Torns

Episode 22

She met her parents’ stare. Their look seemed to say ‘What are you doing here?’ She turned her head and met her sisters’ glare. They were not happy to see her either. For as far back as she could remember, her parents preferred her absence whenever they were entertaining guests.

“Is she your sister?” he poked his fiancee on the shoulder.

A pretentious smile replaced the angry look, “Oh yes, my younger sister,” she glanced at him.

“Unbelievable!” his shocked gaze scanned her, “Why is she so fair and… and so thin? No resemblance whatsoever?” turned to his fiancee.

Funmike eyed him.

Foluke coughed, “She is the carbon copy of an old aunt.”

“Oh… I get it now. Recessive Genes.”

“Come darling, we are running late,” she held him by the elbow and stirred him towards the front door.

He threw her a final glance and followed his fiancee out.

Funmike watched them leave. He wasn’t the first person that had been perplexed about her non-existent resemblance with her family.

He won’t be the last either.