Happy Child Episode 9

HAPPY CHILD (with many sorrows)

Story by O'nezer
Episode 9.

"Yeparipa!! How did you get here" Jacob the rewire guy exclaimed in his slangy Yoruba accent.


"Sir, I need help, don't let the driver know that I sneaked out through this means" Josh pleaded.

The driver had gone to pee on the other side of the fence so the rewire helped him to hide till he was done repairing the Jeep.

"Oga Saburi, I have finished it oh" He said as he handed the car keys over to Saburi.

Saburi drove back to the compound after two hours of staying at the rewire's workshop.

Madam had been looking everywhere for Josh but she couldn't find him. She walked round the compound as Saburi entered with the jeep

"Saburi, where is Josh? Where is he?" she furiously asked, but no one could really answer since no one saw him leave.

That was how Josh escaped from madam Arowosafe and her sexual demands.

Josh looked very pale and tired because of his hiding from one place to another. One day, he mistakenly hit a young lady and she almost fell.

"I am sorry, I am very so..." Josh tried to apologized as he look closely, it was Lois.

"Lois" he said and Lois also called him by name "Josh"

Lois was the one always sitting behind him in their primary school. Lois was a lady brought up in a Christian home and she never joked with the things of God.

"Where are you heading to?" they both asked out of curiosity. "You go first" Josh had requested. She told him that she was going to the church for bible study and asked where Josh was heading to.

Josh couldn't even start the story of how he had been living his life from the last time they saw and now that they met again.

Lois interrupted his thought by reminding him of his mother's death. "I didn't get to be close enough to you back then to greet you about the loss of your mom, I'm really sorry" He thanked her as they kept on walking to the church.

"We are almost at the church" Lois said and then noticed how unkempt and tired Josh was looking.

Josh was so hungry that he wished he could just turn stone to bread because the last meal he had was puff puff and he had even begged for it from the seller in the morning along with sachet water.

Since Josh had no place to go, he decided to follow her down to the church.

The Bible study lasted for about an hour and thirty minutes. An altar call was made that evening and Josh and some others stepped out to pray their way through.

"Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord" Josh had said on his knees. Everyone around him was happy as they saw him shout 'thank you Jesus' repeatedly.

"Congrats Josh, you are now born again and saved from your life of sin" Lois had said with so much joy written over her face.

It was a total turnaround for Josh as he felt the joy that he had never experienced before.

"But where do I go from here?" This was the question that kept running through Josh's mind as people were finding their way out of the Church that evening.

Where will Josh go to?


Find out in the next episode.
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