Chapter 11 : THE STORY CONTINUES..

I tried to glance through her direction again and same thing occurred, then I knew I was hallucinating, it wasn't funny to me, I never mentioned it as usual to my colleague when I got home because he would see me a crazy person.

As a wise teenager I know when the light is red and when it's green or blue or even black but it was just beyond all my knowledge and understanding then that there was something in me that I don't see but other wise people sees it.

Obviously my physical appearance couldn't convince me that it was real that the queen is looking at me, so I wasn't expecting to be convinced by my appearance, plus I had suffered rejection from most of the girls I caught up something serious for talkmore of the queen, hmmmm,it was impossible for me comprehend

After the meeting some of the guys who came around too was just trying to get closer to me, I couldn't resist that one, I joined their clique, we became pals under one family (RCCG)

I went home with confusion in my head and my mind was palpitating as if I escaped a gun shot, I couldn't tell my colleague what really happened so that I don't insult myself, I began telling him other stories, we talked till it was night, I couldn't sleep that night I was up thinking of what she could be looking at because it was obvious to me she wasn't just looking at my face or shortness then

I imagined what she must have been looking at and I couldn't get any clearer answer, I was just up till around 2:00 AM I later fell asleep just to still wake up around 6:00 AM and resume my duty for the new day.

The distress and the maltreatment in mode of feeding in the house was none of my concern anymore, my work became less stressful though internally but the externals was always what it is.

Saturday is here and we have resumed our duty since morning, after I finished my part in the farm my boss called me and gave me his clothes to wash downstairs, he gave me 200 naira to buy any detergent, I had already calculated how I'm going to wash the clothes so that I can get even if is 50 naira or 100 naira from the 200 naira he gave me.

I packed the clothes and I came downstairs to wash them, I went outside to buy the detergent and suddenly everyone in the streets was just looking at me as someone who is coming out from his father's palace, I got confused, I was a bit of a shy person, so I rushed straight to the shop and I bought a detergent of 100 naira and withheld the balance.

I quickly rushed inside, few minutes later I finished washing the clothes and spread them downstairs as he had directed me to. We went upstairs to start our usual house chores which was fetching water, cleaning the house, and preparing the foods.

We finished the house chores and went inside our room to eat the little food that will be dished out to us by our boss wife, after the lunch we will take about 2 hours rest before going back to the farm to pick the round of eggs then wait for the last one.

The next day was Sunday and I wouldn't dare to miss going to church, I wasn't even waiting for that pastor to finish anymore, I would just get dressed as soon as they return from their morning mass and I will be going direct to church, my boss will call the pastor to confirm of I'm in church, if I notice it I will laugh in my mind, I will say in my mind you people should just stop bothering yourselves about me again, I will be coming to this church with or without you people, and stood to that till date.

I went to church that morning and I was having cough, so it was disgusting and distressing, when it pops up for me to cough it out I wouldn't dare do that when the queen is there, I would do my possible best to resist that irritability, I tried though but it was just a very big distress and it makes someone uncomfortable and restless.

It was indeed a shameful thing for me to cough in the presence of the queen, meanwhile she was still looking at me from her seat, it was something I couldn't believe until it happened.

I couldn't dare look at her for like steady 5 seconds, I would go mad in my brain, so I avoided having series of eye contact with her, but she never stopped until I started seeing it as a challenge to talk to her, she never stopped looking at me until it became a big challenge to me to talk to her, I dare not

I asked myself what am I going to tell her?? Because it was obvious I wasn't her match then, I could even judge that against myself, so for four months that I spent in that her street I couldn't talk to her till I ran out of my boss house to my village.

Yes I later ran out of the house because the maltreatment got worst but the major reason why I left without their consent was because I realized they wasn't going to allow us go home on Xmas and see our families, and I haven't sold my family out even though we're poor I can't abandon them for any reason at all.

So I needed to go home and see my little siblings and make them happy and make my parents happy too for seeing me.