He was glad that he was finally going to say
goodbye to Amaka
and also collect her contact so that he could
keep in touch with
her as he was going to park out of town the
next day. He began shouting her name on top of his voice but
before he could reach
her, Amaka had already climbed a bike. He
shouted her name for
the umpteen time, this time Amaka looked
back and she noticed that it was Emeka, she just waved at him
while the bike zoomed
off.
He was disappointed, the last hope he had of
seeing the love of
his life had gone down the drain. He became mad at himself for
not letting Amaka knew how he feels about
her, he was mad at
himself for not running fast enough, he was
also mad at Amaka
who did not stopped when she saw him running towards her.
He swerve and made to return back to the
field, then he saw his
bestfriend Chinedu running towards him with
Usain Bolt speed
and shouting “dem win us oooo!” endlessly. Emeka was still standing fearlessly until he
saw the rest of his
so-called teammates chasing after them with
different weapons
on their hands, he needed no rocket science to
know what next to do, he swiftly removed his pan slipper from his
feet and they both
flee for their lives.
Though still a teenager, Emeka had
metamorphose into a man.
His masculine qualities had tripled. He could be
mistaken for
Tyler James Williams, he now had six pack and
well shaped beard.
Since his Arrival to the centre of Excellence, he
had began a
unisex boarding school in Ikorodu. He was in Art
class as he
wanted to become a lawyer. Emeka could be described as an
epitome of intellect, a wit in the making. He
was amongst the
most intelligent in school, the teachers loved
him but the girls
loved him more. They had tried numerous methods to get his
attention but to no avail.
Their efforts were
fruitless as he always
shun the girls away.
He was hell-bent on keeping his promise to
Amaka. The school authority tried to make him the head-boy but
they could not
succeed. The science students who monopolized
the school
voted against him because they despise him,
they also felt it was an abomination for an Art student to become
the head-boy
during their era. It has been a normal
phenomenon for a science
student to retain that position.
Emeka was also nominated to contest his class prefectship
election but he declined. In his defence he knew
he was a
talkactive and it will not be fair to punish
people for what he was
guilty of, also, he felt leadership position is an opportunity to lead
and not to intimidate other so he had better
be on a neutral
ground.
In the end of the day, Jennifer became the
class prefect. She is an half-caste. Her father Mr. Owolabi is a
renowned politician who
is based in lagos and once married to an italian
woman.
Jennifer
came to Nigeria after her parents divorced
and began living with her father. She is tall, skinny, light skinned with
pink lips. She
was a rich girl, her father had spoilt her, he
literally gave her
anything she asked for.
Although she was living
an extravagant lifestyle but she was also brilliant. She had
planned to study
Theatre art because of her love for acting but
her father kicked
against the idea insisting she must be a
lawyer. She knew that to become a lawyer she needed to have a pass in
literature but that
was her deficiency. She hated literature because
however how
hard she tried she never seemed to understand
the subject. Unlike Jennifer, Emeka was a guru in that
aspect, he understood
the embodiment of literature, glossary of
literary appreciation,
figures of speech, and had practically read
almost all the poems and Novels recommended for their forth
coming WAEC.
N:B: WAEC means West Africa Examination
council.
Jennifer knew there was no way she could
pass on her own so she turned to Emeka since they were in the
same line of
discipline.
**********************
There was bewilderment in the atmosphere,
WAEC was just around the corner, student who had not
started reading became
obsessed with the library, the girls were not
let out as they
participated in night reading. These preliminary
measure was to ensure that they all passed the exam.
Prior to
this moment,
Jennifer had pleaded with Emeka to tutor her
in literature and
without hesitation he agree. It became a daily
routine as they both went together for night reading until one
faithful night. On a
normal day Emeka would go alone to the
library to read but since
it was the both of them they decided to use an
empty classroom. It was about 10:00pm, there was no light, so
they went along
with chargeable lanterns which they use in the
hostel. Emeka had
gone about 15 minutes into the lecture, he was
teaching her about the Rudiments of Analysing a poem and
knowing their
figures of speech, suddenly Jennifer began
acting strange.
Emeka was repeatedly asking if she
understood but silence answered. He slowly turned to look at Jennifer
who was sitting
directly opposite him and she wore a “give it
to me” look. She
was licking her pink lips and pouting at thesame time. Suddenly she opened her skirt wide and began to poke
her kitty-cat. It
seemed like her heavenly feeling had c----x to
the apex.
Emeka sat transfixed, he was agape as words
barely came out from his mouth.
“Jen.. Jen.. Jennifer, what are you doing?” he
finally spoke.
“what does it look like?” she answered his
question with a
question. Jennifer had an accent that could be traced to
black communities
in America. Her command of English was
Eloquent and Fluent.
She cat-walked from her seat to where Emeka
sat.
Emeka was just looking like a Zombie as he could not utter
a word. She sat
fully on his lap and kissed him. It was a sweet
sensation, Emeka
had never kissed a girl before in his entire life.
The last person that kissed him was his mother and that’s
when he was still a
baby.
Jennifer was whining her waist on his lap as
his d’ick erected
almost tearing through his trousers. “don’t you like what you see?” jennifer asked
opening her bra,
she got no reply.
Emeka was lost in his thought, just then he
reminisced his vow
about Amaka. Amaka, you’re the love of my life, Although i
might be leaving
you but my heart will forever remain for you, i
see you as a good
girl and i want to spend the rest of my life
with you, i promise to remain celibate, and for not being able to
propose my love for
you, i will remain a VIRGIN all because of you,
This i promise.
He suddenly got back to his senses and pushed
Jennifer aside. She fell to the ground and yipped. She never
expected Emeka to
react that way. Emeka quickly carried his
textbooks and lantern
and ran out of the class leaving jennifer alone
in the dark.

to be continued

ONE MONTH LATER
**********************
“Easy come, easy go,
That’s just how you live, oh
Take, take, take it all
But you never give Should’ve know you was trouble
From the first kiss
Had your eyes wide open
Why were they open?”
Those were the lyrics of Bruno Mars’ grenade
blaring hysterically from Emeka’s phone. It was a beautiful
saturday morning at
about 5:30am.
Emeka was still deep in
dreamland as he
reluctantly picked the call without checking the
name of the caller.
“Hello!” he said with a coarse tone.
“Mad man, you still dey sleep by this time?” the
caller said from
the other end.
“Abeg, who i dey speak with?” Emeka enquired. “Na me Chinedu naw, you nor save my number
for phone?”
Chinedu asked interested.
“Oh! Sorry jor, i no look the name of the caller
before i pick am,
how coal city dey?” Emeka asked trying to change the topic.
“We dey fine jare, but guy WAEC result don
show o!” he added.
“Really!” Emeka exclaimed.
Chinedu was an internet freak, he could browse
24/7 so long the necessary is available. Sometimes, he would
skip classes just to
chat with his online friends since he had no
friend. He was living
alone in school, he rented a self-contain
apartment where he lives off-campus. As usual he was surfing the
internet with his
laptop computer that early morning when he
saw the news on
that WAEC result was out, at first, he wanted
to ignore it thinking it was a jobless blogger looking for people to
scam that posted it
online.
He was convinced immediately he
entered the site as
people started posting their result, it seemed
alot of students passed the exam.
“Yeah! I just saw the news online now” Chinedu
switched to
English.
“Okay, Thanks. I will log into WAEC website to
check mine when this call has ended.” he lamented.
“You better do so quickly before the site burn
down due to high
traffic, only few students know that the
result is out. I wish you
success” Chinedu prayed.
Emeka was not totally scared to Check his
result because he was
pretty sure about what he wrote in the exam,
but since he was
not the teachers who marked it and also he
was not a prophet who can foresee the outcome of a future
event he was a little bit
nervous.
“So have you been able to locate Amaka?”
Emeka asked.
“No! Not at all. I heard they also parked out of the area they were
staying, that was not long after you guys
moved to Lagos. I’m
currently at school though, varsities will soon
be on break, when
i get home i’ll see what i can do” Chinedu narrated.
“Ok, thanks.” Emeka said and ended the call,
but not after
wearing a sad look.
Emeka had not seen nor heard from Amaka
for 2years since he lost contact with her.
He was expecting that
Chinedu would have
good news concerning Amaka this time
around, that was the
tenth time he was asking Chinedu the same
question since he came back from school.
He quickly opened his phone browser and
logged into the official
WAEC website, he typed his centre number
into a blank space
where it was required, he moved to the next where he was
supposed to input the pin on his WAEC scratch
card.
“Oh, s’hit!” he said out of frustration when he
realised that he had
not yet bought the scratch card. He dashed out of his room with rocket speed,
Emeka got to the
corridor and met Chiwe. Little Chiwe who is
now 4 year-old had
suddenly growned into a big girl.
“where is mummy?” he asked. “she is still sleeping in her room” Chiwe replied
him.
Emeka’s father had travelled to Abuja for an
official police
meeting, he would be back the next day.
Emeka told his mother about the WAEC result, she was happy
even though she didn’t know whether the
result will favour her
son. She then asked Emeka to go to her purse
and collect the
money to purchase the scratch card.
**********************
11:15am. Emeka came running home with
excitement written
all-over his face. He had gone to print out his
result from
Kaydee’s Cyber Cafe, the cafe is run by a graduate Kayode. He
decided to start up the business centre when
Jobs were not forth
coming after he graduated from UNILAG four
years ago.
N:B: UNILAG means “University of Lagos” He finally got him to meet his mother and
Aunty Bimbo gisting,
they were conversing in Yoruba dialet. Emeka’s
mother could
speak yoruba but not perfectly, she is half
Yoruba and half Igbo. Her father hails from Awgu L.G.A in Enugu,
while her mother is
from Ogbomosho south L.G.A in Oyo state.
When she was born
her parents decided to name her Yetunde, a
Yoruba name after her mothers’s tribe.
Emeka got to where his mother and Aunty
Bimbo were standing
and greeted, his mother could read the look on
his face as he
handed over the result slip to her. She took the slip from Emeka
and scan through it while Aunty Bimbo
watched.
“You passed all your papers!” she said stressing
the passed.
Emeka nodded in approval. “C’mon, that’s my darling!, now come give me
a hug” Aunty
Bimbo said smiling.

(ma no repeat wetin ma grandpa tell me last week oh)

to be continued