Stop right there’
I turned with fright at the sound of the voice and i saw aunty PHE looking at me like goliath was looking at david.
‘So you wanted to escape when you are later’
‘ma i was not escaping i only wanted to sweep the class’ i told the best lie that came to my brain not knowing i had added more pepper on head.
‘Ok since you want to sweep, you would sleep and be tired today, carry that broom and follow me.’
‘So na only staffroom i go sweep and this woman dey claim say i go tire’ i said in my jumbo mind.
She took me pass the staffroom and went to the ss3 class.
‘Start from here and sweep till you have swept the whole classes including yours’.
‘God i don die today why i no just hammer this aunty yestadayna’ i lamented
i started from ss3 a, b, c then ss2 a, b etc any class i enter i always recieve insults plus small slaps and knocks then something hapened when i started sweeping jss3 classes….
Five boys entered into the school, one of them was our student while the rest were from another school they were discusing and it seems an argument broke out between them and a bottle of alomo came out from nowhere and landed on our student head.
The rest tried sepreating them butthe same guy brought out a knife and stab the same boy on the stomach.
The whole school was watching the whole drama unfolding, but when their student was stab they students became furious and started chasing the other student and his friends.
I did not wait for angel moses to tell me to lead the children of isreal in the pursuit, i quickly droped my broom, ran to my class and hijack my bag and followed and chase after the bad guys or let me say i ran for my life, well i was not alone.
I ran and ran till i saw nobody again then i slowed down and tried to catch my breath when i heard footsteps coming to my direction, i quickly formed james bond and flew into the bush, mehn i landed in a big poo.
‘guy na wetin you dey do inside bush na’i heard solomon voice or let me say i scented his voice because the fresh poo increased my smelling abilities.
‘I just see one big bush meat nai i dive i come land for here o’ i lied
‘Ok sorry oya carry this water wash face’
After washing my face my eye became clear like the man Jesus use spit to heal his face. Then i noticed solomon with his bag also.
‘Guy why you carry your bag na’i asked a stupid question.
Solomon laughed and told me that most of the students were not pursuing those boys, they were only looking for way to escape home also.
‘Nawao for this school’ i exclaimed as if am not a candidate also.
We walked to a mango tree and i started climbing when i climbed the second branch and look down i almost fainted, then i was so afraid of heights.
‘Guy come down make i dey plug dey trowey for you’ solomon said at the top of the tree.
‘No i dey recieve fresh air’ i said while gripping the branch tight, ;air that was causing me to sweat.
Solomon was busing raining down mangoes while i was dieing on the tree like greoge of the jungle.
‘Na who dey plug this mango’ some seniors who also joined in our exodus to the bush abi excapedes shouted while picking the mangoes and eating and also supplementing their bags.
We freezed on the tree and waited like thieves waiting for its victim. Suddenly i heard a buzz sound near my eyes i quickly waved my hand thinking it was a fly, until it sting me i shouted and the seniors that were about going became alert.
I turned and saw about five bees coming to my direction, i had two choices; ethier i jumped down or allow them to enjoy me, but i was 10feet above the ground already.
I quickly choose option one and jumped down like jet li but the bees were determined like the boss in terminator 1 and they follow me with the speed of keke napep.
When i landed on the ground my eyes had increased in size and the bees were impressed by the artwork they performed on me and they went after the seniors packing our mangoes.
After seeing my eyes the did not wait for keshi to invite them to the national team they quickly dropped their bags and ran away tripping over themselves.
I quickly ran to their bags and got a leather which i used to take back my mangoes and even added biros, cleaners e.t.c.
Thank you bees for helping me o, i said excitedly and i and solomon quickly ran with our loots into the opposite direction.
I did not know my actions have made me a prey bushmeat to the hunting seniors.
Who stole some things in our bag’ was the words i heard from jss2a class.
‘So this seniors no even know me sef’ i smiled
Finally the entered into our class amd the sight of five john cena muscles senoirs wped every trace of smile on my lips.
‘Who was the miscrant that stole our properties’ the tallest senoir questioned.
I was now wondering when book, biro and mangoes became properties but i dared not say it.
‘I said who took our properties from our bags’ the thunder voice jolted me from my thoughts.
‘Senior which kind property be th..’ a slap was handed down to the student before he finished talking.
‘So all of you are refusing to talk abi, ok watch and see’.
What he brought out from his pocket made us jolt with horror, it was a stick-like stuff tied with red and black cloth with a chicken feather tied on top.
‘Senior i wan go piss’ i shouted with my legs shaking and my teeth gritting.
‘Sit down there my freind before i break your blo’kus’ another macho senior shouted.
‘Una see this ju’ju una go swear and if na you carry am you go turn to goat now now’ the senior threatened.
I had never sworn in my life because my dad told us it was not good so i felt like disappearing because i would still turn to a goat that day or so i tot.
‘Senior please na, no be us’ students cried from different coners of the classroom.
‘Sharap my friend, do we look like we are joking’ the seniors treathened.
I sat like a prisoner of war waiting to be sentenced.
‘Starting from here, you start hold this thing and say, if na me steal una thing, make i turn to goat’ a senior said while giving to the boy.
I had to think fast in oder to prevent turning into a goat but my head was empty of ideas. Finally i got to my turn and i was as pale as a dead man.
‘oya its your turn, take this thing and swear’
‘Why you no sabi swear’
‘Na because my father na pastor’
‘Ow so pastor pikin no dey steal abi’
‘Yes i don baptise, i be born again’
‘Tunde, no be this boy been fall from tree that day’ the most quiet senior touch another of his friend.
‘Na tru o, see im eye wey bee bite am’ tunde replied back.
Before i could say c.ronaldo a stinging slap sounded on my face that increased its velocity.
‘So you were the one that packed our biros and mangoes…and even my test book’ one of them added a lie that made me defend myself.
‘Senior na me plug that mango na and i no carry any body textbook’ Another slap landed on my temple before i could finish.
I was partialy deaf and blind and i lost control of my speech except the crying aspect.
‘When we are through with you, your father would not know you again’
They took me by the ear(maybe thats why my ear big sha:D) and dragged be to their class.
‘Stop there’ a voice i had already saved in my brain memory card freezed us all and i was dropped like a bag of egushi on the ground.
‘What is the problem’ aunty PHE came to my side with a long menacing koboko.
‘Ma..em..he em stole our..our..things’ the macho senior had suddenly turned into an embecile victim.
‘So na so this woman dey make senior fear sef’ i taught with a little comfidence budding in me.
‘How did he steal your things and how did you catch him’
That did the trick because all the senior where fidegting in fear while i layed on the ground smilling like a christmas chicken.
‘Am talking to you guys’
Non of them could answer until she saw the red stuff hanging out of one of the senior’s pocket and she took it out.
‘So tell me which of you father is a native doctor’ she said angryly, by then i was laughing like jerry the mouse in my mind while sitting on comfortable first class mattras(grass and sand) and watching the show.
All of them stood like statius and pointing each other to first talk, finally one got a little courage and spoke.
‘Ma its not a charm, we only brought it to act drama, actually its a a corn cob we wrapped’
That statement pri’cked me in my mind and i was enraged and spoke the words that nail my coffin.
‘Aunty na lie, them say make we swear if not we go turn to goat’
Everyone looked at me that moment and one of the senior kick me hard which made me scream.
‘So you seniors are terorising students with corn wrapped charm, oya go and grab those cutlasses and clear the football field.
Just when i started singing ‘it is well with my soul’ in my mind, aunty PHE faced me.
‘And you did you finish the punishment i gave you yestaday’
‘Em aunty..i..i..’ i had also caught starmaring disease. I was pursuing those students, i finallyly said.
‘dont em and i me, before i close my eye and open it, i want to see tou with broom sweeping the classes’ she said. And when you are through i want to see you.
I did not hesitate i quickly jumped up and wanted to run when she added another koboko lash to conclude my beatings for that day.
‘If i enter ss2 and i no wicked eh, make i know weyin cause am’ i taught while running and scratching my as’s
‘No be till when you see me after school you go catch me’
To be continue below
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