✏✏MY DAYS AT CROWN SCHOOL✏✏
✅✅ (Yewande Joseph )
#Episode_12
It was on Friday evening, I was on my be-d thinking about so many things. And one of it was my life in Crown school. Everywhere in the hostel was rocking as usual. Benedicta was on her earphones, browsing on her l@pt©p. What you can always see my dear Kunmi doing, if not re-ading is pla-ying educational games. My ringing tune interrupted my thoughts. Immediately, I picked up the call, waiting for the caller to talk because it was an unknown number.
“Hello,” A light, pretty, sweet voice I can never trade for in this world greeted, and a wi-de smile appeared on my face. “I guess her big sis missed her so much.” It was my elder sister giving me a surprise, and that made me very happy because it has been a long we talked.
I heard her laugh. “Like seriously, She’s dying to see her little sis.”
I laughed also. She was good at exaggerating. “She missed you too like crazy.”
She cleared her throat. “Hmm, I can see she missed me and never bothered to give me a call since.”
“Sister Blessing I’m sorry,” I apologized. “Do you know Dad seized my phone this last term. All I did throu-gh out last holidays was re-ading every blessed day.”
As usual, my sister can laugh, and sometimes you would think it’s beyond normal. I kept quiet waiting for her to talk.
“Suzy, Suzy..” She tea-sed, followed by another loud laughter.
“You guys will have to get a rope to draw me back to that Abuja. I swear, I’ve missed your Daddy.”
I really could not st©p laughing.
‘our Dad’ is now ‘your Dad’.
I’ve missed her.
“I pray you finish by God’s grace so you can be free for once.” My sister prayed.
“Amen o..” I almost shouted. Back then, I still remembered how Dad would shout at sister blessing too. ‘Blessing why can’t you get A1? Why did you have C5 in this easy work? Tell me!’ Dad would shout at my sister, and immediately, her special teachers for the holidays would arrive.
“I just remembered how Dad was strict with you when you were in secondary school too,” I told her.
She laughed. “Baby girl, that was then. And how is Mr. John, the sharpener?”
I laughed. I couldn’t believe Sister Blessing still calls that man ‘Mr. Sharpener’. Shutting down my loud laughter, I spoke up. “He almost killed me with physics as-signments last term holidays. I can’t wait to be free sister blessing.”
Sister Blessing cracked another laughter. “He’s no different from Dad.” She said, and went ahead to mimick Dad. ‘Mr. John, don’t you dare have mercy on her! I don’t know where she got her dull br@in from? I’m brilliant, my wife is intelligent-‘
“And my daughters must be a geniuses!” I finished with my sister and both of us bur-st into another fit of laughter.
“To be sincere, have missed him.” Sister Blessing was being honest. “Soon, I will be home, but can’t say when. Mom has been disturbing me, and our big man is not left out.”
You can’t spend a minute with my sister, and not enjoy the moment. My pearly whites were opening and closing as I laughed. She was referring to Dad as ‘our big man’.
“No matter how sis, he will remain the best Dad to us because I know he loves us.”
“Yes dear. I love you baby sister. Muahhh.. Catch it and throw me another big one.”
I laughed at my silly sister. “Aww… So big. I love you too and only you sis. Muahhh… Give me back when you get home.”
She laughed and laughed again. “Silly girl.” Her voice sounded like a little girl. “Make sure you take care of yourself.”
“Bye…” We both chorused.
I laughed alone as I remembered how the both of us behave at home. Have missed her so much. Just as sweet as she could be sometimes, she was as strict as Dad. But yet, I admired her a lot. I heaved a sigh, and was about to get up from my be-d when my phone beeped, telling me I have one message. It was from Victor, and immediately, I felt so reluctant to open it.
I ba-rely replied his messages, and sometimes, I refused to check his messages. No matter how I tried to keep deceiving myself, I knew Victor leaving would affect me that much, because I would miss him so much. He wasn’t ma-king it easy for me, like he knew I would miss talking to him. I sometimes ask myself why I got to like Victor so much. His physic? His money? br@in? Smile? Teasing words? I just couldn’t find a p@rticular reason, but I knew when I’m with him, I’m free, I enjoy each moment, he makes me feel alive, and makes me have a reason to smile more.
I knew the ss3 students had only few months left, and I knew once he’s done with his exams, his life goes on. I cli-cked on his message to finally re-ad one out one of his fourteen messages left unre-ad.
✔My very last wish
plea-se can we see? Behind the hostel hall✔✔
Do I actually made him beg this way?
Suzy go… My mind kept telling me.
I got up, and headed straight to the place. Getting to the place, he was no where to be found. I decided to wait, and some seconds more, I heard footsteps behind me, and I knew it was him.
“Hi,” he greeted.
“Hi,” I returned his greeting, not turning to his direction.
“Suzy talk to me,” his voice was pleading.
“How else do you want me to talk to you?” My voice was low, yet expressed my anger towards him.
“It’s obvious you’ve been avoiding me.” This time, his voice was different. Different from the boyish one I know. He sounded matured, like I was hearing him speak for the first time.
I picked at my f!ngers, because I didn’t feel like facing him.
“It’s obvious a serious students would know I’m just getting prepared for exams.” With one eye, I took a quic-k look at him, his eyes were begging me to talk to him. He caught me and I looked away.
“Have I done anything wrong Suzy?”
This time, I stared back at him. I fumbled helplessly for words because he hasn’t done anything wrong. I dropped my f!ngers, folding my hands around me.
“Victor, you’ve done nothing wrong. You guys are leaving soon. I want you to study since you guys are starting your WAEC (west African examination council) in few months. And you will leave. Leave me and leave everyone… And.. I just cant… I can’t..” I stammered.
“plea-se continue. Let it out.” He politely said to me.
“I just want things to get normal because you would leave and forget about me.” I honestly told him, and finally poured out my mind.
“Who told you so?” He asked, “And when do you start looking away when talking to me. Is there anything I nee-d to know.”
I decided to lift my head up, staring at him. I couldn’t believe tears were forming in my eyes. My God! Why? I knew I would miss him so much, and also miss his craziness. A tear sli-pped down and I couldn’t help the remaining from falling in his pres£nce.
“Suzy,”
“I actually don’t know why I’m crying, but seriously, it’s childish of me. It’s childish of me to be crying because I will miss you. And that’s because I’m a good friend.”
He smiled, and I could hear him chuckled. I couldn’t help smiling too. His smile was just too contagious.
“If there is a word greater than ‘miss’, I would love use that instead.. because I will miss you very much. And I’m sure of that.”
I wiped away my tears as I listened to him.
“Because I didn’t cry, doesn’t mean I don’t feel the same way you’re feeling. Forgive me because I ba-rely cry, and-” His ringing tune interrupted. I glanced at the caller, as he brou-ght out the phone. I immediately looked away. I expected him to pick BB’s call, but he just dropped it back inside his pocket.
“You should pick your call.” I told him.
“It’s nothing,” he said. I could not re-ad his face, but I could see he was serious about talking to me.
“It’s BB,” I reminded him. “I can always excuse you guys to talk.” I turned to leave but he drew me back with his hand.
“Victor I’m just your friend. She’s more than that.” I intentionally said it to hear his response.
He shook his head. “We might have d@t£d in the past. She might have for once be my girlfriend…” I was sure that was the last word I heard from him, because as I heard the last word, something inside of me remain unsettled.
I wasn’t sure of what to call it, because another tears formed in my eyes as I remembered how he told Betty I meant nothing to him, and I would never be. To be sincere, those words pierced my heart because I realized he really mean so much to me.
“Are you even listening to me Suzy?” He held my left hand. I wiped away my tears with my right hand. “Yes, I’m listening.” I lied. “I don’t know but something in my eyes is picking me.”
He laughed slowly, shaking his head. “Suzy, you know when it comes to me, you’re not a good liar.”
I couldn’t help smiling in return. “As if you don’t lie too.”
He dropped my hand and t©uçhed his che-st. “Me?? No guy is as honest as Victor Stephen.”
Hahaha
I laughed, covering my mouth with my left hand, and later re-moved it. “Victor you can lie ehnn! I’m very sure of your performance if you go study ‘lieing education’ in school. It’s first clas-s, no doubt.”
He laughed out loudly this time.
“Nice girl. You didn’t pray for me to have carry over. If there is another one higher than first clas-s, you deserve it. Don’t thank me, I know I’m nice too.”
I couldn’t suppress my laughter. I bur-st out laughing, and I forgot all about my worries. I sl@pped him on his shoulder, and hit him on his che-st too. “Victor you’re crazy.”
“Aww.. plea-se don’t hurt my heart. The boy is just crazy for you.” He gr@bb£d my right hand and place it on his che-st. “I plan on giving this heart to a girl that will make me happy for the rest of my life. Not just any girl, but this fair, pretty girl that look like Suzy James. She always give me a reason to smile, and sometimes make me laugh like a mad man.”
Hahaha
I was blu-shing. This guy can make a girl’s heart melt like candle. My pearly white teeth was wi-de open, laughing and smiling at everything he said. He continued, looking directly at me. “her smile kills me. She’s just too beautiful, and she can lie for Africa.”
Hahaha…
I laughed and hit him several times.
Crazy boy!
He is.
I allowed him to continue, shaking my head at him.
“When we meet again in the future, I hope I would get a chance to tell her these three words. To make her realize she’s the first girl to make me feel that way.”
My smile seized.
Three words!
No matter how I think, I could not join alphabets together to get the three reasonable words he said I made him feel.
“Hmm,” I cleared my throat. “You know you can always tell her now.”
He made jest of me and almost hit his head on the wall.
Hahaha
Inevitable warning when you make jest of a child of
God.
“That’s what you get for laughing at me.”
“Actually, it’s never time to tell her,” he said. “If he’s lucky to see her again in the future, he won’t hesitate to tell her that three fv¢king words that kills his big heart.”
“Really!” I laughed at the way he stressed the ‘big heart.’ I raised my right hand up and t©uçhed where his heart was. “Hello big heart,” he laughed at his silly self and I drew his big nose. “Keep quiet and let it listen.”
He’s a stubborn goat. I knew he would never st©p laughing . “Hi big heart,” I started again. “plea-se don’t die before he meet her again, so he could tell her the three words. She’s dying to hear him tell her, but she’s promising that she would wait just to hear him tell her the three words. Deal” I concluded.
“Deal!” He said.
“When did your heart has a mouth to speak?”
“Not until it has a mouth Suzy. It is telling you that three words but you just can’t hear. It is screaming it, but you aren’t attentive.”
“Really…your heart must be a special one.”
He was just smiling, and I sl@pped him on his shoulder. “I’m not done Mr. Man.” I placed my hand back. “plea-se torture him sometimes, so he could feel exactly the way she would miss him.” I win-ked at him. It’s normal for it to beat, but when it beats very fast the moment I placed my hand on it, is something I can’t find a meaning to. He looked scared. I tried moving my hand away, but he has also rested his hand on mine, st©pping me.
“Will I ever see you again?” He dropped his hand, and I was able to move mine too.
“Of course!” I replied him. “You can always call me. We can always chat on Facebook. And soon, I know I would open an instagram account. So once I gained admission too, I will be free, and we can always see. Because of you, I might choose my sister’s school, LASU (Lagos state University).”
He just smiled and kept quiet. He was fighting something inside of him. I could feel that he has something to say to me, but he doesn’t know how. Of course! I didn’t persuade him. If it was something he wanted to share with me, he would tell me. So I stayed quiet too.
“Victor, so you’re here. What happened to your phone?” I heard Yomi’s voice as he strode towards us with Festus.
“I just switched it off.” He replied Yomi. And I think that was when Betty called. So he switched it off.
“Hi Suzy,” Festus greeted.
“Good evening,” I returned his greeting.
“Hope he’s not giving you stress?” It was Yomi who asked, and I saw him win-ked at his cousin.
“Well, he has been ma-king me laugh, so I don’t think that’s stressful.”
Festus smiled.
“Hmm,” Yomi win-ked at me. “Our Mighty Victor is catching up. He’s a good learner.”
I laughed. I turned to look at him, but his eyes were on Yomi.
“So you guys call him Mighty Victor?”
“Ladies can’t un-derstand.” Yomi said. “Today is Festus birthday. We’ve been searching for him because he knew we are going out tonight.”
I turned to Festus with a smile. He looked gentle though. But I never knew he likes p@rtying.
“I forgive you for not telling me. Happy birthday to you. Long life and more blessings onto you,” I said my birthday wishes. As I turned, the light reflected on Yomi’s vest, and I saw,
‘FESTUS IS 18 TODAY’
the boy is all grown up
Can’t believe he’s that old.
“I should call you big bro, now that you just clocked eighteen.”
He laughed, and I was impressed. I’ve never seen him laughed that way except his little smile. “You should start calling Victor, Uncle Vic then.”
“Mehn! You guys should wait and let me clock eighteen first. Suzy don’t mind them. Guys let’s go.” He tried to close the discussion.
“Bad guy! We all know your day will be badder!” Yomi hit his cousin, and I couldn’t wait to leave their midst.
“It’s okay for me if only Suzy knows I’m a good guy.” Victor said, and every eye turned to me.
“Victor the bad guy.” I said in a low voice, and his two friends laughed at him, jogging towards the gate. Those two were hypocrite. I couldn’t suppress my smile. “You should go to. Bye.” I jogged back towards the female hostel. As I was about to enter, I turned back and I saw him stood there, staring at me.
“I’m fine. Go!” I said louder for him to hear.
My phone vibr@ted, and I checked his message.
‘Just go in.’✔✔
I smiled to myself, as I walked throu-gh the gate. I greeted the security in charge, heading straight to my room. I decided to s£nd a text to him back.
✔’Allow the Cooperate officer to go have fun now.
She’s safe in her room.”
I smiled to myself as I entered the room.
No matter how I tried to fight it, I like Victor Stephen more than I’ve ever like any other guy.
💢💢💢
✒✒Story_Continues✔✔