Hotel Palaver - Season 1 - Episode 22

4 years ago

Hotel Palaver - Season 1 - Episode 22

Adesuwa’s POV

I decided to take my bath in the evening after I got back from the hotel. Taking my bath was the last thing i needed that moment. I started to reflect on how much I’ll miss my salary and how jobless I was.

I was jobless for a long time before I got saved by Mr. Haruna. I wasn’t ready to go back to that life.

I wanted to cry! I needed somewhere to scream and someone to pour my heart out to.
The bathroom was an excuse to cry
. I didn’t want my aunt seeing me so weak so I went into the bathroom and I played a music so loud no one would hear me cry.

After bathing, I walked into the sitting room with a brown towel tied from my b----t region to my lap. I found Mrs. Haruna seated with her legs crossed.

I guessed she has heard the news.
“Good evening Ma” I greeted.
“Adesuwa please take your seat”
“Let me drop the pail”
“Please take your seat and don’t make me ask twice” she ordered and I sat on the couch facing sideway.

“I asked of you today and I heard you resigned because of something you did” she paused. “What’s wrong with you Adesuwa?”

“Dem do you?” She snapped and I tried to withhold my tears, still not looking at her.
“Look at me when I talk to you Adesuwa!” She ordered and I turned to her heaving a sigh.

“I didn’t plan it”
“Why would you lie to the Boss? That was the reason why you didn’t want to submit the resume right?”

“If it wasn’t you who said 29 instead of 49, I wouldn’t have been in this mess, so don’t blame me!” I cried out cleaning the mucous coming out from my nose with my arm.

“I didn’t say 29”
“You did! I didn’t hear wrongly, that was what you said”

“Okay fine, let’s say this is partly my fault but it wasn’t enough to act dumb. Kilode? it was too much”

“I panicked, haven’t you ever panicked before? Haven’t you ever made a mistake before because you panicked?” I sobbed and Mrs
. Haruna hugged me.

“I’m worried about you Adesuwa. Your mother was my friend okay? and I promised her that I would try my best to take care of you and I swear, all I’m trying to do is to make sure you have a comfortable life” she paused touching my cheek.

“Even while cleaning and scrubbing hotel toilet” she added and I chuckled.
“I’ll try to talk to some of my friends maybe they’ll have something like a good job for you. Can I have your resume now?” She asked and I nodded.

***

Days later, I decided to try out a secondary school, fifty naira away from the house. I was dressed in a white short sleeve top and a jean trousers.

“What’s your name?” The school proprietress asked, she had a thick Yoruba accent.

“Ma, my name is on the file in your hands” I answered and the lady batted her eyes at me.

“So in order words, I shouldn’t ask stupid question” she assumed and i shook her head.

I almost rolled my eyes; I knew her kind. She reminded me of Mummy B.
“What did you study in school?” She asked, “Business Administration and management Ma and Incase you want to ask me what institution, it’s Auchi polytechnic”
“You didn’t even go to a good polytechnic” the woman snapped at me and I wondered what brought my institution of study to the topic on ground.
“I don’t understand”
“Be truthful to yourself Miss. Ighodaro, Auchi polytechnic was a second choice in case uniben didn’t work out” she guessed and i scoffed and hissed within.

As much as i hated to admit it, the lady was right.

“You probably wanted to study political science, but your cut off mark were poor”
It wasn’t political science perse, i intended studying law but i didn’t make it up to the cut off mark.

“Do I get the job or not Ma?”
“I don’t like staffs with attitude oh, you even had the guts to wear trousers to a Christian School like this. Do you want for go to hell fire?” She asked and I tried not to roll my eyes.

“I hope you know that we don’t accept trousers here” she brought down her glasses to the brim of her nose.

“I do”
“And I hope you have skirts and lots of it”
“Do I get the job Ma?” I asked, “You do know that that academic session started September and this is the end of October already” the lady noted and i nodded.
“Because we’re in need of teachers, you can manage the JSS 2 and 3 class with Business studies and SS1 with biology”
“Biology?” I asked in shock.
“Ma I studied Business administration not business science”

“No oh, it’s business biology” the proprietress chipped in, “Do i look stupid like someone that doesn’t know what business administration entails?”

“I was never a science student and I sU-Ck at biology” I argued but my argument fell on deaf ears.

“Welcome to Nigeria Miss Ighodaro. You should be happy i didn’t say chemistry. You’ll be paid fifteen thousand. You can make extra through personal coaching so you won’t complain that the money we’re paying you is too small. Times are hard” the lady complained and I gave it a thought.
“Okay Ma. I’ll take the job”