Zee's Diary: The Unbreakable Four
You're right, that's my girls and I. We were nicknamed the Unbreakable Four in our third year in the university. Temi, Sheila and I met in the university. Layo and I had been best friends forever. Layo and I studied Law, Temi studied Mass Communication and Sheila studied English and Literary Studies. We met during church dinner in our first year, and that was where we started from.
Temi was from a well-to-do family. Her father was a journalist- the type we see on TV regularly and become familiar with. Her mother was a businesswoman. She used to fly in and out of Dubai just the way Malik and I used to zoom in and out of my mother's shop when we were little. Temi chose to study Mass Communication because she loved her father's job. I used to envy her for being so opportuned to have a choice. She was living the life I desired, and this made me admire her. Getting closer to her, she felt like a sister I never had. Temi became a journalist just like her father, and began doing so well for herself.
Sheila was one of those hustlers on campus who used to sell so many things. The second time I met Sheila, she was persuading a lady to buy a white shirt from her. It felt so funny because I didn't think I could ever do that. Her mode of persuasion made me buy the shirt from her. I loved being friends with Sheila because she was strong-willed and gave off good energy every single time. She was industrious and made good use of every opportunity she got. She studied English and Literary Studies because she couldn't meet the cutoff mark for Law. After her first year, she accepted ELS with open arms. She graduated as top in her class. Sheila did her Masters and PhD in New York and became a lecturer in one of the private universities in Nigeria. She was 25 when she got her first lecturing job. I loved to call her The Blueprint.
Layo was my coursemate and this made being best friends even easier. She was one of the best students in my class. She was able to balance school with several social activities. So unlike me whose social life is dead as a result of being forced to study a course which I didn't desire to. Well, Layo made school easier for me. We burnt midnight candles together, and that was the highlight of our friendship. We used to spend more than half of our days together. Layo was more like a sister to me because we spent childhood together, then university. She worked as a legal consultant in one of those big firms in Abuja. She literally dined and wined with the nobles in the society.
And then there's me. I work with the biggest NGO in Abuja, and I also am the host of a major radio show.
Temi and Sheila graduated before Layo and I. It was such a tough time for us because how could we live without each other. But as life would have it, only Layo and I live in the same city. Despite the distance, we are still the Unbreakable Four.
The Unbreakable Four was a name we chose in our third year in the university. We decided to participate in a contest, and one of the categories was for duos. We went around to gather votes, and on the day winners were announced, we realized that we were popular. Neither of us knew how this happened, but if we didn't put up a picture of us for the contest, we probably wouldn't have gotten up to ten votes. We were called on stage to speak about our friendship and I was shocked. We had so many wonderful things to say about us. We won a cash prize of NGN100,000, which we shared amongst ourselves equally. We contributed NGN2,000 each, which we used in cooking a very nice pot of jollof rice. We ate like the big women that we were. How we spent the rest of the money is a mystery because one month later, we were back to eating spaghetti and boiled eggs.
Well, that's just one of the numerous memories we had as friends.
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