IN MERCY’S HOUSE.
the car moved into Mercy’s street, went straight to her gate and horned, Waiting for the gate man to come open the gate. Few minutes later, the gate opened and they drove in, parked at the garage and walked straight inside the house.
Mercy’s house was a very big one, a duplex. They have tenants who also own cars, the space for Mercy to park her mother’s car was not an issue because the garage where her parents do park their car were not the same with the one the tenant uses to park their cars. That was why mercy didn’t find it hard to park.
IN THE PAR-LOUR,
This time around, Mercy’s parents where no longer watching a comedy movie, they had changed the current TV channel to a news channel when Mercy must have left to meet Kelly.
"Government should do something about this issue before the people do something dras..."
The sound of an opening door distracted her from completing her statement.
MERCY:hi mom, hi dad
KELLY:good afternoon mom, good afternoon dad.
the both girls greeted as the parents responded.
MRS BENITA: oh how are you my children? They answered while her husband responded to their greetings as well.
MR FRANK: how are you both doing? He asked with his face as usual. Always looking serious.
MERCY: we are fine, we came home to prepare for the party.
she said as she held Kelly’s hand and went straight to her room.
Mercy’s father was a politician, but he was also a business man. He believes in this word that says “time is money”, he believes that keeping a serious face always will make people respect and fear him and never take him for granted. Even at his work place in the house of Assembly, the Governors and his colleagues who were greater than him in rank do respect him not because they were scared of him or he has money more than them but because they saw him as one who is disciplined, focused and talks less.
For example if they were in a meeting at the house of Assemble, while the others would be busy arguing about a particular issue, he keeps calm without uttering a word not until they were done arguing. He would actually make a point, a reasonable one at that. And finally, they ends up adapting to his suggestions. Most of the time, his opinions were been considered than that of his colleagues which made some of them to feel bad.
Secondly, he actually likes the state of his face because he felt that his face scares his enemy away.
MERCY’S ROOM,
Mercy’s room is huge, looking as if she shares the room with someone. Kelly would not actually be surprise if Mercy had asked her to come live with her for some time because the room could contain more than one person.
Her room was well beautified, painted with dark pink and dark purple. The two walls facing each other were painted pink while the two other walls facing them selves were painted with purple, making the room look so spectacular. In the room, her bed was at the middle , a fancy table and chair where she normally uses to read and do her assignment was placed beside her bed. A glass wardrobe by the side of the room close to the door, leading her to her bathroom. There were 3 windows in her room and with a beautiful curtain with pink co-lour and on the walls were different kinds of stickers. Both Dora, barbie, spider man, bat man, frozen, PJ mask etc. Any type of sticker you could look for were sticked on her wall.
As they entered inside her room, they started dressing up but Kelly was not surprised with the way Mercy’s room looks because she had actually been there countless times.
MERCY: do you need some make up on your face?
KELLY: not really, i just need powder and wet lips. i am not ready to seat down for minutes just to make up.
MERCY: are you sure you don’t want any make up? You might meet an old friend oh.
KELLY: no don’t border, i am okay with the powder and wet lips maybe next time.
MERCY: OK then if you say so. Let me quickly apply a little on my face. Just wear your cloths and take the powder and wet lips and let me makeup a little bit.
KELLY: OK just be fast before i change my mind over this party of a thing.
MERCY: you won’t dare, after the dress, the makeup i am about to apply, the stress in the shopping mall, after everything? You will not even dare me. I will so beat you u….
KELLY: (she interrupted) beat who? You can’t even kill a fly or have you forgotten what happened at St Andrews? She gazed at Mercy with a smile on her face.
MERCY: it’s true oh. Those children really wanted to deal with me, if they had succeeded, my father would have been mad at my mom because he wasn’t in support for me to go to that school not because of the standard but because of the population.
KELLY: but thank God for the super woman that came to your rescue and thank God we knew each other.
MERCY: what is this one feeling li…. ?
" time up, stop talking and concentrate " said Kelly. Mercy then obeyed the super woman in-front of her and did what she was asked to do. She designed her face within 1 hour, wore her cloth, applied a red lip stick which added more beauty to her natural beauty but still yet, Kelly was still beautiful without much makeup.
MERCY: wake up! i am done. just carry that silver hand bag beside you while i carry the one hanged on the chair. The sleepy girl stood up, hanged the silver bag and then they both left for the party after giving Mrs Benita and Mr Frank a good bye wave and peg.
INSIDE THE CAR,
MERCY:look your hair is messy, take the comb inside my bag, use it to comb your hair.
Kelly collected the comb, combed her hair as the car took off.