Daniel opened his eyes but there was nothing to see. He was engulfed in complete darkness, maybe this was his hell for trying to kill himself, except there were layers of clothes on him, he thought.
He was wearing a silk gown and a blanket was on him. Do ghosts feel cold and wear clothes? he thought to himself.
There was suddenly an outburst of white light that almost blinded him.
" Time for judgment" he said out loud
"Thank God, you are awake," someone said beside him He turned to his right to see Jude.
Jude was sleeping on a chair beside him earlier.
" Why are you always sneaking up beside me?"
That obvious question people always asked in movies in this kind of situation, it was his turn to ask it too.
"Where am I?"
"The general hospital" Jude yawned out.
"Oh…. okay"
Jude looked at Daniel.
Daniel was squinting "why is everywhere so bright?"
"Oh, there was a power outage but I think they just started the generator"
"What happened to me?" Daniel asked looking at the clock beside him. It said 01:45 am.
"You tried to kill yourself.
what were you thinking?" Jude asked angrily
Daniel covered his face with his hands.
when he didn't reply, Jude continued
" Well the reason I am here is to stop you from trying to do it again and to tell you Rosemary confessed"
"What! Are you serious?" Daniel asked almost jumping from the bed
"Yes, she confessed yesterday morning"
"Tell me what happened exactly."
" I will tell you but just count yourself lucky. The doctor said you survived because we were able to give you First aid treatment quickly. You are very lucky. God loves you"
" We don't have a first aid kit in the hostel"
" We fed you with palm oil we got from the school kitchen"
" By we, you mean our classmates right?" Daniel asked skeptically
"By we, I mean the whole school. It was time for dinner and everybody was in the dining hall" Jude said laughing
"But nobody saw me right?"
" Hahahaha, we carried you to the kitchen. Everybody saw you"
" Holy mother of all chicken" Daniel knew his reputation in that school was over, from attempted rape to attempting suicide.
"Yeah, It's messed up. The good thing about it is that you are popular now. you needed to see girls that were crying for you and oh we rushed you to the hospital with Uncle okpokpo's car.
" You mean I entered uncle okpokpo's car? And he drove me to town?" Daniel asked not believing his ears.
Uncle okpokpo bought his car four years ago, legend has it that the car had never left the school compound before.
"Yeah, and everybody was crying. We held a vigil for you and guess who came?" Jude asked looking at him with a sheepish smirk
"Who?" Daniel thought and he was laughing already " No! No!. Okeme?"
" Yes," they burst into laughter. Okeme had a bet with Hafiz that he will not enter the school church until their graduation night.
If he did, Hafiz will have to eat his fish till graduation. Nobody knew what brought about the bet though.
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