#School Days – EPISODE 19 ********************************** ‘Odoh, define government as a field of study in your own words’ Spring up asked. I racked my brain to a fault and I figured that unless I gave him back his definition exactly as he thought us, I was going to have to keep quiet and stare at him until the worst happen. He noticed I had no reply and without further questioning he raised the hand that held the belt and ‘SWOOSH!!’ He swung it at me with every atom of energy he had, luck was probably by my side because as he swung the belt, I simultaneously crouched and the belt hit the wall instead of me, I looked at the wall and saw the paint had peeled. ‘BLOOD OF JESUS!’ I exclaimed and as a sharp guy, I found my self jumping lockers in an attempt to escape; ‘I might not be lucky as the first time’ I thought to myself as I ran away. I looked at my back as I got to the door just to check if I was being chased and unluckily for me, the almighty spring up was coming after me with the speed of light… ‘Choi! This man is more agile than I thought oh’ I exclaimed as I accelerated to gear 4. It was wide goose chase and I could hear people from my class laughing out loud as the drama unfolded before them. ‘Come back here now! Odoh! I said come back here!’ Spring up screamed as he chased me. ‘If na die, I go die! But this man no go catch me today!’ I encouraged myself and I turned and started running round the quadrangle, I noticed everyone in my class had come out and the whole corridor was filled with people who were laughing away their sorrows as Spring up and Michael acted their own version on ‘the ginger bread man’. We ran in circles for a short while and then, with such energy and speed that I never knew I had, I dashed out of the class region, heading towards the dining hall. As I ran with out looking back, I realized I wasn’t hearing footsteps anymore and assumed he wasn’t chasing me but looking back would reduce my speed a bit so I simply kept on running; ‘Don’t ever come to my class again! don’t sleep in that hostel! Just pack your bags and go! Just this… Just that!’ He kept on screaming threats at me until I was far beyond sight. *** ‘O boy, what was that all about na?’ Efe asked me when he got to hostel after school hours had ended. ‘Wetin?’ I asked. ‘That Jet Li stunt you pulled during government class this morning’ He asked. ‘Hmmm, which stunt exactly are you talking about?’ ‘Running away from spring up and jumping over lockers…’ I instantly bursted out in laughter while Efe looked at me with a raised eyebrow: ‘Oh! That? You wan make I stay there till the man kill me because I couldn’t answer a question?’ I asked when I was done laughing like a mad man. Before Efe could push further and give a ‘good boy’ response… ‘Badoo!!! Badest guy ever liveth’ Dolls, the razzest and yet best of all my friends walked into my room and hailed me right from the door as he walked down to my corner. ‘How far you na?’ I asked Dolls in response. ‘I gentle oh! I dey feel you oh, infact, everybody wey don hear the gist dey feel you self’ I didn’t know what exactly to say so I just smiled in response. ‘See eh, that man too dey do anyhow, boys don dey plan to treat hin Bleep ups self and you just ginger us now’ Dolls continued ‘You just they whine the guy, you no go they there when spring up eventually catch am oh, abi shey you go follow chop the beating?’ Efe lamented. ‘Oga! Forget that thing jhur, you no know say I be like smoke, abi them dey catch smoke for your village?’ I boasted with a wide grin on my face. ‘Confirmed nigga! Take am!’ Dolls hailed me once more and raised his hand for a handshake, I shook him. ‘Na una know, anyway, I wan go wash my school uniform.. We go see later’ Efe said and walked away. ‘O boy, make I come wash with you na, my detergent don finish’ Dolls asked and Efe accepted so they walked away and left me all alone in the room. I had already washed and was literally jobless at the moment so I brought out my MP3 player and went to the corner of a roommate, after whining him aliitle, I slipped into his bed, I choose his bed over mine because he was one of those people who used mosquito nets even if there weren’t mosquitoes and its not like he was the only one who used a mosquito net but he was the only one who used a blue mosquito net which made it difficult for someone outside the net to see what exactly was happening inside the net. The perfect spot to listen to my music without being scared of being caught. I plugged the earpiece and the first song on my playlist was ‘Just the way you are – Brunomars’. As I listened to the lyrics; ‘Her eyes, her eyes makes the stars look like they’re not shining/ her hair, her hair, falls perfectly without her trying/ she’s so beautiful and I tell…’ I instantly remembered someone, Jane. ‘Did she see me this morning running round the whole class with a teacher at my back? How would she view it? In a good way or bad way? Why am I even bothered about her opinion? Its not like she’s my girl na…’ I kept on pondering until I slept off. *** ‘Chistar! Chistar!! Michael!!!’ I heard someone who had a similar voice to Dolls scream my name few minutes later, or so I thought. ‘Wetin?’ I asked as I reluctantly opened my eyes and slipped out of the bed, I saw it wasn’t someone who sounded by Dolls but Dolls himself. ‘You no dey go night prep today? Them fit mark attendance o’ he asked. ‘Night prep ke? Time never reach na’ I replied. ‘Enhen? Okay na, stay there! I don go dress up oh, if you like stay there dey sleep’ He replied and walked out. I brushed my eyes with the bank of my hands and checked the time on the MP3 player and saw it was indeed almost time for night prep, I had missed lunch, afternoon prep, supper and now it was already night prep, ‘nawa oh, na so sleep carry me go!’ I thought. Anyway, I quickly prepared for night prep after rinsing my face and other places that matter, I had no time to shower properly. I’ve seen spring up wandering round the hostel several times at night looking for people who didn’t go for night prep so that he can punish them, I was ready to take the risk. I and Dolls got to class few minutes later and as usual, after spotting one of those new midstream chicks, he left his books with me and went down to the business he knew how to do best. I looked around for Efe and spotted him at one dark corner with his girlfriend, I didn’t see them doing anything but anyone who saw their posture would know they were doing more than talking, I went to check out all my other friends and just as if it was planned, they were all occupied with different girls, for the first time ever, I became jealous of other guys and lonely because I had no one to talk to. I sat down on my locker, bored and lonely waiting for the prep supervisors to arrive so that prep could official start when I suddenly saw Segun and Jane walk pass my class corridor. Without thinking much about it, I dropped my books in my locker and ran after them, as soon as I caught up with them I said; ‘Segun what’s up na?’ ‘I dey oh, shey spring up don finally catch you?’ He asked laughing. I nearly said; ‘Ahh! Basta’rd son of a thousand fathers! How you go bring up that kind topic for front of Jane na?’ ‘Not yet oh, and I hope he doesn’t catch me o’ I replied with a shy smile. ‘you don’t have liver, so why did you run in the first place?’ Jane asked ‘If you were there from the start, you would understand better’ I replied and waited for a responce but got none so I continued; ‘ anyway, that’s not the reason am here, Segun, do you mind if I steal Jane from your hand for some minutes?’ I asked with a wink. ‘Hmmm, if she allows it, sure’ he replied. I gave her an inquiring look and she simply replied; ‘Hmmm, okay’ ‘Okay then, we would finish our gist later’ Segun said to Jane who just said okay before walking away. So, it was just I and Jane once again, on the same corridor as the last time, the only difference was this time, I was ready for her and not scared or shy anymore. ‘So what did you want to tell me?’ ‘Hmmm, a lot dear’ ‘Who is your dear?’ She asked. Before replying, I smiled and thought; ‘You wanna play tough? Well I’ll show you what tough is!’ ***************** Watch0ut For Episode 20
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