Too Small Tola and the Three Fine Girls by Atinuke
Author:Atinuke [Atinuke; Iwu, Onyinye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781406331325
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2022-07-04T00:00:00+00:00
âNonsense,â Mrs Abdul says loudly. âYou would have died without that medicine.â
âDied!â Grandmummy protests. âWho are you calling dead? I lay down yesterday and I will get up tomorrow.â
Mrs Abdul sucks her teeth.
âMama Mighty, you have been lying there for almost two weeks!â she snaps.
âTwo weeks!â Grandmummy sits up again looking horrified. âTwo weeks!â
She looks at Tola and Moji and Dapo again.
âYou have been managing alone for two weeks,â she whispers.
Then she holds her arms out to them.
âCome here,â she says.
Tola and Dapo and Moji drop their pots and pans and brazier and sacks and rush forward into Grandmummyâs arms.
Next morning Grandmummy is still too weak to get out of bed. But she takes charge.
âThis morning,â she says, âMoji must go to school!â
Moji claps her hands happily. She has missed her lessons. She has missed the quiet. She has missed her friends. And she has missed the air conditioning!
âTola and Dapo, you must go to work now before you miss the morning customers,â Grandmummy continues.
Tola stares at Grandmummy. Grandmummy looks at her sadly. Tola loves school too. Grandmummy knows that!
âBut what of me?â Tola whispers.
âYour school is not like Mojiâs,â Grandmummy says sadly. âIt does not guarantee you a job. And if Moji loses her scholarship at her fine-fine school, then we will always be struggling to eat.â
âSorry, Tola,â Moji whispers.
Tola turns away. She loads the pans on her head without a word. Dapo does not complain. But he does not help either. When they get to their place on the Ikorodu Road he wanders off to the mechanicâs.
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