Cosmic Editor

26  Groceries

Warning:

  This chapter and the coming ones will contain some words from pidgin. I will try to explain their meanings but most of them are pretty self-explanatory if you already know English.

  Pidgin is a mixture of English and local slangs that are usually shortened versions of English words or simply derived from them. E.g: 'Wan' which mean want, 'Dey' which means am, 'Una' which means 'You people' ======

  It wasn't some extraordinary dressing but thinking of it now, it was clear that it was something that he had probably never worn before. He was the type who didn't care much appearance, but apparently looks were more important than he thought.

"David, is that you?" a familiar voice called out from behind the door

"Yeah, i thought you'd be ready so we can go quickly" David replied as the door was opened

  As the door opened, David stood as he watched the young girl who stood at a height of about five feet or so. He didn't know her particular height, but he knew she was below six feet.   Fadila was a girl who he couldn't exactly say was up there in terms of beauty, but she was still beautiful, nonetheless. For a Nigerian in these Northern parts where everyone was basically walking charcoal.

  She could be considered a fair lady however at the moment, all that beauty was nowhere to be seen. She was still in her nightwear; her hair was well.... a few seconds from evolving into snakes.

"Standard Smallie" David said with a smile as she slapped his arm "Hmm, what happened, this one that you are dressed fine like this, did something happen... Hope you have not joined Kevin to do sporty?" She began as she gave him a piercing look.

  She knew him well enough to know his usual habits. David wasn't someone who would dress this fine especially when the goal of said outing was to simply go buy some groceries.   David simply stood as he watched the concerned girl ramble on about how bad betting and gambling or as she put it 'Sporty' was. From her expression, he could tell that she liked his change, but she also knew that men's clothes were expensive, and he usually doesn't have the money to buy such high-end clothes

"Don't worry, I no dey sporty, I don't even understand football" David answered

"Then what happened?... I know it's not ritual because who you wan use?" She said as she broke into laughter.

"Well, you're still here and Kevin, Chima... Omo una plenty"

"This boy no single atom of respect" she said jokingly as she slapped his arm again

  David simply laughed as he fell to the small couch in the small living room. Despite her wealthy background, the living room wasn't much. It only had the couch he was currently sitting in, the TV and some other decorations.

  He didn't expect much after all rent alone will render any normal man broke. Since he had time to kill, he quickly pulled out his phone to check up on how the game was doing.

  Scrolling through TikTok, he saw the usual videos and then more. Within just a few hours, there were now more streamers playing the game and all were intent on finding anything they could in the game.

"Nous how many downloads do we have now?" David asked [Roughly around 2.3 Million downloads] Nous replied almost immediately

"What?!" David shouted in shock

     It was a known fact that Renovatio was getting popular but he hadn't been checking the number of downloads in a long time now.

     Even after all his lavish expenses in the past few weeks, he still had about two billion Naira in his account so he had somewhat lost the enthusiasm to keep checking the number of downloads and all.

     Now his billionaire status was even more pronounced with over five billion naira simply sitting in his account.

"What happened?, why are you shouting?" Fadila asked as she stepped out of her room.

    Her hands could be seen by her ears as she tried to put on her earrings.

"It's nothing, are you ready now?" David asked as he changed the subject.

"Okay then, help me zip this up" she said as she turned her back for him to zip up the dress.

      Finally paying true attention to the girl before him, David stood stunned for a brejf second which Fadila clearly noticed as her cheeks slowly began to dye red.

"Damn, where did you hide all that figure?" David asked, clearly pleased with what he saw.

"Stop it" she said trying her best to act unaffected despite her face slowly turning red.

"Well at least now I know my wife-to-be is the full package" David said as he helped her with her zip. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

     For someone going to pick up groceries, Fadila was dressed too fine but who was he to complain. If he ever tried that, the council of men would never allow him be.

"So where are we going first?" David asked

"Next: Cash and Carry... where else" Fadila replied with a devilish smile

    David saw this and simply smiled, first things first, Fadila was currently wearing clothes that brought out her curves which meant, the boys will stare.

    Second, Next: Cash and Carry was a large supermarket that existed basically throughout the entirety of Abuja. It was a great place to go buy groceries in this pandemic but their prices were a bit too high.

"Okay then lets go" David said since he wasn't all that worried.

      If he wanted to now, he could buy the whole supermarket or company behind it now. It will leave him broke but he could now do it though.

"Okay coming let me order the Uber" Fadila said as she went to her room to grab her phone

     After a few seconds, she emerged from the room and almost immediately she began complaining about the prices for the trip.

"Three thousand naira for just Next: Cash and Carry, if we're going further, how much does I'll it be then?" She complained as she scrolled the app

"Don't worry, now let me show you what I wanted to show you" David said with pride as a big smile appeared on his face.

"Oh my god, what did you do this time?" Fadila said in a hopeless tone which made David smiled even more.

      He understood her reaction and it was understandable after all, he usually isn't that known for really great decisions

"Don't worry it's something you will like, follow me" David said as he began walking out of the apartment

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