Story : The Barrack Boy - Episode 5

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Onyinye is the most sturborn person on planet earth.
I have pleaded and begged severally, but to no avail. Seems she loves me no more for real, or has she heard of the pregnancy? i tot as i packed my bags for camp and training in Zaria.
I am to b there for nine months of which Yetunde must have put to bed. “fanta bobo go become officer oh” i smiled as the journey began.
Throughout the almost one day journey all i was thinking was my life, and how i have become an enemy to my own self. “Can someone love two persons at the same time?” i asked my self.

My love for Onyinye has really gone sour. Her dad retired from the force last year and soon they would be going parmanently to the east where her dad owns a building.
“so dat means me and Yetunde was meant to be? I asked as i recalled her telling me the reason she remained a v¿rgin was that she was waiting for the right man, “so na fantalolo come be the right man?” i asked the air.
SOKOTO!! “chei!! i go miss sokoto oh” i thought as i flashed back to the “sokoto bath” i took last nite at sokoto.
Sokoto bath is a bath every member of sokoto that wants to go on a journey take in order to wish dat member good luck and safe journey, its an age long custom dat actually ends up fulfiling it purpose. That member takes a bath with a bucket of weed soaked in dry gin.
Dat was the “fratanity” part of Sokoto i hated. I will miss my hommies mehn, but i had to pursue my dreams. I will also miss my Yetunde, if there was something Yetunde had that Onyinye never had when i first met both ladies was her V¿rginity.
Onyinye was more of a s*ex addict, that she can give it to u anytime anywhere, i tried changing that part of her but couldn’t “no wonder i be a regular customer for Femi house dat time” i tot. But apart from that she was a picture perfect dream girl.
Yetunde was a more picture perfect dream girl, she looks more like Ini Edo of nollyhood, “but wetin make a girl wey arrange like Ini Edo go b v¿rgin na?” i pondered.

Well like she told me, she attended those “glorified secondary school” coined university, and to add to it she was this “church- church” type back then… that was back then and this is now…

Fast Forward… 7MONTHS LATER

Yetunde gave birth to twins; a boy and a girl. The last time we talked on phone i told her the children should be named; “Williams for the boy and Winnie for the girl” also “Naetochukwu for the boy and Kanyinaetochukwu for the girl in ibo, Naeto & kanyinae for short.
She argued that she wanted them to bear “Taiye and Kehinde”, but we later came to an aggreement that they should be called “Williams and Winnie” even though Yetunde’s parents rather called them “Taiye and Kehinde”.
“Abeg i b typical nwafor from Imo state, my pekin dem no go bear “Yoruba” name jor” i tot as i walked to the parade ground in camp.
Left… right! Left…right! Left… Right!!
That was our matching practise, my feet are begining to understand matching language as it has been doing it for seven months now. The drills are one of the hardest i have ever seen.
There was a day i almost ied when we where asked to do 200 push ups. As a barrack boy most of the drills, though hard but i still managed to scale through.
We will be passing out of camp in 2months time and can’t wait to have a taste of Mama’s delicious meal…and my darling Yetunde’s most delicious c*unt..

Fast Forward Again… 2MONTHS LATER

Out of camp and am now a second Leutenant in the Force thanks to General Adebayo now retired.
Sokoto is now infested with “small boys”. Mike is still there as “KOS”. I was told Cosmos has won American visa lottery and has traveled abroad, “no wonder him number no gree go” i tot because i tried calling him 2months ago and his number was beyond reach.

“chei! Cosmos my man! “Northerner don land for yankey oh” i tot as i remembered with nostalgia how we laughed and made gest of him due to the fact that he had applied for American visa lottery four times and failed, but he kept trying.

I was also told that Olu lost big time in the casino after he sold one of his father’s buildings to play. “it serves him right” “i tink say him b OBA of gamble?” i tot.
I was told James has added two more kids to the four kids he has with different “baby mamas” in the barracks. “that boy don turn to tuface Idibia oh” i tot as i smiled.
Mike told me the only guys around are Moses; working in the bank now and Bola; still in search of a job. Sunny was posted to Bayelsa for NYSC, so i was told.
What of Femi na? I asked. “Femi don go Liberia oh, them send am go there for peace keeping oh” mike said.

Mike told me Onyinye was pregnant for a Colonel and she had to marry him. “kai! see what her s*ex escapade has led her to” i tot.
The only thing that still surprises me till today is how Onyinye’s love for me suddenly turned to hate. “was she already dating the Colonel, and was looking for an excuse to leave me, excuse she finally found?” i asked myself…
Mama and Papa are already preparing to leave the barrack to where papa built his house somewhere in Badagry, because papa has retired. My girl twin looks more like Mama while the boy is a chip of the old block.
I played tupac-“better day” as i smoked my second wrap in sokoto that evening, indeed i know there are better days ahead.
THE BEGINING OF THE END
I married Yetunde and i travelled with my family all the way to Kano to serve Nigeria.
But even at that “i still b barrack boy” Solja go, Solja come, barracks still remain and Sokoto still remain…

THE END

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