Chapter 7 : THE STORY CONTINUES..

When I got to the compound I asked a boy that I saw there in the entrance if he knows someone called Daniel? He is my best friend's brother I told the boy immediately he took me their room direct, when he saw me he was shocked, he asked me how I managed to leave that man's compound and he allowed me, I told him how I had dribbled my boss just come out here.

When I got there they where cooking jellof rice with cow meat and fresh fish, few minutes later the food was done for consumption even though I had not eaten anything that morning I always had this personal restraint on everything every time any where, preserving my dignity and my self respect had always been my first instinct

While they dished out food in one plate with 3 spoons I first thought of saying no but on a second thought I was quite very hungry but I didn't have to mess myself up by diving the food as a hungry dog dives a bag filled with bones, I waited until Daniel called me the second time I told him to be eating that I'm coming to join them soon that I want to rest a little for my long trekking little did I know that trekking was even a learner compared to the one Infront.

Not so long I went and joined them to eat, I was always this shy type inside of me but I try to cover it up with wisdom, so I was shy and I was eating like a foreigner, it made Daniel to tell me in our native dialect, ( ogbo ri je kwe nri o) meaning "my namesake make sure you are eating very well" I smiled and told him that I'm eating and I am okay the way I'm eating.

There is this home training we had in my house then in the village, you only eat meat after you must have finished eating, you dare not eat meat before finishing your food in my house my mother would skin you alive, she use to tell us to eat food and be satisfied first before talking of meat.

So while we were eating the jellof rice their were also eating the fish and the meat along because they were enough meat and fish in the rice but I never dared touch anyone while I was still eating, it still made Daniel to tell me in our dialect ( ógbo ta jè kwe anù o) meaning " my namesake be eating meat too" I still smiled and said okay

It wasn't long enough we finished eating although I didn't really eat anything much, I had hoped to eat well if I return back to my working place but I never knew there was another plan somewhere.

We finished eating and they decided to take me out and buy me some drinks as their brother who came to town, I was just 18 years and I had just finished my secondary school, we went down to a near by super market that sells chilled beer, they ordered for 3 bottles of harp beer, I requested for a soft drink but they insisted I must take beer as a man

I was really scared of taking the beer because I know It wasn't part of my plans for coming there even though I had been taking little alcohol in the village but I never planned on taking alcohol as I visited them but they insisted that I must take the beer, i just had proved them that I wasn't afraid of taking the beer so conformed but later on I had regretted why I never stood my ground in saying no to that beer, they wouldn't have forced me, moreover I am still boy of 18 years.

After the first round they ordered for second round, we were just chatting and laughing within a short time the second round finished and they ordered for the third round, remember I have not eaten any good food since morning and it was already afternoon around 1:30 PM by then I've been consumed by alcohol.

It seems their plans had worked for them, I was still putting myself together, and I told them I had wanted to go home so they dropped a tricycle ride for me and I entered and it took me home, how I managed to walk from that junction to my place of work without falling on the road was only a miracle, I walked gently to our room and removed my clothes, my food was already in our room before I could return, I brought the food myself I was eating normal, my colleague couldn't even notice that I was drunk until I finished eating the fried rice and chicken, I tried sleeping but I couldn't.

My stomach began crumbling and I was restless then my colleague began noticing that something was not alright with me, immediately I rushed straight to the bathroom to vomit everything I had taken, instead of my colleague to cover me up and since he saw It was just an ordinary drink, he rushed to go and call my boss

Immediately my boss and the wife rushed to our flat that afternoon and saw how messed up I was in the bathroom they tried talking to me but I couldn't even talk anymore I was totally down, I was just lying down beside what I was vomiting even on my body, every thing was just a mess

Quickly they called my uncle who had lived very far from where we live and told him of the incident, they demanded for my uncle's presence, later he arrived and it was evening already and I was still lying down inside the toilet, my uncle came and called me by then I had gotten...