The Viral Gossip

CRITICAL SITUATION- TWO
     I took the brave step and gave the guy on black my number, and mum stared briefly at us before looking away with that knowing smile splayed on her lips.  A smile I later understood meant “you have to get burnt, so as to learn to dread fire.” and indeed I learnt the hard way, as there is no way to explain a first kiss that seems like your tongue is being vacuumed from your mouth like dirt.  In summary,  my first adventure taught me the clear difference between love and lust. And I soon figured out that finding the former (love), is as difficult as finding the H. O. D of my department when you need his signature.
       But after the whole ordeal, I picked myself up, as to me life continues and as a matter of fact the search for “Mr right continues”.  But just as soon as I decided to turn a new leaf and move on, I went to school. And with school came the first semester exams and with the first semester exams came room mates wahala; I mean the quarrels that run concurrently when your room mates bring up unnecessary  quarrels like they are on heat.
       But of course room mates come in various species, well two basically; they are either nice or not and so are their friends. And that was why on a Tuesday evening when my roommate's friend Riki walked into the room,  my head started banging  seriously like a panel beater was doing some serious work there,  as I prepared for the usual.
      Well,  Riki always likes to make an entrance which makes me most times wish she had someone to advise her otherwise. She cleared her throat as she dragged her feet that looks like the East and West wing on a compass as she made to sit on roommie's bed and the aura following her like the stench of rotten fish read “ gossip,  gossip incoming” and I looked away in disgust as she stared at me for a while,  but when she discovered that I showed no interest,  she changed to their native tongue nonetheless and I almost hissed aloud.
     The bad thing about gossip is that they tend to make the beautiful look ugly,  the positive look negative and every other thing unattractive.  And that was why I stared with my mouth agape when Kate walked up to me some days later and asked “ Tiana,  is it true that you told Riki I had an  abortion?”...