"Get over here Precious" my dad had thundered in a loud unpleasant resounding voice.
The sound brought me to a halt pulling me back too in a swift motion. I literally felt as though Scorpion from our favorite series "Mortal Kombat" had grasped me with his signature move. You would know by now if you were an ardent fan that, once you've been grabbed it was always going to be a fatality move. So to prevent my dad from becoming my own scorpion, I screeched for mercy, but she was missing!
Image source : pexels
Knowing the fatality that awaited me, I wailed out even more just like the prophets of Baal in the Bible, if they were to be saved by their wailing from that fiery indignation I surely would have been saved too, but to no avail as my dad had already started the combo, I'm sure he would have gotten a flawless victory as I did nothing to counter the rain of slaps pouring heavily on my body. The finishing move was the hot spank I received on my smooth round cut head
“For what exactly” I exclaimed only in my mind as I wouldn't dare let it out!
I was growing older, I had orchestrated the best of plans on how myself and my fams as I referred to them were all gonna tour the neighborhood.
“The boys you are following are boys who don’t have good moral conducts? You don’t know who they really are, for me I'll say they're hoodlums."
He gently fixed his arms on my shoulder, telling me to stay away from them, from that moment I knew I was in for a good fatherly advice.
Image source : pexels
The beatings I had received could make even the most hardened of criminals have a change of heart, but maybe, just maybe I was hell bent on grooving.
Finally the University came calling, and I didn't oblige from the call. But I was to be taught the reason why most people called it the Unistressity. Believe me, I had never seen the University or know how the system there works, only thing I knew was that most of the times people referred to it as the Unistressity. Having submitted my admission application for the aptitude test late, I thought probably that I'll be assigned to Petroleum engineering level 100B.
Being the eldest in my nuclear family, I didn't have anyone to tell me how the system works. But my dad had tried his very best in trying to let me know.
Boom!!! I actually felt disappointed. Men, how could they say this is a unistressity??
With such freedom, the boarding schools are worse than this, with one being tossed by the loud ringing sound of the bells. Here, I was as free as air, moving randomly obeying Brownian's motion.
While in school, I met my cousin, victor who came to stay with me for months in the house which father squeezed out his last dime to rent to serve as an accommodation, I had fun with him because he was so close to me, he indulged me into betting, teaching me about the techniques in getting more money and also taught me on how to woo girls. Most times we go to club houses for parties. Now I gained more freedom to do the worse!
Image Source : pexels
So now the first year in school was a work-over, the simplest session ever even when the flexing was still dem hot and I was still happy even though the GPA scale was average all I could say too my self was “ I still have four more years to go, I can still meet up.
It came a time when my cousin told me that there was this hookup and there’s gonna be girls and in the vicinity which I've never before, since he was my cousin, I would say “that’s my co co!”
The time for the hookup came and now was the time for me and my cousin, victor to choose the type of cloth to wear to the party, since there’s gonna be girls I told my cousin “ I will dress in a way that those cheeks gonna notice” victor just nodding couldn’t say anything other than to nod his head, I became somehow scared cos the party of a thing was not really over his head. Now it was time for Victor to dress, seeing him on a black shirt and black trouser made me laugh stupidly
“Bro, are you going to mourn the babes who gonna trip for me!“ I exclaimed
Thinking his gonna reply me in a good and funny manner, he said:
“Today’s gonna be a day of massacre where blood shall be shed and where boys gonna be Men“Victor replied with the kind of boldness have never seen in my whole life and those word kept my heart beating in kilo-seconds per count.
I ignored everything and because he was my cousin I felt everything was okay. Okay now the party had started, the party was filled with girls which I term unprecedented prostitutes and men smoking strong weeds and drinking strong drinks. I perceived danger cos my cousin started to mingle with rogues who I didn’t know were thieves.
Victor faking his smiles then told me “Bobo (as he used to call me), I want to take out on a tour”
I love touring and didn’t even think of the kind of touring at 2 am in the midnight. We went for the so called tour, and later noticed it was an armed robbery mission not a tour. As the operation began, the police was called but in the verge of escaping my cousin was killed and I was arrested.
Image Source : pexels
Now, taking the capital punishment with new charges of my cousin, Victor, I was Jailed for two years with hard labour, by that time it was as if I had examinations each minutes of my life having a recapitulating and resounding memory of the advices which dad told me of which I didn't heed. By that time I felt ashamed of the son I chose to be!
Always heed to advices given. Learn to say no to you! Identify the distractions in your life and let them go. Self control is a muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets.
And also never never put your trust on anyone, even the closest air you breathe can kill..
Thanks for taking time to read this article, feel free to upvote and comment. I remain @folly-pandy
I admire the writing tone and style applied, well done Pee
Life does not have to stay same forever. It just can't. I hope you leave your demons behind and have a wonderful life ahead. Happy new year!
Awesome post 👏🏽👏🏽
Wow!
This is an awesome post
You are so creative!
Great work to come out with this boss, Hope you've had a shift of paradigm. Keep steeming and you won't have a reason to go back to the old life.
Thanks boss
Nice work
Hope all is well with you now. #steemitbloggers
oh my. hope all's well with you now :)
nice work
This post has received a 0.79 % upvote from @aksdwi thanks to: @folly-pandy.
@originalworks
To call @OriginalWorks, simply reply to any post with @originalworks or !originalworks in your message!
Thank you @folly-pandy for promoting this post together with https://steemit.com/budget/@jerrybanfield/introducing-steem-budget-proposals
This post has received a 1.69 % upvote, thanks to: @folly-pandy.
Nice one
Hope you are OK now?
Hope everything is well with you now.
Wow. You've been through a lot. I hope the next years go well for you and you feel good about your choices going forward. We can only learn from our past, we can't fix it. Good luck to you.
good piece folly!
Nice post, follow back mate, I just did
Nice one
Your writing skill is wow. Keep it up bro
Nice job....
This post has received a 0.04 % upvote from @drotto thanks to: @banjo.