As they were waiting for the waitress to return with the chilled bottles of beers and pepper-soup, there was a moment of awkward silence between the boys. Martin noticed the misery looks in the new boys’ faces, especially Adrian.
"You guys haven’t been talking,’’ Martin said, trying to cheer them up. "It’s high time you wake up from your slumbers..." he stopped talking as he saw a young boy and a girl of their age grade holding each others in arms akimbo and heading to the swimming pool. He hollered and waved at them, they waved back, he muttered within himself, "Ronald and Sandra,’’ and directly to his companions he said. "You wouldn’t belief that girl is a boarding student of Queens College in Iddo here. That boy too is a first year student in the University of Ibadan. But frequently,
