Bounded By A Deal

Chapter 11

Isabelle's POV

The past weeks had gone by quickly. It didn't even feel like we had written the mid-term exams about four weeks ago. Presently, it was the week before the final exams of the term and I was at Bryan's house with Ashley. We were invited by Mrs. Adaugo, who sent a driver to our house to pick us up.

Over the past few weeks, Ashley and I had been visiting the Adegun house regularly, while Bryan and Flora paid visits to our house as well.

I looked at my watch, it was 11:41 a.m. I hadn't even had breakfast yet and it was almost afternoon. Sha, I was going to have breakfast made specially by Mrs. Adaugo so it was guaranteed that my late breakfast would be worth-while.

"Happy Saturday girls!" Mrs. Adaugo beamed as soon as she saw us in the living room. She had just come out of the kitchen holding a tray of refreshments, filling the living room with the amazing smell of home-made pastries.

She dropped the tray containing two cups of steaming hot cocoa and two ceramic plates filled with chocolate cookies and two slices of chocolate cake for each plate, on the stool in front of us. "I'll go and call Bryan and Flora. Just wait a moment!" After saying that, she sashayed upstairs to supposedly call her children.

"Isabelle. Between our house and this one, which of them is bigger?" Ashley asked ignoring the mouth-watering breakfast in front of her.

"How does that one take concern me now?" I asked.

"I was just wondering. They look like they are the same size sha oo." She looked around the living room, examining the almost empty space.                                                                                  

The living room was just as big as ours, its architectural design was quite similar to ours as well, in an unnoticeable way. The only difference was that our living room, and house in general, had a better interior, our house had more items around. Our house always had a lot of items around even before it was renovated.

 Their living room, however, just contained a set of modern sofas, three marble stools beside each sofa, a television and speaker set, and of course a center table. There were no frames of any kind to adorn the boring ivory-colored walls, no artistic objects or sculptures. For people that were billion-naira rich, or at least, million-naira rich, their living room, and house, was pretty plain.

"Why didn't daddy sell our house and buy a smaller one those times when things were hard?" Ashley asked suddenly.

"Ashley, it is none of my business. All of that is in the past now. Don't bring it up!" I warned.

"'Don't bring it up' says the person that told me to never forget where I am coming from." 

"That does not apply in this context."

"Hi Belle!" Bryan greeted as he descended from the staircase. He sat beside me on the sofa and wrapped his left arm around my shoulder. "How has your weekend been so far?"

"My weekend just begun?" I stated but it came out more like a question. "It's just Saturday Bryan and I'm at your house, and... I'm pretty much spending a good amount of my day here in your house. Therefore, the answer to your question depends on what happens here."

He gave me a confused look. "Okay? There was no need for the long explanation though. And the use of the word 'therefore'? Come on Belle, we've not yet started writing exams. No need for the exam spirit.

He chuckled and I smiled. I leaned towards him, resting the side of my head on his neck. Dating has actually been amazing. These few weeks of dating Bryan were definitely the best weeks of my life. I've been so much happier and... energetic. Our classmates have even found out about our relationship, the news of our relationship has reached the whole class, surprising some people who saw me as the holy-holy type who would be single till university or perhaps till after university.