“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy
birthday Meso…..,” I opened my eyes to my family singing
right beside my bed.
I couldn’t believe days had gone by and it was my
birthday all of a sudden. I covered my face with my palms
trying to hide my tears of joy. My parents had always
celebrated my birthday but never had they seem so
excited to surround my bed early in the morning to sing
happy birthday to me with a cake. It was so weird to see
them sing for me like this. Normally they would just wish
me a happy birthday, pray for me and tell me they would
fry chicken for me. I mean, they used to celebrate my
birthday at times but It wasn’t regular, especially in this
manner. I removed my face and looked up as uncle
cheatmaster slowly walked into the room. My smile
became wider and I giggled with joy in my heart.
“It was uncle cheatmaster that got the cake for you and
told us to come and sing for you!”Esther said and jumped
up with excitement when she saw him.
I guess she shouldn’t have snitched that way because I
suddenly became a little sad. Although, I still smiled on
the outside to show my appreciation I wasn’t really
happy. Probably because I already thought my parents
must have been so excited for me to decide to buy a cake
and come sing beside my bed. I pushed that to the back
of my mind and focused on what was going on at the
moment. “Blow out your candles! Blow out your candles!”
Esther yelled. I smiled at her and blew out the twelve
candles that stood on the cake as they clapped and
prayed for me. I thanked everyone and they all left the
room except uncle cheatmaster. He smiled at me and sat
on the bed beside me. He stared at me for a moment and
finally asked if I liked my cake. I said yes and thanked him
for buying it for me.
“Anything for my love,” he said.
I just smiled at him and he hugged me. His arms were
around me for a while which seemed weird until we heard
Esther yelling out my name before he suddenly stood up
and said he would talk to me later. I stood up, went in to
take a shower and later went to spend the rest of the day
with my family. Senior Daniel even texted me and wished
me happy birthday he said he even had a gift for me and
would give me when we resume school. I also got calls
from some of my friends wishing me, happy birthday. I
was so happy all through the day and didn’t let anything
ruin it for me.
A week later……
“Uncle cheatmaster, please leave me alone. I don’t want
to do that with you.”
“Just once and that’s it. Meso please do it for me. Don’t
you love your uncle? Just once” Uncle cheatmaster held
me as he was begging me.
I was crying and telling him I didn’t want to do it with him
before I woke up to sweat running down my forehead and
tears running down my eyes. I just had a very confusing,
weird but scary dream. Why was I crying in my dream?
Why was uncle cheatmaster begging me? I asked myself.
I sat up when I realized Esther was beside me. She said
she had been waking me up but I just kept saying,”No!
No! No!” I just told myself it was a dream and let it go. It
was the first day of school after our Christmas break and
I couldn’t wait to see my friends and school father. While
I was moisturizing my body, Frank suddenly walked in. I
immediately grabbed the towel that was beside me and
covered my nakedness. I couldn’t believe that just
happened. Why does my day have to start this way?
“Ah! Sorry oo, I tink say you dey for bathroom. I dey look
for Esther.” he said when he saw me naked.
I felt like using the bottle of cream in my hand to throw at
his mouth. He just had to walk in at that moment. I
grumbled in annoyance and quickly dressed up before he
would come in again and say it was a mistake. I hissed
when I was done dressing up and went to have my
breakfast before leaving for school. Frank already took
Esther to school since he was the one who usually takes
her while I went to meet my friend who lived two blocks
away from my house, so we could go to school together.
After school, my school father sent for me so I went to
see him in his class. When I got there, all his friends that
were with him started hailing him and smiling at us.All his
friends were hailing him…
I couldn’t understand why.
He just smiled at them and said, “You guys now, Na my
school daughter oo.”
I just stood there in confusion until he asked me to hug
him. I found it really strange and it became really
awkward between us because I had never hugged him
before and I never even hugged my own class boys. I
didn’t want to cause more awkwardness so I just hugged
him. All his friends were just raising their brows and
winking at him. They sure looked funny. He later reached
for his bag and brought out something in a gift wrap.
“Happy birthday!” he said as he handed the gift to me
smiling, I thanked him and then he said I could go and
insisted that we talk on the phone later. As usual, I went
to meet my friend who had been waiting for me so we
could go home together.
Later that night, I spoke with senior Daniel on the phone
and he apologized for the behavior of his friends. I told
him it was okay and I found it rather funny than upsetting
and he sighed in relief before saying goodnight. In a
week’s time, I was going to the hostel as a border. My
mum had broken the news to me the night before we
resumed school. She said one of her friends told her that
the boarding house was very good for training students
and so she told my dad about it and they both decided I
become a boarder. I was a bit excited and sad. I was
definitely going to miss home but I was excited to
experience the life as a boarder. All my friends who were
boarders already talked on how they found the boarding
house both tough and interesting. There was always
something to talk about whenever you were with a
boarder. I couldn’t wait to join them and experience it
myself.
To be continued……
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