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Chapter 14
The noise on the assembly kept getting louder as we all waited impatiently under the burning sun anticipating what the principal wanted to announce to us this time.
After what seemed like forever, Mr Ibrahim dressed in his oversized shirt that looked like it had been washed too many times with his baggy trousers and crocodile shoe walked onto the podium as he started his announcement with his usual greetings which we responded to.
"I would have apologized for keeping you waiting under this burning sun if the junior students were here but in case of their absence, I see no reason to because I am highly disappointed in the senior school. It is of certainty that only the senior students are capable of committing all these atrocities going on in this school. We won't allow you students to infect this school, no we won't have that!"
The murmurs were getting louder now as we were all eager to hear what had happened in RPHS this time around.
Could he just spill the beans already? It was like they paid this man to always put us in so much suspense.
"Just two weeks ago, we found a baby in a toilet in the girls' hostel and now we've found something else that just proves how rotten and spoilt you all are. You all seem to see s*x as no big deal, you see it as nothing but do you even know that you are sharing a spiritual bonding with whomever you have it with? Do you even have the idea that having s*x right now is called f*********n and it is a sin that attracts you a penalty of going to hell? Haven't you ever been told that keeping your virginity till marriage is pride?"
"Will this man just get on with whatever he wants to say? I'm practically roasting here!" Queen said while I just chuckled but really I supported her.
"A c****m was found on the toilet floor in one of the males' toilet this morning by the school head cleaner herself. A used one to be precise!" Mr Ibrahim finally announced.
Most of us laughed while some like Queen, Ore, Peace and certain students just hissed loudly at the announcement, others were just surprised. I was no longer surprised about anything that happened in the school, I mean if we could find a dead baby in the toilet, what else could be worse than that?
"Abeg, they should carry all these 'yeye' announcements away jare. Ordinary used c****m, they had to call for emergency assembly, no be for this same school person give birth con kill am inside toilet? Yeye dey smell." Queen said silently while I just stared at her.
"I wonder o. What's the big deal in used c****m now? They should even praise them, at least they were learned enough to think to use a c****m. Maybe they are thinking that we are all virgins." Peace supported Queen hissing loudly.
"Silence!!!" Mr Ibrahim's angry voice thundered throughout the field as the murmurs died down even though the noise didn't cease completely.
"Abegi!" Queen retorted silently making a few of us laugh again.
"I really don't know what you guys find funny in what I've just said. Do you even know how much you guys have ruined our reputation? How much you've dragged the virtuous name of this school through mud? How much you've tarnished our image and you are laughing like it's funny?"
"When was the reputation of this school ever good though?" Queen retorted again as the whole S.S 2 laughed loudly this time thus getting Mr Ibrahim's attention.
"Oh! So you still find it funny? I'm very certain that it's one of you useless students that did this! It's probably one of you uncouth youths that owns the dead baby. This S.S 2 set of students are the worst set ever. You are so useless, arrogant and disrespectful. Do you guys think you are doing me? Huh, you are only ruining your futures if you don't know. Whatever you do here does not affect me in any way." Mr Ibrahim shouted angrily at us but some of us are just so stubborn and won't shut up.
People like Ore.
"That's the same thing he said to S.S 2 who are now in S.S 3 last year, now we are the worst set. Every S.S 2 set is worst to him. It's like a Worse, worser, worsest thingy." He whispered loudly as all the S.S 2 boys and some S.S 2 girls laughed loudly again.
We were definitely getting flogged this afternoon, we definitely couldn't escape it.
Mr Ibrahim shook his head with pity even though he was the one looking pitiful, stressed out and pissed.
"Mr Kelani, give these S.S 2 students six strokes each, other students should be dismissed." He said as he left the assembly angrily.
We frustrated his life. Ah S.S 2!.
Most of us hissed at the mention of Mr Kelani. That man flogged like his hand was made of plastic, he could actually be manipulated to even reduce the strokes. He was that kind and gentle.
We got flogged in turns as non of us cried not even the students that cry at very little beatings.
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