Episode 1
I and my mom lived alone initially before my sisters joined us later onâŠ.
Before then, my mom and i lived in a compound occupying two buildings, a main house, and a back flat. The back flat occupied two families, mine and another neighbour which comprised of a man and his wife with three kids. While the main flat had in shelter a woman and five of her kids. â three girls, and two boys.! They were all grown up. The last child( a boy) was prolly 17 back then, and the eldest girl (eldest child) was in her early or mid 30s.
In total, we were three families living in that compound.
âŠâŠâŠ Am gonno tell you about each of the children in the compound and how they all contributed in corrupting me..
THE FAMILY IN THE MAIN HOUSE.
Praise- the oldest child, she was really religious, taught me the all i knew about God back then.
Prompted me to go to church and basically, taught me how to pray.
She was really kind, and generous.
She wasântt married then, though she was goodlooking and in her 30s.
Emillia- the second girl, was in her mid or late 20s..
She was really pretty, well packaged and kinda plumpy with perfectly toned skin, nice curves and stature.
Stephan- the third child, a man in his 20s , a worker, really cool nice guy!
He was somewhat responsible, though he flirt with most girls.
Omolayo- a young stylish girl, also pretty, and quite fat. Had a cool feminine voice.
She later traveled outta the countr though.
Felix- the last child of his mom, he was prolly in his late teens. 16-19 back then. He was fair and tall.
Eno! Eno! Eno!.. My friend Noso called me from far as i was about entering the school gate. He ran towards me â whats up now, i thought you wonât be in school today since its the first day of resumptionâ i replied as we both placed hands on our shoulders. â my mom forced me to come oâ
Noso was my best friend and we did almost everything together, both good and bad!
As we approached our new class since we were just promoted to primary four, we met our class teacher who we greeted smiling broadly. â how are you doing boys?â he replied our greetings.
We took a sit that we claimed as ours for the term.
â whoâs that girl that just came in?â Noso asked. â am sure sheâs a new student, i havânt seen her before.â
âshe fine shaâ
Noso uttered
âyou better shut up before uncle hears you, its too early to start those rubbishâ i replied.
âby the way, i saw Esther, she said sheâs gonno come to school because of you o, she said she misses your face â Noso said.
â she better not miss me ooh.. We almost got caught by Amaka (a sir pupil) the other day whileâŠ
â While i placed my hands on her thighs. What would have happened if that senior caught me doing that? â
â but you havânt really told me how it happened oâ -Noso replied.
Me; Iâll tell you later, Nosa and Emma are comingâ (my classmate).
we all greeted and joked before before we heard the bell
The school i attended had on primary school and its secondary school was in another area entirely (not in the same compound)
The bell rang for assembly and we all rushed out. Praise and worship was led by a teacher. Thereafter, the principal came and welcomed all of us. He gave his speech on ârules and regulationsâ and urged us to be in our best behaviours.
+after the speech, we all marched to our classes.
We were only 11 in primary 4 .
Six boys and five girls.
- our form teacher came and introduced himself, and requested we also do the same.
Eventually the new girl Noso and I saw was in our class, she
was fair, neatly dressed and goodloking.
She stood up and introduced her self as Tasha.
Noso started calling her name silently to himself (like he was tryna memorize it.)
our form teacher- Mr Ojo stressed that weâll need a class rep, and opted that anyone who wanted to be the class captain should come out.
No one did, apart from Emma.
He then asked if we wanted Emma to be the class rep, we all replied âNO!â
Emma was a bully! A dreaded one!
I can still remember him telling us heâll deal with us after class for refusing to crown him captain!
Mr Ojo then asked the class to nominate anyone,
Noso and some others shouted âLeke!!!â
Leke was my ânick nameâ
i was reluctant to come out cus i was never interested in the position, but Mr Ojo demanded my presence at the front of the class to contend for the position.
I came out, and the girls in the class also nominated Esther.
Esther was very brilliant, i wonder how i was able to still come out ahead of her during exams.
She could pronounce words i didântt know without obstruction.
Mr Ojo requested that I and Esther backed the class as they voted.
After the short election, we faced the class, and i saw my friends giving me âthumbs upâ as Mr Ojo announced me as the new class rep!
I wasnât happy, i was scared!
In my mind âweitin these people don put me so?â
instead of me celebrating i was thinking about what Emma would do to me after class.
Time went fast as I hurried home as soon as i heard the bell. I didântt even wait for Noso, i was on my way out of the gate when i heard someone called me â âlekins! Lekins! â
i thought for a second, âcould that be Noso, but that isânt his voice at allâ
the voice called me again, and i didântt bother to look back cus i remembered the voice.
I tried moving faster .
âyou better wait there or else if i chase you, youâre going to cryâ
it was the bully Emma calling after me, in fear i waited but summoned courage to confront him.
He approached me andâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠ
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