The Miscreants
By Author Augustine C
Date: May 9, 2022
Ch. 23Episode 23


Please, as you go from this school, don't forget God. I wish you success in all your endavours" I concluded.

At that time, I could not hold my tears anymore. I quickly bent down and sobbed for a while until I was relieved from the upsurge. I cleaned my face properly and looked up. While I
did this, they were consoling me, telling me not to worry about them, this I had tried enougn
them.

"Let it be that God wanted it that way. l know all the efforts you made; I even heard of your prayers for God to intervene on our behalf.
It does not mean that God did not answer your prayer rather let's see it as the way God has allowed it to be", Jerry told me.
That was how everyone of them left for their various destinations, some to Lagos, Some to Port-Harcourt, Aba, Owerri, Enugu, Onitsha,
Zaria, Kano and other places.
The misconduct of these my classmates was even a far cry from what the class before us
committed. In fact, they were the originators.
They were merely Iucky that their evils were not discovered in time.

That experience served as a deterrent to the rest of the students in Zion International
College. There was no pardon or leniency whatsoever for misconduct.
Samson after been expelled he could not stay home because of the love he had for school so he trudged timidly behind his Dad as they enrolled him again into a new college. they entered SS2 after all the formalities there was no seat for the new boy, so one of the teachers stood up to fix him somewhere.
Her eyes roved the class while the boys father stood watching.
Finally the teacher said to the boy, "it is better for you to seat with the brilliant students and with that she called another boy and asked him to adjust a little so that the new boy could seat beside him.
A friendship struck between the two friendship that lasted till the end of JSS3 fate brought the two together again after many years not just as friends but roommates in his new school.
He is outgoing and has made lots of friends here already. Kelvin asks Samson if he will join their party next week. Samson agrees to join them after thinking.
Those young people have fun at the party, drinking and dancing.
Lind coming back from market and saw her son Kelvin with his friends in a restaurant, eating and drinking cupiously. She was obstinate "Where did Kelvin get the money he is spending?" she said to herself and removed her eyes as if she did not see them gently she departed.
Kelvin followed his friends, four of them and left to eat and drink at the restaurant of Mary's Mum. The names of his friends are Harris, Alex, Bryan and Ofiso.
The five of them was schooling at Success international college (SIC).
What his friends, the five of them was contributing money up to twenty thousand naira, the one they use to eat and drink cupiously at the restaurant of Mary's Mum.
As they were eating, guilping their fingers, at the same time they are discussing among themselves how they will be getting those money they are spending.
"This is my school fees that l brought out here." this was what Kelvin said and it sounded like a bomb. All of them laughed. They laughed and fall while laughing. they began to chock hands with him, giving him names of different kinds such as lion eater and other things.
when they have spent all the money they have with them, they stood up and went back to school.
A lot happened when Kelvin returned from school.
Linda refused that Kelvin will never live in her house anymore. she flogged him unlike before.
Kelvin shouted with all his strength but to no avail.
When his father, Adrian returned Linda told him everything she saw with her two eyes.
Kelvin denied that his hand and legs, asserting that his eyes didn't saw the restaurant of Mary's Mum neither entering with his legs.
He swelled with his life that he did not go anywhere, he only stayed in the school till the dismissal time. he started coursing her mother saying she was laying a false accusation on him.
This one devastated her and she brought out broom to flog him but Adrian held her hand and pleaded with her to leave him. he dragged his wife inside the house still pleading her to calm down. Linda told Adrian that she saw Kelvin and his friends where they were eating and drinking, guilping everything that followed. she told her best half that Kelvin has spoiled and bringing him to other is very hard.
Linda touched her heart and said "Oh! my God! l have given birth to a culprits. Anyone who has culprits as a child is childless.
Adrian echoed his head and went outside and tell the people that gathered in his house to leave so he would calm down and look into the problem in his family.
When everyone persuaded, he calmly closed the door and said; Kelvin sit down.
Adrian entered his room and brought out a cane dropped it by the side and said to him "I want you to tell me all the truth, tell me everything that happened today. If you dare lie to me l will kill you! where did you get the money you and your friends spent today?".
Scott's of fear entered Kelvin, he answered and said "it was my school fees".
Adrian was obstinate, he asked him you said what!?" Adrian and his wife was confined because they were managing to pay their child, Kelvin school fees. Several occasions Adrian starved in the night to make sure Kelvin goes to school. his occupation was carpenter. before he works and get ten thousand naira in a day, it looks as he was cooked.
Every money he makes he reckons it for the school fees of his children.
Sometimes there will be no work. anytime there was no work, he goes to any cite to carry bricks.
Linda goes to cultivate for people in their farm land.



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