Don't Mention God To Me - S01 E10

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Don't Mention God To Me - S01 E10

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 10

There was something I found strange in that village compared to the city where I had lived. All the men both young and old had their eyes on me and were always following me behind from school and market, asking me for my phone numbers while expressing all their useless feelings.

But they were not my real problem, I blamed God for bringing me out of the beautiful life I was enjoying in the city to the village where men cannot set their eyes on a girl and not follow her behind, saying,

“Excuse me, beauty queen… Give me just a minute of your time please…”

All thanks to my new unfriendly and angry nature, I shouted many of them down and gave them the insults of their lives.

Amazingly, after insulting them, some of them still persisted on sulking on me whenever they saw me.

In school, I received love letters from anonymous guys and I tore,squeezed and threw them into the school wastebaskets.

At home, Baba fire had turned out more strange than I expected and I wasn’t finding it funny. He hardly spoke to me and he would not give me money or buy me anything unless I requested for them, but I never lacked anything.

I expected him to be calling me, then teach me the Bible as my mom used to do since mom said he will take over from where she stopped but he never did, except for morning and evening devotion that he insisted I must participate in .

Well, I always came out of my room to the parlor where the devotions are held but when we are asked to pray concerning anything, I shut my mouth and would not pray.

The most annoying prayer point was when we are asked to thank God for his love and faithfulness and for every good things he has done for us.

” why should I thank him? What love and faithfulness? The God that took my mom away does not love me and so does not deserve my Thanksgiving and praise” I murmured grudgingly waiting for someone who will dare tell me to pray.

Maybe Baba was keeping to the deal of not mentioning God to me, I concluded and felt better with that conclusion. Not like I was interested in the Bible teachings anyway, I was only looking for a chance or chances of pouring my grievances and anger on him and his God but he and his God were wise enough and avoided me.

Everyone in Baba’s house knew I was strange compared to other spiritual daughters but couldn’t understand why Baba would not discipline me nor rebuked me.

One day, I was absent from school and the Biology teacher gave my mates a classroom test to write so I missed the test. But on resuming school the next day, the class prefect who also doubled as the school’s Student prefect approached me for the first time with a smile and I reciprocated with a frown.

He was the same boy who cried last two terms because I collected the first position from him, and had always acted cold towards me. Maybe, he was finally tired of acting cold towards me because I didn’t stop taking the first position from him.

Before I got enrolled in that school,he was the overall most intelligent student but then I came and knocked him out with my intimidating performances.

“Zion, you were absent from school yesterday” he said still smiling at me but I wasn’t interested in smiling with him or anybody, so I pretended I didn’t hear him.

” Well, you missed a test, the biology teacher was here yesterday and gave us a classroom test” he announced and for the first time I was interested in looking at him.

” Are you serious? ” I asked, unable to hide my worries of missing a test. My worries grew more when i remembered that copper Mark was the biology teacher. Corper Mark had asked me out and I refused him politely but since then, he doesn’t like setting his eyes on me.

The thought of going to beg him and what he might say to me got me sad, but the prefect spoke up,

” That shouldn’t bother you, I wrote for you ” he said and I couldn’t believe my ears.

“You wrote for me?” I asked feeling grateful

“Thank you so much Arome ” I said with excitement and he was surprised I knew his name.

” you know my name?” He asked with his mouth agape.

“Who doesn’t know the name of the school prefect, the overall most intelligent student? besides, we are in the same class” I said trying to act friendly for the first time and he began to blush.

“Stop Zion, am no more the most intelligent student, you are” he said with a defeated spirit,

” I know you noticed my cold attitude towards you all the while. Am sorry, just that I couldn’t believe a girl knocked me out of my position for the first time in life.

Zion I felt like a failure” he lamented and I felt sorry for him

“You know, I’ve been trying to get back that position but you keep beating me hands down” he said trying to force out a smile,

“I just realized you are more intelligent than me and you know many things than I do. So, I’ve resolved to be your friend and learn from you rather than acting cold towards you” he said feeling a little shy and I deliberately refused to respond.

“Zion… Please let’s be friends. I’m a very teachable person and will be willing to learn from you…please please, don’t mistake my request, I’m not asking you out, just friendship based on our academics…”

He said stammering and for the first time in a long while I bursted into laughter .

” Of course you know you can’t ask me” I said still laughing as he watched me embarrassed.

“Well, am sorry for knocking you out of your glory, I just can’t help it either because I was the overall best in my previous school. And as for your request, it is granted” I said and I saw him laughing with his good set of White teeth.

My self and Arome became very good friends and it began to attract jealousy from some of the girls in our class and in some junior classes but it didn’t bother me because..