MY ESCAPADE WITH THE BORN AGAIN AUNTY 2

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What the devil finally used to convince me was that taking a car to the party will show how totally cool I was especially as I was still a bit new in my private school and I wanted to make a statement,this might seem funny when you are reading this now but anyone who has attended a private secondary school will bear me witness that most students are snobs and always wanted to make a statement and prove a point so I knew this was my opportunity as a new student to show them I'm a big boy(even if the car was borrow pose lol)

So I took a deep breadth to regularise my fast beating heart from fear of the unknown and the consequence of what I am about to do,I went back upstairs where the car keys are kept and looked for the key of the smallest Peugeot but I could not find it ,after searching for it a couple of minutes without finding it,the other one which was a bit ok for me to handle was a Toyota Camry so I got the keys,with my heart slamming against my chest and went downstairs as I started the car and warmed it while adjusting the seat and checking everything was ok I'm sure  you are probably thinking I'm crazy right ? Well you will do same faced with the kind of party I am talking about..especially being held by a girl why I was determined to show up with the car is because the particular girl throwing the party as I said was my friend's cousin and also in same school as I just transferred to she was also a massive snob and I wanted to show her and the other girls I had my eye on how cool I was all this I had on my mind as I drove the car approaching the main gate.


As i got to the gate and hooted the horn for the gateman to open the gate,the gardener who was off work but just chilling out with the afternoon gateman  approached the drivers side and started to question me on why i was going out with the car,im sorry but i dont know what it is why some old people because they come from your home town and have spent years working for your parents they automatically assume  they have a right  to question you like your parents..as he started asking the annoying questions i politely but firmly made some comments that shut him up straightaway and he knew better than to pursue it further saying sorry  as he returned back to his seat,the afternoon security men didn't say anything but shrugged and opened the gate since he has not been given a specific order to prevent me driving out, long story short my friends were over joyed that I brought a nice car  we could take to the party rather than a driver taking us there.

so we went to the party and it was mega awesome like i thought as soon as the other guests students of my new school many of whom i wasnt that close to knew i drove a car to the party everyone started telling each other and the girls started to come over and chat me and my friends up with one excuse or the other lool (girls and cars)at the end of the party the three of us got some numbers and we even got to smooch girls  at the party lol i just thought to myself as everything was going on..no wonder my brothers do everything within their power to take a car out every single weekend....later on after the party me and my two friends returned back to G.R.A ikeja where one of my friends live,which is where the problem started... there is a danger when your parents are too known or they have many friends as there will be no hiding  place for you and one never knows who is watching you.....
when we got to my friend's house i could not take the car in so that his parents wont start wondering how i came to be driving a car,but as we got in we realised they were not in anyway so we settled down and was playing his play station...while parked outside my friends house  one of his uncles drove in and we all went outside to see if it was his parents,but as soon as we did he said that was his uncle, we were still admiring his uncles Mercedes when the man got down and we greeted him,as he asked after my friend's parent my friend answered him that they were out for a wedding and as the man turned he asked who brought the Toyota Camry and my friend and I signified that I did... he looked at me quizically smiling said  he recognised the car by the ash/silver colour as one of my parents as they have often sent the driver with that car to pick some printing jobs in his office in the past....as my heart started beating blaming myself why I didn't just quickly go drop the car as soon as we got back from the party, he was going on and on while my heart sank knowing I'm in trouble especially when he said he had an appointment to see my dad in his office on the next week's Tuesday over a job my dad was going to give him,I could not tell him not to tell my dad because that would sound ridiculous and there's no guarantee that he won't anyway so I decided to brave it and just continued nodding my head and smiling politely.The man even gave us some money and my mind settled that he won't tell my dad,my friend also told me he isn't that kind of person.

Me and my friends went out and about  driving everywhere for a while later before I returned back home and parked the car neatly the way I found it feeling really pleased with myself  the memory of my friend's uncle a distant memory..my brothers have not returned (no suprises there)before the night was over some of my friends had started texting and calling as rumours and the news went round that I drove a car to the party making me feel really pleased with myself and feeling really cool.

However on the Thursday two days after the man was supposed to have met my dad after our evening prayer devotion as I stepped out of my day's study I heard my mum call me by my full name...as I paused I knew this was trouble I reversed and stood in front of both of them as they started their questioning about my escapade with the car I wanted to deny thinking fast about what lie to come up with until my dad looked at me with his piercing eyes and informed me that my friend's uncle had seen me so I shouldn't bother denying he he !!! my mum went really hard on me about disappointing her and all the mummy stuffs while I waited  head bowed for the punishment to be pronounced,after the whole lecture the punishment came ..pocket money cancelled for a couple of weeks,I was grounded also from any parties but face my books and I knew in addition I will be forced to follow my mum to midweek services and night vigils as I took in m punishment I thought in my mind that it was worth it..

My punishment started o,and apart from school I was grounded in the compound playing monopoly and watching tv or sitting with the security guard to gist,even the cheeky gardener was smiling with a triumphant smirk on his face knowing I was being punished for what he tried to stop me from doing but he dared not say anything so I don't take it out on him,that one my mum will support me because she doesn't encourage the domestic workers being rude or telling any of us off.

Like I said in addition to the punishment my mum dragged me to night vigils by fire by force,some of the MFM workers in their main church along the express know my mum personally ,while at the vigil if you doze off she will give me a tap on the back of my head to wake me up how can I keep up with MFM prayers  when each prayer point will take like twenty minutes ?the good thing is that she always feels bad after the vigil or mid week so after each service while we r going home she will advice me and then treat me really special giving me money even though pocket money was banned o lol and confiding in me what my brother or any of his workers have done wrong we were like friends during those times lol besides my mum will specially cook some very nice meals herself and then feed you as if in payment for going with her to the night vigil, and trust me i am not just being partial my mum can cook for Nigeria as she is one of the best cooks ever,even my friends do say so as well,i remember when my brother requested that she sent a small flask of egusi soup all the way to america through one of his friends who was returning as he missed her cooking.

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