STORY: MY UNCLE PART 2

MY UNCLE PART 2

The next day, when I woke up, I got down from my bed,
went on my knees and said my morning prayers. You
already guessed what I did next, I reached out for my
phone from under my pillow, but I couldn’t find it. I rolled
my eyes…..
I rolled my eyes…..
knowing that my sister probably took it since she already
told me she would always use my phone to play games.
“Esther!!! Esther!!!” I yelled out my sister’s name as I went
into the sitting room to look for her. I didn’t know my
mum was sitting down on one of the couches so I
continued yelling. “so you cannot greet abi”, my mum
said. “oh! mummy, sorry. I didn’t know you were here.
Good morning!” I greeted. “Ehen, morning! why are you
looking for Esther like this” she replied. “I don’t know if
she took my phone”, “E biago ozo!(meaning: you have
come again in Igbo language) If you guys like, don’t get
ready for church. I and your father will leave without you
guys and you’ll have to trek, so if you like, get ready, if
you don’t like, don’t get ready” My mum said and exited
the room. I left the sitting room as well and headed for
the kitchen. That was when I found Esther using my
phone with Frank. I quickly went to them and grabbed it
from her hand. They both growled, but I scolded Esther
for not asking me for permission before taking it. “Na
because say you don get phone now, that’s why pesin no
go hear word”Frank said. I looked at him with an angry
look and left the kitchen as Esther followed behind. We
went to our room to prepare for Church and not long
after, we were ready. We could hear the horn of our dad’s
car signaling for us to come outside so we could go to
Church. I put my phone into my Church bag as I always
called it and left the room with Esther.
After Church, my parents had a meeting in Church both
for men and women as usual and so we hung out with
our friends while we waited for them. I was talking to one
of my friends when I heard my phone ring. I checked the
caller ID and realized it was my uncle calling so I excused
myself. All my friends were already jumping up and
screaming excitedly when they saw my new phone
because they taught I wouldn’t be getting a phone
anytime soon. “Hello?”, I said as I picked the call. “My
baby, how are you?” uncle cheatmaster said. “I’m fine” I
replied. “This one you’re sounding so cold, what is wrong
with you?” he asked but I told him I was fine, I just
needed rest and so he got relaxed. He said he just wanted
to hear my voice since I didn’t reply his message
yesterday night so he told me to end the call so we could
text each other instead. I ended the call and a minute
later, I got a message from uncle cheatmaster and we
started chatting, but I went back to meet my friends while
we were chatting. Meanwhile, my friends were still hailing
me and I felt my cheeks turn red with excitement and
embarrassment. A few minutes later, my mum and dad
were through with their meeting so we all left for the
house. When we got home, I went straight to the room,
took off my Sunday wear and switched into more
comfortable clothes. Immediately, I took out my phone
from my bag and continued chatting with uncle
cheatmaster. We were chatting about random things until
he texted “Meso, I want to ask you something and please
be sincere with me oo” I looked at the text confused
because I couldn’t guess what he was going to ask me.
“Do you have a boyfriend?” The next text read. I opened
my mouth when I saw this because it never even crossed
my mind and It was weird that my uncle had to be the
first to ask. I replied with a “no!!! uncle cheatmaster, I’m
still a small girl now” but he just replied with “hmmn,
small girl ke. Do you know how many of your mates that
already have boyfriends or are even married. You’re
talking about small. You’re not a small girl oo”, “But my
parents still say I’m small, and if my mummy should even
find out I have a boyfriend, she’ll bury me alive”
“hahahaha, meso you’re so funny. I’ll tell your mum” “Ahh
uncle cheatmaster, please oo. I’m just joking oo” “I know,
I wasn’t going to tell anyway. That reminds me, I want to
take you out”, he finally said. “Oh!! but we are yet to have
our first term exams so mummy and daddy will not want
us going out”, I replied. “who is we?” he asked. “Esther
and I now” “No I don’t mean the both of you, I want to
take just you out”. “But why would you want to take just
me out?”, I asked. ““Because it’s your turn this time, next
time it will be only Esther but that will be after your exams
since you’ll be having your exams now” I agreed and so
he said we’ll talk later. I smiled at my phone and was just
so excited that I was now taken as a big girl. In a month’s
time, I would be turning twelve and I couldn’t wait.
Two weeks later… I was sitting all alone in a class,
waiting for one of my friends to be done with her extra
lessons when Micheal, one of my class mates came in.
“hey meso!!” he called out. “hey mike”, I replied. “senior
Daniel is calling you” Micheal said. I couldn’t figure out
why he was calling me. Senior Daniel was one of the ss2
boys who people said was wicked. I was very scared of
talking to seniors because I didn’t want to be punished
for any little thing. So I summoned up courage and went
to the ss2 floor, looking through the classes hoping to
see senior Daniel who called me. Before I got to the last
class, he came out from the class and smiled at me when
he saw me. I smiled back, not knowing the reason for it.
Immediately, he told me to follow him and I followed
behind. We got to a bench not too far from the tuck shop,
where they sold snacks and food, he sat down on the
bench, gesturing me to sit beside him and so I did. He
started off by asking If I was scared and I told him I was
scared a little, but he just told me to relax, that he meant
no harm and so I became at ease. Senior Daniel just told
me he wanted to take care of me as my school father, he
told me he was ready to help me with anything and since
I would be starting with my first term exam as a jss1
student, I shouldn’t hesitate to meet him if I needed any
help. I just couldn’t understand where all this came from
because I had never even spoken to him. I nodded
because I knew it was normal for a senior boy or girl to
make you their school daughter or son. Before we left, he
asked If I had a phone so he could always call to make
sure I was okay and so I said yes and gave him my
number. We left the scene and I went to check if my
friend was done with her lesson. I was a bit excited
because I now had a school father. Some of my friends
were already posing with their school fathers and trying
to make every other person Jealous.
When I got home, it was a few minutes past 4:00pm and
so I went into my room to take off my uniform, Esther
was already sleeping as usual. Before I could even take
my clothes off, I got a message. I didn’t want to open it
just yet because I needed to do some things so I dropped
the phone aside and left to do what I had to do.
To be continued….
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