Chapter 31:The Announcement

"Imagine o."

Charity said.

"Listen let me tell you, he is a busy person and he can't be coaching three of us, I asked first and so it will be, is that not so? Ehh Damie?"

Cynthia said ending with a question directed to me. Poor me who have been trying not to find myself in this situation, now I became so dumbfounded, I knew not what to say, I had been like an invisible man since they have all been discussing about me as if he wasn't there.

"Damie, I'm asking you."

Cynthia said again.

"Yeah, you asked first."

I said feeling very bad. Look at me, I can't even swim now they are trying to make me feel bad for what I can't even do. When I affirmed that Cynthia asked first, I could see the looks of Chinwe Charity, they were not happy at all, they felt like we are trying to play them off the crew, and I didn't take that funny, I will not like to be the one who will break the there friends up, they had a sweet friendship that I would not like anything to happen to.

"So this is it now, Cynthia you are not a good person, truly you are not good."

Charity said.

"Don't mind her. Oya, see him, take him and eat."

Chinwe said as she stood up from the chair and left, and charity joined her too.

"Don't mind them, dear, that's how they do. They will still come back."

Cynthia said to me.

                 ***THE ANNOUNCEMENT***

The next day in school. It was on Tuesday morning, the second day of the second week of my time in school. It happened that all the students were at the assembly ground where they listened to the announcement that the principal was happily making. But I was absent in the assembly ground. I got the information from the Tripple Cee the day before that the swimming competition announcement will be made today, and that the registration for the swimming will also be ending today, for that I decided to play sick and stay at home, if I don't come to school then I will not have to register for the swimming, and if I don't register, then I will not have to compete and no one will know that I can't swim. I know those girls will want to persuade me into enrolling in the competition, well if I'm absent, there is no way I can enroll, I'll just stay home and pretend to be sad about my missing the enrollment tomorrow and that's all. So I thought to myself. I was a boy who had never swum in a bucket, in fact, I had always been careful about the source of water I bath with. Swimming is a suicidal game that I intend to engage in a never time.

In the assembly ground, all the students were in their best conduct, as the school perfect wandered around looking for whom they will make a scapegoat of. Yeah, you can only imagine how they will be walking around acting all super busy, after all, the principal is making a speech today.