🧑🏻#LITTLE_LUCY🧑🏻
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Note: 18+ 🔞 adult contents ❌ not for readers under the age of 18
🧑🏻🧑🏻EPISODE NINETEEN🧑🏻🧑🏻
Sitting opposite Collette on the study table, I bent my head over my book, studying my chemistry note.
Collette was leaning back on her seat, reading a novel with a yellow HB pencil tucked at the back of her ear.
We hadn't spoken anything to each other since we returned from Efua's room.
It was already light's out but Co llette and I had a deal and that I was to study with her every night.
But I was getting boring. Studying was hard work and I could feel my eyes getting heavy.
I groaned. " By what time do we to sleep? We have class tomorrow, you know."
It was ten minutes to midnight, alright.
Collette flipped to the next page of the novel and moved her lips. " I don't know. Just keep studying."
" Easy for you to say," I yawned tirelessly. " This is boring and I'm feeling sleepy. How do you even stay up this long at night to study? Is there some kind of pills or coffee or—"
Collette took off the pencil behind her ear and marked something on the novel. " Discipline. That's all it takes. Stop being lazy, Lucy."
" I'm not lazy," I cried. " Just that, I'm not really used to this. Come on, if I don't get a goodnight sleep, I'd be dozing off in class."
" Take your time, Lucy," she said in her quiet remote voice. " I'm not asking you to be like me. I study ten times everyday. It's part of the trainings we received in the LILIES. Also we only get four hours of sleep every night."
" That's bad," I nearly exclaimed. " Four hours sleep? But doctors recommend we humans get eight hours of sleep to stay healthy and strong."
" They're right," she said setting down the book and turning to face me. " An average man sleeps eight hours per day. The billionaires, great men and women, presidents, military commanders, scientists, astronauts, movie stars, name them all, they don't sleep eight hours per day. The average man sleeps eight hours per day. People like me, I am not average. I sleep four hours per day."
" Why?"
" Because great men make use of their night. During the peace and calm of the night, while others are asleep, these great men and women are awake, using the night to their advantage. A successful man's success is being worked over in the night. Work in the silence of the night, let your success and hard work speak in the daylight."
She strucked a word in my brain.
~~Work in the silence of the night, let your success and hard work speak in the daylight~~
" Is that what you were taught in the LILIES?" I asked.
She frowned and returned back to her novel. " That's the key path to success, Lucy. Take it or leave it. You want to pass your exams, discipline yourself. Sleep is good but you've been sleeping your whole life. Make the necessary sacrifices to deny yourself sleep and I assure you, you'll see good result."
I stared at her for sometime then without thinking, I rose to my feet, headed into the bathroom and washed my face with some really cold water.
When I returned back to the bedroom, she was going through my chemistry note.
