HE WAS A BILLIONAIRE Episode 2 – AUTHOURESS CAROLUCHY

HE WAS A BILLIONAIRE Episode 2 – AUTHOURESS CAROLUCHY

          KELVIN'S POV

I went home and on my way I bought noodles to cook for her.
After cooking, I went to get her from school
As soon as I stepped out of our house
I found her jogging happily towards my direction.

“Special”,
I was surprised, I always told her to wait behind after school. I will come and take her myself cus her school is far from our place.

She hugged me,I carried her up and pecked her cheeks.
“Why didn’t you wait for me to come get you and have your school dismissed already?”

She nodded and sniffed the air
“Dad, you’re cooking indomie!!!”
She stared at my eyes,her eyeballs sparkling with excitement.

I nodded,she hurriedly took her bag in ,I put off the gas and followed her.
I helped her undress and took her outside by the roadside behind the container we live in. There I made a manageable tent with abandoned cartons and nylons for the bathing room and a wrapper for the curtain.

I made sure her bath time was the best part .
I will always swing her until she gets air dried,each laughter that escapes from her lips strengthens me the more. After I carried her like a newborn into the house and changed into her day gown ,she got only three.

I gave her the pot to eat from while I washed her school uniform.

“My special, you must be hungry,i’m sorry daddy promised you will start eating breakfast again my leg is healing gradually”.

“Daddy let’s eat together”she requested.

That’s when I realized her food was untouched,she was waiting for me to eat first .
To be frank I was really tempted to eat even a spoon or two while cooking it but it won’t even be enough for her,I can drink water and eat the cashew fruits at my workplace to survive starvation.
I shook my head and smiled.

“Daddy’s tummy is full honey,eat up,the indomie is not enough”.

She shook her head,insisting, sometimes my daughter surprises me,she is way smarter than I always think of her.

“I won’t eat unless i fed you,be fast daddy am hungry”she sobbed.

Seeing she was persistent I gave in and dried my wet hands before going to join her.
She fed me twice and then herself,I was so hungry ,the worms in my tummy were rejoicing. Finally the lord was done ,triggering more hunger sensation in me,I didn’t know when, I picked up the ones that fell on the floor and ate them up.
Until I looked up and saw her swimming in tears.

“You’re hungry daddy, why are you lying that you are not,you always said I should never lie no matter what”.

I really don’t know how unfortunate I was to lose my wife and everything, but special was more than everything to me.

I drew her close to my chest and cuddled her up.
“We dont lie no matter what,we don’t insult people, and don’t fight”.
I whispered to her.

She was still crying.
“If you stop crying I will buy you another indomie “I tried to cheer her up.

She shook her head in disagreement.
“Ok what’s going to make you stop crying?”I asked.
She crawled out of my arms and got the pot of food,standing up to feed me.

I smiled back at her,but I won’t let her do that,I am her father. It’s my responsibility to take care of her needs,being soft won’t change her mind.

I quickly switched my mood
“Special i will get my cane,eat the food stop playing around,why are you stubborn?”
I sneered angrily.

She break down crying again
I had to go get my cane and force her to eat.
After she forced herself to eat ,shivering from crying for long.
I cuddled her up, she was mad at me,realizing what i did.
I laughed at how she cried out loudly that I tricked her to eat the food without me.

“Forgive daddy baby,forgive daddy”
She kept trying to get away from my cuddle ,her small feets kicking, I seized her legs and tickled her.

She chuckled out loudly,the drama queen went back to her angry mood again,I kissed her forehead and kept hugging her till she slept off.

I watched her sleep.
Hours later after her nap time.
She woke up in the evening and staggered sleepingly outside.
I was seated there watching the moving vehicles and cars. I used to have a lot of them then, who would believe that in years to come ,my daughter will never enter a private car.

“Daddy!”

“I’m here, Special”.
I carried her and put her on my lap. She rested her head on my chest as we watched the moving vehicles together.

“Can we play the hand clap and feet clap game together daddy”.

“Uga?”I asked, as they call it in our local language(Igbo).

She nodded
“It’s for girls,”I laughed.

“Daddy please ,the girls in school never pick me”.
Those Words hit me very hard.

“Why?”
I asked, trying not to sound obviously triggered.

“They just don’t like me, they are so mean, they will insult you and I will insult them back”.
She said and arched her brow angrily.

“Don’t insult people,Special. That’s bad”I said slowly.

“Why will they insult my daddy?”she pouted.

“And so? Don’t copy them, it’s not bad”.

She nodded slowly in agreement.

I then ask her coldly.
“Did you report them to the teachers that they insulted your dad?”

“They learn it from the teachers”.

I tried hiding my sadness.

“The best way to get back at them is ignore them,you are special, don’t act like them”.

She nodded but not yet convinced.
“Let them not insult my daddy again oo”
She said, holding her ear like a little old lady.

“They won’t dare,”I said and laughed at how old she was acting.

“Well let’s play the uga”.
I said , knowing it will cheer her up.

“Thanks daddy I love you”.
She jumped up excitedly and started coaching me.
I pretended not to have an idea because she enjoys teaching. My leg pain didn’t stop me from letting her have fun, she never got from.her age mates.

Then we started
She will always laugh at me cus she caught me each time at the game.

“Daddy I feel bad for you ,stop doing like you are electrocuted ,change that feet style that’s the style I always use to catch you”.
After the game,I got four sachets of water for her bath.
and finally she decided to sleep.
I swore no matter what , I will make her proud of her daddy one day.

I cried silently, my head rested on the wall,my hand caged my knees .
She suddenly got up,and I roughly cleaned my face.

“You want to wee wee?”

She shook her head and fall on my arms ,I spread my legs for her to lie on.

“It will be fine daddy,ijn”.

“Amen,”I responded.

“Thank God for today ijn”.

“Amen”.
I smiled at her,silly me forgot our night prayers.

“God bless make my daddy happy and heal him ijn”.

“Amen”
I chuckled almost in tears.

“I really love my daddy,but each night he kept crying because of me,please God show me what I did wrong in my dream IJN”.

I started crying silently, I couldn’t even say Amen to her. I failed to let her notice I was crying, she must have thought she is the reason behind my misfortune, she is too young to have these in her mind.

“Daddy, It’s well IJN”.

I put myself together and said Amen
She hugged me tightly and started wiping my face with her gown.

“Don’t let people see your pant!!”I teased her,she quickly brought her gown down and looked towards the door.

“There’s no people here”
She replied innocently, her face expression showed she was offended,I laughed then started tickling her.

“Don’t let anyone see or go close to your panties okay?”
She nodded.

“I wasn’t crying because of you Special,sometimes people cry to let go”.

“Let go of what?”Miss Smart asked me immediately.

“Pain,crying make one feel better sometimes”.

“Maybe i’m not a human then, crying never makes me feel better”she disagreed.

I laughed out and put her down on the mat.

“You should go to bed”.

“We should go to bed “.
She corrected , and I nodded my head.

“Yes ma’am”.
Her tiny laugh shows she was satisfied.

We both lay down till she was deep in sleep and snoring.

I woke up and pulled the wrapper from the bathroom outside to cover her from cold then I went out ,sleepless to think of tomorrow, what will she eat,where will I go ,why is it taking so long for my knee to heal.

SPECIAL’S POV

The next morning,I ate indomie, my favorite food again. Thanks to daddy
I told him not to take me to school. I know the roads now but he insisted.
I was really worried, see I lied to daddy yesterday.
I was asked to get my father by the principal, but I didn’t want to. He is injured ,they will only cause him more pain,they always do that everytime and my classmates will laugh and call him names.

I can’t stand it,so I planned that on my way back from school yesterday , I went to a woman’s shop. She sells provisions and begged her to let me hawk cold purewater for her.

She refused and said I’m too young. If I ever come there again she will make sure she finds my parents or school and report.me, that I may be using the money to buy sweets and biscuits.

I cried and went my way,there was traffic so I started begging that I was hungry
that’s how I got the five thousand
many questions where my parents are?
But I didn’t answer,i kept crying am hungry mummy help ,daddy help God bless you
Some gave me money out of sympathy, then I went home as soon as I saw other students going home from their schools.

I wanted to give the principal the money today and said it’s from my daddy,now daddy is going to find out,and become heartbroken.

“Daddy let’s go back home, my tummy is paining me”.
I whispered to him,in the bus,I was seated on his lap.

He was surprised cus I really love school.

“But we are here already”.

“I promise I will bring you lunch in school today,and worm medicine okay?,it must be worms”.
He concluded.

The bus stopped and we got down
“Oga your money no complete oo,fuel don cost”the conductor said roughly.

“I’m sorry my brother I am not aware”
Daddy said in a calm tone.

“Who be your brother?, oga settle me,see this werey..oo,shey na same mama give birth to us ni,omo igbo”.

“Conductor make una move this bus ,una think say na everyone get money ,everyday una go dey increase price in the name of fuel don rise,e no dey ever come down”.
A woman cuts in.

“Madam thunder fire you!!”

“M!serable being na why you never make am”the woman snapped back.

The bus was in chaos, I could feel daddy’s embarrassment . He tried to calm down the conductor.

“Please..”.

“I fit slap you,I swear to God no even open your mouth because of you,this ashawo insulted me”the conductor

“Na person wife oo”
Another lady exclaimed.

“Na your mama be ashawo,your sisters also,id!ot! ill!i!terate, na conductor you go do and d!e fool!!”the woman replied.

“Oga pay let’s be going na you cause all this”.
One other man attacked dad.

It’s our school gate ,other parents who drove their kids to school were watching the scenes.
The teachers came out to see what’s happening.

“I swear I have no money with me, please, please”daddy continued to plead.

“See Oga what’s your problem oo, na only you poor for this country!”

“Take 500 naira leave the man be going ,useless go@t ,take the remaining hungry go@t ,be going,I will feed your generations to come”.

The woman threw the money at the conductor and continued ranting.

They drove off still fighting ,my dad was speechless.
“Daddy dont worry we will have private car”
I told him and smiled but he couldn’t even smile back.
We walked hand in hand into the school compound
My heart raced.

“Daddy Special welcome your daughter send you message yesterday,why are you coming now”
My class teacher asked, immediately we stepped inside the class.

My daddy looked at me surprised.
“Can we talk outside please “he whispered to the teacher.

“Shift please no dey pour me spit..”
My daddy stepped back.

The thunderous laughter filled the room and the next class too.

My class teacher is always that blunt, I like the primary six teacher more.

“Sorry”my father apologized.

“Oga go talk to the principal no be me own the school,I don tire to beg on your behalf,if you are with your money ,kindly pay it to her too”.
She snapped back, ignoring my dad’s apology.

“Stay here let me go and talk to the principal”Daddy whispered to me and turned to go.

I stopped him and pecked his cheek
He smiled and walked slowly to the principal office.

“I swear this man is annoying, see how he was disgracing our school outside the gate,he is here to beg again”.
my class teacher told her gossip mate

“If the principal let him this time around,I am leaving this school,this is so unfair,is he the only poor man in this country,he is not even old oo”the basic six teacher replied.

“Very lazy ,okay take her to public school,no,very annoying man”.

I was sobbing ceaselessly listening to their gossip, I cried out even more when the principal drove him out of her office screaming on top of her voice.

“Oga carry your pikin dey go,four years ,am I going to pay the teachers with your tears? Don’t kneel down, I’m not god!!”

My daddy went on his knees in front of the whole school.
Students started mumbling peeping at him, enjoying the show.

“It’s Special’s dad,”one laughed.

“The man aff finally mad,”another added.

“Everyone to your seat immediately!!”
The teachers ordered, with a cane to control them.

I went to the principal and gave her the money I earned from begging yesterday.
I know daddy will not forgive me easily after hearing the story behind it.

“Stop insulting my father”i snapped angrily
and gave her the money.
I started dragging daddy up.
“i will go to public school,they teach more there”
I said crying.

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