A LETTER TO YOU: Chapter 1 – 10
A LETTER TO YOU
Chapter four.
Author : Okegbemi Ebenezer
(She went back to her writing position after confirming that it was not the police officers, she adjusted the chair in a position that would be more convenient.) Hmmm, life is not the way I was told it is when I was small. My mother would sing this song titled “Parents listen to your children, we are the leaders of tomorrow…” But I wonder if she was doing a lip service because she never care to listen to me when I tried to tell her what I am passing through.
The pain from the hunger became unbearable, I could not bear it but I don’t want to yield to the demand of this lecturer.
After much persuasion, I left him for good but little did I know that he has another means of dealing with me. I started getting low and strange grades in his course that it affected my GPA in the school result. I was bittered that I could not hide that and I went to meet him in his office.
“Excuse me sir, please I think there is a mix up someone in the marking of my script” I said as I knelt down in front of him.
A LETTER TO YOU: Chapter 1 – 10
At first, he didn’t behave as if I was talking to him as he concentrated on the book he was reading. I believe he did that to piss me off because he was the one that ordered me to come in but as he saw my face he hissed.
” so what do you expect me to do, you this useless good for nothing fellow, your parents sent you here to read but you prefer to be going about with social activities and neglecting your studies” he shouted at me.
” but Sir, I have been studious all through, I read very well for your exams but this score is what that is giving me concern” I said to him with my head bowed.
“Are you saying, I was blind when I was marking, can you imagine, oh because I was playing with you, that makes you think you have the audacity to come into.my office and spewing jargons from your mouth.” He said to me with his head up as the frown on his face can scare the hell out of ones body.
As he was talking one of the female lecturer walked in and was shocked with the manner at which he was speaking.
“Doc. What is the problem” she asked him.
“Can you imagine that this little girl should be telling me am out of my senses” he said to the woman who opened her mouth in shock.
I was surprised, I have not said anything of such, why would he make such a huge lie against me.
” Is that true ” the woman asked me.
” ma’am I have only approach him about my score, the grades are below what I wrote ” I tried to explain to the woman.
” oh, I see, you are saying that he marked you wrong, that means you are a genius, why can’t you mark the script yourself, you don’t have the right to challenge your lecturer, whatever he decides to give to you is the final, even if he decides not to grade you, he is still right, he is the alpha and omega of his course, so there is nothing you can do about it” she said to me as she hissed aloud.
” Do you know what pissed me off, this lady, she was trying to buy me.over” he added to his words.
I was shocked, buy him over; with what?
“As in trying to seduce me, right in my office” he shouted and by then two other lecturers had joined.
I felt ashamed a big time, how on earth would a man want to destroy someone’s life because she has refused to do your bidding.
“Ah, sir , I did not do anything of such, ‘lai lai’ I replied him.
” ehn, am lying now abi, am the liar here, can you see why I don’t want to associate with female students, they will try and make you a bad person among your colleagues, now sew what I have been trying to avoid. Do you know this idiot still came to my office and begged for money, I can show you the text she sent. I took her as my own daughter but instead, she wanted to repay me with bad things, I will not allow that ” he said cleaning his forehead, he was already sweating.
“Wonder shall never end, all these ladies that have innocent faces they are dangerously, can you imagine this one doing all kinds of that” one of the male lecturer added.
I wanted to talk but I was told to shut up, I was walked out of the office that day with disgrace. I got to my hostel and I imagined why my life has been like this, if not for Banji who exploited my innocency coupled with the negligence of my parents I would not be in this ugly situation, I found myself.
In short I had a carryover of the course with three others as he was bent on punishing me.
“Do you know you caused all these for yourself ” Lara said to me while I was sitting on the corridor of my villa.
“You should have accepted the offer, it will have favoured you. Don’t you know that some of the lecturers although not all are just like devil’s agent or what will you call that act. Someone who is protecting his own daughter and wants to lie with another persons daughter, what kind of wickedness is that” she said to me.
I could not respond to her, all I was doing was to weep. I had develop headache from the weeping, I can’t pull myself together.
“Weeping cannot solve your problem, you just have to blend with the way the society is going and do what other ladies like yourself are doing” she finalise her words to me and went inside her room.
I thought over what she told me but no, I still have this morals which I upheld, because of just today, I can’t mess myself up, I must tell my parent all that is happening. I thought to myself.although I wanted to try it out of they will hear me out.
We had a break from school and I went home, my thought was that at least I will.find comfort at home but it was a lie, from one complain to another. First was my father.
“Alisa, biko, what kind of result is this, is this what I sent you to school to get” he asked with anger in his voice. Yes, I understand his pain and I felt it too but it was not my fault.
“Dad, I had some problem with my lecturers” I wanted to explain.
“Shut up your mouth, which problem, so far I know, it is ladies that are not decent in school with their dressing or not reading that do have problem with their lecturer” my mother added on her side.
“Can you see your child, I don’t think I gave birth to her, with all I had spent on her, see what she is calling her own result, are there no other ladies in your class that are coming out in flying colours” My daddy asked.
“Hmm hmm, which one is, she is not your child, we both gave birth to her, only that she choose her own path of destruction” my mum replied my father.
“I went to my friend’s house, I love the way his daughter was handling things, her results were excellent, I was even still saying Alisa will be better but it is a lie, you are just a dunce from no where, is Gloria not your mate, she is doing better than you, she was your best friend right but see her now, I heard she had won the Chevron scholarship and her father would not pay throughout her stay in the university but you and your big head, all you know is eat and call for money, and nothing else, you are a shame” my father threw my result at me and went inside angrily.
My brothers who were watching knew the house will not know peace again until he calms down, my mother did not help issue as she started her own.
“You are just different from all my children, I don’t know where you have seen all this bad behaviour, see yourself, a lecturer was trying to harras you right and he failed you. It is because of the way you are dressing, you are wearing short skirts and dress and you think, he will not have interest in you” she shouted at me.
“But mum, I didn’t do all that, the man is just a devil” I cried as I voiced out. How i wish she could hear me out that I was lied against, how I wish she could stand by me, how I wish she could believe me but no I was always wrong. Why are they behaving like this, why are they so strict with me.
I cried all night, I needed someone that will hear me out, I needed to tell them that I was about to be influence by peers in school, I wanted to talk with my parents but they did not give me the chance to do so.
My father began to use me as example anytime we were doing the morning devotion .there is no single words he will direct his lashes at me.
“Yes, the bible want us to be diligent in whatever we do and not becoming wayward to the extent of having issues with the lecturers” my father would say in the morning devotion and it goes on like that till I left for school.
I became a child that was left to make decisions on my own. I got back to school and I decided to try out what Lara had been telling me to do and this began my journey into the unknown..
To be continued……
A LETTER TO YOU: Chapter 1 – 10
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