love discrimination
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"It's good I met you like this.stay where you're" it was a voice from Jummy's driver who comes and drive her home.He meant to c***k a joke.
Before the statement was muttered completely,I had stood up and started running.I've ran far away from where jummy was,It was even little steps it remained to step out of the school's gate.I was about to run out of the school when I heard Jummy's's voice.
"It's not daddy,It's my driver.Wait nah" she said with a laughing voice.
As I heard this,I felt relieved a little,stopped and smiled also.Then I went back to where Jummy and her driver were.
"So,You're a coward?" Jummy asked me,As she burst in to serious laughter.
"Smile,Who wouldn't feel scared in this position? Who wouldn't be afraid and run? Lol,Na soldier we call am nah" I said as I laughed too.
Jummy's driver then rest his hands on my shoulder and then told me.
"It's your time man! Enjoy yourself.we were also once like this before we got married.So, Enjoy yourself well! But don't let her daddy catch you shaa" he said,As he removed his hand from my shoulder.
I felt so very happy to hear this,How kind the man was!.So,I told him.
"Thanks sir! May you not be beaten by soldiers" I said talking to him and he laughed.
"So you fear soldiers as this much?" Jummy asked me.
"Is there a person who doesn't?" I asked her back.
She couldn't hold it but laughed out loud..
My mum told me that when a soldier beat someone in life, You'll understand that there is life outside of life.I didn't believe in the first place,But what happened to Th____ugs in my street made me believed my mother's word.
There was a th__ug who's popularly known as "sc__orp__ion" in my street.he had his own gangs and they all disturb our street together with their wicke____dnes and troub_le.
Sometimes when a person want to pass,They'll stop the person and collect money from him or her.One day,A strange woman wanted to pass and they insisted that she would pay one thousand naira.She humbly gave them five hundred naira but they didn't allow her to pass.When the woman wanted to pass forcedly,They push her back and she fell down.
"Did you know who I'm?" She asked them.
"Who are you ? Abeg! We no wan know you" they replied.
The woman then took her phone from her bag and called her husband who's a soldier.
"Who be your husband? Call am!! We want see am! We go beat your husband here" S__cor__pion the head of those men said and they all laughed.
After a few minutes,the woman's husband came with about twenty soldiers and they deal with sc____orp___ion and his gangs very well,They punis___hed them very well.. Sc___orpi__on and his gangs later end up in hospital.Ever since that day, Everyone of them had become a good boy in the street..
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"I don't want to keep my driver await but I've something to tell you" Jummy told me.
"What's it please?" I asked.
"Why are you for hurry?" She asked me.
"It's just that__well,Just tell me dear" I said.
"I'm not saying it again,I don't know what I would hear from you..Bye bye!" She said as she was about to leave.
"No,Now... please tell me" I said begging her.
"I'll tell you tomorrow" she said and left.
Throughout my night on that day,I couldn't sleep.I kept asking myself
"What could Jummy want to tell me" I kept imagining.
"what could Jummy want to tell me" I kept imagining.
Throughout my night on that day,I hanged my legs on the wall and kept thinking.
When it was the next day morning, I've woke up around 5:00am,I observed my morning prayer and then dressed up for school.My mum was so suprised seeing me dressing up before 6:00am early in the morning.So,She approached me:
"Are you the gateman who will open the school's gate?" Mum asked, Smilling.
If mummy could know why I was going to school early,She wouldn't have been feeling suprised that I woke up early.
"Smile,Don't worry mum! You can't understand" I said, Grinning.
My mum then looked at me again with smile on her face.
"Well,That's how professors do" she cracked a joke.
"Don't delay me mum! I'm going mum" I said, Leaving the home.
"So, You didn't even remember to collect money? You're as serious as that?" Mum asked.
Then,I quickly collected the money and went to school immediately.
As I entered the school gate,I saw Daniel and other students discussing.
"Hi guys" I greet them.
"You are welcome" they welcome me.
Even as I stood in their midst,My mind wasn't with them but With Jummy and most especially what she wanted to me.
"What's you're view on it?" Sade asked me,About the topic they were solving.
"What? What's that?" I asked.
"So, You didn't hear all what we have been discussing?" She asked me.
"Abeg,leave me" I said.
After few minutes, Jummy came out from a car.the car was so very different from the cars that have been coming to pick her since the day me and Jummy have started to be talking,It was neither the car her driver drives to take her home,and not her father's car also.
It was her mother this time.As Jummy saw me,She came to me and hug me lightly.Then she introduced me to her mum:
"Mum!, Meet my! Well, Meet him.His name is heamam Harbolore,He is such a brilliant and clever student mum" she said,telling her mum about me.
"Oh!, nice.But his name sounds some how familiar"
"Yes,Mum! I didn't even know you'll remember,he was the one who wrote the story I sent to you on w******p when you were in abroad." Jummy said.
"You mean,"the way you did to me"? About a girl that was ra___ped by her mother's concubine?" Her mum asked.
"It's not " the way you did to me" but "just like you did to me" yes,He was the one who wrote it" Jummy said.
Her mother then turned to me with smile on her face.
"You got a very good talent! Keep it up my dear" her mother said, Taking to me.
As I heard this,I felt so really happy.So, Jummy's mother admired me so much! Wow!.
But,When she was about to Leave,She asked me:
"But,What's the meaning of "heamam" in your name?" Jummy's mother asked me.
"Oh ma,My father is an Islamic religion leader.so,A person who leads Muslims in congregational prayers is regarded to as imam"
"You mean you're a Muslim" she asked.
"Yes ma,A certified Muslim ma" I replied, feeling proud.
"What's a dog then doing in a lion's jungle?" She asked, Frowning.
"I don't understand ma" I asked feeling somehow strange.
"You and my daughter are just like fire and water.so,I mustn't see you with my daughter again.Or else, You'll regret coming to this life" her mother said angrily,as she left with a frown face.
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