All Chapters of The girl from my past: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

Houston Texas was similar to Lagos in just one way - the weather. I hadn’t researched very well and felt I was coming to a place of extreme cold. Nigerians stereotyped America as a cold place all through. I was surprised to meet a place with a similar weather to Nigeria. Winter wasn’t even that cold and summer seemed to stretch far.Academically, Zenith was just the right place for me. Houston boasted of extensive NASA researchers and space test drills. It was like the passage leading to space. I enjoyed the fact that everyone seemed to care about space here. Researches and field trips were easily conducted by my professors. Of course, I’d managed to hit the top of the class list in not just the aeronautics engineering department but the entire faculty of engineering. It wasn’t difficult at all. Passing my final exams in high school was by far more difficult. I even marveled at how the so called exams were conducted over here; you were given a project topic and asked to resear

My trial was scheduled to hold in three days time. By then, I had resigned to fate and didn’t even bother to obtain the services of a lawyer to defend me. The lawyer that was assigned to me by the state was a somewhat friendly white woman. She belonged to the category of people whose ages couldn’t be estimated. After telling me my rights and what I ought to and ought not to do, she asked me the same question I’d gotten tired of answering since I came here.“Did you do it?” She looked sincere.“I’ve told every other person that came here that I didn’t. So telling you that is just like throwing words to the wind. I can bet a million bucks on that.”“Listen Mr Oduduwa, you don’t need to be hard on yourself. I’ve worked with clients like you who had resolved in their hearts to accept their fate just the way they found it and trust me, it didn’t normally end well. Do you do religion?”“Yeah. I used to be a Christian. Not sure I am one anymore though. Haven’t gone