Unalterable Joke
Brother Zero is a handsome teenager, obviously still a chaste guy residing in number 10 of the Pure Street in the city called Virginity, within the republic.
Initially he was living with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Virtuous in number 30 Peace street in the same city, Virginity.
However, when Zero gets to senior class in the secondary school his parents were counseled by one of the teachers, Mr. Marker, in the neighborhood that the rate at which pupils failed their secondary school examinations is increasing and from the statistical studies he carried into the possible reason for this is that many of the students do not have time to do private studies after the school hours because of home chores, distance between school and their homes, thence, by the time they get home they will be tired and worn out, despite being very tired, their parents and guardians would beclouded them with some home chores that they need to do before doing any other thing at home.
Mr. Marker says, it is not as if I am saying that students should not work for their parents, or guardians at home, but they need to understand these pupils too, and they need to understand that, it is the time which they are in now that they can make it alongside with their friends and peers, for if they do not make it with their peers at this time, some of them wouldn’t be able to make it again. This is because they would lose the concentration the vigor, the tenacity they needed to forge ahead with their peers, some of them would be affected by depression and they will lose heart wouldn’t be able to continue with their education.
The research thus shows that those are the main causes of their failures, but if they could be allowed to move close to their peers on campus and rob minds together on carrying subjects and topics they have been taught by their teachers they would grasp it faster, retain it longer and would be able to reproduce it when being called upon to reproduce it either during their final papers or even elsewhere, indeed they would be able to put it into practice outside assuming such a one does not wish to further his education.
Mr. and Mrs. Virtuous appreciated Mr. Marker for his candid suggestion, parental advice to them on their first son, Zero and they asked him that to their understanding how does he think their son could go about achieving this, because to their understanding the school their son is attending has no boarding facilities.
Mr. Marker told them that, that is no difficult at all, because the authorities of the school Zero is attending has rented two buildings very close to the school compound one for the females and the other for the males. Anyone who wishes to get accommodation for his or her ward all the person needs to do is approach the school authority and they would get for him or her accommodation among their peers.
These buildings are constantly being monitored by members of staff employed by the school authority to be overseeing their activities of the pupils there, a female monitoring the female building or hostel and male monitoring the male hostel. This the authorities do, because they know that students could not be underestimated, but with those people standing by, they would be curbed, after all, anyone among them who will go haywire would equally do that even under the roof of their parents.
Mr. Virtuous nodded.
As Mr. Marker cited an instance of a guy close by the family of Mr. and Mrs. Virtuous whose son joined cult group even while still living with them. In fact information gathered is that the members of those group do come to the homes of the man without the parents knowing and they would say they are members of the son’s school whereas those students do not belong to the school the student was attending. It was not until when the police apprehended one of them and started arresting others that their parents know that those students do not attend the same school with their son. Now, what I am saying is that student who would go haywire, living with their parents sometimes changes nothing, if such a child has no fear of God within him or her.
Mr. Virtuous says he agrees with him and that parents are simply trying their best on their children, but the larger role is with the Lord. He added that he and his wife will look into what he has said and would give him answers by the weekend whether they would allow their son to join his colleagues or they would simply reduce or eliminate the burdens they are placing on him at home.
Mr. Marker was happy for what he heard, shook hand with Mr. Virtuous and left them.
After he left the Mr. and Mrs. Virtuous deliberated on this and agreed that it is better, he go and join his peers, so that he would be able to prepare well and hard during this senior class to make his papers once and for all.
By the weekend, when Mr. Marker arrives for the answer, they have gotten the money ready for their son to leave for the building controlled by the school where he would be able to interact with others to read well and hard for his papers.
This is how Zero moves to 10 Pure Street to be living with his peers to be able to prepare well for his final examinations.
As a son who has been brought up by Christian parents, Zero lives his life like a believer in the hostel, he showed exemptional life style such that the Potter employed to be overseeing their affairs could testify of him that he is a decent and morally upright pupil among his peers.
As Mr. Master has postulated Zero’s academic status improved and he was able to make all his ordinary level papers at a sitting.
Sadly, to know however, that despite making his papers in one sitting he finds it hard to secure admission into the University with his peers after he finished his secondary school examinations. It took him four years after this before he could secure admission into University.
After securing admission into the university it was not difficult for him to blend into the University system because this he has been doing when he was in the secondary school. As an average student which he has been, he maintained that while in 100 Level and while he got to 200 Level, he tried his best to improve on his cumulative grade.
At the tail end of his 200 Level he became interested in a lady called Sugar. Sugar is a lady who is borrowing a course in Zero’s department, and some of the times the time for the borrowed course in Zero’s department would clash with the core course of her department, due to this she started looking for someone whose life resembles hers’ and it was not difficult for her to find Zero, because his life resembles hers’. That is how they became friends, thus, those borrowed courses, Zero would find time to explain to her, and borrow her his notes to copy.
As they continued like this it was not long before they started reading in between the lines and by the end of the second semester of the 200 level they have known that their relationship is growing beyond mere friendship neither academic studying alone, but it would go deeper.
During the vacation, they finalize every thing and they started going out.
Their relationship on campus was hot, because a day would not pass by before they talk to each other. This they continued till they finished their academics.
After they graduated and they left for mandatory service to their republic they were posted to different islands by the republic’s authorities. Zero was posted to the North, while Sugar was posted to the South.
The means arrived at to be communicating with each other is through any of the social media because where they were assigned to, to carry out their work for that island, they were posted to the rural setting where there was no network. Before they could call anyone one would need to travel for about 3 hours through terrible roads to the city to make calls in the case of Sugar where as in the case of Zero, he would travel for a whole day before he would be able to access where he would be able to phone.
Thus, they resolved that they would be talking through social media, emails and others.
Now, before they left the campus Zero profile picture was that of Sugar on all of his social media pages. When Sugar saw that he has made her picture his profile picture she also changed that of hers’ to his’.
However, when Zero got to where he would serve the island of the republic, he changed his profile picture at the 6th month and puts another lady’s profile picture there.
When Sugar saw this profile picture, she was mad at herself. What could happen to Zero? Is he cheating on me?
She wrote a terrible message to him through the social media.
When Zero got the messages, he replied her jokingly that the person is his new girlfriend.
The message got to the negative side of Sugar and she started shopping for another man. It was not long before she also gotten involved with another man there.
By this time, Zero, has changed the profile picture back to that of Sugar’s but Sugar has unfriend Zero from her friends, and thus she was unable to receive any messages from him again.
By the time they would finish their mandatory service for their respective island, Sugar has taken in for the new guy she met at that place.
When Zero discovered this, it was already late for him, for the parents of Sugar and Honey have known themselves and they have agreed that their children should be husband and wife that whatever time they secure good employment they should come and pay the bride price of Sugar.
Then, Zero said to himself, and I was just playing with her, my play has landed me to another place, the land of the starters. He bites his right finger as he started walking off Sugar’s family house.
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