Obiechina Rossi Onyeka

Tonight as others slept
I sat on the beach of elegushi and gazed at the sea
The sea started where the sky drifted
Unfolding the hills of thick moist
The water run wild, dancing like an excited child
I felt this vibration, Which for me was like 
The pulse, the current, the flowing of stream, wild dreams of freedom
And the caress of love on my skin
These are secrets only love knows
The wave was close enough that as they broke
Drops of spray ran down my face
I said to the sea
"go ahead. Show me now the things u wish to show me"
Low and behold
I saw this creature
A creature formed out of love and beauty
She was the same with the waters
Her eyes were as blue as the sea
As She crawls out of the sea
She starred at me and gave out a sharp whisper
For that moment I felt hypnotized

Damian The Merman

***Captain the Housemaster***

Now that was a voice of a lady, we untangled from each other to see her standing there looking at me blushing.

"I'm here to call Damian our merman, the Yellow house master wishes to see him."

"Ok, he has heard you, he will meet you soon, we were in the middle of something."

"Ahh! Me? I'm not going anywhere, Whatsoever that you people are doing, I must partake in it, there is nothing like that."

She said, and we all flare into laughter.

Now I followed the girl to the house master's place. When we got there, we met him outside in front of his office, it seemed like he had been waiting for me. He stood right there in front of the door with a long cane in his hand, he was a young man in his early forties or late thirties, he was well built. That day he wore a yellow T-shirt and, as soon as he saw me he narrowed his eyes to me in annoyance, and rubbed his hands in anticipation. When I got to him he said with aggression;

"Where have you been? I've dispatched more than five students in hunt for you."

"Sorry sir, I have been in the class since."

"In the class? Accomplishing what? Are you reckoned to be in the class? No, I'm asking you. What are you achieving in that class that you are? That is my issue with you these students, when it is time for lectures you will not be found in the class, now that nothing is transpiring in the class, that is the right time for you all to go cluster in the class doing what I know nothing about."

The housemaster said. In the school, not many students know his true name, we all called him Captain or General, this was because he was always acting like military personnel.

"Now tell me, will you say that you dont infer the date of this competition? I'm asking you, boy..."

"Oh! So you remember... And you also know that you are the one to embody us in the swimming? Give attention to me boy, when I'm addressing you, you should better be making a reply fast, I don't appreciate sluggish kids."

So he said, his harshness was even more terrifying than a war zone, how do he expect me to be responding fast when he is the one intimidating and crushing my self-esteem.

"Can you imagine, so you even recognized that, and you have not deemed it fit to come to attend to your housemaster? Do you possess our Yellow house swimming vest? It is like you don't recognize that there is a special swimming vest for all houses. It is like you don't realize."

"You are sorry, now, follow me to my office.?

He said as he walked into the office. I joined him in the office where he gave me a swimming suit, and a hand full of swimming tips, he was not really as bad as he sounds. Captain was a very nice man, just that he speaks a little bit too harshly, and he was also quick to anger, aside from those little character flaws of his, the man is a nice person.

Chapter chapter 72 Captain the Housemaster