Happy Child Episode 5

HAPPY CHILD (with many sorrows)

Story by O'nezer
Episode Five.

"Josh, what are you looking for here" he repeatedly asked as he was finding his way out of the building.

"I just wanted to be sure if you have collected your result and I want to tell you goodbye. My dad is waiting for me." Josh rushed his word like someone who had hot yam in his mouth.

Josh passed almost all his papers but Dare had to repeat again.

When Dare received his result, he discovered that he had to repeat JSS2 for the third time. He couldn't even think of anything better to do and so resorted to killing himself in an uncompleted building by taking a powdery substance that could not be traced
All through Josh's journey home, he couldn't get over the thought of seeing what Dare was about to do when he stumbled on him inside the building.

The journey back home lasted for about an hour and thirty minutes.

His father had told him about his new baby sister that was at home. Josh couldn't hide his excitement of meeting his baby sister.

"Mom, what's my sisters name?" Josh had asked with so much joy all written over him.

"Her name is Joan" Josephine had replied. She requested him to go and change then have this lunch.

Two weeks after Josh got back from school, he was enrolled to the nearby holiday coaching to keep him on track towards the new session ahead.

Days kept rolling by and the holiday was winding off already, but the attention that Josh was always getting from everyone when it was only him had reduced drastically.

He was feeling the space of his dead mother and the unavailability of the father. There was an evening when he thought he would meet food at home after declining a dinner offer at his friends place.

"Mom, what are we taking for dinner?" He asked but the reply he got left him wondering why the father married this woman.
"Open your mouth to the breeze and drink water to it" she replied sarcastically.

When the holiday was over and it was time to go back to school for new session. They gave him just a little money and promised to come back to pay his school fees.

He left for school with his old notes, old uniform and since every student stayed in one hostel for two session, it automatically meant he was staying in the same block he was while in JS2.
Everything was going to be former! Former notes, Former uniform! Former hostel!

He left for school the following Sunday but on getting to school, he couldn't believe what he heard.

What was it?

Check the next episode for it
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