"Wakey wakey sleepy head"
slowly trying to detach my eyelids from each other, I glanced at a 5.1 inch girl with a fair complexion who owned a pointed nose, brown eyes and a full lip who's got her black hair packed up like a pony tail.
"Rachel get up from your bed"
I shut my eyes close but it widened open the moment I felt the pillow constantly hitting my back
"okay okay okay,"I murmured while rolling from on part of the bed to another.
"enough" I coughed out and sat upright, that's when kate reminded me of the fact that the day had come the very very ugly day that has beign re-occuring in my life for the past five years had finally come once again,I'd call it the sixth year now, it was the jamb examination day
"evacuate from my room kate" she threw the pillow at my face.
" fine but remember not to fall asleep again, take a shower, then come down stairs and have breakfast so you can leave early for your annual date, don't keep dad waiting"
she chuckled hard and finally bursts out her laughter while exiting my room.
"Annual date?"she has got to be kidding me, Sometimes Kate acted like the wicked witch of the west who was the cause of all my problems,I planted my hands on my face in shame as thoughts of my previous annual date with jamb, surfaced in my head.And I still recalled every single one, I failed, I just kept failing, and that's so not fair.
I crawled out of bed, headed to the bathroom for a shower, after which I picked out a dress from my closet, packed up my books into my school bag and ran downstairs to have breakfast.
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You may just not know what it means to prepare and write a particular exam year after year.trust me you wouldn't like the feeling.my hall was filled with crazy people, lot's of aged people who just came in to pay the examiner in other to have the access to cheat.lord have mercy. Every year the content of my Jamb hall remained the same.well people like me wrote from our brain and since we gave out no envelope ,we left the exams hall earlier.
I had no reason to be afraid or get nervous, it was like I had gotten used to the annual dates, same old set of people, same old bribery procedure and all. although it was quite annoying and challenging but I just had to write it anyway, trust me, my yearn for education vanished after the very first moment I failed my first Jamb.my life just wasn't the same anymore.
after the examination I decided to pay Victoria a visit in other to cool off a bit.
The cab which took me there drove off too windy and in the process caused something to fly into my eyes, I tried to rubb my fingers through it but it wouldn't stop hurting me I managed to find my way as vikky came to the rescue, luckily for me she was on her way to dump the bin when she found me struggling.
I glanced at the cookies and malt lying in front of me, just starring at it gave me an idea of what its going to taste like when I devour them.
"so Rach how was it?" Vikky muttered as she leaned into the sofa starring at me pitifully.
" Normal" I whispered as I grabbed one of the cookies and flush it into my digestive system,woaw the taste wasn't so different from my thoughts.
"Earth to Rachel, cookie lover"
snaping her fingers more than once and giving me the talk to me face.I smiled at her as I continued to make my stomach happy by devouring more cookies,suddenly vikky snatched the plate of cookies of the table and made a run to the kitchen.
"not fair please, vikky please am going to communicate just bring back my babies"
she brought out her fore head from the kitchen and leaned on the kitchen door giving me the you better start talking look.
"Of course, I will speak"
I coughed,she made her way back in to the living room and handed me my cookies,what a relieve and I continued from were I stopped, that was when I told her what her ears were itching to hear.
apparently vikky used to have annual dates like me but it only lasted for two years and now she was a three hundred level student of the theatre art department, university of calabar.and there I was, like a Jambite urghhhh!!well such is life.
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I stood as still as a pole in the middle of the parlor starring at my parents eyeball to eyeball, they had this evil look in their eyes and it was a scarry wake up call for me,ohh it gave me the shaky nerves"what have I done this time"I whispered to me.
"RACHEL JIMMY JACK you disgrace me,despite the fact that God blessed me with just two girls and no boy I love you girls so much,for the past five years you have been writting jamb,aren't you ashamed?"dad uttered as he leaned out of the sofa and gave me the dead stare.
"Even vikky got admission three years ago and your still whiling away your time,am very much grateful to God for giving me kate she is not only in her final year as a law student but she is doing so well academically and she has a fiancee who would be getting married to her soon,not all her mates at 23 have suitors and here you are lazying around,I pity you."
Is it just me or does mum detest me with so much passion,kate was soon to get married so what? Not so sure about why my journey to the university keeps crashing but who freaking cares,education wasn't meant for everyone,hello planet earth what about Tuface?ain't he rich but his got no complete education, what about Timaya who wrote Jamb 16 times but now that's all in the past for him, cause his future is sparkling!!am not left out
"Rachel"
dad called as I get startled cause my thoughts were invaded.raising my head up a little my eyes lock with his.
"If the result of this jamb is less than 180 or 100 as usual the consequences will blow your mind,you may exit the living room"
Mum nods in agreement and I stare at their faces searching for the consequnces for my forth coming failure,I swallow and breath out slowly as I walked out of the parlor bowing my head like one who just lost an awesome job.
Sitting on my bed,I gazed at the window,thinking and Imagining what my consequences would be when the result actually comes out,I only pray to God in heaven that mercy fills their heart to lessen what ever punishment they have in store for me,yes it's twenty one.for twenty one years of my life I've always felt like my existence on earth was a mistake or maybe its just the universe trying to say I hate you,get lost, but then again I serve a living God
