The journey

Ace dilemma

Now Ace final exams were approaching

Ronnie had not taken her feet off the gas as she really wanted to best Ace in the upcoming but honestly Ace couldn't care less about his upcoming exams as he was out playing tag with some of his other friends he just made...

now one of Nina's sons jo was in a really foul mood after being humiliated in class he was boiling hot and all could see he wasn't happy...but Ace was not aware of this as he rushed into the house after he finished playing and went to practice his self proclaimed skill as an electrical engineer.He then took Jo's min speaker that had gone bad and took it apart in other to gather parts to complete a special something he was working on.

when jo found out about this he poured out his anger on little Ace dislocating his finger in the process that was the first time Ace has been beaten that badly

later that evening Nina got back home and scolded jo for doing such a thing to Ace, and Ace wasn't Left out as she gave him an earful on never to take what wasn't his as it was a very terrible habit

the next day Ace fell ill and couldn't go to school for a week and the upper week was exams he was so ill he didn't have any time to prepare....... Ronnie paid him a few visits while he was ill ..

Then the final exams were over and Ace grades had gone down due to his illness

although Ace didn't care but aunty Nina

have a thing for always expecting the Best from people and always pressuring and ensuring they meet her expectations so she was not very happy with Ace's grade and grounded him from playing until he was ready to be serious with his studies again she ensured Ace got no playing time and cut back on all the freedom she had given to him... this made Ace very sad and instead of this helping him it disturbed him even more

Ace productivity dropped and Aunt Nina owns a shop in the market she usually goes to every morning so she started taking him along every day for the next few years of his life because all of Aunt Nina's children were now In the university... this caused Ace to mature rapidly and became more adult like child like although this caused Ace to act older than his age and capable of doing things that he normally shouldn't be able to...it was more like fate was preparing him for the hardship and storms life would throw at him..now Ace was 8 years old and to him he didn't get the opportunity to grow up as a normal kid....

he was now thinking about going back to meet he's mom and brother as it's been years now since he last saw them although they always spoke on the phone once in a while but there was this sadness of not being able to see them for so many years.....well now aunty Nina got another job,A teaching job and she was so happy about it then she told Ace that he'll be the one handling the shop from now on every time he go back from school......well Ace was also happy about this for different reasons as this will get aunty Nina off his back and give him the freedom he once lost but little did he know that the world was not all rose's and flowers...soon Ace begins to make friends with all he could find, all just to try and get back his childhood, because he never had the opportunity to watch TV play games or do any Cool stuff all of this things were so new and exciting to him so he'll usually no longer go to Nina shop but instead will go around with friends doing all sorts of things he found delight in then Ace met a girl named rubbie yes she caught his attention but he didn't know why he found her so captivating as he was starting to like her rubbie was fun and funky she had a lot of surprises to her and this got Ace interested in her..... rubbie was a girl with a lot of gifts and talent she could sing,draw,dance and write stories..

then Nina's neighbors drew her attention to how Ace no longer came to the shop more frequently and early as he usually does this made aunt Nina very unhappy and she was going to teach him a lesson to try and set him back up but Ace was already too far gone non of Aunt Nina's punishment or lesson had any effects on his behavior anymore until something happened that made Ace start to see the detrimental part of making friends with just any one ......At age 12 Ace once went with he's friends to a farm and he's friends urged him to join them In harvesting fruit that was meant for someone else they stayed behind claiming to alert him when someone was coming so Ace went into the farm and began to harvest cocoa for him and his friends this went on for a while till he go caught and his friends with always told him the were watching to see if anyone was coming . They ended up discarding him and ran away now Ace was in big trouble as the man who owned the farm caught him ,he was so furious he took Ace by he's short and straight to some police guards where he was severely beaten that it traumatized him

.now he was trying to understand the rules and way of life trust no one but yourself he was heart struck and decided never to move with those who turned tail and ran away without him..

he then calmed down and started going back to Aunt Nina's shop to help out as usual then after a while he met rubbie who he hadn't seen in a while and soon they started talking a lot more and became close ....