MY MUM USED MY LAST 1K TO BUY BREAD, SADINE, AND PEAK MILK

So I just visited my mum 3days back. 

This afternoon, my mum entered my room to ask me if I had any money on me. I had 1k somewhere around. But it was my last cash. I knew if I gave her that money, I was not going to get it back. So I told her that I didn't have any money on me.

She didn't say anything to me. She just went out of the house.

This evening, she returned with Bread, Tin milk, sardine, and malt. I stood up from the bed and approached her. I was glaring at the whole enjoyment she had bought.

"Mummy where did you buy this enjoyment from?"

The woman just glanced at me and started opening her bread. She opened sardine and started complaining about how the fish has reduced. She opened the malt and turned the full peak milk inside the malt.

"Mummy where did you buy it now?"

"From the mosque. Chidera I bought it from the mosque."

I sat beside her and started licking my lips. My mother glanced at me and saw the way I was staring at the bread and sardine in particular.

"Chidera enter your room. Go back to sleep na." 

"Haba now. Mummy give me small. This bread is too big for you o."

She didn't respond. 

She carried bread, broke it in half, put fish inside, and took her first bite.

I swallowed saliva instantly. She drank the malt and turned towards me.

"Go back to bed. Go back and sleep."

I was angry, so I decided to pepper my mother too by going to buy my own enjoyment.

I started looking for my 1k. For 30mins now I have been searching the bedroom for my money.

Only me, my mother, and the two rats I saw yesterday evening are in this house. I have calculated everything my mother bought, it is 1k in total. 

Just when I started complaining, she called me and gave me bread and sardine. She said I should sip small malt to dilute the bread. 

Then she said to me.

"Your money is my money until you marry your wife. Anytime I ask you for money, give me money. If you don't give me now, when will you give me again? Why will you be hiding common one thousand naira when this kind of thing is hungrying me Eh? Oya chop small bread again. Add am with two sardine. I won't give you my malt, go and drink water and sleep. It is night."

My name is Praises Chidera Obiora and I am the best at what I do.

© Praises Chidera Obiora