At least I think I was.</p><p>He asked if I was okay and I told him my stomach was hurting.</p><p>The next thing, he was helping me get to the school clinic.</p><p>And before anybody starts thinking I suddenly became a damsel in distress, please calm down. 😗😗</p><p>I was in pain.</p><p>There is a difference. 😭<br/></p><p>BUT</p><p>I can’t ignore the fact that he was handsome mennnn. 🫠🫠</p><p>And his hand on my back while he was helping me walk??? Whewwwww. It was giving novel vibes. 😗 Walahi, I suddenly forgot how to act normal. 😭 He was so close to me, and that oud he was wearing??? Goddd. It smelled so good. It was giving all these rich Hausa boys nepo vibes. 🫠</p><p>Omoo. 😭</p><p>And meanwhile, I was looking like shit.</p><p>My goshi was very big and the kajal I wore had smeared all over my eyes, making them very black. I resembled winch. 😭😭😭</p><p>I can’t breathe.</p><p><br/></p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/IMG_7700.jpeg"/><br/></p><p>I think this is going to be my love story soon. 🙂😩😩<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Forget everything I said and imagine that I was looking so beautiful and sexy at that moment. Imagineeee. 🙂🙂🔪🔪🔪</p><p>I don forget say I get menstrual pain.<br/></p><p>Salma, focus. 😔</p><p>I thought I wanted to buy land. 😭<br/></p><p>Look at me here thinking about somebody’s son.</p><p>Land, Salma. LAND. 😔</p><p>Sooo as soon as we got to the clinic, I remembered the last time I was there.<br/></p><p>Omo.</p><p>That day.</p><p>I had vomited, fainted and embarrassed myself in front of everybody, and then the doctor started asking me if I was sexually active and when my last period was.</p><p>I remember just staring at him like…</p><p>Sir?</p><p>I came here because I fainted.</p><p>Why are we discussing my sex life?</p><p>So when I got to the clinic this time, I was already preparing myself for another round of questions.</p><p>But thankfully, there was no weird questioning this time.</p><p>I just got checked and was told to rest.</p><p>Thank God.</p><p>Because I honestly did not have the energy to sit there and start explaining my entire life again. 😭</p><p>And somehow, out of all the people that could have found me sitting outside in pain, it had to be the twin.</p><p>Life is actually very funny.</p>