Episode 24
I was in my room upstairs when I got a text
on my phone. It was form a friend who was
into examination “runs”, He sent type F
answers of the ongoing jamb to me and I
forward it instantly to janet.. “Flashback”. Friday evening while I was
chatting with janet, we had already discussed
about it. I told her to place her phone on
silence and shade the “exam type” that I
will send to her. I lied to her that it cost me
10k to get the answers. She was so happy that I could go extra length
for her, she promised to compensate me
when she returned on sunday morning.
Sikirat on the other side told me how she
missed me when I called her to teach me
porridge cooking, she told me how her accent changed at home in ilorin, how she was
speaking english and helping the kids to
solve mathematics, she told me how she was
envied by her friends and neighbours in
ilorin. She promised to return on tuesday. At 11:20, madam called my name from
downstairs to come down and eat my
breakfast, I came out and went to the
dinning. She had prepared rice and stew with
stock fish and beef, I was putting on a
“straight face” while I sat down to eat. Madam served the food and came to sit
beside me. She patted my laps and ask if
anything is wrong, I replied “nothing ma”. After the meal, I packed the plates, took
them to the kitchen and washed. I arranged
all the plates into the shelf. I took a mob,
mobbed the kitchen and the tiles in the living
room while madam was standing upstairs
watching. I dusted all the chairs and electronics, arranged all the room and went
out of the compound. I trimmed the flowers and swept the back of
the house, I did all this with a frown on my
face and never smiled. I returned inside, walked across madam as I was sweating and
returned to my room. I had a shower and
slept off with my phone switched off. I woke up around 5pm. I switched on my
phone and I got whatsapp messages from
janet telling me about her exams. And a text
message from madam telling me “weldone,
you are such a hardworking boy.”. I went
down stairs to tutor gideon. I asked of mummy from gideon and I was
told she went out. When I was through with
him, I went to the kitchen, checked the food
time table and it was spiced spagetti on the
menu. I arranged the pot, called sikirat for
guidelines, and prepared it at the best way I could. I ate mine and served gideon while I
went straight to bed at 8pm. I was inside my room chatting with janet
when madam entered the house. I could hear
her voice and communications with gideon. At 10:20pm that saturday night, my phone
was ringing. I checked and it was madam, I
placed it on silent and refused to pick. She called 5 times which I didn’t pick. Then
a text message came in and I read. “You
amazed me with the level of your
hardworking today, you tidy everywhere
without any instructions and supervision, you
are such a good boy. Meanwhile, my laptop is hanging somehow, can you please come here
and help me to look into it?”. I saw the text and laughed. I dropped the
phone, ignored the message and tried to
sleep. At few minutes pass 11pm, I heard a knock
on my door, **wetin gideon dey find this
time of the night?, abi madam sent him to
me?**** I thought before asking “who is
there?. Its me “mummy janet”, Open the
door. To be continued.