My name is Titilayo Ogunyemi. I am the only girl of the four children
my parents gave birth to. The last child- baby of the family.
My dad is a neurosurgeon and works at the College of Medicine, Yale
University, USA. Which means he is not usually around.
My mum on the other hand is the Senior Special Assistant to the
Governor of my state on Women Affairs. She too is absent from home
most of the time.
If she isn't in Gambia with the Governor's entourage, she would be at
the state house immersed in the numerous intricating policies of the
state.
Now why am I telling you all this? It is only normal that I give you a
background knowledege of my background!
That sounds confusing isn't it?
Alright, let me begin my story before I bore you out of your skin.
Three years ago, four weeks before my eighteenth birthday, something
happened to me. Something that would eventually change my life
forever.
My uncle who had just concluded his first degree Psychology course in
the University of Michigan, was scheduled to come home that fateful
day. The day- Saturday, August 7, 2010.
As my two most senior brothers were away for the National Youth
Service Program to Kaduna and Ebonyi respectively, the luck of meeting
my uncle at the airport fell on the youngest of my brothers, Jide- my
immediate elder brother.
Jide arrived early from school, Babcok University, to freshen up and
get dad's LandRover jeep ready for the airport.
Uncle Bosun's (that was the name of my "Yankee" uncle) flight was
expected to arrive Nigeria arond 12:30pm.
Jide left the house for the airport an hour before Uncle Bosun's
scheduled arrival. I was busy with cooking and the general house
cleaning.
Hardly had I finished my chores to settle down with my canned
coca-cola and watch my favorite TV Drama series on DSTV, Tinsel, when
I heard Adamu, the gateman, open the gate.
I jumped up, adjusted the yellow "Hackett" top I wore with my black
jegging and ran down the stairs to help with the luggages.
Little did I know that I was running to another chapter of my life.
I was going to spend the night alone with my uncle from America.
Jide was going back to school; he had a 7:00am test the next day. Mum
was away with the Governor in Abuja and dad won't be back till the
first week of September.
......to be continued
(All characters in this story are ficticious. Any resemblance with
characters living or dead is purely coincedental)
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