Against All Odds

Chapter Six: Tag Along

Obi was restless throughout the first three lessons that held. Thankfully her teachers didn't notice because she was staring at them and at the board but her mind was wandering aimlessly. Mr David who took them on Business studies was a very impatient teacher.

He didn't care if half of the class didn't understand the difference between a double column cash book or a single column cash book, or even where to place items on the cash book. All he cared about was receiving his salary at the end of the month, but how he had managed to stay in the school was a wonder. Maybe it was because the students always passed their examinations and there was no need to sack him for poor methods of impacting knowledge.

"So the balance is finally carried down , that'll be the end of the class today, I suggest you go through the solving while you're on your short break. Your class prefect will pass on to you, the take home work I have prepared. If you like do it! If you don't like still do it! Else we all know what Dr do good can do"

Mr David walked out of the class with his oversized trousers secured with the belt on his belly. Obi couldn't wait to talk to Chioma, she dragged Chioma out of the classroom  before she spoke her mind.

"First I want to apologize because our plan of sharing lunch together won't work, see eh the only lunch we usually get is eba and soup and there's no way I can eat that in this classroom. They'll just laugh at me, at us. I don't want that to happen biko"

"Abeg! Obi you're worried about what they'll say. Most of them eat eba everyday, don't let people's opinion stop you from doing the things you want to do. Besides that's not what I wanted us to talk about"

Chioma noticed how nervous Obi was and how the skirt she gave Obi suited her more than the oversized one she used to wear. Chioma was surprised when her brother drove to school with her. She had thought that he was just trying to accompany her to school but when he got to school he didn't go back. That was when she realized that something was up.

"I didn't know my brother registered in this school. I always thought he enjoyed his former school, but let's just be patient he might be joking about the transfer" chioma said while patting Obi's shoulder.

She reluctantly agreed to Chioma's assumption, but deep down she knew better. The look Obi had seen in her brother's eyes was too similar to the one she had always seen in Chukwudi's.

The pair walked back into the class and sat down before their class prefect made an announcement.

"Our class mistress said I should tell everyone that speaking vernacular in class would no longer attract punishments instead you'd be fined for each one you speak. Igbo is twenty naira, Pidgin is ten naira."

Everyone in the class hissed because of the development, their class prefect being a teacher's boy would keep his ears as sharp as a rabbit's just to get a culprit to present to the teacher.

" I have warned everybody oo, I'm going to get our assignment from Mr David. Amaka is in charge of getting names of noise makers for today"

As he walked out of the classroom Obi couldn't help but notice how much tear his trousers had received on his buttocks and how many patches of cloth had been sewn onto the tears to avoid a display of his underwear. For a moment she thought of when Tobe told her that farthing tore clothes and that was why he always dragged down his shorts before doing it.

The thought brought a smile unto Obi's face.

Cynthia and her goons had steered clear of obi ever since the incident, their new hobby had become to flirt with senior students to gain gifts and cards because of the valentine's day coming. The new catch they must have heard of was chioma's brother and because they felt his parents were rich double efforts would be made.