Chapter 35 Collins Left The Room Willingly

The phone network appeared again and he was able to use the phone for awhile, I and Michael we are still outside until he came and called us, we went to answer him then he began to apologize to us, he Said it's not our fault that he has just realized it now that the phone is having a network issues and it's from the person that sold to the phone to him not us, he apologized to us that was when I began to shed tears, for years no one has ever beaten me the way he beat us that night, even when I didn't do anything wrong, but I just returned from work, after a hectic day in the shop just for me to come home and rest then I met another different kind of stress that was even ten times hectic than what I passed through in the shop where I work, I didn't talk to him while he was apologizing, I was tensed beyond myself that night that I could do anything drastic, I don't take it lightly with someone taking my right, I fight back immediately, but I thought of attacking him back with that rage but mind spirit said no, moreover I'm living in his house, I can't fight him in his house rather I will loose staying in his house, so I drained the rage inside and acted as if everything was okay but inside me I knew very well that things has changed, if he ever laid his hands on me when I didn't do anything wrong then that means he's been planning it for long, so I didn't take it as nothing, it was a sign and a lesson, so learned it quickly, I cleaned up my tears and went back to where they were sitting, and I acted as if I was okay with the apology and I have accepted it, we shared discussions and we laughed at the end and everyone went inside to sleep, the Next days I could tell within myself that everything in that house has changed not just by me but by the owners of the house, they began to act anyhow they liked whenever they want to, but it was unfavorable to me and Collins either, but we just had to endure it to the end, one day we went to visit one of our friend in the city in their street, I and Collins, the guy was Collins school mate and my senior friend in the village, it was on a Sunday that we decided to make that visit, we went there and we spent time with him because it's been a long while, it gets to evening when we decided to return home, we got home just to hear that chukwuemkeka was looking for his money, he said he kept 4000 in his bag and now he's looking for it, that it is I and Collins that has stolen the money, remember Collins is not a teenager like me, he is of age already, he should be about 23 then, he was angered to challenge chukwuemkeka, he was forced to answer him because the humiliation and the intimidation was already too much on us, but me I couldn't speak, so he had to speak, he challenged chukwuemkeka and told him to stop doing all this things that he is doing, so chukwuemkeka now saw it as an avenue to say his mindset since that he is done with us in this house, that he can't condole us again, that we are stressing him in the house, that we are causing him a lot and a lot, but we have never engaged in any kind of fracas with him for Once just that day, meanwhile he has been bullying us around everyday for months now and we never said anything, today Collins decided to speak against the evil he is doing to us and he is now telling us that he is overdue with us in the house, Collins as an adult couldn't take that behavior again, he was forced to pack out of the house willingly to his boss's place, he told his boss about the bully he is going through in the hands of his brothers that he is living with, so his boss decided to give an apartment in his house where he is living, so the next day Collins left the house and it was remaining only me, it was like a double wahala, I didn't have anywhere else to go, so j had to stay behind and keep my mouth shut, and I'd better not say a word before I will be forced to return to the village, as a teenager that was my mindset though" so I kept quiet and remained in the house remember this event happened just two weeks after they locked Collins and I outside, it was still on a Sunday night, when we returned home from where we went to watch football matches because I'm a Manchester united fan and Collins too, while we returned home around 9:00 PM that some people are still outside cooking in the compound, our door is usually open till the next day, we don't lock our door while sleeping because we are about four guys in the room, but that day the door was locked while we returned, we knocked and knocked and knocked but no one opened the door for us, we knocked until it was 12 : 00 midnight, we stopped knocking, there was a sucker pit inside the compound covered so we lay on it until day break they now opened the door, still we did not say anything to them or engage them in fighting, we did not, we just went inside and changed our clothes and left for work because it was Monday already, still chukwuemkeka said we have been stressing him in the house. How?