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Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by macpetrus(m): 11:26am On Jan 26, 2015
The Thomas is back... Am Back!!!!
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by donPhill(m): 1:13pm On Jan 26, 2015
did nt get my mention cos u used only 1 "l" instead of double "ll"
anyways...happy dat d thomas is back....tnx 4d update d9ty7
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by hassan85(m): 3:50pm On Jan 26, 2015
Welcome back and good job with all in a circle. was breath taking. following
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Mma22(f): 4:09pm On Jan 26, 2015
oga Dd, im right here sitting next to Stuff46,
ehnn stuff fit collide with oms to kill me, I no sit bside una again. kingphillip abeg shift make I sit bside u. [img]
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Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Mma22(f): 4:15pm On Jan 26, 2015
stuff46:


Were have you been?

went to mars but am back now
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by stuff46(m): 4:26pm On Jan 26, 2015
Mma22:


went to mars but am back now
welcome back buh wat made yu left the group. Come back tho, we need yu there
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by stuff46(m): 4:28pm On Jan 26, 2015
Mma22:
oga Dd, im right here sitting next to Stuff46,
ehnn stuff fit collide with oms to kill me, I no sit bside una again. kingphillip abeg shift make I sit bside u. [img]
.

lol
am safer than you think
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by D9ty7(m): 5:04pm On Jan 26, 2015
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The time was 8:30am and Serena knew it would take ten minutes before her father leaves the house nad she needed to talk to him. She walked out of her room towards her father's room with her heart pounding hard against her chest in such a way that anybody standing before her could see how blood is being pumped from her broken heart. Why won't her heart be broken? She is binded together by blood with her parents and brothers, their hearts are well connected and she knew it because at times, one of them could deduce what was going on in the minds of the other family members. A practical example of such was when Nathaniel came home from school when no one was expceting and when asked why he decided to embark on such journey, he said he was having a strange feeling that something is not right with the family he left in the city of Ibadan and truely, two days later, his parents were seperated by a court in Ibadan. Everything is wrong with her family and mere knowing how it all started is enough reason for her heart to be broken.
She knocked gently on the door and the next second, her father's voice thundered.
"Yes, who's there?"
Her heart almost flew out of her chest, the broken pieces to be precise. In the last few weeks, her father had turned to be something else. Mere hearing him talk is enough reason for her to start feeling all jittery.
"Its me dad." She stammered.
"Come in."
She gently turned the door knob and pushed the door open.
"Good morning sir." She greeted going down on her knees like a typical yoruba woman would do to the elders. A tradition that has lived for thousands of years to an extent that, the failure to greet an elder properly, either by going down on their knees, in terms of the ladies or prostrating when it comes to the men, such a person would listen to the story of how his/her father was given birth too, even how he made it through farming or how he travelled to Lagos in search of greener pastures.
"Why weren't you at the morning devotion?" He asked.
She wanted to leave her father's room that moment because she wasn't prepared to answer questions about her refusal to show up during the morning prayers because she had no excuse.
"I..err...I.." She stammered while her father was looking at her amusingly, probably having fun as he watched her speak gibberish.
Why am I even afraid of this man? Serena asked herself, but she couldn't answer her own question.
"Do you know the importance of praying together as one family? With one heart?" Her father asked. "No, you don't." He replied himself.
"I was too tired to wake up." She managed to reply.
"The same excuse your mother used to give. Her failure to be binded in the spirity with this family was the begining of our problems, but I won't talk about that today."
She hate it, when the issue of her mother is being discussed with no one talking from her mother's perspective. She hate it when everyone is castigating her mother without anybody taking into consideration, the reason why her mother behaved in that manner. But right now is not the time to support her mother, because she needed help and she must do everything to please the man before her.
"So, what brings you here?" He asked finally.
"Daddy, my exam is in two weeks and I have decided to sign up for a CBT exam training where I can familiarise with the way questions are answered." She replied.
"Do you have up to two weeks before your exam day?"
"Nine days to be precise." She replied, at least, she was gaining ground.
"And what will you learn under nine days? And its not even a twenty four hours per day programme, maybe an hour or two. You want to learn how to operate computers?"
"I mean, how to answer the questions, you know its quite different from paper exam." Serena replied. One of the reasons why having an educated father is disadvantageous. He tends to know everything including things that you yourself don't know.
"The tutorial centre belonged to JAMB or is it private owned?" Her father asked.
"Private sir."
"Good, you'll go there today with you laptop and buy the exam software, you'll install it on you system and practice with it here at home." Her father said counting wards of Naira notes from his bedside drawer.
"That's five thousand naira. It should be enough. I'll call a cabman to take you to and fro. See you later." With this, her father picked his suitcase and made it out of the room leaving her behind.
Now she understood what was going on. Her father didn't want any of them closer to their mother which was why he made sure Nate was driven to school and now, she would also be driven to the tutorial centre where she intend to buy the exam software.
She walked dejectedly out of her father's room.

--to be continued--

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Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by stuff46(m): 6:12pm On Jan 26, 2015
This man get get rules oh, imagine sharp thinkinq.
Mehn.
Nice updates D
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Nobody: 6:44pm On Jan 26, 2015
hehe
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by snowhyt(f): 6:46pm On Jan 26, 2015
mehn! dis man is too dictative 4 my liking; he had beta loosen up.
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by tecno4life(m): 6:55pm On Jan 26, 2015
D9ty7:
Now, holiday don finish, its time to focus 60% on The Thomas while I use the other 40% in writing down my new stories, The second coming..(All in a circle part two) and 1985.... 1987.... 2014(A crime story)
I will try and be consistent with this story, but don't expect a 5-updates per day like we had when All in a circle was running. At least per day, we would get about 2-3updates. Sometimes 4.
Tags: Tiffanyj, TrishaP, Prettydiva89, Lilyomi, Kingphilip, shankies215, Adeh39, macpetrus, Adewealth027, snowhyt, Mma22, Lbotusme, Japhola, Galaxdiva, nick16, hassan85, donPhil, stuff46, tecno4life, onemansquad, Psalmwise and others.
THE THOMAS IS BACK!!!


All in a circle 2 yippee

Detective Amanda Obi Patrick versus the new Kelv Corp formed by D-K after release from prison
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by macpetrus(m): 6:59pm On Jan 26, 2015
I guess mr Thomas is protecting his family sheepishly against all ODD!!!

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Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Uthman51(m): 7:05pm On Jan 26, 2015
cool
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by shankies215(f): 8:42pm On Jan 26, 2015
family fall apart! D9ty7, weldone! I LYK dt yoruba xplanation.....try asking an elderly stranger a qst without greeting, u go hear d story of how ur generation is dead on arrival....lol
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Ziziola: 8:51pm On Jan 26, 2015
Sitting quietly to see how things will go down. Welldone D
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by adewealth027(f): 9:36pm On Jan 26, 2015
But I don't seem to understand what Mr Thomas is doing o..........even though their mother didn't behave well,he shouldn't cut the cord btw mother and child nah
Well..........let's wait and see sha
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by alabig(m): 9:41pm On Jan 26, 2015
D9ty7, keep on rocking the boat we're sailing with you. Mr thomas is ruling his household with a heavy hand.
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Fatalveli(m): 7:41am On Jan 27, 2015
[b]Good Morning Nairalanders, I've got a real discussion with you guys and I want your cooperation, you all know that many writers in this literature section are really vexed with us right now simply because we are selfish. Plagiarism rate on NL is becoming alarming and we can't do nothing about it, writers are sacrificing there work being plagiarised and their precious time to satisfy us and we are not paying them for it, but princesa has taking that upon herself and all we just have to do is Vote. Let's show this people love, maybe writers like myself and Tiffany would give it a second thought about not posting our work in here anymore. I know we can all do it, we are not selfish and we will show this writers that we love them more than they can ever imagine. If you haven't go voted for the best writer of the month and the best newcomer in the awards thread. Just go over there and type, I vote tiffany- best writer and I vote Kinwayne for the best newcomer, these are the writers of my choice and you are all free to vote for the writer of your choice.
Note: We cannot reward this people for the entertainment their giving us but we can very much award them and that what we are gonna do. Thanks ya'll in anticipation, your vote countsgrin [/b] www.nairaland.com/1804027/free-n5000-writer-here-every/42#29685014.
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by kingphilip(m): 9:27am On Jan 27, 2015
snowhyt:
mehn! dis man is too dictative 4 my liking; he had beta loosen up.
no b him fault
the wife pushed him to d wall
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by snowhyt(f): 10:04am On Jan 27, 2015
kingphilip:

no b him fault
the wife pushed him to d wall
it doesnt mean he shld take it out on his children; treating dem lyk dey are on house arrest.
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by hassan85(m): 10:41am On Jan 27, 2015
snowhyt:
it doesnt mean he shld take it out on his children; treating dem lyk dey are on house arrest.
stop that for goodness sake. u ve been following all d happenings all along. we all have pride, d husband has tried. and How's he to react without it affecting d kidds? we are all humans, I just think we should learn How to control our anger. But so far his faults are minimal
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by seunviju(f): 4:32pm On Jan 27, 2015
This man just dey disturb himself because later the pikin go do wetin them wan do.welldone D9ty7
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Psalmwise(m): 5:06pm On Jan 27, 2015
Ah dn show ooooo...,D9ty7...,
#carries cooler of beans enter room
Majestically waiting for an update
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by kingphilip(m): 6:05pm On Jan 27, 2015
snowhyt:
it doesnt mean he shld take it out on his children; treating dem lyk dey are on house arrest.
well u don't need blame him dat much

he did everything humanly possible not to get to this point but his wife refused it.. even if u r in this position I'm sure they won't even leave the house even if de have exams the following day
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Galaxdiva(f): 7:26pm On Jan 27, 2015
tecno4life:



All in a circle 2 yippee

Detective Amanda Obi Patrick versus the new Kelv Corp formed by D-K after release from prison
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by JojoBlue(f): 7:34pm On Jan 27, 2015
Loving it....

Keep it up d9ty7
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Galaxdiva(f): 7:45pm On Jan 27, 2015
D9ty7:
Now, holiday don finish, its time to focus 60% on The Thomas while I use the other 40% in writing down my new stories, The second coming..(All in a circle part two) and 1985.... 1987.... 2014(A crime story)
I will try and be consistent with this story, but don't expect a 5-updates per day like we had when All in a circle was running. At least per day, we would get about 2-3updates. Sometimes 4.
Tags: Tiffanyj, TrishaP, Prettydiva89, Lilyomi, Kingphilip, shankies215, Adeh39, macpetrus, Adewealth027, snowhyt, Mma22, Lbotusme, Japhola, Galaxdiva, nick16, hassan85, donPhil, stuff46, tecno4life, onemansquad, Psalmwise and others.
THE THOMAS IS BACK!!!

wow....d9ty7 mentioned me? Wow...xoo happy...muah...trust me,i don fasten my seat belt and am following.... Muah muah..
All in a circle was freaking awesome...
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Deeninetyseven(m): 7:46pm On Jan 27, 2015
I appreciate you guys comments, my main account has been banned so I had to use my alternate account.
Galaxdiva, JojoBlue, Psalmwise, snowyte, Kingphilip, Tecno4life, seunviju, Hassan85, Fatalveli, Onemansquad, alabig, Adewealth027, Ziziola, shankies215, Uthman51, macpetrus, Prettydiva89, Stuff46, mma22, donphill and olarafiat.
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Onemansquad(m): 7:47pm On Jan 27, 2015
Psalmwise:
Ah dn show ooooo...,D9ty7...,
#carries cooler of beans enter room
Majestically waiting for an update
bros wetin dy do u na
why u go carry beans cum dis kind place u wnt make pple lyk stuff46 nd tecno4life kill evrybdy hia shocked shocked
*serve me a plate 1st shey u knw as e dy go*
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Deeninetyseven(m): 7:47pm On Jan 27, 2015
Snowyte, I am on your side jare. Don't mind those that are in support of Mr Thomas.
Update will drop soonest.
Re: The Thomas....(a Family) by Onemansquad(m): 7:51pm On Jan 27, 2015
[quote author=Galaxdiva post=30189415][/quote]
haha why u cum dy shout
we no dy shout hia oo b4 i bounce u outta hia

*btw psalmwise serve dis lady hot beans*

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