Trix

Origins

Pre script: This story contains a lot of allusions and references cause, that's fun right? It's set on a parallel earth in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt. Hence, the use of the pidgin language and wrong tenses are inevitable.

Disclaimer: All characters expressed here are purely fictional (not).

Chapter 1.

"It's morning already?" I said as mum flung the curtains wide open.
"Ugh! Is the sun always like this every 7am?" I said turning away from the window. "It's nearly 10am" she said. Those words shot me out of bed. Jumping jello rabbits! I was late for school. 'Twas the last days of school though nothing usually happened, just teachers compiling results and stuff. I was a student of Air Force Secondary school and our commandant put it as a must for all seniors to be early any day everyday. Normally, I'd just return to the sequel of my sleep but, being a prefect and all that, I had to go.
"Why aren't you at work?" I asked mum who was scanning the room apparently looking for something. "I'm off-duty today" she said.
Mum was the matron at Paragon clinics, so she kinda fixes the work roster.
In six jiffies, I was ready for school ate breakfast and swish swish, I was done. On my way to school, I met Danny. - Danny my trek buddy, my confidant, my hype man, my three pieces, you see where I'm going with this right? -
"Dude, you always give me a reason to feel good when it's all down" he said while giving me a friendly punch on the back. We walked and talked, mostly about girls tho, but that was a one-sided conversation. My mind was fixated on getting to the school gate and not meeting any soldiers. He mostly talked about this girl who loved Korea and was a twin. She was pretty yes, but, couldn't he be a bit sober being this late.
It was a long walk, but luckily we reached and no soldiers were in sight. I headed straight into the nearest junior class, so I would have a good excuse if asked why I was not on time. From there, I headed to my class, my cast were all there waiting for me - oh! , I was the drama coordinator - we were to Play a parody of Romeo and Juliet but in our story, Juliet doesn't die. It was called 'Vengeance of the gods', twas a tragic comedy. That aside, in the course of the rehearsal, she walked in, Danny's crush. Average height, pretty, pink lips, all that, armed with a bottle of fanta, as always -it's not even noon and she be drinking-. As Danny caught wind of her, he started tapping me repeatedly without even saying anything. I had to hold my bro to stop his session. "Bro, isn't she the prettiest thing you've seen?" He asked still staring. "Yeah, sure" I said most reluctantly. "Bro" I continued, "girls are a distraction" "yeah" he answered, eyes still fixed, "a necessary one at that". Being tired of his regular same behavior, I urged him to talk to her, what could possibly go wrong, we were soon probably never gonna see each other again. He turned down my idea. Coward!
After the rehearsals, I pulled him with me to meet her. "Hey, I'm ken" I said extending a hand with the best smile I had and she smiled back and took my hand. "this is my dude Danny" I said gesturing to him. The dimwit gave a shy wave and came closer. "He has a mega crush on you..." Just then I felt a hard jab to my ribs, "Ow, I think that's my cue" I said laughing. I left them and Danny took over, they talked and she was laughing. Hmm, didn't know he had any appeal or sense of female humor but meh. I decided to get some fresh air, I left the class for a casual stroll. Probably a teacher would see me and ask for my help. Still in thought, about life and stuff, I was approached by a man in a very expensive looking suit. "Are you Mr. Ogochukwu Kendrix?" He asked. "Mr.?" I asked smiling, "yeah, sure, who's asking?" A pungent smell filled the air and everything turned from blurry to black.

My name is Ogochukwu kendrix and this is my Origin story.

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