Tears Of An African Child

EPISODE 4

I accepted the money, thanked him and left, i could not spend the money, i kept askeing myself, Kingsley are you really the owner of this money, it was like a dream but for three days i kept going back to where i kept the money thinking it would disappear, after the third day i stopped goimg for my menial jobs , i told the people i was working for that i was not feeling fine, only me and me alone knew what was happening to me.

And that was that i was obsessed with the money brother James gave meand i could not see myself stooping so low to do menial jobs.[ indeed pride comes before a fall ]. I took some money out of it cos the other money i had on me i have already exhausted it, i bought some clothes, perfume,and i was looking good, i decorated my room, my friends now come to my apartment to have a good time.

Even the girl i was asking out accepted to be my girlfriend after she saw that i was now looking better, i did not even have to beg her about it, she was the one that came over to the house and was like, Kingsley, remember you asked me out, i have thought about it and i have accepted to be your girlfriend, i think we will understand ourselves, i like you too Nnaa, don't be surprised my native name is Nnadiebube which means my father is glorious, so people call me Nnaa for short and as time went on the name stuck on me, we had a beautiful relationship.

She did not know where the money came from and she was not bothered as long as i keep the money coming, all she knew was dat i was better now, after 2 weeks my cash was down, i went to bro James and he gave me a parcel to deliver to someone at Onitsha a town in Anambra state Nigeria, i took the next bus down to Onitsha, i delivered the parcel without knowing the contents, the man gave me another parcel that contained money, i returned it to bro James, when he opened it, he counted and confirmed it, he gave me another 50 thousand naira, i was like gosh, is there another parcel to deliver ? he said no but that there will be a parcel in a weeks time, but by this time it will be at Awka, i said okay, that was how i became a carrier, i came back to school and started living bigcos i now have enough money, m y adoptive parents began to get curious why i dont come back as often as i used to. i told them i got a new job and it was so demanding and i needed to give it so much time after school so as to raise enough money for myself so i won't be a burden to them anymore, they felt relieved. i went to the nearest bank to open an account so i can belong to the elites in school then.