I call on..

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Its Monday again and I'm really starting to like it here in TOMS.

Sorry that's a lie

I still don't like it here, I feel like I'm living one of my nightmares only difference is I can't wake up. I decided to play a game with Fej and two other guys and do I regret this decision? Of course I do,I always do,so why did I still oblige to play the game? Honestly,I have no idea.
    The game called "I call on" is a unique one because it builds vocabulary. Gamers take turns to call on a letter between A to Z and every one had to write a name,food,object,place and so on that begins with that letter into their respective columns. When two or more people write the same word in a column,their marks would be halved.
    Interesting,Darlington is one of the gamers. In his usual way he had made up alot of words some of which even sounded real. He argued about the existence of his made up animals giving instances where and when he encountered them. To stop this Fej suggested any unfamiliar word should be looked up in the dictionary but as the universe would have it Darlington adapted perfectly this time he added suffixes and prefixes to change the meaning of the word. Okay say for instance letter "E" was picked,he would write stuffs like;
Animal: Eagle  Thing:Eagle toy   Food:Eagle soup
As annoying as it was,we overlooked it.
  Apart from me,Fej and Darlington, there was another gamer,the fourth man in the game his name,Chidi. It was his turn to call on a letter and he chose 'k'. Straight away we all started working on our columns filling it with appropriate items. He finished before any of us did so he had the right to cut our time,those were the rules of the game.

  "Stop" Chidi called out. We did and passed our papers to him to score.
  He started giving points to everyone. When he got to mine he paused with a frown on his face.

  "You wrote 'kiwi' for animal and food" he said

                    Okay??,your point is?

  "Your point is?" I voiced out

  "It's wrong" he replied

  "Someone wrote Turkey for place,food and animal and was given full point" I said a bit pissed.

  "Because Turkey is a place and an animal that can be eaten"

  "Well kiwi is a fruit and an animal" I said in my defense.

  "Kiwi is not an animal,it's a fruit,agreed,but it's not an animal"

  "It's an animal Chidi,a bird in New Zealand" Fej said coming to my rescue. These were the kind of moments I felt grateful for his presence. 
  While this peaceful verbal confrontation took place Darlington just observed probably cooking up some lie to tell.

  "You know what? Cancel it,deduct mark,do whatever you like, I don't care anyway" I said in my usual bored tone.

  "Is that why you're vexing?" He asked

  "I'm not,I really don't care" I replied truthfully

  "It's like I've seen that kiwi bird oh..." Darlington butted in "...it has bluish black wings right? Like it looks blue when sunlight reflects on it but it's actually black"

  "Kiwis don't have wings,they don't fly" Fej said and I think it punctured his pride.

He suddenly switched sides. "Oh,that means its not the one I've seen,I'm not sure that your bird exist. When I went to New Zealand I didn't see anything thing like that" Darlington said

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