Life as a corper
Episode 96
I later drove back to my lodge, chatted with adaora for a while, before lying down to sleep.
I woke up an hour and half later when i heard a knock on my door. I lazily got up from my bed, opened the door and smiled as my eyes fell on Jenny who stood outside, with a tray of rice.
I dutifully stepped aside for her while she calmly walked into my room.
“why is your room so dark? Ain’t you putting on the generator tonight?” she asked,
“sure i will, how do you know that i’m inside the room?” i asked foolishly. She scoffed and sat on the rug,
“i saw you drive in an hour ago, by the way where went you last night?” she asked seriously. I silently smiled, left my room, went outside and switched on my generator.
“you are yet to answer my question” she murmured curiously when i returned.
“i went to stay with a friend, your comments really wounded my pride yesterday and forced me to leave” i replied.
“i still stand by them unless you give me cause not to, i’m sorry” she murmured and apologized.
“so how about your friend where is she?” i asked changing the topic,
“in our room” she answered,
“she dosen’t like me, does she? I noticed she hardly comes to my room” i asked, while she looked away and shook her head,
“must everybody like you?” she answered with a question.
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We finally ate the rice silently while i threw occassional glances at her.
“why were you so upset with me yesterday?” i heard myself curiously ask after the meal. She breathed deeply with a calm smile.
“i don’t even know what pushed me back to your room this evening. I promised never to set foot in it” she confessed,
“hmmmm nawaoo?” i exclaimed,
“i really do hate associating myself with crooks” she added coldly.
“i’m no crook my dear, neither am i from a poor home, that’s why i live the way i do. You just misunderstood the whole thing yesterday” i tried to explain.
“how do you explain the conversation i overheard the previous day” she murmured, reached for the t.v remote and changed the channel to orient t.v, as she tried to hide her curiousity.
“I can’t explain everything to you right now, so all i can say is that you listen to your heart and do whatever it wants you to do” i concluded quietly. She instantly turned and stared at me for a while before standing up,
“alright good night i have to go” she muttered coldly while I grabbed her.
I knew she was expecting me to share my secrets with her but was disappointed and sad when i failed to do so.
“i know our friendship is just few weeks old, but trust me on this, i will soon open up to you” i promised and pecked her. Her face instantly coloured.
“it’s a promise dear” i added. She simply rolled her eyes, breathed deeply and stepped away from me as if something touched her heart.
“i really don’t know what you are planning and sometimes i also don’t understand myself, but just don’t breed any feelings for me because i have a boyfriend, please be wise” she poured out and left, totally surprising me with her outburst.
“what’s she thinking?” i wondered and shrugged.
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Episode 97
A heavy rain fell later that night, keeping away mosquitoes and making me sleep very soundly.
8:15AM, I lazily got up from my bed and prepared for work with a double mind. I felt very uneasy as i prepared, but i paid no serious attention to it, because I couldn’t afford skipping my classes again not after failing to show up for two days.
It was still drizzling as i drove to the school premises that fateful morning. Unfortunately the normal road i preferred taking was totally spoilt and muddy, forcing me to take another path which was a bit manageable but longer.
I drove on quietly till i got to a very narrow culvert, manned by youths who were repairing the road. They probably were twenty or more in number. My heart skipped when i saw them.
I really wasn’t friendly with any of them, because they all avoided and treated me with scorn, forcing me to return their gesture with a careless indifference.
Of course they saw most male corpers as potential threats to their relationships which really wasn’t a lie, but as for myself i earned a very special hatred in their hearts because of the way i carried myself.
Even though i just arrived the community, i wasn’t foolish not to notice that they were all targeting and waiting for the right opportunity to pounce on me.
Instead of reversing my car and heading back to my lodge, since i knew they hated my guts. i still drove on till i got to where they blocked the road.
I honked for them to allow me pass through, but they all ignored me, forcing me to alight from my car.
I shook hands with them as courtesy demanded before begging to let me pass through.
“are you crazy? Don’t you see the road is blocked?” a dark heavily built guy instantly shouted at me. I scoffed and looked at him with a weak smile,
“haba nau, just remove the wood let me pass abeg the road isn’t bad” i pleaded. He smiled evily and eyed me, while another guy poured a bucket of mud water on my car, just to provoke me.
I was visibly provoked, but couldn’t do anything because they were much in number.
“okay you guys win, no wahala” i murmured and turned to leave. My action totally disappointing them,
“as long as you are living in this community, you have to join the youths in everything we do, weren’t you aware of today’s road work?” the heavily built guy asked, while his friends nodded in support.
I was very stunned, and nervous, while my heart pounded furiously.
“Ebuka give him your shovel jor, this boy has to work, whether he likes it or not” he ordered a short guy who came forward with a shovel. I bit my lips, gave them an askance look, sighed and turned to leave, but the short guy quickly tried to stop me, forcing me to ‘side-step’. He slipped and almost fell.
His mates instantly screamed and pounced on me furiously like angry dogs. I was totally beaten and fed with mud water until some elders rescued me….
“that’s for all our girls you have f.ucked, it’s just the beginning” they panted as the Elders broke me away from them.
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Episode 98
I never believed those guys could lay their hands on me nor deal with me so savagely without pity. My clothes and car were in a mess, but thanks to the elders who rescued me on time, i escaped the onslaught without any serious injury.
I managed to get back to my room minutes later, pulled off my clothes and cursed unhappily. “why didn’t i turn around when i percieved danger” i wondered sadly.
The story however within minutes spread like wildfire in the whole community, becoming a trending village gossip, and a lesson to my fellow male corpers. The school principal surprisingly visited me an hour later, accompanied by some teachers.
But Instead of speaking against the boys he reprimanded me, “warning me to stay away from village politics and asking me to sit up with my job or he will be forced to report me”. It really took me quite an effort to hold myself from breaking his head. Instead of standing by my side, he choosed to sit on the fence, perhaps because the boys were his kinsmen. Nevertheless he permitted me to rest and resume work the following week, which i welcomed happily.
As for the boys they never regretted what they did to me, instead drank and celebrated it, as they spread many versions of the story. I soon became a village celebrity, my popularity rating rose rapidly
The only people who felt pity for me were the young girls, who sympatized and apologized on behalf of their rude brothers.
The young female student who earlier sent me a love text was the first to show up in my room, minutes after the school principal and his teachers left.
She spent some minutes with me, helping me wash my soiled clothes before leaving. Yea i wasn’t comfortable with her visit, but i very much appreciated her help. As a lazy guy, i hardly refuse helpful gestures from people.
5pm Thursday
Jenny and i sat on a small bench outside our lodge and faced the street eating groundnuts as she teased me over the events of the previous day. I laughed as i listened to her until my eyes fell on a dark damsel who was coming towards us. She really wasn’t overly attractive but had an inner beauty, which captured my soul. She looked like a she-wolf. I instantly felt strong hunger and desire as i stared at her..
Only if i knew the fate that awaited me, perhaps i wouldn’t have looked at her that very day.
Seriously my lustful behaviour was fast getting out of hand and extremely annoying. Even when i thought i had it under control. A very terrible gene i pray my children not to inherit.
I had Adaora, and equally Tessy, yet i was still having hopes for another girl.
Inside of allowing my life to go swifty, i was busy getting it entangled with more mysteries in the name of fun.
Episode 99
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“do you see that gorgeous girl coming towards us?” i asked Jenny, holding her left hand softly,
“yea and so?” she replied as she stared at her,
“i havn’t seen her before, do you know her?” i asked. She smiled, freed her hand from my grasp and stared at me with suspicion.
“she’s your little girlfriend’s elder sister. The girl that sent you a love text the other day, don’t you see the resemblance?” she explained and asked. I instantly gasped and shrugged, saying no other word to her.
The dark girl soon got to us, smiled and greeted.
“good evening, please is my little sister in your room? We have been looking for her since morning, her phone number also isn’t going through and i heard she visits you often” she asked me quietly.
“nope i havn’t seen her today, the last time i saw her was yesterday afternoon?” i replied quietly. She breathed deeply and nodded.
“okay, thanks alot” she murmured and made to leave,
“perhaps she’s charging her phone somewhere” i suggested, making her stop momentarily.
“yea you may be right, let me look for her in the market” she said sweetly before walking towards the village market.
“choi this girl is very sharp oooo, what do you think” i asked Jenny as we watched the dark girl leave. She simply scoffed and rolled her eyes,
“oh please, not again” she murmured, while I smiled, stood up and made to go after her, but Jenny quickly restrained me, grabbing my right hand strongly.
“where are you going?” she asked curiously,
“i’m going after her of course” i replied without thinking. She forced out a smile, withdrew her grasp and nodded.
“alright suit yourself” she muttered coldly. I instantly stared at her with concern.
“c’mon what’s up with you, are you alright?” i asked seriously. The change in her behaviour totally surprising me.
“yea i’m okay, it’s just a little headache which just appeared, i need to go inside and rest” she muttered and left for her room, without waiting for my reply.
I shrugged, turned and ran after the other girl, catching up with her within seconds.
“hey let’s search for your sister together, i have nothing doing, moreover i’m very much concerned because she’s my friend” i offered, while She smiled in appreciation.
“hope you didn’t upset your corper friend by coming after me?” she asked,
“oh not at all” i replied calmly,
“really! Don’t be too sure about that” she added, making me stare at her with curiousity, but before i could say anything, she asked,
“ain’t you supposed to be scared of following me round the village after what happened to you yesterday?”.
“no dear, on the contrary it actually boasted my morale” i replied. She smiled silently and moved on.
“My oh my, she really isn’t an ordinary village girl. Her beauty is perfect for my revenge” i reasoned as we walked into the market together.
Episode 100
We went round the market together, moving from one shop to another but couldn’t find her sister.
“who knows where she might be?” she murmured with frustration,
“you shouldn’t get yourself worked up, your sister is a big girl and will return whenever she deems fit” i consoled with a smile. She shrugged and breathed deeply.
“i guess I have to return to the house, before my mum starts looking for me as well” she joked. I laughed and exchanged phone numbers with her.
“my name is Akunna” she said, when i asked of her name.
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AN HOUR & HALF LATER
“I really don’t know what plans you have for that girl, but whatever it is, please i beg you to forget it, because i know nothing good will come out of it” Jenny calmly said to me as she relaxed in my room. I looked up from my computer and stared at her with a smile. She was lying on my bed with her back turned towards me. The small singlet and bum short she wore really revealed a good proportion of her body.
“are you now her lawyer?” i asked,
“you can say whatever you like” she replied with a sigh. “seriously you really got me very annoyed when you went after her this evening, you totally disrespected me, i felt like slapping you that moment” she confessed.
I quietly shut down my computer, dropped it on the table and laid beside her, smelling her hair in the process.
“c’mon on how did i disrespect you huh?” i asked and breathed down her neck. She instantly sat up and stared at me with a weird expression.
“you know what? Forget it” she muttered. I quietly sat up and held her hand,
“i’m very sorry for offending you with my behavour, i never meant to disrespect you. I won’t go after her ever again in your presence, moreover i just needed her for a particular objective and nothing else” i apologized and explained,
“just save yourself the explanation pleassssseee” she replied a bit coldly, making me forcefully draw her closer to my body.
“what’s the meaning of that?” she asked angrily.
“you easily get annoyed with me why? Sometimes i feel you equally detest me like your roomate” i asked calmly. she looked down and shook her head,
“no i don’t detest you, but everyone knows you are rotten inside” she confessed,
“you read me so well as if you have known me for long. I truly don’t know why i behave the way i do towards you” i equally confessed.
“please let’s stop this discussion, i’m no longer feeling comfortable” she begged and tried to break away from me. But I expertly raised her face and planted a kiss on her lips. She instantly blushed
“i have been dreaming to do this for a long while, i have never kissed a yoruba girl” i confessed with bright eyes and spirit.
Her calm beauty instantly coloured, her expression changed instantly. She stared at me murderously, before violently breaking away from me,
“so you kissed me because you want to know how a yoruba girl tastes like?? God punish you” she cursed with fire in her eyes, before leaving my room angrily.
I unhappily watched her leave, clueless on what next to do. She really was a girl very difficult to read.
Even though the kiss was a bit passionate, To me it was only a genuine friendly kiss which i rendered without any strings attached, but to her, i really was cluless on what it meant to her.
“Perhaps i won’t be getting any more free meals from her again” “silly me” i lamented.
My phone rang that moment, breaking me away from my thoughts. The caller was no other person than Tessy.
I instantly remembered ‘weekend’ was just a day away.
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The End.
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