As I sat in that comfy seat my eyes couldn't stop wandering all over,,,,, it was as if I was perusing the air looking for an atom, the atmosphere was so breezy, thanks to the air conditioner set at the far conner of the room, everywhere I looked there was something that captured my inner eyes, the room was surrounded with 95% of shelves full of books, all planned and organized in an amazing way,,, with a glance of an outside eye someone could say they were arranged according to different colors,, but that was not the case they were organized according to specific genre with different purpose and narrative in them,,,, even though some were motivational books others scientific books,,, they all had something to say in their own way.
The shelves were painted golden brown with a smooth lining of pure white at the edges,,,, the floors were also fixed with brown tiles, the huge arm chair, Infront of me scared me with it's massiveness in the room, taking averagely the whole space behind the wooden table which on it had carried a lot of files and big books which could have taken me a decade to just read and another decade to master. The big arm chair, had itself covered in brown cottoned cutions both on its back and it's seat together with the two arms, the cutions were wholly covered with glittering stars. Oh how I loved everything in there,,it was all brown in that room save for the ceiling which was so white nearly turned into a ceil of glass.
"Wooooh!!, woohoo!!, yeeeii," "what is wrong Peter?!" Peter jumped up the chair he was seating on never minding his shoes, "didn't you see that?" "See what!?" "A big rat mahn,kwani where is your mind," he ruined my crush I had on that room, "couldn't you wait I finish admiring this beautiful scene we have in here," Peter looked at me complaining as he quietly put his legs down slowly,,,, he couldn't believe I chose the room over his life, a rat had bitten his leg for crying out loud, that was so ruely of me, but I didn't sent him to wear shorts to school.
In a jiffy, we had footsteps approaching,,,they were so sharp and we knew the owner was wearing high heels, the door opened slowly behind us, like the person who was opening wasn't sure if that is where they wanted to get in. We rotated our pivoted necks all at once and our eyes met up with the principal's face, nobody ordered us to stand but we found ourselves up on our feet, we glared at her as she passed us to go and sit on her chair, and the funny part of all,we waited for her to sit,,then told us to take our seats and that's when we did, that was not the kind of us to excuse our elders.
Silence roamed the whole room like a fierce silent tiger on a hunt, and for sure the both of us were thinking of the same things in that moment, Madam Catherine,was a very beautiful middle aged lady, I could say she had passed her 35 and ready to begin her 40s, her face was so glowing in her brown skin, she had quite a round standing oval face, which her cheeks had grown a little fat, her eyes which were round made her look like a doll toy,,,her iris shined green and her eyelashes were quite stretched, with here eyebrows elongated, her pinky nose made her look so jolie not to talk of her little lips.
Aside from, our principals beauty what bothered me a lot was what she was going to say to me,was she going to send me away from the school, was she going to tell me that I was not going to register my exams unless I pay my fees, or was she going to call my parents because that could be the baddest of ideas she could have ever thought of. My mind was sweating in my brains, I wanted to start the conversation to just tell her that I was ready to quit that she needed not to worry about sending me away but as I raised my head to talk, my eyes met with hers and fear cripped in as darkness in the evening, I was so devastated as I sat in that chair I felt like I was going to just pee on myself.
And for status I knew my friend Peter was not even thinking about my present situation, I knew his mind was still on the principal angelic looks, one thing I knew I was all on my own in that school,as much as Peter wanted to be on my side, I knew it was a matter of time before our friendship was put into terms and I appreciated how he was making sure that he was there for me, but could I trust him that much, time was going to tell.
I know the way I have described everything you think it is my first time in the principal's office,,,no it's not, I could count up to the seventh time, me and her we had sat down several times to just talk since I joined the school, and all this time it has all been about me paying my school fees, nothing else,,, and then I used to think over and over,,,,, if just feeding myself was a problem, how could I be good at paying my own school fees.
Life had shown me the other side of it which I couldn't even comprehend how it came to that,,, as much as everyone worked so hard to make a beauty out of every experience things always continued to be worse,,,,,my mother tried all she can to cater for all of our needs her children but it was a heavy burden for her, that's why me joining college it was all on me,,,, because from the start she never was in the idea of me joining,,,it was a very huge responsibility which she could barely carry,,,, so I had to step up and help myself I know you want to know how,,, worry not we are coming to that and also I know you are wondering,, where was my father all this while don't worry,,, you will soon know about his whereabouts.
Each time I went into the principal's office it always aroused different feelings and emotions which I kept myself so clear not to drop any tear,,,, but let the pain endured in the inside, I felt so helpless each and every day I felt like I could do nothing to save my life,,,,,luck had flee from my side and couldn't get a hold of it even for a second. MY STORY STILL CONTINUES