LOVE SCANDAL : My Professor's Secret

LOVE SCANDAL : Professor's Secret

CHAPTER 13: Exam And Result

Exam start on Monday.

UNILORIN exam hall was cold like query hall. AC full, invigilator waka up and down, students shaking.

I enter hall with my bracelet that Damola give me. A for Amara. I touch it before I start writing.

First paper was Introduction to MLS. I read question and my brain open. All those night reading inside library with note that Damola drop inside book, it was coming back.

I write fast, I write plenty, I fill extra sheet. When I finish, I look up and see Dr. Ojo that warned me during sweeping, he was invigilating and he look at me and nod small, like you try.

All papers go like that. Some hard, some easy. Biology practical was hardest, because my hand still remember broom more than microscope. But I still try.

During exam weeks, Damola did not disturb me. He only send one message every morning.

Good morning real girlfriend, read small and enter hall.

And one message every night.

How was paper today.

No kissing, no car park, no library sitting together. He was obeying my mother instruction and school final warning.

Two weeks of exam finish and I was thin. I lose small weight because of reading and no amala.

After exam, school go on short break. I travel to Lagos to see mother, Damola travel to Oyo to see his own mother.

We did video call every night, but not long, because both mothers will shout, Go and sleep.

Result come out three weeks after break, inside school portal.

That morning, I was inside hostel, phone on 2 percent, network slow.

I log in portal. Page load slow. My heart beat like drum.

Then result show.

GPA 4.6.

I scream inside hostel. My roommates run come.

What happen, they shout.

I show them phone. 4.6.

Favour that offered to help me sweep before shout, Nine points girl don do am again. First class.

I call Damola immediately.

Hello, he pick, voice sleepy.

I have 4.6, I shout.

He shout too inside phone.

What, he say. My real girlfriend get 4.6. My real girlfriend is first class.

He was shouting like he was the one that write exam.

I call mother next.

Mummy, 4.6, I say.

Mother was quiet small, then she say, You see, I told you. When you focus, you can do it. That sweeping did not waste you.

Yes mummy, I say, crying small.

She then say, And that your professor boyfriend, tell him thank you. Because I know he help you read.

I will tell him ma.

That evening, Damola drive to my hostel gate with malt and cake. He was wearing white shirt again, his normal shirt.

He give me cake.

For my first class girlfriend, he say.

We sit outside hostel, eating cake with hostel people watching but not videoing anymore. We were now normal.

He look at me and say, Amara, you finish 100 level now. Your father said I should come back after you enter 200 level for introduction. You have enter 200 level now. Can I come with my family next month.

I choke on cake.

Next month, I ask.

Yes, he say. I told my mother about you. She want to see you. She said nine points girl that sweep Block C and still get 4.6, she must see her.

I laugh and cry at same time.

You want to do introduction, I say.

Yes, he say, holding my bracelet hand. Not marriage now, just introduction, so your mother will stop calling me professor boyfriend that was suspended. She will call me in law.

I look at him, with cake crumbs on his mouth.

You are serious, I ask.

I am serious since day you force me to do fake video call, he say.

I hit him small.

He laughed and brought out small phone and show me picture of his mother.

See, he say, my mother already buy aso ebi for introduction.

Picture show old woman holding lace.

I look at picture and look at Damola and look at my 4.6 result on phone screen.

One year ago, I was twenty two with no boyfriend and I lie to my mother because of pressure. Now I have real boyfriend, first class result, and introduction next month.

From fake to real, from query to 4.6, from sweeping to celebration.

I hold his hand and say, Okay, next month. Come.

He hug me outside hostel, in front of everybody, and this time, nobody hiss, nobody video, only Favour clap and say, Finally.