Gift episode 9

Gift episode 9
After
the suspension given to IB she returned
back to school, everyone started seeing
her as ‘Osu’ Igbo people can relate. Nobody
tell her to leave the school asap, I was
given the position of the head girl. Gosh!
every boy want to be my boyfriend, but
it was Joseph that won my heart, one
fine boy like that. Joseph was in my class
and also the senior boy, we are always
together. He is brilliant too but I beat him
in position the other term and that term
too I wan show am say em nofit pass
me. I don’t know why one new jezebel was
registered and she bewitched Joseph
completely, Joseph was just all over the
girl like the way flies ran after shit. I caught
them one day k-ssing at the backyard
and confronted Joseph. Our elder say
a child who doesn’t know the way to the
stream will neither know when he|she
walk pass it.
Me: Joseph, wetin be this na?
Joseph: ehnn… Gift, no vex. Meet my friend Lizzy.
Lizzy: senior girl, how far?
Me: ona two don mad finish.
I
hissed and walked away, from that day
ehnn… I decided not to have anything
to do with all those ‘Mama thank you boys
in my school’. Papa Tabara didn’t stop
visiting, I returned from school and met
him unclad on top Grace in the sitting-room,
gosh! the man is so shameless and sometimes
I imagine myself beating him up like the
way Jet-Li does in the movie, them break
my heart when I read that it was all film
tricks. I didn’t bother disturbing the both
of them, Grace later begged me not to
tell my dad that it was the handiwork of
the devil, I pity uncle Devil. He will even
get tired of the allegations that will be
labelled against him on the judgment
day, the real devil na papa Tabara. A new teacher
came into the school, young and very
handsome, just twenty-one years old.
the guy too fine and all those chew-gum
boys can’t compete, we later learnt that
he is the headmistress son who came
from oversea. I wonder why em wan teach
for the school, he took our class and all
the girls in my class started hustling for
him. Lizzy even dumped Joseph quickly
for the new guy in town, the mumu Joseph
no get sense say I don delete and format
am from my life. He carried his two chewing-sticks
legs and came to my front and asked
me to forgive and take him back, aayyyy!
Gift you have suffered, chai. I stayed away
from the new teacher, I don’t want what
happened to IB to ever happen to me.
I returned home one day from school and
met only Papa Tabara in our sitting-room.
I ignored him completely and left the sitting-room
and entered my room to remove my school
uniform, I removed my school skirt and
was unbuttoning my school shirt when
Papa Tabara sneaked in.
Me: Jesus!
Papa Tabara: Gift, I know say you are jealous, na you I love no be grace.
Me: commot from my room, what if Grace enter come see you.
Papa Tabara: she go market, I don miss you well well… My wife.
Me: your wife dey your house oh, please commot na.
Papa Tabara: yes, but na you be my real wife, *he held my small wa-ist and start pressing my yansh*
Me: sto…p ab…eg sto…p.
He
covered my l-ips with his mouth and started
smooching the hell out of me, I didn’t know
how my pa-nt and shirt with my vex left
my body, Papa Tabara laid me on my
bed and started gro-aning on top of me.
Oh gosh! he was just fu-cking me, telling me
am so sweet and he love me so much,
that he cannot live without me. He was
just su-cking my ni-pples, and smooching
my l-ips moving in and out of my pu-ssy.
He was just sweating, fu-cking me hærd
and fast till he ejaculat-ed in,side me. He
later told me that he want me that Grace
was forcing herself on him after he has
finish sleeping with me, as if say na me
ask am question. He dressed up and left
he later came back in the evening and
I caught him k-ssing Grace, my hatred
for that man tripled, I was thinking how
to give him rat chop. Before God did something
wonderful for me, Our Elders say he who keep
his house open, will not know when strangers
goes in and out. I came back from school
one day and something happened betwixt
Mama Tabara and Papa Tabara.
As
I been dey talk before, I came back from
school and saw commotion at the front
of Papa and Mama Tabara’s apartment.
People were around that place, Mama
Tabara the once quiet woman was shouting
like a mad woman. Due to the multitude
and the hunger that was frustrating me,
I saw Grace smiling at the frontage. I greeted
her and went in,side, she prepared egusi
soup and garri, I ate and had my bath
then sleep. I no even get strength to hear
gist first that time, when I come wake up. I come
go see Grace for parlour.
Me: wetin happen for Papa Tabara their house na?
Grace: no be small thing my sister.
Me: gist me na.
Grace: first go bring ice cold chill block water for fridge, I need am before I gist you.
I
no get choice na, and Grace always does
that whenever you ask her for something.
She go first send you message as if say
iffa no hear the gist I go die. Grace told
me that the two children given birth by Mama
Tabara are not Papa Tabara whose name
is Johnson children, the thing shock me
Oh. She later told me that the real father
of Tabara and the little baby came to claim
his children, and Mama Tabara want to
divorce Papa Tabara. Papa Tabara refused
and wanted to beat Mama Tabara, the
other man that impregnated Mama Tabara
is a soldier. He beat Johnson like a thief and
threw him out of the house, and Mama
Tabara na police officer oh. Utoor Johnson
the girlizer, common is correct joor. You
sabi English pass me? *winks*. After
that day we stopped seeing Johnson around
the Estate, rumour had it that he is in the
hospital treating his broken bones, lol.
Why no be broken kulikuli la?. Our elder
say a day will come when the tree will
be force to dance to the wind, the next
day in school. Rumour had it that two
girls wanted to sed-ce the new teacher,
and they were caught. Me sef think say
na just amebo stuffs now when the headmistress
gather all of us in the assembly hall and
address us, she called Lizzy out and two
other girls, our classroom teacher was
standing at the podium with them too.
Headmistress: some of you here want to become pr-stitute in the future, I won’t allow that. Just imagine these three girls writing love letters to my son. Lizzy even you.
Lizzy: ma please, is the devil.
Headmistress: three of you will bring your parents to school tomorrow.
Two girls and Lizzy: ma please, don’t call our parents.
Headmistress: shut up! I won’t allow you to be useless at this tender age.
Gosh!
They begged and begged but the headmistress
had made up her mind to drag their parents
to school, fear catch me sha… What if
I follow go drag the new fine bobo, my
Papa for just turn to Lu-Ken and finish
me with mortal kombat style. I vowed
that day not to have anything with teacher.
Our elder say nothing is sweeter than
knowledge with time, I started growing
small small hairs in my pub-c region. Sometimes
I will even try to plait it in the bathroom
but it was so small, I wanted to make sure
it grow so that I will plait it. I kept it till
one day I raised my arm and Grace saw
it, she asked me to barb it with shaving
stick that isn’t good for a woman to keep
hairs in those places, blabla… She don
forget say I be girl. I cry ehnn.. as I shave
the hair, anytime I touched somewhere
around that place, I will we-t. Third term
ended and I took first again, during the
holiday I knew Schoolboy. One drunk
in
the Estate, I hate that man with passion.
He smokes and drink anyhow, and beat
his wife but the woman nodey gree run.
I come dey wonder why, he is a police
officer. Grace sent me to buy local gin
because his wife usually sell it at their
apartment, I knocked and he asked me
to come in. I was thirteen then ripe at
the front, heavy at the back and sweet
in the middle winks. Sugar thirteen like
me.
Tbc