Chapter Twelve: Can You Imagine?

My parents sent me transport, I and my friends wents to the park very early that morning and boarded a bus back home, we got separated from Esther at the park as she had to board a different bus 'cos we were headed to different destinations, we were headed to Lagos while she was going to Abuja.

We got to our destinations very late at night. My family were so happy to see me again and we thanked God for journey mercies. My mum has already out done her self by cooking my favourite meal which is fried rice and turkey, I went to bath first cos it's been a really long journey, by the time I came downstairs the food was already served and I ate to my satisfaction. My sister was already back, she came back a few days ago. I was really tired and went to my room to sleep and regain my strength, it really felt good to be home again.

The next morning, I woke up and we all met at the living room for our morning devotion then dispersed to do our various chores, my sister quickly prepared breakfast so my parents could eat and prepare for work, it was after we finished with our chores that we were allowed to eat our own break fast so the earlier you finished the better for you. After eating and bathing, then we started gisting and catching up on the past few months, my brother told us a lot that we missed out on, things that happened at church, at home, in the neighborhood, while my sister gisted us about her school and some new events over there, I did gist them a lot about my school, how I was able to do my clearance, even how my school was sent late, they had already closed the portal it was the second time that they opened the portal, the period of grace that I was able to pay my school fees, they asked how our fresher's night was and I told them every thing minus the David part of course and gradually every body slipped into their phones, and the house became so silent.

Until it was evening, we warmed our food and ate and prepared for the evening fellow ship. By the time we got to church our parents were already there, it was a normal in our home that my parents on every evening fellow ship day would go from work to church so as not to go late or miss it and we were to be there before our parents got to the church but today were a little bit late, we were not really all that late o, they just finished opening prayer and then singing praises when we entered.

We had to prepare for the nagging, and funny enough that was exactly what happened, all through our ride home it was just as if they consciously decided to take turns, our ears really went through a lot. Before we knew it days turned into weeks and soon it was time to go back to school, I decided to go back a week after so that my room mates must have done all that clean up I don't have strength for all that. As I was coming back to school, guess who I boarded the same bus with? It was that bloody fool, David. I can't even explain the rage and fury I had to face for all those hours, with all that rush of adrenalin I really would have to check my BP once I got to school. When we got reached the park and the bus dropped us, it was the last bus stop so every body had to come down, do you know that this bastard walked up to me to talk to me, like after what he did to me, it is the morale for me, he was just trying to be all nice, just imagine this fool, where was he all those months? I didn't even get a missed call or a text message from him and now because he happened to see me in a bus he is talking to me. I was just maintaining my steeze and busy calling my Uber, it was the point where he touched me saying ' I am talking to you ' that I lost lost my hand on his face, it was a very hot slap and I bet he didn't see that coming from the shock on his face, he was really embarrassed and I was very satisfied, every body's attention was on us even though they couldn't see our faces properly because it was already and the light at the park was dim, as his friends came to drag him away into their car, I was so angry and was shouting 'fuck you' on top of my lungs, while every body was just staring at us and didn't want to interfere as they really didn't know what was going on, my Uber just arrived and the driver helped put my stuffs in the car and we drove off. When I got to my hostel I was still very angry I just felt that I had to talk to some one to get this off my chest but I had to keep it to my self, so I had to endure it all alone. My room mates welcomed me and helped me unpack my bags, we talked a little before we all went to sleep. I barely dreamt but that night I had a dream and in that dream a snake came and curled all around me in public and every one that saw me ran away from me but the intriguing part was that I was not even afraid of the snake rather it was as if we were friends, then I woke up from that dream or so I thought, I stood up from my bed and went to my traveling bag that I just came back with and opened it and a lot of tortoise were coming out of my bag, I was so frightened that I let out a very loud scream and that was how I woke up screaming and my room mates jerked up from their sleep and rushed to my bed to see what was going on with me only to me all sweaty and shaky. They asked me why I woke up shouting, whether I was having a bad dream and I nodded affirmatively, when I could get a hold of my self a little I told them what I dreamt of, they were all shocked at that kind of dream because it was really strange, none of them has had such a dream before, why would someone be seeing snakes and tortoise in her dream? Or is it the part of waking up from one dream into another, it was really strange, we said a word of prayer and after staying with me for some minutes they were all feeling very sleepy so they all went back to their bonks. The next day, school had already resumed properly, lectures and all the rest, every where was buzzling with students as usual every one was heading to some where. As I was coming back from school in front of our hostel I sighted a car that was parked,bit seemed some what familiar until the door opened and I saw that defiler, David, that son of a bitch! Oh! how I hate this guy! He walked up to me and started apologizing that his actions towards me was wrong and that I should please forgive him, that he was as shocked as I was that he never expected me to be a virgin and that he had never done some thing like that before and that the reason why he doesn't like having any thing to do with virgins is that they never really move on from the person that broke them and that he doesn't want to be entangled with any body or even have to feel entangled with with any one. I quickly shut him up and asked him to leave because I was tired of listening to the cork and bull story and I was not even interested in what ever nonsense he had to say and for clarity sake I would never be entangled with some one like him, he just said ' thank you' and walked into his car and drove off, although I didn't know where that was for, I just gave a long sigh and went into my hostel, ate and freshened up and left for fellowship, this semester I happened to find Scripture Union, a fellowship that every christian can attend no matter the church, that was where I would be going since my church doesn't have a campus fellowship here in school.