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The Gold Digger Society

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Emotions are very powerful things! They are like ghosts that can haunt several people individually at the same time and in different places. Gold digger society is a battle for human control between the power of emotions and the power of money. It is set in Lagos in 2016 and it begins with an incident that happened at the after-party of the Ego awards. The story is told from the point of view (POV) of David, Hadiza and Junior, secondary school students who witness another student getting raped. Another POV in the story is the biased narrator called the writer, and the survivor of the incident a teenager called Angel. After the incident, the teenagers are tormented by various emotions but the most powerful are Guilt, Shame, Fear and Greed. Hadiza and David are 14-year-olds and both of them are Angel's set mates but she's a year older than them. Hadiza is a terrible liar, but she is hell-bent on forgetting everything about that night. She is cautious and will do anything to avoid trouble including constantly rejecting the popular boy she likes. David is a gold digger looking to profit off keeping quiet. He is bratty and selfish except when it comes to his family and best friend Chinny. What happens when keeping quiet starts to affect his love life? Junior is sixteen and although the afterparty took place at his house, he is not a credible witness. Junior starts falling for Angel who is struggling to survive both the effects of the rape and the sick games the rapists set for her. What happens if the incident is just the beginning of a sick game? Don't you wonder: Who created the game and why they chose Angel? Every day in this game of life, you battle money and emotions and in every game, there are at least two sides: Which side will you take as you witness this story? Will you play their game or let them play you?
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Chapter 1 - PREFACE: THE WRITER’S INTERLUDE

On the day, this tale reached its peak, the writer sat in an empty cold classroom. Filled simultaneously with broken and brand-new desks and chairs. The writer took up their multi-coloured pen decorated with clickable inks and began to play the role of judge, jury and executioner whenever the pen touched the notebook. With a click! Click! Click! They decided which colour to use first.

The name 'Hadiza' was written in blue, 'David' in red, 'Junior' in green, and 'Angel' in purple. The writer kept on cancelling and rewriting Angel's name before writing it one last time and adding the final point of view, 'The Writer' in black ink. Then the writer skipped a page and clicked through all the inks before returning to black.

"You all made mistakes that day", the writer began. "It happened. It wasn't a dream or your overactive imagination. You need to remember and accept it."

The writer got up. Closed the thick spiral-bound notebook and put down the pen. The cover of that notebook had the words 'Gold Digger Society' in the space allotted for the owner to write their name.

The writer then abandoned the book on the table. It was there for days and nights until one day someone entered the empty classroom and the wind the person brought in, opened the book.

The pages scattered back and forth before the person finally sat down.

The book had been upside down. To the person's surprise, the notebook was filled with personalised accounts of the key members of the Gold Digger Society. Once the reader was done flipping through it, they returned to the first page. It had been folded and the words: A tale of three witnesses, were boldly written on both sides of the folded paper. Beside it in blue ink was what the writer wrote to, and about Hadiza.