Chapter 8 : THE STORY CONTINUES..

With that hangover I didn't even know that my uncle was the one calling me,I just managed to look up and see it was him then I managed to stand up I didn't even talk to any of them, they were all looking at me with my colleague who that called them, I looked for a way to clean up the bathroom that I have messed up.

They sat on the parlour with my uncle and they were discussing about the matter, although it was quite belittling to my uncle and to myself but one thing I knew was I never did it intensionally, so first I had to summon courage even it's apologizing I will apologize to them there and there.

After cleaning the bathroom I took my bath and refreshed myself then got dressed very fine before coming out to apologize to them, I could read from my uncle's face the extent of heavy disappoinment in his heart, but it was none of my business because I was still a lost teenager.

He just asked me what happened and I narrated exactly what happened and they were shocked that I tricked them, after narrating my short story because I didn't really have that strength to talk much, I apologized to them and swore to them that it won't repeat itself ever again and it never did.

Now they came to a conclusion that I will be attached to a pastor in the redeem church that lives in the compound with his family so that I will be going to church with him and always come back with him moreover the redeem church was just a stone throw from the compound, It was then that measure plans began.

After I've lived like the prodigal son who returned home, it took a while for everything to normalize again and we will be all fine, about two days after the incident, It was on Tuesday morning I was doing my normal duties just to come out from the farm and met my cousin brother, the first and only son of my uncle with one girl just as I am the first and only son of my father with 4 sisters, He is quite older than me with about 3-4 years, I greeted him as usual but his response wasn't as usual, guess what he came to do..

He asked me to drop whatever I was doing and come closer to him, on getting closer to him I never expected what he did, the slap is still provoking me to anger till now, he gave me a very heavy dirty slap and kicked me like a ball, I was quite small then, he gave me a punishment to pick a pin which is one of the toughest punishment anyone can give to anyone

He was so furious in anger, I could see from his face,he was quite determined to punish me there, I wasn't running around I just stood at a place and he did everything he did to me and later asked me not to disgrace the family again, in my mind I was even angrier for him than he is for me, because the entire neighbors came out to watch and I so much hate embarrassment, none of the neighbors had heard of what happened inside on Sunday except at that moment he came to give me punishment.

So I was very mad at him for disgracing me in that compound and he is telling me not to disgrace the family again, well I just found somewhere in my heart to contain everything that has happened because that is what I normally do, I suck it up and I move on and I keep moving

So I had to found closure within myself because it was already as if I have committed the worst atrocities in the city, no one was on my side, I couldn't call my parents in the village to tell them, there were no friend around to talk to, I was just wandering in anguish, I had stood in the farm for about 30 minutes thinking of how I'm going to cope with this embarrassment and loneliness

Within a short time I had to suck it up and moved on, one thing I know is that"somethings that are done can not be undone" like such mistakes of getting drunk, there's absolutely nothing you can do to undo it, once you're drunk you'll have to wait for it to wear off and you can either drink again or stop drinking at all.

After giving me the whole punishments for the day my boss called him upstairs and thanked him for such wise discipline, they paid for his transport fair and he left, but before he left he dropped a word for and I will never forget, he said to me that "the friends you keep can either make you or Mal you"

I heed the advice as a wise boy, that's another thing about me, it doesn't matter what we are dragging for or what we are fighting for, Once I hear you say the right words I will hold it so tite, so I grabbed the word and I put it into practice.

I was always an angry kid but this time I'm angrier, it was as if the whole world has rejected my family, why is it that we are so poor to the length that no body in the entire lineage that I know is wealthy or close to being wealthy, I was always saddened in the spirit even though I never had any purpose then as a kid but I knew what I wanted.

It took about days before the scowls was removed from my face, although some of the neighbors were looking at me with that kind of eye that is too degrading, but I never complained about it, I only had to apply my own...