Bus Life Series (Shola’s Story)

 

Shola was always stunned by the beauty of Lagos in its moments of chaos, it made her realize how minuscule she was in the large scale of things. She was faced with such chaos now, as she entered the bus that would take her to the mother she had never seen. She had abandoned her young when she was barely old enough to gaze at her voluptuous behind as she stooped under the wooden door, hanging on to the frame for its life, in the dead of the night, while her father snored away, clueless as always. Papa had always gone about the world like he was a temporary visitor and this allowed her to have an adventurous childhood filled with much mischief. But now she had grown not just physically but mentally into a decisive young woman who had made her choice. She would go to her mother and that was that.

To be continued……