My first sin in this life was to think I was loveable.

I was still new to the neighbourhood so to the other school children I was an alien. That was until I became friends with this other girl, I’ll call her Cookie. Cookie looked like a dream, no lie. Her voice, her petite body, her sweet smile that ran all the way to her small black eyes. She was perfect. To top it off she changed hairstyles weekly. Now that’s awesome, or so I thought.

I found out there was more to Cookie that meets the eye, she was a real good human. After a while though she started changing on me. She became rude and would always want to outshine me. My sin? I let her. I let her do anything to me. I didn’t defend myself. I was scared to lose her; I mean, she had done a lot for me by that time. She was pretty too, what were people going to say? I just couldn’t.

I can’t exactly get into detail with Cookie and me, but all you need to know is that she wasn’t who she said she was. She changed up on me. She often lied to get her way. She was a sucker for attention. She left me for the prettier girls. I hope her inability to stay true to herself ki…

“Anelisa, stop what you doing and come downstairs!”

Oh flip! That’s my mom, I’ll continue the story some other time. All you need to do for me so long is keep on the lookout for Cookies in YOUR life!”

“Ndiyeza mama!”

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