"The Pregnancy Trouble."

Home Again

The next day, everyone packed their bags early in the morning at 6am and were ready to leave for their various destinations.

After the service in the church auditorium, the head pastor made a short speach about the Bootcamp and cheered with the teenagers who were present and prayed for their safe return to their various homes.

At 12:00 noon, the teenagers were ready to leave the premises and some of them had already left in their parent's private cars while the others were waiting for the bus to arrive and take them back home.

Ben, Aina and the other teenagers from their church province were sitting close to the gate at the car park where their expected bus would come pick them as they discussed on both relevant and irrelevant topics concerning the bootcamp.

Shortly, the bus arrived and they all hopped in quietly.

Ben was sitting close to the window while Aina sat beside him. Everything was going well and the bus driver had started the bus getting ready to roll on.

Then suddenly, Ben heard someone shout his name from outside the bus. The moment he heard the voice, he knew that only one person had that tiny sweet tone in all of the people at the Bootcamp.

"Debby" he spoke out in a rather cool voice as he turned his attention to the window to confirm that she was the one who called his name.

"Hey! So you want to leave without even saying good bye to me right?" Debby asked in an angry tone but she did not wait for Ben to reply as she noticed that the bus was about to move. "Please am sorry__" Ben spoke out in a sad tone as Debby cuts in. "Dont say anything just give me your number. I'll call you later so you can explain better" she said and streached her hands to the window giving Ben a small note and a pen.

Ben wrote his number real quick and gave Debby a small grin as he returned the small note with his number written within. She smiled back and watched the bus move until it was out of sight.

Aina did not notice what had just transpired because she was busy listening to the interesting discussion that the other teenagers were having.

This time on their way back home, the driver was driving faster than when he was bringing them to the Bootcamp.

Ben noticed the speed so he tried to raise a conversation with Aina from it but she'd care less about that kind of conversation because it would be lame to talk about the speed of the bus when the others were talking about their experience at the boot camp, so he kept quiet and listened to the others as they were discussing and laughing.

After a while, the bus became silent like there was not even a soul present within.

Ben now had time to start his own conversation with Aina.

"So what are you going to do when you get back home?" Ben asked in a volume that only Aina could hear him.

"Well I guess I will have to go back to my very old daily routine" she replied "but what about you? What are you doing to do when you get back home?" She added.

"Oh well I think I will have to change a few things in my life you know, like make out time to workout more and be fit" Ben replied.

"Oh that's nice to hear but I think you are just Ok the way you are"she shrugged. " Yea you are right but I really need to work on my ab's and be more sexier hahaha" he replied and laughs.

Aina playfully raised his shirt to see if he had any sign of ab's but the moment she raised the shirt, she saw a complete six healthy ab's and immediately Ben grabbed her hand and pulled down his shirt to cover his stomach.

Aina was lost in her thoughts that instant because what she had just seen made her feel like she sat close to a burning tire. "You are so hot" she spoke out loud enough for Ben to hear it but she'd wished she never said it.

"Em thanks" Ben replied in a shy tone as he turned his face away from her direction and never said a word to her after that till the end of the journey.

They arrived earlier at the church parish than they had expected.

The bus came to a stop as everyone hopped out in a rush to get fresh air and streach themselves.

Ben did not wait for the 'welcome back' talks that the pastor was about to start before he ran off for a public transport bike that had parked outside the church gate. He told the bike man to take him straight to the estate where he lived.

Not minding the security man that stood at the church gate, Ben grabbed the handle of the small pedestrian door and pulled it gently as he made his way out of the church vicinity.

"Bros abeg carry me go safe-court"(please take me to safe court) Ben told the bike man in vernacular English. "Ok the fair na fifty naira oo"(okay the fair is fifty naira) the bike man replied as Ben sat on the bike and they rode off in a jiffy.

All the things he had in mind was to get home as quick as possible and lay on his own well furnished bed. He has not been able to sleep well all through the time he'd spent at the Bootcamp.

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