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'Pee Time' by Fu'ad Lawal

​It’s weird how I know everyone’s pee time.

Tola wakes at ten minutes to three. Lulu gets up at three-thirty-one every night. I know because the blue tick on her Whatsapp says she read my message.

Abu lives a world away from Jenny, my Londoner friend, but they still wake up the same time to pee. Three-o-one. They have nothing in common, but they manage to wake up around the same time.

Every single day.

“Why are you still awake?” Dami asks as he has asked every night for as long as I can remember.

“lol. you know na. I can’t sleep.” No one smiles when they say lol these days.

“lol. You need bae in your life.”

It’s amazing how everyone thinks finding a lover is the solution to everything. You just find a person and all your problems disappear. Does it disappear or does it just go into hiding and then resurfaces six months later when you can no longer stand the person you once thought you loved?

“If I don’t reply, it means I’ve fallen asleep.” It’s routine. Everyone falls asleep on me.

“Don’t worry, my battery is almost dead so that would be two of us.”

He lols again. I dunno if it’s because he has nothing to say or he knows I have a full battery and I’m only lying.

“Goodnight.” Morning is almost here but I say it anyway.

Day slips into night, every day, and I’ve slipped from wakefulness to sleep, till I can’t even tell the difference.

I start to think about Tola, Lulu, Abu, Dami, and everyone else. I wonder what their plans for the day are, because if you have nothing of your own life to fill your mind with, why not fill it with everyone else’s?

Fuad Lawalis a poet and copy writer. He blogs at rebelliousflash300.wordpress.com. Follow him on Instagram/Twitter @fuadxiv

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