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• The Unexpected Surprise   Chapter 35

  They were given space to play. The two of them sat on plastic chairs opposite to each other with the chess board placed on a small wooden table between them. When they started playing the game, James was so nervous that made lost concentration on the game. He kept staring at her while eyes were on the chess board. When she looked up, he will quickly look away and pretend as if he was also watching the chess board. They played for almost 15 minutes, until the girl finally spoke."Checkmate," the girl said and smiled while she stood up. James's eyes became widely opened, that was when he finally realised that his mind was not on the game all along. The rest of the children started shouting cheering her up."Come on, you only won by luck, let’s play again," James opposed."Sorry I only play with someone once. I live by my principles and that's one of them," the girl announced."Oh really? Maybe you are not confident about yourself," James challenged."Do you know what? You are very good at

• The Unexpected Surprise   Chapter 33

  In the morning around 6 am, James woke up and found the whole family awake. His grandmother was in the kitchen which was built with zinc sheets in the backyard of the house. She was trying to set fire on some firewood in a metal stove. His mother was sweeping the backyard of the house. As far as James could remember, he had never seen his mother holding a broom to sweep before. Meanwhile, his grandfather was applying some fertilizer to his small corn farm close to the house. James moved to the backyard with his eyes half-closed."Oh so you are awake," said James's grandmother."Oh yes I am. Good morning grandma, good morning mum," James greeted."Good morning how was your night?" James’s grandmother answered."It was okay," James answered."Go to the farm over there and greet your grandfather," James’s mother instructed by pointing at a farm not far away from the house. James looked at the direction she was pointing and saw his grandfather busy in the farm. Jam

• The Unexpected Surprise   Chapter 32

  In the evening around 5:30 pm, Mr Nuam's house ran out of water. The whole staff quarters usually fetch water from a manual pumping borehole located in the centre of the staff quarters when there is no electricity. James was forced by his mother to go and get some water from the borehole."But mom, I don't know the direction to the borehole" James complained."Well, one of the girls that helped us earlier is at the front of our house outside. I've asked her to show you the way" James’s mother answered. James reluctantly took a bucket and walked out of the house. He saw the girl sitting under a mango tree in the front of their house. She was dark in completion and a little taller than he is. She stood up immediately she saw him."Hello James," she said to him."Hi," James replied."Your mom said I should take you to the borehole" the girl revealed."So how old are you?" The girl continued."I'm ten years old, how about you?" James asked."I'm eleven years old, the girl responded."We pl

• The Unexpected Surprise   Chapter 31

  It was on Sunday, and the sun was so high in the sky. On the road, was a car moving with a very high speed. The car had been moving for almost 4 hours. In the car, was James sitting alongside his mother James’s mother. They started their journey from Abuja to visit James's grandfather who was a lecturer in a high institution in a town called Vandekiya located in Benue state Nigeria. They recently returned from the U.K which was where James spent his entire childhood. Because of the news he had been listening to about hunger in Africa and the images of starving children he had seen, James became very much afraid of Africa. He vowed to himself that nothing will bring him to Africa, even though it is his origin.James sat in the car looking so irritated."Mom, if you knew the journey is going to take this long, why didn't we take an airplane?" James complained furiously."How many times do I have to tell you? You are not in England anymore. And for your informati

• The Unexpected Surprise   Chapter 30

  The next day in class, James was seen to be doing nothing but crying. Everyone tried to calm him by saying it wasn't his fault that the accident happened. Some students like Kamal even found it surprising that James cared for her like that despite what he has been doing for her.When class was over, Kamal waited for Peter under the accustomed tree Peter used to wait for him for several minutes but he hasn't appeared."Hey have you left Peter behind in the class?" Kamal asked a girl from Peter's class while she was going to hostel."No he is in the clinic since morning" the girl responded."Oh really? What happened to him?" Kamal worriedly asked."It looked like he has a very serious headache" the girl responded."Ok let me go and see him" Kamal concluded and walked his way to the clinic.He went to the room which Peter was in the clinic and found him laying unconsciously on bed."Good afternoon Ma" Kamal greeted the nurse."How are you doing?" The nurse requested."I'm doi

• The Unexpected Surprise   Chapter 29

  The next day around 9 am, they drove to a restautant and had their breakfast. All the students eat what they wished. Kamal eat his favourite food, fried yam with eggs while Mary refused to eat breakfast."Why aren't you eating Mary" Miss Susan asked."I'm feeling so nauseous" Mary replied."Oh come on Mary, please try something even if it's small" Miss Susan cajoled.They started their field trip program by visiting one of the waterfalls on a mountain. All the students got out bus and left Mary behind sleeping in the bus. They walked and climbed the mountain, and Mr Ahmed warned them not to go close to the waterfall."Where is Mary?" Mr Ahmed asked. All the students looked around and observed that she wasn't there. Someone ran to the bus and called her. When she arrived, Mr. Ahmed glared at her with a very furious face."Looks like you are not ready to be here, you fat lazy girl" Mr Ahmed angrily said."If you know you are such a lazy ass, why did you bother coming here? You s