My life at Thirty episode 8

My life at Thirty episode 8
in the night, i couldn’t sleep but thought of
the kind of life Ezekiel was living, the memory
of what i saw was not going out of my mind;
it was as if someone pasted the picture into
my heart couple with all what Ezekiel
explained. I didn’t come to term with the
friends with benefits stuff as i was hearing the
explanation for the first time, i later slept off
with my thought.
Ismaeel called me later the following morning
that it seems he wont be coming home as
early as we thought that maybe he will be
coming home on Saturday or Sunday because
of his engagement where ever he was. I asked
him to tell me where he was but he said i
shouldn’t worry about it that he will explain
everything to me once his back and that was
on a Wednesday.
From Wednesday to Saturday, it was just me,
Ezekiel and esther downstairs, the funniest
thing was that Esther didn’t even go to her
room again, she was sleeping and staying in
Ezekiel’s room. They will go out in Ezekiel’s
car, come back later in the day, put on
generator anytime there was no power supply
and enjoy themselves. In fact they use to on
generator over night some times.
On Saturday, i told Mr Bolaji, the owner of the
coaching centre that i wont be coming again
since i will be resuming school and i will be
engaged in so many activities but rather than
agree with me, he pleaded with me that i
should try and manage schooling and the
teaching class together. He said he will adjust
my class to suit my school time table so that
their wont be disturbance and even if there is
a clash he can always reschedule his own
class for my sake. He even said he was ready
to increase my salary to N5,000.
I seek the advice of Ismaeel when he came
back and he advised me that i should take the
offer, in his word 2is it not even better than
the free tutorial i used to org-nized for my
course mate. This is a new means of income
and with this we can forget about home totally
because i believe 5k is enough for our upkeep.
I tried to find out about where he went to but
he didn’t even give me any concrete answer
so i decided to shelve it over with the thought
that it was his personal runs or something
which he didn’t want me to know about that
he went for.
First semester 200level resumed fully and it
was not different from the way i used my past
session but this time around i had to add my
coaching class to it. My course mates never
stop demanding for tutorials from me, my
MSSN contribution was also there as well as
my coaching class. In fact it was as if i was a
full working class as i do come home around
7pm or 8pm every night.
Ismaeel noticed the change of attitude from
Ezekiel to me as time goes on, it was a
forceful friendsh¡p of sought, he always want
to talk to me same as Esther. Since i started
talking to them, i was also forced to be
coming out some night any time am free. If
everybody in the hostel was outside gisting
and i was not there, Ezekiel will make sure he
come and drag me out even though i don’t
contribute much to their discussion.
I remembered the first time i joined them
outside, i was just coming back from my
coaching class, i greeted everybody as it was
a full house, i headed straight to my room and
the next statement i heard was “Ismaeel, why
is it that Alfa doesn’t like talking to anybody,
are we all not close to God as he is?”, i was
touched by the statement and had to respond
“ahn ahn..No ooo”
Esther: Then where are you going to? Why not
come and join us here
Me: Am just coming back from school, have
not even entered the room and i want to pray
too
Esther: Go and pray then come back…at least
there is no light and there is heat also
Ezekiel: Abi oo…i even wanted to on generator
but this place is still more interesting than
being in,side
Me: Okay, i will come
Even though i never meant it when i said i will
come, i was later dragged outside by Ezekiel,
we gisted about so many things and i couldn’t
put my mouth when they were talking about
some students in the neighbourhood. From
different girl friends to those living family life,
i was astonished with all i heard. My
conclusion was that just as they were talking
about other people that is how people will be
talking about us too. I imagine what they
would have said behind me.
My 100level second semester result was out
and it was no surprise that my CGPA was
4.91. Aside Alfa, people started calling me
scholar, one of the few in the wh0le
department, even though i heard there are so
many people that started so strong in the
department just like i was but they will later
drop and the worst of it some of them will
drop to as low as second class lower, that is
the time when econometrics will start coming
into bearing but i was so sure that my life will
never turn out like that, i was so sure that i
will come out with a first class and even if the
worst of it, it will be a strong second class
upper, the thought of second class upper was
not even on my mind at all..
My year two was going on normal and i was
becoming more and more popular in school, I
don’t lack money too and i was still the same
reserved person as i was even though have
started making friends here and there but i
was so selective with the kind of friend that i
have. The only people so close to me are my
Muslim brothers; the ladies i knew way back
then are the hijab sisters that we do one
program or the other in MSSN.
Back in the hostel, everything was just normal,
suddenly we don’t see Titi again at our place
nobody knew if she and Ezekiel fought or
something. There was drastic change in
Ezekiel character; we noticed that so many
girls now visit him, from short to tall, fat to
thin, different sizes of girls always trooping in
to our house all in the name of being his
friend. This doesn’t stop Esther from
patronizing Ezekiel, at a time i thought if it
was love or there was actually something
behind it. Despite the fact that Ezekiel hærdly
sleep alone at home alone, its one different
babe to the other every week.
Another amazing thing i noticed was that the
friendsh¡p between Ismaeel and Ezekiel was
somehow becoming strong. Sincerely, i never
knew what they have in common but Ismaeel
is always in Ezekiel’s room and he used to
spend the night in his place sometimes. I was
in my house this particular afternoon, i was
not feeling too well so i didn’t go out which
was very unusual. Ismaeel went to school,
Ezekiel was around and i don’t even know the
lady he was with because he put on the
generator. I was just relaxing on bed when i
heard someone opened my door