MART PRODUCTION
My Pride Has Been Disgraced
I'm a big boy and someone who does not want to see all these low-level fellows. I also hate harming my body as my body is always precious to me. My parents always warned me to mingle with people, but mingling with them could cause downgrading and disgrace to my kind of person.
My family has never suffered the issue of money because we are swimming in wealth. During my secondary school days, I was in a boarding house where the whole environment had to be fumigated just to avoid pests and reptiles, and even insects such as mosquitoes and cockroaches. I have never tasted these in my life.
Now it's time to move out of the environment I'm in to somewhere I haven't been in my life just because of schooling. I must go to the University to complete my studies. My parents insisted that I go to a public university to complete my studies just because of my nature of pride. They only want me to mingle with people of low life and also to taste low life to have experience.
Emeka was my friend but being the proud type, I did dump him for real. He is now planning to go to the same higher institution as me. I never knew until I got to where their registration was being done. This was where we reunited again as friends but he warned me of something.
This school you are coming to is not the type you would love to attend.
Emeka said quietly to me.
I doubted my friend.
Let me shock you all… The very first day I slept in my hostel, it was just as if I was hearing some sirens approaching. This noise was disturbing me and depriving me of sleep. I was mad and after much research, I discovered that those noises were from mosquitoes. I was not comfortable as I have never lived this life before. The following day, I was sleeping in the lecture room. Imagine…
That afternoon, I was taking a nap outside just to chill myself after a long lecture day. I received a horrible visitor who came in the form of itching. My body began to itch just as if I was having measles. After critical observation, I saw the small flies perched on my body sucking my blood. What must this be? I asked my roommate and he said those tiny insects are sun flies. "What a mess my parents put me into". This was what I said.
The remaining bread I ate was overtaken by new visitors. These visitors are smart and strong. They were even irritating me to the core. They jumped into my body when I was sleeping at night which made me angry. Cockroaches jumped on my food.
The fourth was bedbugs. When I got to the lecture room, I was receiving some itches in my body. Initially, I thought it was just a normal thing not until I saw some kind of black small insect on my clothes. The insect was all over my body which made me feel ashamed. My mates were removing bed bugs from my body. What a mess!!!
While sleeping, I began to hear a noise which was disturbing me. When I checked, I could not find anything. I checked once and once again but found nothing. I got disturbed. I managed to sleep, but woke up seeing my legs being bitterly eaten by those creepy little animals. I later discovered that they were rats. My fresh feet have been scratched off by rats.
I wore my already-iron cloth. The cloth was my favorite. I wore the cloth to school but everyone was pointing at me. I was so surprised seemingly fellow laughing. I came across my friend, who I asked to look at my body if something was wrong. Emeka looked at my shirt and to his surprise, rats had eaten part of my cloth. Your cloth has a hole which I think was eaten by a rat. I was feeling ashamed after hearing this.
Now, my pride has become useless. Those that were not in my class are now the ones consoling me. Chai!!!
This was my last day in the hostel. I never lived to see the next day…
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