More Than A Friend - Season 1 - Episode 16

6 years ago

More Than A Friend - Season 1 - Episode 16

Throughout the first week, all the students I didn’t even know would call me on the street and greet me, “S.P!” then congratulate me, anybody that congratulates me would abuse David (if we were together) “See your life, your friend is a prefect and you have no post” David would reply them “a king’s friend is also a king” we would all laugh. I told my sister on phone about the head boy I just became, she was very happy and was proud of me,

“You this boy, you’ve turned the “head boy” to your family post abi, PRY 6, JS3 and now SS3 again, wow! You’re a darling” she said over the phone when I was smiling at the other end of the phone here, my mom was happy too and my dad bought me one big and expensive scientific calculator and a G-shock wrist watch. David was getting frustrated of students’ comments, he came to meet me;

David: Henry, these people wan frustrate my soul I swear, I wan shut them up.

I: (laughs) which people and how are you intending to shut them up?

David: I’ll go and meet our gentle principal that I need a post as a prefect too.

I: (lol) and which post do you think you can have again?

David: You forget, just follow me to his office.

I: That’ll be tomorrow Wednesday.

David: Wa sere paddy mi… no S£x inside principal’s office again. (we both laughed)

David: Na assembly ground una go do am. (Laughing)

I: (laughs) Na you I go bleep last last, sick boy. (We both laughed again)
On Wednesday during the long break, David called me that we should start going to principal’s office,

I: You mean it?

David: No, I median and mode it. Let’s go joo before the man crawl into his car and go out.

I: (laughed and shook my head) Oya let’s go, your mouth no go kill you sa.
(Off to principal’s office)

David and I: Good afternoon sir.

Principal: S.P and his friend, how are you today? How may I help you? “S.P, take (N100), buy a cold bottle of coke for me from the canteen” principal said, pointing the money to me, I collected the money and went out, I came back and saw principal seriously laughing “Chai! This boy wan kill this old man with laugh” I said in my mind as I dropped the drink on the table.

Principal: Thank you, so how do I help you?

I: (pointing to David)

David: Sir, good afternoon once again sir, emmmmmm… I want a post too sir.

Principal: I don’t understand, a post where?

David: I…… I…… (stammering)

Principal: Oh! Calm down and talk.

I: (panicking already)

David: I want to be a prefect also.

Principal: (laughing uncontrollably as if he inhaled laughing gas)

David and I: (looked @ eachother and laughed)

Principal: Wow! Brave! But should I suspend the head boy for you?

I: (yelled)

David: (louder voice) Noooooo… but sir, a friend to the king is indirectly… (principal concluded it) …indirectly the king.

David: Please sir, I want to be officially called the “king’s friend”.

Principal: (laughing again) This boy! Anyway, if that’s what you want, it is not affecting the school, meet your friend to show you the rules and regulations of the prefects, then on Friday I will assign you to the post officially on the assembly ground.

David and I: (happy) thanks so much sir.

We left his office, on our way to class, we saw one of our friends in SS2, he hailed me “My S.P! ” and turned to David, “Mr No-post!” And laughed. David responded, “God will shock you and your family on Friday by the time I become what I want to, Idio.t” the boy was confused as he laughed and left.

On Friday afternoon, the whole school was on the assembly ground, after everything, the principal came, holding a small white paper, he 1st laughed a little bit then started, some students in our class have heard the rumour, the principal began;

Principal: We have a new prefect among us, he is a science student that you all know, he’s a comedian as well, Abiola David Adeola should step out.

David came out, only God knows where he got the shoe he was putting on that afternoon from, the shoe was extremely high and big, it increased David’s height, students began to laugh on seeing David’s amazing shoe, principal continued

Principal: As we all know that he’s a close friend to the head boy, so he’ll be tagged as “KING’S FRIEND” (principal brought out a prefects name tag which was customized “KINGS FRIEND” ), he suspended the name tag (lapel) on David’s shirt and began to laugh as he was leaving the assembly ground, the microphone was handed over to Mr Togbe, David requested for the mic as if he wanted to give speech;

David: (facing the students) Now, as the “school king’s friend”, everybody! On your kneels!

The whole students burst into laughter and the school was dismissed.
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Being the head boy among those “criminals” I had as juniors then weren’t easy at all, huge, hefty, tall, big, older and notorious juniors indeed, sometimes they would just want to frustrate me to cause fight and beat me up, though anybody that tries that should be ready to leave school finally but that was not enough as they were even ready to leave school as much as I could still be caught after school and be dealt with, because of this, I so much maintained my level of seniority and I fasted for the wisdom to control them peacefully. A funny thought came to my mind and it worked, I would use those earth-shaking and thunderous grammars anytime I wanted to order or command any huger and older juniors to do something, they would find it difficult to respond most of the times. It looked like magic as they were more obedient to ‘small me’ than the ‘big others’, even Adewale had a fight with a set of juniors which God saved him as they wanted to beat him with “ifunpa” (black charm). ***fast forward***

Some parts of the seniority lifestyle were lovely, different SS1 ladies would hustle for my number, some would give their best smile to me whenever we meet, the annoying part is, I didn’t like those who really liked me among them while those I liked never showed green light, so I locked up until this SS2 lady developed a strong interest which I utilized the opportunity by collecting “things” to the peak value until she was tired. ***fast forward***

I would always see Quazeem (Michael’s closest friend) around Deborah, “what may be going on? Quazeem and Deborah? It is a hell-no! It can’t just be, something else must be going on” I would always think whenever I see them together. Dave was very active like better prefect (lol) he would call prefects’ meeting which I would cancel some, sometimes. Due to his funny attitudes, the stubborn juniors did not have his time that much, almost all SS3 students became ‘principal’ in the school because nobody could control them again, our WAEC was now very close, Deborah and I would still chitchat whenever we were chanced, the calling rate between us dropped to 10%, I was bothered though but I kept the bad feeling, everything was moving smoothly…..