THE SCHOOL PREFECT *******
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Mr Anuma was known to be a teacher that
explore students with grammars and good
discipline. He had an average height with a
big stomach. On his head was no hair and
his shoes had no comparison. He stood in
front of his office spacing out with his
hands in his pocket. He wore a big brown
trouser and a long sleeve shirt which he
tocked in. There were flowers in front of the
office giving it a perfect beauty. Students
hung around at different angles of the
school premises, though they appeared in
Mr Anuma’s eyes but he wasn’t seeing any
of them because he was lost in thought. But
he suddenly realised himself to the voice of
a familiar student who greeted him. He
turned and looked at him.
“Wisdom!” he called and adjusted his
eyeglass.
Wisdom wore a correct uniform of white
and green. He never hesitated to tock-in
properly and combed his hair. He had an
attractive complexion which drives girls
crazy making them to have fantasies about
him before going to bed each night.
“Morning, Sir” he greeted Mr Anuma again
smiling seriously.
“You look absolutely exquisite in your
uniform”
Wisdom scratched his head for the
unexpected grammar.
“You know what, Wisdom?” Mr Anuma
continued. “I don’t want you to expostulate
on the obstreperous students disturbing
this school this morning because that
shows you’ve deviated from your
responsibilities”
“Thank you, Sir”
“No, the response isn’t efficacious. You
should be apologizing”
“Oh, I’m sorry sir”
“You may go, now”
Wisdom smiled out after apologizing for
what he didn’t know about.
“Na me carry my problem come greet this
man this morning oh. I for just waka pass.
Now he has finished me with grammar” he
thought in pigin English as he walked
towards the junior section.
He could see students doing their morning
duties and other senior students like him
hanging around with their friends-male and
female. Many admired and greeted him,
especially Jennifer who had been looking for
a way to capture his heart. She was with her
two friends, Calista and Melody under a palm
tree discussing about their previous
holidays. They were on a green skirt and
white long sleeve shirts. They plaited their
hair which fell on one side of their cheek.
Anybody who sees them will think they are
sister due to how they relate with one
another.
Melody could see how lustfully Jennifer was
staring at Wisdom.
“O-girl take it easy oh!” she exclaimed.
“Don’t mind her, she behaves as if she
hasn’t seen a boy before” Calista added
before Jennifer turned to them.
“You won’t understand how i feel whenever
i see him” she said with a low voice and her
friends stared at her.
“How i wish he feels the same way for me”
she added.
“Come on, girl! You can’t strip yourself so
low to him” Melody said.
“I’m ready to ask him out”
“Jeez!” Calista exclaimed. “Don’t even try
such a thing!”
“But i love him!”
“Love gbakwa uko!” Melody shouted angrily
and dragged a palm leave down. She began
to plug them off one after the other.
Jennifer still wanted to pour out her feelings
but the sound of the bell put back the words
into her mouth.
“Hey, go to the assembly ground!” Wisdom’s
voice echoed from a distance…
***Mrs Desmond, Tochi’s mother was at the
backyard of her local house draining water
from a drum when Tochi came out. She
wore oversize skirt and a black top without
a bra. Her b----t dangled when she jumped
down the stairs. Her hair was unkept and on
her feet were bathroom slippers. She looks
beautiful but her dirt overshadowed her
beauty.
“Good morning, mama” she began to
scratch her butt.
The mother brought out her head from the
drum and turned.
“Tochukwu!”
“Mama”
“I thought you have gone to school. I have
already talked to the principal and he said
you can start school”
“You mean Winners International school?”
“Yes!”
“Okay, mama!” she rejoiced and rushed into
the bathroom.
**Student gathered on the assembly ground.
They sang and prayed waiting for the
principal to come and addressed them. But
before then, the senior prefect, Wisdom
climbed up looking charming. Jennifer’s
heart melted into her stomach.
“Hey!” Mr Anuma shouted at a student from
a distance and all their concentration went
there expecting to hear the next grammar
that will come out from his mouth.
“Your voluminous skirt should be weeny.
Then after your punishment, you explain to
me unequivocally why it is so!” he
completed and all the students on the
assembly ground laughed. Even Wisdom
couldn’t help it.
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Mr Nelson, the principal came in and Wisdom gently stepped
down for him still admiring Jennifer’s beauty but he
pretended as if nothing was going on. Even Mr Anuma
arrived and stood beside the principal who wore black ironed
trouser and shirt.
On his eyes were a pair of eyeglasses and a paper in his
hands.
“Good morning, students!” he began, “This is another term,
a term that you all should work hard for your examinations
especially the SS3 students…”
All the students were quiet with their eyes and ears opened
but Jennifer never stop eying Widom. Melody and Calista
noticed it but kept quiet. Suddenly, Esther, a senior prefect
too walked to the quiet assembly ground and stood beside
Wisdom. They looked at each other and smiled as a way of
saying ‘Good morning’
Seeing such an eye contact and smiles on their faces,
Jennifer became jealous and frowned her face.
“..Put away any negative thought and concentrat on your
studies. Understood?!” the principal concluded.
“Yes sir!” the students chorused.
After that, Mr Anuma climbed up and the students stared
at him in silence. They were expecting nothing but a
grammar from his mouth.
“Good morning students!”
“Good morning sir!” some started laughing already even
when he had not even spoken a word.
“Some of you are already perspicacious of my perversion” Mr
Anuma began and all the students began to laughing. “In
other words, you understand my behavior which you believe
to be abnormal simply because you are unable to comprehend
my grammatical structure” Mr Anuma paused, his attention
and that of the students went to a girl that walked into the
assembly ground without a uniform-Tochi. She wore a big
skirt nd a red top. One hand of her bra was seen and on her
feet were sandals.
“Hey, come back here!” Wisdom took an action walking
briskly to her.
Tochi stopped and turned.
All the students even Mr Anuma watched to see what will
happen.
“Who are you and why did you dress like this to school?”
Wisdom asked.
“My name is Tochukwu” she turned angrily and began to walk
again.
“Hey I’m talking to you, you aren’t through with my
questions!” he dragged her back on her fairy and elastic
cloth in a way her bra was openly seen by everybody.
“Hey! Hey!!” the students began to shout.
Meanwhile, Tochi had given Wisdom a hot slap and grabbed
his uniform. Students gathered around.
Chester, Wisdom’s friend quickly stood behind him trying to
disengage Tochi’s hands from his uniform but he couldn’t.
“Hey! All of you should get into your classes now!” Mr
Anuma shouted walking towards the scene with a fat cane
and all the students ran into their classes leaving only
Wisdom and Tochi.
“Get your hands off me!” Wisdom shouted at her.
“You are the one that look for my trouble this morning oh.
Me, i will not leave oh!” she replied shaking her body in a
way her b-----s flung up and down.
“Hey, leave him alone” Mr Anuma said holding Tochi’s hand.
“Don’t prove stubborn, just leave him alone!”
“But sir, he naked me. I will not leave him oh!”
Mr Anuma didn’t know how to deal with such issue and
stubborn girl. So he turned just to see the principal coming
probably because of the noise he heard.
“What’s going, Mr Anuma?” he asked.
“Just a little misunderstanding, sir”
The principal looked at Tochi and recognized her. He asked
again but Tochi narrated that Wisdom naked her.
“Just leave his shirt, first” the principal suggested before
Tochi disengaged her hands from his shirt.
“Both of you follow me to my office” he added.
Wisdom adjusted his rumpled uniform angrily and they
followed the principal.
Meanwhile, students were already peeping through the
windows, especially Jennifer and her friends.
“Na this kind girls fit that Wisdom of a boy eh” Melody
started.
“Hey, hollam there!” Jennifer harangued. “Don’t speak of
him like that in my presence again”
“If i do, what will happen?!”
They gazed at each other angrily.
“Hey, girls, make una takam easy oh” Calista stepped
forward. “The very question now is; who is that girl that
Wisdom striped naked?” she asked but none of them
answered…
In the principal’s office, Wisdom stood beside Tochi. Both
looked angry facing the principal’s table.
“Wisdom, what happened?” the principal asked.
“She disobeyed me, sir”
“And does that warrant you to naked her in public?!”
“It wasn’t intentional, sir”
Mr Nelson became quiet for a while and rubbed his pen on
his jaw looking for the rightful judgment.
“Now, i apologize to her” he said.
At first, Wisdom hesitated.
“I said apologize to her!” the principal shouted.
Wisdom gradually faced Tochi and said, “I’m sorry, it will
not happen again” butTochi didn’t even look at him.
“Is okay” the principal began. “She’s only a new student
that’s why she isn’t on our uniform” he looked at Tochi and
continued, “And you Tochi, this boy here is the senior
prefect of this whole school and you must respect him.
Understood?!”
“Yes, sir”
“You may now go”
They walked out……..
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Chester was as handsome as Wisdom with a dark complexion.
He was born with a silver spoon and everything that
concerns him must be carefully taken care of. Though, he
was in the same SS3 with Wisdom but in different class. He
waited patiently under a tree for him to come outside from
the principal’s office. The morning wind blew his shirt
continuously reminding him that he ought to be inside his
classroom. Suddenly, he saw Wisdom coming out of the
office, then he ran to him.
“Xup bro”
“Guy, I’m gonna make this girl’s life miserable in this
school”
“Take it easy bro, things are not done that way”
“Imaging this girl slapped me!”
“I’m sorry, but you shouldn’t use it against her. I guess
she’s a new comer”
“Yes, she is”
“Take heart bro, I’m going into my class now”
They shook hands and Chester left into his class.
As Wisdom wanted to enter to his class too, he stumbled on
Melody who was also walking out.
“Watch where you are going!” She shouted. Before Wisdom
could react, she hissed and walked away.
Wisdom entered and found Calista and Jennifer staring at
him smiling. Other students seemed unconcern as they were
having conversation.
“Why are you staring at me like that?” Wisdom asked Calista
and Jennifer before others attentions were drawn.
“I’m sorry, sir” Calista replied but Jennifer didn’t say a
word. After Wisdom sat on his seat with his face down on his
locker, sooner did he feel a soft delicate hand on his
shoulder, then he faced up just to see the owner of the
hand.
“Sorry for the insult exhibited by that local girl” Jennifer
said with a low voice still with her hand on his shoulder. “But
who is the girl?” she asked..
***Esther, Melody and Chester were in the same class, SS3B
while Wisdom, Calista and Jennifer were in SS3A. Meanwhile,
Tochi was in SS2B.
Esther saw how angrily Melody walked into the class then
she was moved to ask why but she didn’t say a word to her.
“I wonder what her problem is” She told Chester.
“Me too” he replied.
“Imaging how Wisdom was embarrassed this morning by that
girl” she changed the topic.
“Yeah, and he’s really angry about it”
“Who’s the girl by the way?”
“I don’t know, i think she’s a new comer. I saw her walking
into SS2 classroom”
Esther became quiet and spaced out in thought. She was
also wishing to have Wisdom everyday. Chester noticed her
quietness, then he asked, “Are you okay?”
She realised herself and smiled. “I’m okay” she replied.
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah, I’m okay” she adjusted her seat still smiling,
***Jennifer was still expecting Wisdom to answer her
question looking straight into his eyes.
“According to the principal, she’s a new student that just
resumed school” Wisdom replied.
“Are you upset about her attitude?”
“Why not? And i must make sure she pays!”
Jennifer smiled nd gently sat down beside him still with her
hand on his shoulder. Calista stood at a distance watchin
her movement. Even Wisdom was surprised of d way Jennifer
behaved. So he stared at her.
“Do you know what?” Jennifer began. “I will help you make
her life miserable”
“No, i don’t need your help”
“I’m only trying to help you”
“Why?”
“Is it a crime now to help a friend?”
Wisdom kept quiet looking at her in amazement.
“Can i ask you something?” she demanded staring at him.
“What is it?”
“Will u..” Jennifer wanted to respond but the presence of a
teacher who entered interrupted her. “Never mind” she
concluded and went to her seat. Before she stood up, she
gave him an attractive look, then Wisdom became surprise.
***On the other hand, Tochi sat quietly in her seat when Mr
Anuma entered with only a packet of chalk. They greeted
and sat down. He was surprised to see Tochi in the
classroom.
“Hey, stand up” he pointed her.
“Me?” someone beside Tochi asked.
“No, i mean the green horn”
“Are you talking to me, sir?” Tochi asked.
“Yes, stand up”
“But sir, i don’t have a green horn. I’m not an animal” all
the class laughed.
“That’s not what i meant. A green horn simply means i new
person. Aren’t you a new comer?”
“I am sir”
“What’s your name?”
“My name is Tochi, sir”
“Your full name?”
“Desmond Tochukwu”
“Well, i hope you know what it takes to be in this class?”
“Yes, sir”
“Alright, who is a bacteriologist?”
Tochi began to scratch her head. It was obvious she didn’t
know the answer. Then Mr Anuma turned to other students.
“Who is a bacteriologist?” he asked again.
Suddenly, Tochi raised up her hand.
“Okay, tell us Tochi”
“A bacte…”
“Bacteriologist” Mr Anuma helped.
“It is someone who studies battery” Tochi answered and Mr
Anuma smiled. He could see boldness on her face and body.
Though, she could behave like an illiterate but she wasn’t.
Seeing her make an attempt to the question encouraged Mr
Anuma d more.
“My dear” he began. “A bacteriologist is a person who
studies bacteria not a battery, okay?”
“Okay, sir”
“You may sit down”
Tochi smiled.
