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Seeing this, the man did not waste time now. he simply huffed and then brought his foot down on the head of Lekan, smashing his jaw into the hard concrete ground.

Blood splattered about just then as a teeth from the inner dentition rolled out to the ground.

Lekan saw stars. or the equivalent of them with his eye shut, twinkling against the blank that pulled up in his mind eye. The pain rammed against his body, setting him ablaze with several emotions running rampant.

His life flashed before his eyes now as he pondered on just how it was going to play out. Like it was general knowledge, those who got to be labelled as thieves did not often get to live for long. At least, not when the mob was allowed to do what thy wanted to do.

His mind cursed him now. He should never have stepped out of the house. IT was all bad luck but he had been stupid,thinking he could make it out just because a girl had invited him out.

All for what? He was right in front of the school and what was he getting? A beating, in broad daylight.

"Ack!" Lekan groaned out now, spitting out blood now as the foot of his accuser rammed into his back once again.

The breath was sucked out of him as instantaneously, his right arm stretched out towards the finely carved gate before him.. The gates which led to the school Blessing attended was now going to be where he was going to be beaten

And in the worst case scenario, he was going to be lynched. Luckily, Lekan deduced, he was just outside at the right time. Now that most people were at work, there were lesser people on the roads and the ones who drove by did not think to stop as they did not want to get their hands involved in what did not concern them.

This was just how he used to know he was done for. If no one was going to step up now, that meant he was truly in for it because no matter how things went now, the accuser behind him would never let him go. And they would be just no one to challenge that.

Lekan clicked his tongue in regret, tasting the blood in his mouth. He was truly done for.

But then, his whole body raged out now. Why did he deserve to get this treatment? He did not deserve it. He had just been out there, what had he done?

And the moment he had alighted from the Uber, there was no thief around or anything that suggested tht. So what if this whole thing was just a set up to him?

Or what if he was simply being mistaken as a thief? In that case, he would have to fight for himself or face whatever jungle justice awaited him. And if he was going to fight for himself, he had to make sure he had himself in the best of shape and that what he had to do, he did that on time. As he could not ascertain what would happen if people began to gather now.

Straining, Lekan frowned his face and then yelled out as the foot of the accuser stomped into him again. In a mixture of pain and anger, he screamed.

"What did I do? who is the one who stole here?" Lekan screamed out his innocence in. a question.

"You fucking bastard!" The accuser yelled behind him. "Shut up! you fucking. stole my..." The words of the accuser stopped just then, even his beat up actions, giving Lekan the window of time to roll over and glare at him.

Lekan hissed, tasting his blood once more, his two hands pasted on the pavement. Sitting there and glaring at the man, his heart began to devise what to do the one who had been beating him up.

He theorized that if the man took any more step now, his legs would shoot out to cripple him at that very instant. And he would take advantage of that to roll over and turn the accusation on him. After all, he had not come down here to get beaten by somebody who he had probably not met in all of his life.

"Your what?" Lekan fired out now. "You can't even say what it is that I stole from you and you're here claiming that I stole? Are you Mad?" It was his time to glare and yell back accusatorily.

However the man was not done yet. He shook his head as if trying to remember something. And before anything could happen, he jumped down on Lekan, his leap sending the poor boy back to the ground. Except that this time, it was Lekan's back that slammed flat on the ground.

"Shut!" The man yelled, suppressing Lekan by sitting on his abdomen and launching a heavy blow aimed at his teeth.

"The" Another blow rocketed out by the left hand of the man, racking against the jaw of Lekan now.

"Fuck" And another...

"Up!" And another...

"You" And other one fired out just then, slamming against Lekan in the face, square ahead.

Lekan's head bounced back just now, his eyes flashing as stars revolved about his head now.

"Thief!" The man yelled out now, his fist bleached out with the blood of Lekan now.

"Hey! That's enough! Enough of that. Even if he stole from you, you don't have that right!" a new voice sounded now.