All Chapters of Take Me Back To Nightingales High: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

  "NOOOOOOO, NO" came a razor sharp voice in a desperate fashion, piercing the cool of the morning.  " Please..... don........" , "Boom, boom " Followed. The voice sounded very familiar,  I looked to my side and saw my mother. I woke her to join me in a feast of fear. " It's only a nightmare, Akon go back to sleep." I felt she wasn't fully awake, I tapped her again, this time more desperately.  "Akon, your sixteen already you know." Mama said sleepily, but those words were heavy enough to force me back to bed.  I lived in a country divided into four regions, like four different

  I THOUGHT about Mama and how life would be for her now I was gone; I thought about who my father was and why the hell he hadn't showed up in our lives this long. I wondered if Peter would wait for me to return or he was gonna find new friends to fill my shoes, I wondered who the light skinned girl seated behind me and Mr. Bradley, was. The day grew darker and my eyes got a bit heavier with every passing minute.From the lights in the train, I could still see where my old brown bag was, and where I had kept my precious journal. I looked at the clean white pages intensely as I breathe in the fresh smell of the book.   I could almost taste Mama in it. I flipped the pages randomly, with no particular page in mind. Until I stumbled on the seventh page titled  " Red " I tried to recall what

  " AKON, AKON!" I heard a voice calling, certainly, it was Mr. Bradley's .  Was I awake or was I asleep, I couldn't tell, I was in a trance perhaps. The soft foamy passengers seats in the train was a very Cosy bed to me. Most of the  staffs from NH won't understand this, compared to the hard plywood I slept on back in Helven, this was a luxury. " Wake up, you Helven born sluggard" came the voice again. With a rather friendly tone. " How was your night Akon?" " Lonely," I said. " You sure your night was lonely? " "Very certain Mr. Bradley, I said confidently."

  ASIDE EDUCATION, Nightingales High took it's students very seriously in matters bothering on security and welfare.It took even more seriously, the students on scholarship _ when it came to welfare, which had a lot to do with health, happiness accommodation and feeding.The boarding students in Nightingales High shared rooms in two's. Each student had a roommate.But those on scholarship stayed alone in a room, except they choose to share their rooms. James and Ernest decided to share a room.They based their decision on the grounds of boredom and interpersonal aid. I on the other hand, I would have wholeheartedly welcomed Isabel, the only girl in our midst to share a room with, but that was against the school's policy. A boy couldn't share a room with a girl.  So technically, I was to have a room all to my self and still weild the power to invite whoever I wanted to invite, o

   AFTER THE party last night was over. I looked forward to Monday. Patiently waiting and hoping for tomorrow, so I would talk be with Ava and we could talk. Ava was young and smart, from the brief time we had spent talking, I knew she was a smart person.  I laid quietly in my bed and considered several factors. If I was going to both succeed in academia and enjoy the pleasures that women brought, I had to be smart and cautious about my actions. I only got here and I wouldn't want to become the centre of attention so soon.But I never fancied being anonymous in the background. I wanted to shine and be known and all the glory that came with popularity, were what I craved. Nonetheless, I had t