FALLING IN LOVE WITH MY BEST FRIEND
CHAPTER 1
THE FIRE THAT BROUGHT OUR NEW NEIGHBORS
It all started with fire. The fire that burnt our neighbor’s house started in the middle of the day, the time when most people are at work. But there are those whose place of employment is the home, and thanks to one of such people, a major disaster was averted.
The first person to see smoke billowing from the visitor’s bedroom on the ground floor was the house help next door. The house that caught fire was between two houses: our house was on the left, and the house where this house help lived was on the right.
It was this house help, according to another neighbor, Mrs. Hassan, a retiree who lived further down the street, who began to shout:
“Fire! Fire! Somebody house dey burn o! Make una br
