Inexperienced - Episode 2

 

" It is time i set things right, it is time i set things into place, it is time i move out to face what is ahead of me, it is time i act like a man, yes, it is time" he pondered . Sleep took him unaware and he slept with his thoughts. It was exactly 4:30am when he made a slight cough with his mouth, it seems this woke him up. He pulled his body up and sat on the bed . "This is the right time to make this movement" he said with a low voice as he reach for the clock . Without thinking of taking a shower, he drew his bag closer to were he was and immediately reached for his clothes. He changed swiftly as if he was trying to run from someone that is a few distance close to him. Holding his bag with his left hand, he tiptoed to his door and gently opened it as if the handle will break if he pressed hard. His aunty's room was located on the right side, The stairs separated his room from her's. With an observant mind he looked in the direction of his aunty's room for a few seconds to make sure the path was clear. Having confirmed that nobody seems to be coming out from the room, he calculated his steps and gently headed to the stairs. What a relief when he got to the sitting room. The only challenge was to find a way to get the exit door open without making a noise

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. He dropped his bag, positioned his two hands on the handle of the door and pulled it down gently. Successfully, he made his way outside the exit, with a great sign of relief, he ran as if someone was chasing him, he never looked back...... . "O My God! Why am i always waking up this late" Miss Jullie exclaimed as she tried to confirm the time . She jumped out of the bed and went to the bathroom to ease herself. After spending some minutes in there, she got out and headed to the sitting room . "Why is this parlour looking so dusty and untidy? Hillary! Hillary!!!!" she shouted . "It is now i know this idiot is deaf, i have never seen such a lazy human being in my life, still sleeping by this time" she said as she check the clock . After minute of waiting without response, she angrily went to his room, ready to slaughter any living thing she finds there. On getting to the door, she pushed it open and finds her way inside. To her greatest suprise Hillary was not in the room. " Where could this idiot be, Hillary!!"....... . Hillary never looked back, he was still running as fast as he can untill he suddenly became exhausted. There was a tree nearby, he moved closer to the tree and sat down at the bottom. Hillary had two options, it is either he succeed or die trying. He was just like the man who was left in the middle of the deep blue sea, he was all alone in the gigantic world, having nothing to sustain him. He knew he needed to find something doing. Deep inside him, he knew leaving his aunty's house was the right thing to do. He couldn't continue to be eating from his aunty's plate when his both hands and legs are still functioning. . "Come to think of it, i would have stayed if my aunty was a good woman, she forgot all about my schooling and prefer to turn me into a house boy. Help your sister to see that her only son complete his education, she will not, okay, let him learn a trade, she will not agreed, she rather make him die poor and inexperienced" he thought . His thoughts were so deep that he did not know when he slept off...... . "Oboy hustle no easy ooo, how much you don make", The first guy asked the second guy as both of them moved closer to a nearby tree to shade them from the hot sun . "Na two thousand naira i make ooo" the second guy responded . "Na God save that mad driver, if e say he push my gala and mineral for ground i for deal with am, you see that him car glass, i for break am" The first guy said angrily as he tried to initiate a conversation . "Guy you dey see wetin i dey see" the second guy tapped the first guy as he noticed Someone lying at the opposite side of the tree . "Who be that,make we go check out" The first guy responded . Meanwhile, Hillary have been sleeping when he felt a hand tapping his shoulders . "Mr Man wakeup, why you dey sleep at this time of the day, you no wan go find something wey you go do better your life" The first guy adviced him in a harsh way . " I have no place to go and i have nothing that would keep me busy" Hillary responded calmly . "Oya sitdown na, wait make money grow for tree so you go plug am" The first guy said angrily as he relocated to his initial position . "Young man wetin you say your name be" the second guy asked . "My name is Hillary" he responded with a shaking voice . "You say you no get anything wey you go do" The second guy asked . "Yes and i'm very hungry, have not eaten since morning" . "We go give you gala and mineral wey you go sell, after you sell finish we go give you the one wey you go chop and 5% go be your share of the money you make from sales. You gree abi you no gree" The second guy asked authoritatively . "No problem, i am okay with that" Hillary responded . "Take this gala chop, mineral dey expensive, you go drink mineral when you start to sell" The first guy said as he handed the gala over to Hillary . There was moment of silence as they ate, Hillary ate the gala silently, he did not want to be the one to start up a conversation . "Oya, Sambo give am five gala and two mineral from your own, i go add up the remaining" . "Oboy business don start for you oo, shine your eye well well" Badmus the first guy adviced . Hillary have never done this before, as a child, he watched people selling things on the street but he never thought for once that he would join the association . "Yes, teach me how to catch fish and stop giving me fish" Hillary said courageously as he flash back to the experiences he had with his aunty....... . Having hustled for a very long time, he got used to the business. Hillary made some money. He planned on investing it into a petty business. Since he was educated to a certain level, he knew that bank is the safest person to store money. He decided to go to the bank to deposit the money. He managed to get a bus going to his destination. It did not take long before he alighted from the bus. He headed straight to the bank and reach his pocket to bring out the money. "What!!!, my money! my money!"........