to speak with Darasimi on phone. He
then knew she had given her mother the
phone. He had been thinking of buying
his sister and mother phones too. He
thought in him that the three of them
need phone presently, and he was going
to buy for them.
….
AKINPELUMI, Darasimi’s father. He had
three wives, of which Olufunke was the
first wife, he married Shade their after,
since Funke couldn’t provide him with a
male son. Shade also gave birth to
triplet, Taiwo, Kenny and Aarin. He went
ahead to marry Layo as his third wife,
she gave birth to two male children.
Akinpelumi was just a drunkard, known
all over the village. He works as a
hunter, and brings a lot of meat home.
He sleeps with only Layo, and feed them,
has never thought of he having other
wives that needs a lot of care and
children. He was a useless father.
Throughout Darasimi’s days in school, he
didn’t give a dime, for the books,
textbooks, school fees and project fee.
Layo had been a bone in the throat of
the Funke in that house. She and Shade
had been troubling her life, whenever
they sight Darasimi, they question her for
what she hasn’t done. It was of a great
surprise that Darasimi could pass her
final SSCE examination, they disturbed
her throughout the examination period
because they wanted failure for her.
Darasimi and Daniel read under their
normal meeting tree throughout the
examination. Darasimi wasn’t sure of her
place of study now, her father won’t
assist her at all for her to further her
studies, her mother just sells yam at the
market.
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Daniel was in his room, also studying for
the examination coming by, not quite
long, Ruth knocked on his door. Daniel
walked down there and was surprised
seeing her.
‘My princess, here?’ He asked with
surprise.
‘Yeah, why are you surprised?’ She
smiled.
‘I should be, wasn’t expecting you.’ He
replied.
‘I’ve brought some word problems to you,
for you to solve for me.’ She said.
WORD PROBLEMS…
To be continued
