Happy Child Episode 7

HAPPY CHILD (with many sorrows)

Story by O'nezer
Episode Seven.

"Josh, since we are done with exams, no one can do anything to us again" Kenneth had said

"I have gotten that dry leaf and ground it. So what next" Tayo asked curiously.

Tayo, Kenneth and Josh were the three jolly friends from SS1 till SS3. So, it was easy to execute the plan of dealing with Mr Jide.

It was already getting dark around 6pm, they knew when Mr Jide always use the bathroom outside his room. As he walked into the room to pick his towel that he forgot to pick, when he first came out. Kenneth tipped toed to the bathroom and poured the grinded dried leaf into his bathing water.

As he entered the bathroom, he applied the soap to his hair and he started whistling, before pouring the water on his body.

He didn't feel anything immediately but a minute later, he ran out naked shouting "who did this?"

The boys in the door closeby shouted back "Jesus, oh my God!"

 Mr Jide danced so much that he had to be taken to the clinic, minutes later by the gardener, who also helped cover his nakedness by giving him a short.

Red oil was rubbed all over his body. He stayed days in the clinic receiving treatment. When he fully recovered, the shame didn't make him come back to the male hostel for the remaining weeks to the end of the term.

Two weeks after, the school had their usual graduation day. Parent came with different gift, food and other menu to grace the occasion but no one showed up for Josh.

Josh managed to receive two awards as the best student in Biology and Agric Science.

The graduation ended and he had to follow his friends who promised to help him with his load.

The reality of life finally dawned on Josh and he had to think of a faster way to help himself out since help wasn't coming from his family.

School was over and even with the good grades he had in his WAEC, he couldn't afford to get a Jamb form for himself.

Three months later, Josh saw a Vacancy of house help in a street far away from his usual vicinity. He opted for the house help job for his upkeep and other expenses.

He knocked on the gate that afternoon and he was asked to come in.

"Have you ever done this kind of job before?" The man at the gate asked but since he had never done the job before, he didn't want to lie so he had to let him know that he was doing it for the first time.

"We will employ you for your honesty" the man had said as he walked to the main building of the house "Come and resume next week... Hold on, what did you call your name again?"

"Josh... Josh Alarape" he replied with excitement.

He couldn't hide his joy that day as he was walking faster home. His sleep that day was different as he was counting down to the days he had left under the roof of his father and step mother.

Minutes to hours and hours to days. The day for him to resume finally arrived. He had left home very early that morning so he could meet up.

He got to the house by 7:45am and the man he had met the last time told him to wait at the gate for the madam of the house who will give him his full job description.

Few minutes later, the madam came around and that was the beginning of another journey for Josh.

What happened?

Watch out for it in the next episode
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