Must Read: The Thomas:

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Must Read: The Thomas:

Why are you pleading? You are running from the word of God? Don’t be ridiculous. Common bring your butt0ckz and join me here now.”

The tone of finality was in her voice.She decided to use another approach “Mum! If you don’t allow me to go to lesson today, I will end up failin won’t score up to the cut off mark.” She threatened. g my exam. I Her mum bursted into laughter. “And you will spend an extra year at home doing nothing.

Maybe you’ll use that opportunity to learn a trade.” she reluctantly dropped her bag on the floor and shamefully sat beside her mother. “Your boyfriend is waiting? Tell him your mum told you not to go out. I know you are not going to any lesson.” Her mother said.

She ignored her mother and kept her eyes glued to the tv screen. Serena got home some ten minu tes later after she had told the bikeman who carried her to run like a mad man. The bikeman didn’t disappoint her much and took the speed of the bike to another level.

Other road users looked at them in awe, because only in a country where they have very g ood roads is this possible, but the bikeman proved them wrong and successfully dropped her in front of her father’s house, She handed the five hundred Naira she had picked from Stephanie’s reading table to him and he gave her the change. “Thank you.” She s aid and rushed into the compound with the hope of finding her father’s car comfortably parked in front of the garage, but she heaved a sigh of relief when she realised that her father was not yet home. “Welcome Serena’ The security man greeted her smiling even though they are sworn enemies. Ignoring him was easy. “Serena.” She heard a voice call her name. She stopped in her tracks, visibly shocked “Where have you been?” The elderly lady who performs the duty of a maid asked as she walked into the living r oom. “Good afternoon ma.” Serena greeted curtly. “Daddy called me o.” She said. As if waiting to hear that, Serena dropped all she was hodling, her phone and the change she collected from the bikeman and raced towards her father’s room. One minute later; s he was still searching every nook and cranny of the room, but she couldn’t find the said mastercard. “Please, did you help me see a credit card here?” Serena asked the maid who was standing outside the room. “well, I saw it and I have sent the pin to daddy “Did he call you?” Serena asked. .” The lady replied. “Yes, he did.” The lady replied and was already walking away. “Aunty Chichi.”

Serena called. She turned to face the young girl who was standing a few feets away from her. “Did you tell him I was not at home?” “Were you at home? No. told him what he wanted to hear.” Chichi replied and walked away. This response actually increased her fear, she wanted to push her luck further, but Chichi had already disappeared into the kitchen. decided to She gave up and wait for her father, afterall he can’t beat her. Her father doesn’t beat.

except on exceptional cases. Moreso, he shouldn’t expect her to keep to his rules just like that Less than ten minutes later, she heard a car horn in front of the gate, and only one person could drive in at this time of the day, her father. She didn’t rule out the thought of any of her father’s friends visiting or relatives, but a friend visiting would have called to inquire if the host is home. The car doors slamming shut told her it was her father, because, every blessed day, two doors must always slam shut at the same time or seconds apart. That was when she realised that she was still dressed in her outing clothes, she quickly rushed to her room, pulled them off and put on a black top over a white skirt as she entered the bathroom to wash the light make up off her face. “Welcome daddy.” She walked into her father’s room five minutes later, her heart throbbing. “How are you?” He asked without facing her. “Am fine daddy. How was work today?” She asked “Ah! Work! Its was good, even though stressful. He replied, this time he was looking at her intently “Where were you when I called you the other time?” He dropped the bombshel looked like God didn’t answer her prayers or she was not It being specific during her prayer. “l was at home.”

She replied Her father eyed her suspiciously.

He believed her anyways, his children are not the ones who tells lies. They are always honest in whatever they do. “l thought I was hearing someone else’s vo ice, a girl’s voice actually.” Her father retorted. She wanted to jump and throw her fist into the air to show how happy she was at her father buying her lies, “It was actually my voice My phone fell off my hand.” She replied calmly. To backup her claims, she removed her hands from her back and showed the now broken phone to her father. “Remind me to get you a new phone tomorrow. “Thank you daddy.” She went on her kneels. She couldn’t explain how her father bought the lies, because she expected him to ask questions since he had called one of the staffs at home when her phone went offl “Vincent told me you visited the tutorial centre today, Have you gotten the practice prototype?” The cabman was Vincent, a nice name. “Yes dad, I already installed it.” She re plied. “Go and bring your laptop, let me see how it looks.” Her father said. And happily, she exited the room on what turned out to be a futile search because she left her laptop at Stephanie’s house. Telling lies is an act that only professionals in the a ct can do successfully. To tell a lie, one must have thought about the likely questions that the lie could warrant and the perfect answer that is devoid of stammering and stuttering. Lieing is very important because it saves liars from trouble, but at the same time puts them in a more bigger trouble. Research shows that intorverts and pretenders have a very high tendency of telling a lie even to the devil and they’ll be believed. Not because the lie is perfect, but because they would be believed regardless of the situation. But it takes a million lies to cover for a single lie which is the main problem liars are finding hard.