“…I couldn’t sort courses successfully that semester as all the sure links were severed due to my involvement in the SUG Elections.
I had to depend on myself once again. It was tough, especially when I barely attended lectures due to the campaigns.
As expected, my CGPA crashed, the same way my Faculty President dreams crashed.
The next to crash was my business. I needed to raise 1 million naira as quickly as possible. I had to keep to my end of the agreement with Ejike by ensuring that he gets his money since he was magnanimous enough to give me such a huge loan without interest.
If I continued selling Gas, it would take 2 years or more for me to raise 1 million.
I had to sell off the shop to someone else alongside the cylinder and other tools there.
After some back and forth, I succeeded in selling everything for #300,000 Naira.
From there, I took 50,000 naira that I would use to sustain myself. Then I sent the remaining 250,000 naira to Ejike, hoping it would calm him down so I can start looking for how to pay back the remaining 750k.
Due to the number of things that were crashing in my life, I didn’t notice that my relationship was also crashing.
Since he came back from the hospital, Amaka and Ejike have been speaking quite often and she visits him once in a while.
By the time I got to know what was happening, she was long gone. She had developed real feelings for him and she was waiting for the right time to break up with me.
The right time finally came when I came back from Philosophy lectures and saw her preparing to go out.
Normally, I wouldn’t ask her where she was going to but seeing clothes in her big handbag, I knew she won’t come back that day. So I had to know.
She said she was going to spend the weekend with her Aunty in Enugu. It sounded strange to me as she doesn’t visit her Aunty except it’s holiday period and that her Aunty in Enugu has always been against going home during school sessions.
I probed further but she claimed not to be in the mood for arguments and quarrels, then he left.
I decided to trail behind her to be sure she was going to enter bus at peace Park.
I was surprised to see the Okada man heading inside school instead of going towards Ogige market.
I entered my own Okada and told him to follow her.
She stopped at Onuiyi, surprisingly, it was a student’s lodge.
That was when I then confronted her and asked her if this is Enugu.
That was when she slipped and got irritated. She queried me on why I was frustrating her life and making things difficult for her.
Apparently, Ejike had rented a lodge for her, furnished it to the best standards, they have been meeting and spending time there. She just didn’t know how to formally pack out from the lodge we both shared.
At that point, it became clear to me that I personally used my hand to destroy my own life. It was then that I started connecting all the dots, starting from the first day she cooked for Ejike.
The only thing that could come out from my mouth was, “What did I do to deserve this?”
She never answered. Rather, she said I should be grateful to Ejike who had agreed to forgive my debt and move on.
I took Okada to Onuiyi but I trekked back to Odenigwe, thinking about my life and wondering where it all went wrong.
Downfall of a man is not the end of his life, I encouraged myself.
I converted my grief into zeal to use the remaining last 2 semesters to build up my CGPA and at least graduate with my set.
A man has seen what his mates saw.
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"…I couldn't sort courses successfully that semester as all the sure links were severed due to my involvement in the SUG Elections.
I had to depend on myself once again. It was tough, especially when I barely attended lectures due to the campaigns.
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