ENVY 2.

 You should read episode one so you can really enjoy this one. Hey! you should tell your friends about this, you can't afford not too. Happy new week.

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Pago drove down road 1, he enjoyed driving his new car. It was a BMW convertible, compensation from his mum for agreeing to school in Nigeria. No Adebantu schools in Nigeria, his elder brother Fela just graduated from John Hopkins in the States, while his elder sister Sike was presently in Britain, even little Teni would be going abroad, then why was his case different? It was the party. He didn’t regret the party. How would one regret experiencing such a party? But if he had known that it would cost him the chance of studying abroad he would have thought it twice before being part of it. What had started as an innocent soiree for the graduating class had escalated into an overnight party of orgy. He being one of the organizers, had planned it that way and everything would have been alright

had the Reverend’s daughter not come, and she didn’t only come, she had managed to get herself drunk, screwed and knocked up then claimed he was responsible. He could still remember it as if it happened yesterday.    

    He had gone to a  missionary school owned by a reverend where students were expected to be academically sound and morally upright. The students managed to have the former but they were lacking greatly in the latter. Pago was the Senior Prefect boy, a post he got by merit even though his dad happened to be the president of the PTA and a major benefactor of the school. Pago was a very brilliant student, and this somewhat made up for his many vices and since it was a school full of vices, Pago was the most logical choice for the post since he was the best among several “bads”. Charity, the Reverend’s pretty daughter was the Senior Prefect girl, she wasn’t exactly a saint but she still rated low on the vice scale. Pago had always wanted to get it on with her but she had always been outside his reach, despite how hard he tried. His opportunity had come during the party, that she came was even a surprise to him so he made up his mind not to lose this last opportunity because he might not see her ever again after the night. They had booked the topmost floor of a hotel on the island for the party; the floor had just a large hall with adjoining rooms. The party had started as an innocent soiree where awards were given to several students, Best dress, Neatest, Most handsome, Prettiest, Most social, Best couple etc, Pago had won Most Brilliant and Handsome while the Reverend’s daughter had won the Prettiest. After all the awards and preambles, what almost everyone has been waiting for began. Dance! Dance! Dance! There was a lot to drink and in no time most were drunk. Pago wasn’t that drunk but he was tipsy, he could see Charity, the Reverend's daughter  dancing with Johnny. He danced his way between them and Johnny backed out. At the end of everything, he couldn't say how many girls he was with that night but he was sure he had Charity, what he didn't know was how charitable Charity had been that night. 

    Everything went well for a couple of weeks. He hanged out with friends and they discussed the night. Like him, many of them couldn’t tell how many girls they screwed the night but they all agreed that it was a “party to beat”. Many of the guys claimed they had sex with Charity that night, so it came as a shock to him when his father called him into his study one evening to inform him that Charity is claiming that he had knocked her up. It all happened like a comedy, he could remember the Reverend threatening fire and brimstone and accusing him of defiling his "naive" and "innocent" daughter. Naive? Innocent? Defile? None of the words described Charity. She must have been deceiving her dad. There was nothing he could say to defend himself, because even though he wasn’t the only one that “tidied” her that night, he didn’t want his father to know how bad that party was. So he simply kept quiet and accepted his “responsibility”. Three months later he was told Charity had a miscarriage, but he didn’t believe it, it  must have been an abortion, the Reverend had a reputation to preserve. Pago nonetheless was glad that he was set free from the unnecessary entanglement, little did he know that it would still cost him. His dad, Chief Adebantu sent Charity abroad to school in order to appease the Reverend and claimed that he used the resources budgeted for Pago’s schooling abroad. The chief could have easily sponsored ten children abroad to school without it having any effect on his wealth; Pago was being punished for knocking up the Reverend’s daughter. He apologized; begged, sulked, used his mum, but his dad didn’t yield, so he was sent to school in a “Godforsaken” town. “It’s the best school in Nigeria, better than most foreign schools, you will enjoy it there” his mum said, trying to console him. Who gives a damn if it was better than Harvard? All he wanted was to leave the country, he had over-bragged to his friends. At last he had no choice but to succumb, his dad could be very stubborn and decisive, anyway he got a ride from the whole affair, he didn’t lose entirely.   Now that was a closed chapter in his life, he would do his penance by schooling in Nigeria but he sure was going to have fun doing that.

   The honking of the vehicles behind him roused him from his thoughts, the street light at the T-junction in front of the Student Union Building was blinking green, “Oh! Shit” he swore as he lifted his leg from the brake pedal and accelerated towards New Buka, the only place on campus where smoking and drinking was allowed. Time to shayee for the boys, too bad his buddy Siji wasn’t there…
You've got to patiently follow this story, we are still warming up, watch out for episode three.

About the author

 

Soji Adeola Ayanleke was born about 3 decades ago in Kano,

he studied Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile-Ife, he speaks Yoruba and Hausa Fluently and he is trying to learn Igbo and Spanish. His hobbies are reading, writing and playing some indoor games.