The Preacher Son

Episode 8

Oya back to the matter…….

When we went outside to play that night, i saw an angel called Ngozi. Ngozi was an halfcast (a Nigerian father and a British mother), when we (the boys) saw her we totally forgot about everything and we started showing up our dry bones and skills to please her. I did not mind if Tina was there or not i simply went about my showing off business because everything about her was foreign, her clothes, perfume even talk na linguistics the girl dey scatter for us.
Tina never cared she also wanted to be her friend, suddenly an idea came into my sharp man brain and i remembered a skill superman used to dodge some bullets in one of his movies i watched so i covered my head with my sweater cap and climbed three steps up of our church and waited till she was looking at my direction.
‘make una see me dey do tumbulu back’ that was what we called back fleet or back tumble then, i cried out and i started flipping from up till down and i even rolled on the ground and then stood up amidst clapping from my friends and colleagues who were begging me to teach them, but my whole thoughts were on Ngozi, who seem pleased but my liver failed me to approach her.

So my dear pals na so Ngozi disvirgin my mouth, i went back to church and quickly fell asleep dreaming all kind of good dreams like my marriage to Ngozi and others. We kept on our silly friendship until they went back to England. The cry i cried that day eh…..anyway make we forget that one

“Uduak come make we go play game”,my friend Joel begged me, his dad had just bought him a new game cosole and he knew i was a master of gaming things so he came to call me.
‘Ok wait make i where my slippers’
We got to his house and i admired the game, the game pad is similar to that of sony cd player pad, so i knew it quite well. I t was a fighting game whereby two players can use one fighter but control him both, like one would be jumping and flying while the other person would be controlling the fighting.

‘Yes, yes kick the boss na, ehen fly go, dodge, yes o, una too much’Issac his younger brother was urging us on. We had never beaten the boss before so we never had a chance to pass to the next stage, but that day we manage to beat the boss and when ‘you win’ was written on the scream we all jumped up and started rejoicing, unknowingly i was with the game pad in my hands when i jumped up in joy, only to find out in horror that i had pulled the game cords from its socket. When we fixed it back we still tried beating the boss, but it seems like the man went to eat more body building snacks, he beat us till we were almost crying, that was how we abandoned the game.

Before i conclude my Jos chronicle i would like to tell you pals one bad thing and one good thing; the bad thing was how i was caught or let me say set up with a girl and the good thing was how we visited the then governor of Plateau state Gov. Joshua Dariye.