African Family: Part 3

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..."Pour your soup in another plate and go and dish some ogbono soup for yourselves, Victor will eat this one that he cooked" mum told my siblings


"Mummy please na" I pleaded with her as I had already started feeling the salt in the soup


"Don't take too much soup o, your daddy has not eaten yet...and take one one meat" she shouted to my siblings and snubbed my pleas


I just had to continue eating with a squeezed face...


My brother, Emmanuel didn't finish his soup so he gave me the remaining to manage...Favour only kept laughing at me throughout dinner 


She even tried to discourage Emma from giving me his soup but he didn't listen to her


Eventually, after two days of eating salt, the old soup finally finished and I was thankful that I didn't die...


Now I had to continue worrying about my exams, it was in a week's time and I had not started reading


Daddy had challenged me so I had to find a way...I started reading intensely, day and night...


Three days to the exams, dad called me again


"Yes Daddy" I answered as I went to meet him


"When is your exam starting?"


"Next week Monday" 


"Okay, go and bring your laptop"


"Okay" 


I went to get the laptop...I was wondering what he wanted to do with it...


"Daddy see it here" I stretched my hands to give him the laptop


"Drop it in my office" he told me


I knew I was not going to see the laptop again till after my exams...the 'office' was his study room, he also handled some official work in that room


I did as he told me and stood there waiting for him to dismiss me


"You can go" he said finally


I had already gotten to the door before he spoke again...


"And I don't want to see you on that tv until you finish your exams"


...TBC...

©️ African Man

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