Kehinde left secondary school the following year and I was left all by myself once again.She wrote her final examination and she did well,she was enrolled in a computer training institute so she could learn how to operate the computer.She finished the training and started attending classes for entrance examination into the University of Ibadan and she was admitted to study Biochemistry,Mum was happy and she kept dancing the whole day and preparation started in earnest.All this while,it was mum that was footing the bills,feeding and paying our fees.
I was doing well in school,everything was going well until my first year in the senior class that I became overconfident and I got distracted by this guy I met online.He lived not too far from where I live,I was smart and all but I was also naive and innocent,I thought he was my friend even though he was several years older than I am.I started going to his place when I'm bored at home since his place was not far from where I stay.He bought his way into my heart when he told me how he was accused wrongly or raping a young girl even though it was consensual and how he went to prison.I felt for him and I took him as an innocent man because I thought he was really innocent.Until he moved with his brother to another street away from where I stay,I went to his place and he tried to rape me.I screamed and begged,I even begged his brothers who were in the sitting room to help me but they didn't blink an eye.He overpowered me and he only stopped when he realized I was on my period,that and that alone was what made him stop.He begged me after and I just played along until I left his place and got home really shaken,I couldn't tell anyone and this will be my first time talking about it.
I stopped reading the way I should and I began to take classes lightly,I no longer ask questions even when I don't understand some topics and I don't bother about it,I never skipped classes but I was mostly absent minded in class.It actually worked but it didn't work for all subjects because unlike other subjects that you can remember and just find something to write about, Mathematics is not like that because you have to memorize your formulas and tables to be able to solve problems and my head was not in the right place because I kept thinking about the near rape incident
I had to repeat my first year in Senior class because I failed Mathematics only,I couldn't believe it and even other students had to argue with themselves that it's not possible I repeat that I'm too brilliant to repeat a class.Mummy was so disappointed,she would have noticed the decline in my academics but I lied the report sheet wasn't given to us in school because of one reason or another because I saw that I was doing poorly and she was going to scold me.If only I showed her my report sheet for the first and second term,she would have noticed, talked sense into my head and I wouldn't have to repeat eventually.
She didn't say anything but she told me I'll have to repeat the class and face the shame of repeating a class when my mates are ahead.Unlike some parents who will change their children's school if they were asked to repeat a class,Mum told me I'll start and finish my Secondary school in the same school and there was no room to be pampering or massaging my ego.I repeated the class with my mates that were below average that also repeated like myself and my juniora who were the original Senior class 1 students.
Mum promised me a phone that year before the incident happened,I thought she wasn't going to buy it for me but she eventually did,I got my first new phone,it was a Nokia C1 model that could play music,watch movies and even surf the internet and it was this time 2go was trending and only big students had such phones.This made me promise her to work harder and make her proud like I always have.I did well,had A in Mathematics and I had the best English result in the whole class.
It was on 2go I met Segun when I was in Senior class 2,he was a Computer science student in a University in the town I live and he was in his third year when we met.We became close,we were always chatting and he was always calling me from time to time and we agreed to meet after a while.We met and the chemistry was strong and we connected right away,Segun really liked me and I liked him too.He was around 21 years old and I was around 15 years,but he didn't look his age because he had a small stature and he was slim.Nobody knew about Segun or the fact that I always see him in his apartment in school,we were just enjoying each other's company.How was I able to keep meeting him up without anyone knowing?