Story Of A Survivor

Episode 14

Cordellia left our house at 9:00PM that night.I
did not sell my maize that night because I did
not want her to know how deep I had fallen.

When Cordellia had left, Silvia asked me if I
would sell some portion of my food stuff to
them, I told her the food stuff was for us and
not me, I also told her that the bag of clothes
was for us and not me. We went out that night
and bought a lot of Suya and Coca cola to
celebrate. We tossed to life.

On Saturday morning as I was sorting the
Clothes Cordellia gave me I saw a bulky sealed
envelope underneath the bag, I hurriedly ran
and bolted the door before coming to tear the
envelope open. My heart beat skipped at the
sight of wad of minty five hundred naira notes.

I counted one hundred pieces, another fifty
thousand naira! I knelt down and said a prayer
to God for Cordellia. That was the money I
used to open my first ever bank account with
Union bank. I opened a fixed deposit account
so that by the time I am done with my training,
the money would come in handy.

My friendship with Cordellia blossomed till she travelled to the U.S.A for summer holiday.