Chapter Fifteen: This Semester is Tough O!

I prepared and left for school, I have already had breakfast at where I was coming from. The classes went on well, we were getting more and more advanced compared to last semester which were a little bit similar to things we did in Secondary school, the courses were gradually becoming really tough that the last semester courses were just child's play, I really needed to not just read but first of all understand and I was not really understanding any course. After our class for the day I spoke with some of my course mates and they said that there was a guy that hosts tutorials at Management faculty but you would have to pay like 3k (#3,000) for each course per month, I agreed to join the tutorial as the borrowed courses were even worse than the departmental ones, the crowd alone you can't even get your self to ask question even if you are confused, we just rush there every morning to listen to the monologue and take notes that you don't even understand. We were offering twelve (12) courses that semester plus three (3) G.S courses making it a total of fifteen (15) courses and it has already been one month since school resumed and I have not been able to cover any thing apart from my English and Igbo G.S which I am not even through with yet, I really had a lot to cover in such a short period of time. Based on my calculations, I had to pay the guy hosting the tutorial 36k every month, and for the remaining five (5) months it was a total sum of 180k. That was a whole lot of money for a student but I needed this coaching, when I came back from school that day I had to call my dad to tell him the situation at hand that I was no longer understanding any thing in class that the courses were just getting harder and harder, he then asked me how my other course mates were coping and I now told him that most of them were going for tutorials, he told me to make enquiries about the tutorial and get back to him, I was so happy at his positive response, I asked after mummy and my brother and he said that they were all doing fine and we bade each other good night and I ended the call. That night I also talked to my new boy friend about the tutorial stuff and he agreed to help out, my night was great I was just so full of smiles. The next day I went to the Management faculty where the tutorial is usually held at and made enquiries from the guy him self, the guy's name was Darlington. Then I got back to my father and filled him in on what the guy said, I told my day the real price but I told Michael it was 60k per month. Michael sent me the 60k that day, I was like Wow! Nah so the relationship deh deh! (Pidgin English). My dad sent the money for the lesson the next day and I used my dad's own to pay for the lesson and left the 60k in my account, I believe that there will be good use for it in the nearest future. I started the lessons, the guy was really breaking it down and making it so simplified I could easily grab it and I could freely ask questions as I wanted and if it seemed that the questions were getting too much and it was disturbing the rest of the class, he would ask all of us that has not really urgent questions to meet him after the class. The tutorials were really helpful, he even offered to help with my G.S 104 'cos this time around it was kinda complicated. In all the quiz we wrote in class after I had started the tutorial I was doing much better than before where I was utterly confused. Although I was wondering if first year second semester is hard like this how would the remaining three levels which are obviously higher would be like.

After some time the tutorial guy showing making advances at me, I told him I have a boy friend but he still kept on disturbing me maybe he think I am lying or some thing of that sort. This guy should face what he is tutoring me nah 'cos I don't want any thing to come in between my studies, I don't want to fail. I have always been an 'A' student and I wouldn't want to spoil that legacy now because every body will say that there is some thing distracting me at school that that's why I chose to school far away from home so I will be free enough to start misbehaving and now it has started affecting my studies as no one can serve two masters at a time, that is what every one would believe not minding whatever explanation I had to give. So one dat after the tutorials I went to meet the Darlington guy for us to talk all this shit out, let me put him straight. I walked up to him where he was packing his stuff to leave, I asked him why are you still disturbing me after I have told you that I have a boy friend and that I am not interested, he then said that it was because he truly loves me and he knows I am just playing hard to get, that he doesn't care whether I am lying or not but he was ready to fight for our love. I decided to provoke him by saying that I know all he wants is my body and that all those nonsense he is saying about true love is just a camouflage little did I know that I was pouring fuel into the fire.