Moses zoomed after the car, but we lost it eventually. Oh! So painful! Moses drove me back to school just when the closing hour bell rang. His father wasn’t pleased at all. He never knew we would spend the whole day out of school. Earlier, when I asked Moses if his father wouldn’t be angry with us, he assured me he wouldn’t.
“Rose, my father himself knew something
is bothering you and
he knows quite well that I know how to
let people say their
minds,” Moses had said.
I perceived the man was only angry
because we spent too long
outside the school.
I watched them speak in voice language.
Perhaps they didn’t
want me to hear what they were saying.
When they were
done, the principal smiled at me and
signed, “Rose, for a better
academic performance and a good frame
of mind, we are
changing your class.”
“Sir, please don’t change my class!” I
screamed in sign
language. “I am very sorry for everything
I did.”
“Rose, you don’t need to be sorry at all
because I have
concluded that already…”
I looked at Moses…
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Re: We Are Able(a Touching Story) by
SammyHoe(m):
11:27pm On Dec 08, 2014
The principal asked me to come with my
guardian. I was
scared. What actually did Moses tell
him? Why was he asking
me to come with my guardian? Would
they report the case to
her? She would be very much
disappointed in me for fighting.
Whatever it would cost me, I would not
tell Mrs Omotayo a
thing, I thought. That day, when I got
home, I just lay
somewhere like a bunch of idle broom.
Biodun himself didn’t
know that I was around because the taxi
left me behind when I
was nowhere to be found, although the
principal informed
them that I had gone somewhere with his
son.
I wondered how Biodun would feel. I hope
he wasn’t nursing
any kind of feeling towards me anymore.
If so, he was surely
going to be hurt if he heard that I went
out with Moses, a son
to the principal of the school. I had just
passed beside him on
tiptoes, yet he heard the sound of my
footstep and spoke. I
didn’t hear the sound of his speech. I
was silent.
I found myself in Chi….’s class. As a
matter of fact, I was happy
being with him there. We were playing
together as I taught him
sign language. He smacked my head and
I pushed him lightly.
He must have accepted his fate. Afterall,
being demoted does
not kill one, I thought. I was shocked
when Chi… suddenly
gave me a hard knock on the head.
“What have I done wrong?” I signed to
ask him, then my eyes
flashed to life and I saw Biodun standing
over me. He had just
struck his stick against my head while he
was walking to find
his way to the toilet by himself—Laide
had slept off in her
bedroom. Sleep cleared off my face and I
realized that I was
only daydreaming. I got up from the rug
and began to make
for my room to have a proper sleep.
Laide saw me and did
some signs to me to ask where I was. She
had just woken up
too.
Biodun realized that it was me he hit on
the head with the stick,
perhaps Laide told him that just now. I
didn’t answer them a
word as I hurried to my bedroom. I was
already getting fed up
with life—those bad dreams never want
to let me be. I gave up.
To be continued
