The Three of Us

by Ore Agbaje-Williams

She is probably the only person in my life who has never wanted something from me, only for me.

I’d never met someone my age who already knew who she was and didn’t shape herself around other people’s opinions.

Your parents don’t want you to be great, she would say, they want you to be like everyone else. Until Temi, I didn’t know it was even possible to decide things for myself. Becoming friends with Temi was like having someone lift the lid on my sheltered life and offer a hand to pull me out.