16 THE LIONS DEN

HADIZAT The next morning, I woke up feeling rather apprehensive. One voice was telling me not to go and the other kept pushing me to go, “It’s going to be an adventure,” the little voice said. Whatever, I hurriedly jumped out of bed, carried my bucket to go follow the queue. If it wasn’t a sign from God, then I don’t know what it was, the line was very short, it was as if everybody planned to sleep in and not wake up early. I bathed, dressed casually, and I hurriedly took my breakfast because I didn’t want to be late on my first day at work. Finding the house was no walk in the park, it was damn stressful. I forgot everything Kenny said as I knew I would. I finally got there few minutes to eight. Thank God for bikes, they could move through traffic easily. I took in a deep breath. “Breath, relax, breath,” I repeated silently as I entered the big house, or mansion- mansion suits the building better. I knocked on the door and a lady welcomed me with a smiling face. She wore a pi