MY ESCAPADE WITH JUMOKE THE CULT HERRING

Before I start this new narrative I must first appreciate you guys once again for keeping up with me in spite of my mistakes some of which has been pointed out,please endeavour to point out anything you feel I am doing wrong in order for me to correct it I am also learning day by day and I know you guys as the readers who are also more than just single me will spot more mistakes that I will.

Graphy pointed out to me that I need to post more updates so that nairaland readers will catch up and I have started doing that someone else also pointed out that my narratives are too long and I have promised to make adjustments the reason why I tend to make them drawn out is because I write all my narratives from my memory of how everything happened but this will be corrected...thanks

In the last narrative when I talked about the first girl that I really had deep feelings for Onome,i stated that she had to travel abroad for her studies and all that,anyway after she travelled I continued with my admission stuff and eventually was admitted more like squeezed into the university of Ibadan to read political science.

As you know the resumption of a new academic year and intake of new undergraduates is always filled up with a lot of activities parties shows and a lot of that so I was really excited when I perceived all this on my resumption into the university...for someone like me who was more into partying than studying this was like a GOD sent especially as I had my freedom to do as I liked without any parents to control me.For someone who was used to returning back home and being told not to stay out past  a certain time of the day, going out and coming back at all hours and anytime of the day i want was like an uncommon freedom and liberation like you could never imagine ,I was staying with my brother who if you remember I said was living outside the campus in a 3 bed flat.Apart from living with him,i was also hanging out with him most of the time when I am not doing my registrations and other activities that new students have to undertake.

My brother  was also a popular student on campus both generally and also with the ladies,he just bought a car this new session from some freelance business and being a middle man for a small local government contract during the holidays, so girls were flocking around him besides me and him arranged to inflate a lot of items on my school list given to my dad,both the ones I needed and the ones that I didn't so we were rolling in money at that time..now you can imagine a final year student who was known in the school and had a lot of friends, now me a first year student was hanging out with him.Due to this reason,many girls and guys assumed that I was also an old student I quickly adjusted to university life and watching and learning from my brother and his friends, I was able to behave talk and walk even act as if I was an old student coupled with the fact that I always had money to burn, in no time I was having more girls than I could handle i had more cherries and chocolates than a supermarket lol, even some older than me who were in 300/400 level by the time they realised that I was a new student they would have gone too far with me and i would have slept with them many times anyway so i really would not have been bothered if they left and they  didnt care since I was spending money which was no respecter of age or what year one was .

 Another unnerving and frightening fact ,a confirmations of my initial curiousity and suspicions i have had was something i learnt about my brother,i learnt much later on that my brother was not just a cult member but a top officer,if you remember I said that many guys sort of respected or feared him and greeted him in a funny way? This was the reason..

I asked him one night and he confessed to me, asking me not to tell anyone and also to be very careful of the places I went to in order for any of the opposing cults who knew me with him not to hurt me especially when they start their fights.

I liked even loved the idea of the respect and adulation everyone gave my brother and his friends,most of the time they will hang out in the students union building or  around one of the cars blasting their stereos or even under a tree in groups with people looking on at them either in admiration,fear or loathing but no one dared to say a word..at the same time you will find a lot of beautiful girls some expensively dressed and some driving cars who will hang out and just flirt with them as well,most of these girls were either those who needed or wanted to be seen with a powerful person on campus,or those who were in female cults all this i was learning from my brother or listening to lose talks from the guys mostly after they have had too much to drink and were bragging.

Some people who assumed that I am a part of the group started to give me the same respect as well even girls so as you can imagine my first and initial experience of university was unending fun and a truckload of instant and railroad excitement.Sometimes when I went with my brother and his cult buddies for a show we got in free where everyone else were paying the gate fees also, there were some other category of  girls who not only liked dating guys like that but also actively used them to settle scores maybe due to the power they wielded on campus those girls including the ones i have described earlier thinking I am part of the hard group will date me as well,if I were to start to recounting the escapades I had with a lot of these girls till this time next year I will still have a lot to write without stopping,sometimes I would have a girl in the afternoon while another girl will come in the evening to sleep over till the next day my brother's own was worse maybe because he had a bonafide reputation on campus but this escapade is about a particular girl called Jumoke. Other  cult members who were rivals did not know or understand me,any new face hanging out was always a threat because they did not know if i was a mercenary from another University from the east especially the tough universities you dont want to fuck with when it comes to hard cult guys like uni of calabar,ekpoma,oko poly and others,so they just watched me with a mixture of grudging respect,uncertainty and cautious curiousity which i took full advantage of.

As you would imagine even though it was only a couple of months since Onome left for the United Kingdom to study,the memories of the good times we had was already receding into a distant memory,don't get me wrong I still cared about her and still cherished all these memories but the reality of what I had right now was more cogent and real that the memories of what I had then which was just a forgone memory living in the deep recesses of my heart ,mind soul and spirit.

I was attending maybe 2/3 out of 5 lectures the rest of the time i was spending with the friends i have made amongst my brother's cult buddies or going to any one of the different girl's houses mostly the ones who lived off campus,instead of my brother to correct me or mandate me to attend lectures he didn't so I was relaxed and didn't make studying my first priority,but  living the life of a big boy on campus already dreaming and scheming how I will arrange for my own car on campus as well.After a couple of months some of my brother's friends started to court and chat me up to come and join the cult,thinking of the power that these guys wielded which I was enjoying immensely already I resolved to join them even buying beer for a lot of them several times, my brother shrugged and said he was neither going to encourage nor discourage me,all he said was that nobody made his decision for him so it was up to me what i wanted,all he could do was to try his best to protect me and hand me over to capable guys after he graduated at the end of that year,but all this changed one day when I had my first experience of the downside and negative attached to cultism.

i am not sure how or what really happened,all I know is that both my brother's cult and another rival cult started loud arguments,pushing and shoving each other as everybody ran back or walked away quickly knowing what will likely happen..we had gone to a party as usual and as we got in my brother whispered to me that the group of guys with some girls dancing  on the other side are members of another cult warning me not to go anywhere near that area,as the leaders of that group sighted us come in a couple of them who I presume were the leaders approached our group and my brother and some of his people that I knew were top men also approached the other guys and they both greeted each other with handshakes and back slapping, you could see that they treated each other with mutual respect and then one of them handed my brother a bottle of brandy he had been drinking as they all laughed and  were still having a nice time everyone had berets or some article of clothing "FLYING THEIR COLOURS"..the rest of the Jew men including me the "UNDER G JEW MAN" and other guests flocked around us looking on with admiration as if they were looking at film stars.As the night progressed everyone was getting more drunk and wilder ,we were all having a nice time and trust yours truly I already had my eye on a really beautiful girl who I had been watching as she danced and interacted with all the others at the party.From the way i had been studying her,i presume she was a friend to the girl whose birthday party it was because she was one of the girls running around getting food and drinks for the guests including we the special guests lol

I also noticed that she was interacting with a lot of the rival cult guys and also the guys from our side as well which did not indicate to me that she  was dating anyone from either side.Like i always do so i dont step on anyone's toes i used style to inquire from a friend of my brother who was dating the girl and after asking me which one and i showed him,he told me not to worry and go for her if i really liked her i could not locate my brother so i presumed that he must have gone somewhere or outside with some of his friends anyway long story short i bided my time and began to look for an excuse or opportunity to pin this girl to a quiet corner and chat her up as you can imagine how busy such a party filled with loud and drunk students would be,while waiting i was also enjoying myself drinking in moderation with one of the cult guys a friend of my brother but who really liked me and was always by my side we were dancing with one of the many girls that had come round us drinking and making noise as usual,eventually about past 3am or so,i needed to ease myself and went in to the toilet at the venue of the party which by the way was a guest house in another part of the ibadan area.When i came out i saw the same girl sitting down on an elevated concrete soakaway just outside,immediately as a sharp boy i went in straight saying a brief hi smiling and puffing up my chest as if i was the one that led my delegation to the party...that girl whose name is jumoke was ebony complexion but a really beautiful girl,she was probably about 5ft 6in,she was curvy with some nice hips which was what actually attracted me to her i could readily see the hips due to the low waist fitted jeans she had on,she had a simple tee shirt on which she tied in a knot at the corner everything was tight and formed and sculptured to her curvaseous body ..the tightness of the fitted jeans accentuated the nicely formed hips which tappered and ended with a lovely feet pepping out of a pair of yellow flip flops with a flower on top,painted nails but i could not see the colour due to the artificial lights and half darkness she had an oval shaoed face just like many girls of northern/fulani extraction and her hair was done up in the 1 million braids style...as we chatted she was playing with a small crucifix hanging at the end of a chain round her smooth and slender neck.

At first,she wouldn't even answer nor acknowledge my greetings,until i tried one more time resolving in my mind to leave her be if this didn't work...