When I started schooling at FGC Okigwe, I was an easy target for senior students. I didn't know why.
I was a reincarnation of Akpamgbo, they said. A stark replica. A former prefect who had graduated before I came in.
I never stopped wishing I could meet him, even now. To ask him why he left a lot of corpses for me to come bury knowing that he looked so much like someone.
So, many of them preyed on me but like other students, I soon learned how to be smart and to play 'sharp'.
But I never cried nor shouted out in pain when the strokes of dogoyaro would come down heavily on my buttocks. I had a generous behind, fatty if you like. In no time, I was nicknamed absorber.
This enraged the seniors further, no one dared refused to cry or bow before them in pleas at the whip of their long canes. So they beat me harder and always fell at the chance to flog 'absorber' and make him cry.
But I was proud. I had a strong threshold for pain, it was always mind over matter for me and then the fatty ass helped sometimes.
But soon, my fatty ass had turned to swollen ridges of flesh. They always had waves, deep painful gullies that wouldn't let me sit down nor walk properly.
Foolish ass that almost killed me. It's not today that it started putting my life in danger.
So I sooner learnt my lessons than I dropped dead. I started to cry and to prostrate, castrate and roll on the ground asking for mercy, for forgiveness, when the strokes start to rain on me. They had broken me.
My pride was gone in an instant, replaced by a functional butt, one that can actually be used to sit down. What a little price to pay.
I was stupid, very stupid, enduring pain that way. To prove what exactly?
These days, I just fall down and cry well well, I even thrash about on the ground at the slightest provocation.
I've learnt my lesson the hard way and I'm not letting life bloat me up with pain because I'm holding it all in.
I've vowed that neither my heart nor my ass will know waves again. Fiam, and I'm already rolling on the ground, crying, begging.
Hard man kee you there.
