Dirty Diana episode 7

Dirty Diana
EPISODE 7
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From the crowd of pupils I could see Stella, she looked at me with a face and hand gesture
that conveyed the message ‘be strong’, I walked to the table climbed on it and laid down
with my tummy and my buttocks facing up, I was thankful in my heart that it wasn’t Wili-wili
that would be the one oozing out his venom on me with his revered wh¡p, Mr Ekpo walked to
were I was lying down with a long cane, he faced the crowd
as he raised his hand up ‘Fiam!’ The cane landed on my buttock in a rather odd way he
wasn’t flogging me hærd as the crowd joined almost immediately in counting
“One!, Two, Three,… Six”
He was barely flogging me as the cane was used to give my buttocks a light pat, Mrs Ekpo
got angry as she walked from where other teachers were lined up, walked to the table,
dragged the cane out of Mr Ekpo’s hand and said
“Your not flogging this silly girl well, excuse me please” she sighed as she held the cane so
firm and looked at the crowd saying
“You guys would join me in counting again, let’s start afresh” she said
There was instant shouts of injustice
“Aaah Aunty its unfair o” a voice from the crowd said
She smiled and said “Yes, its not meant to be good, this would make none of you to try
such”
She then used her hand to arrange my skirt straight and then pressed my buttocks to know
if I had anything like a padding under to reduce the pain, because that’s some trick we
student implore to resist the harsh strokes of the likes of Mrs Ekpo and Wili-wili, when she
touched and felt I had nothing under, then she began to flog me ‘Fiam!’ And the crowded
joined immediately to count, the pain from each stroke was like a hot metal placed in a
furnace to get red-hot and then stamped on my skin to leave its imprint of horrific pain, I
had resolved not to cry or shake no matter how painful her strokes were, all I did was clench my fist and closed my eyes, by the time she got to fifteen she was breathing like a sprinter
who just finished a 100metres race, gasping for breathe as her strokes became weaker and
students burst into laughter scre-ming
“Burner! Dirty Diana!”
Mrs Ekpo raised her head up and flashed her eyes at the crowd as there was instant
silence!, she then scre-med saying
“Let me just catch one person, infact if I hear piom! from anybody here, you guys would cut
grass the wh0le day”
And she continued with her flogging by the time she was done and I did not shake neither
did cry, I came down from the table, as I walked to join my classmates as we stayed in rows,
the ovation I got was the loudest the school had ever received since its inception, the
students went wild in celebration scre-ming
“Dirty Diana!! Burner!!”
We all were ordered to kneel down as the principal ordered that all students should be
punished, we were shared into groups and made to work on farmlands and the school
football field.
TO BE CONTINUED