Happy Child Episode 6

HAPPY CHILD (with many sorrows)

Story by O'nezer
Episode Six.

"Mr Jide will now be the new House Master for the whole male hostel" the principal announced.

Mr Jide was just an average height, fair, young unmarried man who dresses so well and catchy to the eye that you couldn't walk pass him without looking him twice.

Everyone in the school knew that Mr Jide was someone who didn't  care about anything anyone would say, no one dared question him too.

"How did he become the principal's favorite?" one of the students muttered.
"Maybe because of his dress sense" one other student interrupted.

Josh moved to his hostel and he kept on relating with his roommate trying to put the unfair treatment he got from home behind him

The second week of resumption, Dare resumed again and this time around, the family promised to withdraw him if he fails again. So this time around, he was ready to give his best at whatever it cost.

The term was going faster than anyone could imagine, but there was this unexplainable attitude and uneasiness around Mr Jide that no one could place.

Once he woke them up around 5:30am in the morning for morning devotions and other activities.

He was always calling the boys in one after the other at different intervals till the day he walked to the block G.

"Which of you is Josh?" He tried asking while Josh raised his hand from the window with his friends. "I am the one sir" before Josh could finish replying, he instructed him to come and see him before they go for evening prep.

Josh couldn't place what the meeting was about but he agreed to go and see him.

A few minutes past 6, Josh walked down to Mr Jide's room but from outside, Josh was hearing a sound like someone groaning in pain. The moment Josh knocked the door, Mr Jide shouted "In Jesus name we pray, Amen!"

"Come in, the door isn't locked" Mr Jide told Josh. He tried to ask what he could offer him but he said he was fine because he just finished taking golden morn after finishing his assignment.

Josh was naive not to have known the sound he was hearing wasn't that of groaning from pain, but Mr Jide trying to relief himself and moaning out loud

Mr Jide locked the door from the back and ask Josh to have his seat. Josh did and was still trying to figure out what the meeting is all about.

Suddenly, Mr Jide pounced on him but he couldn't still understand what was going on till Mr Jide pulled Josh trousers down. He forced him to face down and he forced himself on Josh, although he tried to fight Mr Jide but his strength couldn't not push him away.

Josh started bleeding since all he had ever pictured in his life was that the anus is being used for excreting and not anything else. He managed to leave the room but what Mr Jide said stuck with him-"if I hear a word... If I hear this out, just know that you are dead" He further warned him "anytime you see me, you must wear a happy face".

Josh cried bitterly as he walked out of the masters' room. He went to the first aid and lied to them that he was reacting to excess intake of sugar and so was bleeding through his anus.

He was treated but he couldn't get over the trauma of being raped by his house master. He couldn't tell anyone and the family was so busy now that no one came around to check him.

The next holiday after this incident, he tried talking to his father and step mother but no one was listening as all attention had been shifted to Joan the new baby girl.

One of the night that Josh was trying to get his step mother's attention, she said "I wasn't the one that killed your mother, you cannot kill me" that left him more heart broken.

He couldn't perform better in school again and every session, he was been promoted on trial till he got to SS3.

He was carrying this pain around and he was still wearing a happy face because as long as Mr Jide was still in that school, he must never talk about it.

Mr Jide didn't stop with Josh, he had spoilt a large number of the student as he was never satisfied. Both female and male student were wearing a happy mask with their pain behind it.

One afternoon, Josh and his friends came up with a plan on how to deal with Mr Jide.

How did they do that?

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