Must Read: Loss Of Dignity – A Story…. Part 5 ONE MONTH LATER ********************** “Easy come, easy go, That’s just how you live, oh Take, take, take it all But you never give Should’ve know you was trouble From the first kiss Had your eyes wide open Why were they open?” Those were the lyrics of Bruno Mars’ grenade blaring hysterically from Emeka’s phone. It was a beautiful saturday morning at about 5:30am. Emeka was still deep in dreamland as he reluctantly picked the call without checking the name of the caller. “Hello!” he said with a coarse tone. “Mad man, you still dey sleep by this time?” the caller said from the other end. “Abeg, who i dey speak with?” Emeka enquired. “Na me Chinedu naw, you nor save my number for phone?” Chinedu asked interested. “Oh! Sorry jor, i no look the name of the caller before i pick am, how coal city dey?” Emeka asked trying to change the topic. “We dey fine jare, but guy WAEC result don show o!” he added. “Really!” Emeka exclaimed. Chinedu was an internet freak, he could browse 24/7 so long the necessary is available. Sometimes, he would skip classes just to chat with his online friends since he had no friend. He was living alone in school, he rented a self-contain apartment where he lives off-campus. As usual he was surfing the internet with his laptop computer that early morning when he saw the news on that WAEC result was out, at first, he wanted to ignore it thinking it was a jobless blogger looking for people to scam that posted it online. He was convinced immediately he entered the site as people started posting their result, it seemed alot of students passed the exam. “Yeah! I just saw the news online now” Chinedu switched to English. “Okay, Thanks. I will log into WAEC website to check mine when this call has ended.” he lamented. “You better do so quickly before the site burn down due to high traffic, only few students know that the result is out. I wish you success” Chinedu prayed. Emeka was not totally scared to Check his result because he was pretty sure about what he wrote in the exam, but since he was not the teachers who marked it and also he was not a prophet who can foresee the outcome of a future event he was a little bit nervous. “So have you been able to locate Amaka?” Emeka asked. “No! Not at all. I heard they also parked out of the area they were staying, that was not long after you guys moved to Lagos. I’m currently at school though, varsities will soon be on break, when i get home i’ll see what i can do” Chinedu narrated. “Ok, thanks.” Emeka said and ended the call, but not after wearing a sad look. Emeka had not seen nor heard from Amaka for 2years since he lost contact with her. He was expecting that Chinedu would have good news concerning Amaka this time around, that was the tenth time he was asking Chinedu the same question since he came back from school. He quickly opened his phone browser and logged into the official WAEC website, he typed his centre number into a blank space where it was required, he moved to the next where he was supposed to input the pin on his WAEC scratch card. “Oh, s’hit!” he said out of frustration when he realised that he had not yet bought the scratch card. He dashed out of his room with rocket speed, Emeka got to the corridor and met Chiwe. Little Chiwe who is now 4 year-old had suddenly growned into a big girl. “where is mummy?” he asked. “she is still sleeping in her room” Chiwe replied him. Emeka’s father had travelled to Abuja for an official police meeting, he would be back the next day. Emeka told his mother about the WAEC result, she was happy even though she didn’t know whether the result will favour her son. She then asked Emeka to go to her purse and collect the money to purchase the scratch card. ********************** 11:15am. Emeka came running home with excitement written all-over his face. He had gone to print out his result from Kaydee’s Cyber Cafe, the cafe is run by a graduate Kayode. He decided to start up the business centre when Jobs were not forth coming after he graduated from UNILAG four years ago. N:B: UNILAG means “University of Lagos” He finally got him to meet his mother and Aunty Bimbo gisting, they were conversing in Yoruba dialet. Emeka’s mother could speak yoruba but not perfectly, she is half Yoruba and half Igbo. Her father hails from Awgu L.G.A in Enugu, while her mother is from Ogbomosho south L.G.A in Oyo state. When she was born her parents decided to name her Yetunde, a Yoruba name after her mothers’s tribe. Emeka got to where his mother and Aunty Bimbo were standing and greeted, his mother could read the look on his face as he handed over the result slip to her. She took the slip from Emeka and scan through it while Aunty Bimbo watched. “You passed all your papers!” she said stressing the passed. Emeka nodded in approval. “C’mon, that’s my darling!, now come give me a hug” Aunty Bimbo said smiling. This is just the beginning of Gobe. WATCH OUT FOR PART 6
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 06:40:58 +0000
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