it tooks him five days to get two thousand naira. Hot tears dropped from his cheeks. Hastily he used his hand and clean it, looking at Kelvin's eyes and said "It baffles me that an adult like you does not have sense. big for nothing boy! how many months remained for you to turn Twenty-three years but yet you don't know that things are hard!" l suffered to provide for the family, you are wasting it. you don't know the suffer l suffered to make the money am using to train you. You think it is easy, you that is dependent of your parents does not know that getting money is hard!. "He who always receives does not know it is hard to get.
After he said these he used anger and flogged Kelvin like never before.
When Samson was in his room crying, then one of his girlfriend whose name is Patricia came in. she asked him, what is happening to you? Samson did not answer her but continue crying. Patricia was confused and she started guessing what could be the problem why Samson was crying. she thought he loss a huge amount of money or he fails his exams in school "But all these things cannot make Samson to cry like this" Patricia said to herself. she stayed for a while and touched his hand asking "Samson what is that you are crying for?".
When she was touching his hands, she touched blood and she was devastated, shouted "oh! my God" look at your body mark written by cane was everywhere in your body. She removed his clothes and saw his back injured. She sympathize with him and took him to her house, using hot water and rob to massage those places he had wounds with the ones that raised up.
After she has finished doing that she gave him food to his satisfaction.
Kelvin slept for one hour 30 minutes.
When Kelvin waked up, he narrated to Patricia how his parents persuaded him. he told Patricia that he does not know the kind of parents he had that made them not to do all that he wants.
He used Bryan one of his boyfriend as an example saying that his parents gave him enough money when going to school. "They buy him Cloth two times in a week. They bring him to school with car everyday, they package his food in flask which he came with to school every time.
If you see Bryan, his face is looking good and it makes girls to run after him like flies. If l look at Bryan face l began to ask my self questions like "Is it the parents l have that Bryan also have?".
My parents are not too poor but they can't do to me what Bryan parents do to him.
Patricia covered his mouth with her hand said to him "don't utter anymore" she said to Kelvin that he should know that all fingers are not equal that is how everyone is not equal.
"Parents of Bryan have money, they drives two cars. His parents are educated on time, that made them to look well and make money on time.
"Now compare parents of Bryan and your parents, you will see the different. Your father is poor he was not intentional, something caused it. your father was the only child his parents. His parents died when he was four years old, because of that he could not attend school when his mates are attending.
His father's brother took him and trained him according to his strength. they married a wife for him on time that he gave birth to you some years ago. l know he is struggling to train you in school so that you will be somebody in future.
Kelvin told Patricia that his father dealt with him, all this wounds are what he did to me but what l know was that l took this talks unserious. He also told Patricia that who ever that gives birth to a child should make sure the child does not starve.
"The person that gave birth to a child should provide clothes and shoes for the child.
It baffles Patricia when Kelvin told her that he spent his school fees at the restaurant of Mary's Mum.
She told him that she is disconted of him, if you continue to waste resources that will make your parents to stop you from schooling me that is Patricia will not allow you to be my friend because l can't marry an illiterate.
After their discussion, Patricia accompanied Kelvin to their house. it remained one week to start the examination of third term yet Kelvin have not paid his school fees. All his friends have paid their own, the school proprietor refused that Kelvin will not partake in the third term exam. He also made it known to Kelvin that whoever that don't partake in the third term exam with not graduate to the next level.
Kelvin cried and meet his parents asking them to gave him another school fees. His father tried his best to get the money before one week but it seem to much to get.
What he and his wife were able to get was one hundred and twenty naria. they took it like that and went to the school to see the proprietor.
The name of the school where Kelvin was schooling was success international college (SIC) uli.
The name of their proprietor is Prof Kingsley. Kelvin is a native of uli in newi south anambra. Anambra is a well developed state, it is one of the states which our colonial came through in our country that is why the state is developed. It is the colonials that owned the school before it was name SIC. it is in newi that all the villages in uli goes to school and church none of this things are found in uli.
We know uli people as farmers and fisher of fish. there was one big river at uli named Casio river. they get huge fishes from the river that kills especially foreigners.