Sins Of My Past

Episode 3

We brought some snacks and soft drinks
then went to the school garden, we all
sat down, ” what is her name” osaretin
asked,i turned to him and told him I
don’t know,i wondered why they were so
interested in knowing her name and why
from me,they all laughed at me that why
couldn’t i ask her for her name,that’s what
every guy would do if they were in my
Position,the conversation went on like that
until the school bell rang again which
means the lunch time was over,we all
got up and return to our class,they
continue from where they stop when
we were returning back frome school,they
talk of how nice her waist could move
when on the bed and how it will feel nice,i
could always smile because the conversation
was already displeasing to me well not
because it was her but that is how I always
feel when they bring up such discussion but
I dare not tell them that,I could just pretend
enjoying every bit of it.

I got home from school and took my bath after
then I went to the kitchen and prepared
something to eat,i was not much a cooker
but I could prepare some dishes, after I
finish eating i went to my room,there
was nobody at home,my parents is at work
and my sister oduwu would be in
lectures by now cause she is preparing for
her jamb,my elder sister Judith wasn’t living
with us,she stays at the university ,she
sometimes comes home on weekend,but as for
my younger bother probably he is in school or
has gone to meet my mum at her store,i went to
my room to have some rest for sometime, as I
la!d on my bed her face keep flashing on my
mind,i could smile each time I remember her
sweet fragrance, osaretin later called me and
we discussed for sometime and he ended the call,i drop my phone under my pillow, that is how I always does it each time I want to sleep
because I don’t like to have missed calls
the caller might be calling for an important reason, because that has made me lose one of my cousin John.

It has been one year from now and i
till fell the guilt inside of me,i was waken
up by a loud sounds which happens to be a
gun shut,i wasn’t sure where it came from
but the sound was very close, i was
so terrified, i slowly walk to the sitting
room and look outside the window,i was
about to go inside my room when I heard
people screaming at our gate,i quickly
ran outside and opened the gate to my
greatest surprise i saw John my cousin laying
on the ground on his own pool of blood,
he had been shut,i cried bitterly because
he was so nice to me he has come from lagos
and was staying with us for the past six
months, people around that saw what happened
said he was shot by some gun men that
was on the bike,i called my parents who
later called the police and they took
him to the mortuary, i later saw miss calls
on my phone and one message that says PLEASE
OPEN THE GATE FOR ME FAST,all the miss calls
were from him,i then knew he was trying to
reach me but I didn’t pick up,how is wish I
didn’t leave my phone on my reading table,
maybe he couldn’t have died,ever since then
I always kept my phone around me.

Now back to the present,i haven’t slept
long when I heard knock on my door, i check
my time and it was just ten minutes pass four,
i opened the door and found my brother ohenohen standing at my door,he doesn’t look happy i then asked him what the matter was “i was looking for you all over the school today ,why
didn’t you wait for me” i knew he was
angry “well am sorry I didn’t stay for
lessons today that why I didn’t wait for
you ” i said, well the truth was that I
forgot that he always stays back at school
every Thursday, he was in Jss3 and every
Thursday he always have extra lecture
because of the Jss3 examination that was
around the corner, he doesn’t attend lessons
after school he preferred been taught at home
by his house teacher who come every weekend
because he said in school they keep on
teaching you what they have already taught
you in class, i apologies to him but he
was till not satisfied and he angryly went
to his room.

My sister later came back and i had to join
her to prepare dinner, i knows some of you
will wondering why,well that’s my mother
idea,saying that one day i will have to
stay alone so doesn’t want the situation
whereby if a girl doesn’t cook for me i
won’t be able to cook for myself even my dad
agree to it,to be sincere with you i really
like the idea,my dad and mum later came back
from work and we all had dinner together
after which we all sayed goodnight and went to our rooms.