Gabi’s diary episode 4 – 5

Gabi’s Diary
Episode 4
By Gabriel Akilozi
So that was how I met Tope, Victor, Joy and Partially Sucex although I and Sucex aren’t kind of very close but with time we became good pals. Things went on fine for some weeks, I still stayed at Ring Road and looking for an accommodation. It was on one early Monday morning, I went to school early as usual, I do get to school around 6:30am, even those that live closer to school dont come early as I normally do. The maim reason why I do come early is just to get a seat at the front. I got to school that morning and met a girl at the front seat again, although she is a different girl entirely ” God please, let this one not also keep seat for people o” I prayed silently as I went and sat down beside the girl. I didn’t greet her and she also didn’t greet me. I looked at her and eyed her, what sort of disrespect is that, a small girl like her cant greet. I didn’t say anything, I just left her alone and started ready my biology textbook, yes I bought a biology textbook because I dont in anyway understand that fat man whenever he comes to teach us. So what I do is that I read with the syllabus, I read ahead of him. Joy soon came to the class, I was surprised when I saw her, why? Joy’s hair is actually a low cut, she do attach hair to hide it. ” Wait so you mean you dont actually have hair?” I asked her as she sat down close to me. ” Yes now, so you dont know I have been on a low cut all this while?” She asked smiling, she was actually also pretty with the low cut than even with all those attachment stuff. ” I never knew o ” I said to her. ” Now you know ” she replied and turned to that disrespectful girl ” sister good morning ” Joy greeted her. ” Good morning sis, please can you help me with this last class physics? I dont understand it ” the girl said politely while Joy smiled ” Today is your lucky day, the Don of Physics is here, Gabriel” She said pointing at me while I smiled, ” Now she will beg me” I said to myself. ” I dont want him to teach me” she said and got up from the seat, I was shocked. ” Gabriel, I know you have abused this girl this morning bah” Joy said. ” No we didn’t speak to each other today” I said to joy. ” Hmm, why then doesn’t she like you?” Joy asked me again. ” I dont know” I said and faced my biology. The girl happens to be Ejiro, the one who later turned out to be my best girlfriend, She is a graduate of Physiology but came back to do medicine due to the passion she got for it. If you read all my previous write-ups, you should know all this. I and Ejiro remained enemy for close to a month, the thing was that I considered her disrespectful due to the fact that I thought I am elder to her but never knew she was older than I was.
I continued to read my biology textbook, Joy had gone out to buy something for us, it was that moment the black like charcoal biology man enter, he is the worst of all the biology lecturers we had. ” Today, I will be teaching you on carbohydrates, but as I am today, I have no strength to shout, so I will need a bright student to come and dictate this note for me” he said holding up his note. ” I sir” one busy body girl shouted and the man called her out. ” Okay please dictate it to them, don’t make any mistake ” the man told her and he went to seat down on a plastic chair at a corner of the class. ” the topic is Chemicals of Life ” The girl shouted while the class became suddenly filled with laughter and shout, even the biology teacher was forced to laugh. The girl’s voice did not pass the front row of the class, it was the lightest voice have ever heard and sure if this girl continues to dictate, half of the class will write down rubbish. The man got up from the plastic chair and came to the girl. ” Go back to you seat my friend, do you think we are joking here?” He asked her angrily , the girl ran back laughing . ” Please someone else, I need a guy” the man said moving his eyes from left to right, at a point I thought the eyes stopped on me and I quickly bent my head. ” So you mean none of you guys can come out and dictate this note?” He asked angrily raising the note up. ” Okay class have a nice day” He said and made to leave but someone stopped him. ” I will do it Sir ” a fat guy said as he stood up from a seat at the back, this is the guy that later became Emeka, one of my housemates also. As Emeka got up, stuffs like ” Biggie, Big Daddy, Omo Ekun” Could be heard from every corner of the class, Emeka was just smiling foolishly as he came out. ” Good, dictate it as you see it” The man told Emeka and returned to his plastic chair. ” Hello” Emeka said and the class went into laughter, even the walls echoed back his voice, it was loud enough, even over loud. ” The Topic is Chemicals of Life, and the sub topic is Carbohydrates ” Emeka said in his loud voice. ” Carbohydrates is a poly hydroxy compound that is made up of Carbon, Oxygen and Hydrogen, it has the general formulae (CH2O)n, the n signify the number of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen present ” Emeka continued in his loud voice. He continued like that for about twenty minutes then we stopped hearing his voice, his voice started to break. I looked up at Emeka and saw that he had started dozing partially, you want to make Emeka sleep, give him a book, you wanna kidnap him, give him food. The lecturer got up from his plastic chair and came to Emeka who was holding the book close to his eyes and trying his best to dictate. ” Mr. man,are you sleeping? ” the man asked Emeka, Emeka staggered back to life. ” No Sir, we are not Joking here” Emeka said and the class bursted into laughter. The man took the book from Emeka and dictated the rest by himself. He finished the dictation and started explaining, this is the part i dont like. I turned to joy and we started talking in low tones since none of us understands the man explanation. ” So have you seen an accommodation? ” I asked joy. “Hopefully by the end of this week, I would see one” she replied. ” Hey, you that boy in glasses get up” I heard the man shout, ” Thank God am not the only one in glasses ” I thought as I gently removed my glasses. ” Yeah, you, the one removing his glasses” the man shouted again, I looked up and saw him pointing and walking towards me.
 
Gabi’s Diary
Episode 5
By Akilozi Gabriel
I got up slowly from my chair, I wore back my glasses and stood facing the man as he walked towards me. ” Two of you come out to the front of the class” he told I and Joy as he got to us, I walked out gently, Joy followed behind. ” Now tell the class why the both of you are disturbing my class” he said looking sternly at me. ” Nothing ” I replied. ” So you mean you are just disturbing me for nothing?” He asked but got no reply. ” Now get out of my class” he told us, we didn’t beg him, we walked out happily. okay so that was how I met my housemates, who else haven’t I mentioned? Amanda. Amanda happens to be Joy friend, sometimes when I dont want joy to sit with me in class, she goes to stay with Amanda. It was on one occasion when Joy wasn’t in school that I went to talk to Amanda for the first time. ” Hi, have you seen joy?” I asked her. ” oh, Gabriel, so for the first time, you have deemed it fit to come talk to me, that’s hilarious” she started, I so much hate those her English. ” Yes, it is very hilarious” I released my own blunder. ” I thought yourself and Joy are much closer, I haven’t seen her” she said. ” By the way am Amanda” she introduced herself with a handshake. ” And I am Gabriel” I told her shaking her hand. ” I know that already” she said while I laughed. ” So if you dont mind, can you give me your number?” I asked her while she brought out a paper and wrote her number on it. ” Sorry, I heard a kind of rumour that you might be coming to live in our hostel” She said smiling. ” Yeah I am coming , but I will come like a surprise, for it is written, that the son of man shall come like a thief in the night” I told her while she laughed. ” It will be so nice having at least a guy in our house apart from my cousin” she said while I smiled. ” So you mean I will be the only guy in your house?” I asked her. ” No, the only guy of our class” she said again ” Oh” I said and we talked for some minutes before I sighted Joy in the front, she was obviously searching for me.
Okay now, enough of the long story, I just love talking. I finally went to pay for the accommodation, I paid to the agent, Mr Charles ( not his real name o,let him not go and increase the house rent) . Mr Charles is a man probably in his thirties, he is a jovial and friendly man but can pretend . when I went to pay for the accommodation, I went with my prof, so as we got there, my prof introduced himself as a professor, the moment he introduced himself, Mr Charles accent changed to that of a phonetic teacher, I was deceived to believe that he was from the white man land. ” Glory sir, Glory, it my honourable pleasure meeting you sir, I am also a graduate of the university of Benin city sir, have heard so much about you, glory sir” he said while my prof nodded, he was obviously deceived by the way Mr Charles expressed himself. We paid for everything and the next day I went to buy my bed, reading table and other things, Sucex was with me. Yeah I and Sucex have actually discussed everything in class, I have agreed with him being my roomie, I like his personality. The first day in the house wasn’t much fun, I and Sucex Just sat staring at each other waiting for who will talk to the other first. ” But guy you ugly o” i finally spoke while he smiled, it surprises me why he doesn’t get angry when one tells him he is ugly. ” My brother , you are not the first to tell me, I know say I warwar, no dey remind me” he said laughing, just then Emeka barged into our room. ” Oh, my grandsons, welcome ” he said hugging us. ” What is this one, who is your grandson? ” I asked him, we did not even know each other, I only knew him as the boy that came to dictate for us that day. ” See let me tell you guys, I am the grandfather to both of you, take it or leave it” Emeka said again. ” Come did I tell you that my grandfather is fat like a pig?” Sucex said while Emeka smiled. ” If you know how your face looks like, you would be glad to have me as a grandfather. I would prefer monkey to you now, that is why I prefer Gabriel to you” he said. ” So am a monkey?” I asked him smiling. ” Of course” he replied also smiling. ” Oh, you are our grandfather bah?” I asked him again. ” Yes” he replied. ” Then you are the grandfather of monkeys, you are a grand monkey” I told him while I and Sucex bursted into laughter, ” The two of you are idiots, you actually look like your grandmother not me, so I am not a monkey” he said again. ” see , I didn’t come for all this, I am hungry” he finally said as he sat on my bed. ” Go and look for food elsewhere, we are monkeys so we can’t give you food” I said to him while he smiled. ” Gabriel, you are the most handsome youngman I have ever met ( fact, if you readers like, believe it, that is the truth) but if you dont want to give me food because I called Sucex a monkey, then hold your food. I can’t lie because of food” he said as he went by himself to take rice from the pot in the kitchen, he ate up to three plates and after that fell into a deep sleep.
That evening Joy came into our room, she was wearing a singlet and a trouser. ” Yeah, I promised to come and help you guys cook soup today” she said smiling at us, at the mention of soup, we smiled back. ” Yeah, please start o, so that we can use it this night” I told her as she went to the kitchen and put on the gas, she placed the pot on the gas and made to start cooking. ” Joy, I never asked you, where are you from?” I asked for the first time. ” Am from Benin city now, this is my land” she said, immediately she mentioned Benin city, my ancestors quickly taught me how to cook soup. ” Joy please dont worry about the soup” I said as I went to the kitchen. ” chaii and my mom warned me to be careful of benin girls o” Sucex lamented. ” Wait, you guys think am a witch, who gave you this mentality that Benin people are witches? ” she asked angrily as she dropped the pot on the tile floor, it made a loud noise. ” No be witch una be before?” Sucex said from the parlour, joy removed her gaze from me, and advanced towards Sucex. Deep down I could see fear in Sucex but he pretended to be brave