The Cracked Sun

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Whoever supplied the sand during Ivy’s creation deserves a proper year behind bars. No water, no food. Her fair skin is buttery, radiant even under the multicoloured disco light, and if an hourglass was human, it’d be Ivy.

I know she feels their shifty eyes on her; her numerous admirers – old, drunk men who’d rather waste their time at a bar, ogling a nineteen-year-old while their poor wives slave away in dingy kitchens, or in small stalls outside their shabby homes.

Ivy’s soaking up the attention. She’s taking my place.

I must be invisible now, like a small stone tossed into a river, or an ant in a city of giants.

My eyes leave Ivy to follow the lean waitress dragging her feet against the rough, concrete floor, my neighbor, Lucy. With just one foot outside the door, she empties the bowl of dirty water she’d picked up from the table next to ours.

“Oga, please don’t be angry,” she says, her high-pitched voice suppressed by the cacophony outside; car honks, generator sounds, music blaring from large speakers, drivers throwing insults at each other, and pedestrians laying curses on drivers. Bawain Street is chaotic.

I crane my neck, fighting the darkness to get a glimpse of whom Lucy was speaking to, but Ivy’s laughter draws me back in. She’s running her hands over her shapely figure. “All I need to become the next big thing on instagram are these,” she says, apparently forgetting that brains are also needed in most cases.

“So, you both are actually serious about becoming instagram influencers?” Sharon asks before raising the green bottle to her red-painted lips. Her mother’s lip-stick I’m sure; last I checked, we both couldn’t afford a sachet of water.

Ivy bats her eyelids, running her stubby fingers through the red braids draped over her right shoulder. “Aren’t we curvy enough?”

“Of course, we are!” Amara pipes up, taking a sip of her chocolate yoghurt. It leaves a trail over her upper lip, its colour almost blending seamlessly with her skin. “We will give them!”

What exactly does she mean by ‘we’?

Amara has my mum’s physique, as straight and flat as a door, does that also qualify as curvy now?

I fake a cough for the fifth time, and again, none of them look my way. Dragging a deep breath, I fill my lungs with the thick smells hanging in the humid air – roasted fish and cigarette smoke. Determined to get their attention, I try a different approach, “you both will never make it that far,” I say, and like magnets, their eyes find me.

A small rush of dopamine pulls my lips into a smile.

“Kaira, what’s the meaning of that?” Amara asks, moving her glass to the side as if it stopped her words from reaching me.

The plastic chair scrapes against the concrete as Ivy stands to her feet. “Sharon, I told you I didn’t want Kairaluchukwu here but you insisted we call her.”

My palms swing open. “What have I done?” I alternate my glasses between three of them. “I wasn’t even being serious.”

Three small taps fall on my shoulder and I look up to meet Lucy’s wide eyes.

“There’s a man outside. He asked me to call you,” she whispers to me, ignoring the girls’ ongoing complaints. “But if you’re not expecting anyone, I don’t think you should go.” Lucy spares a glance at the door. “There was just… when I spoke to him I just felt…”

“Afraid,” I say, completing her words.

I believe I know this man.

And I also felt fear when he followed me home last night.

To be continued…

About Author:Kristine Ukagwu, is a Writer and storyteller based in Nigeria, trying to make sense of the beautiful chaos that’s life. she is currently a medical student pursuing an MBBS degree, she hopes to unite her passion for wellness with the burning desire to creatively express life. In her spare time, Kristine can be found listening to music, dancing, or huddled in a cozy corner with a good book.

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