SERIES : THE MISSING KEY (EPISODE 6)

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'8:50am'
My dad’s cell phone
rang again.
He looked at the
caller ID, it
was a strange
number. He
picked the call.
“Hello,”
“Good morning sir,
am I
speaking with Mr.
Ikedi?”
“Yes, who is this
please?” dad
asked.
“I am the principal
of Wisdom
Child Academy and
your son is
my pupil.

I am calling
to inform
you that he has not
been in
school yet.”
“Yes, em… he might
come late;
there are some
unforeseen
circumstances that
arose at
home,” dad replied.
“I hope everything
is alright sir.”
The principal
inquired.
“Everything is okay,
thank you
very much. I assure
that he will
soon be in school.”
“Alright, but sir I
want to use
this opportunity to
inform you
that I have been
getting reports
that John’s behavior
in
school has not been
impressive
lately.’
Dad somehow
became alert,
“What do you mean
by that?”
“Yes he has been
constantly
missing classes, he
sometimes
leave before school
dismisses
for the day, his
performance is
very poor which I
am sure you
have seen in his last
result. In
fact he has already
been marked
as one of the
students that
will be repeating
class this year.
I think it will be very
necessary
for you to come
around and
hear what the
teachers
have to say about
your son sir
so that together
we can come
up with a possible
solution.”
Dad didn’t see
John’s last term’s
result. What the
principal was
saying was strange
to him. He
didn’t know what
to
say. “Okay, I will try
and make it
to the school before
the end of
the week. Thank
you for this
information. I very
much
appreciate it.”
“Thank you sir,” the
principal
replied and the line
went dead.
He went into the
bedroom to
talk to mum about
the
principal’s call.
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“John’s principal just
called me.
He told me that his
results are
poor and he could
repeat class
this year. Is there
anything going on
with him that
I don’t know?”
Mum smiled, it was
a rude
smile, “there are a
lot of things
going on in this
house that you
don’t know. Well I
saw his
last term result and
spoke to
him about it and he
promised
that he would do
better this
time around.”
“And you didn’t
bother to tell
me about it?”
“When last did you
and I have a
meaningful
conversation? I am
even surprised that
you are
reacting to the
principal’s
call.” She replied.
“What do you mean
by that?
Well I am going to
talk to him
about it right now,
how am I
not sure that he
does not have
anything to do with
the lost
key.” Dad was not
happy with
this news. He
angrily and
quickly walked into
John’s room.
John was surprised.
He couldn’t
remember the last
time dad
walked into his
room. He
sprang up from the
bed,
dropping his
cell phone, which
dad didn’t
know he had. Ada
was the only
child in the house
that freely
flaunts her cell
phone.
“I can see that you
are not even
worried that you
might be
missing classes
today.” Dad
said.
John didn’t reply. He
wasn’t
sure of what to
say.
“I got a call from
your principal,
what was he saying
about you
missing classes and
having poor
result? Where do
you go
during school
hours?” dad
interrogated him.
John continues to
look at him in
fear. He was really
surprised, he
didn’t expect dad to
barge into
his room asking him
all
sort of questions.
How did he
get this information
about his
school activities?
“I can see that you
have gone
dumb. Did you
purposely hide
the key so that you
would miss
school? What are
you running
from?”
“I am not with the
key, I am not
running from
anything.” He
defended.
Dad felt John was
hiding
something. He
began to search
his closet while he
continued
interrogating John.
“You leave
my
house every
morning yet you
miss classes,where
do you
go?"He was
searching through
one of John’s school
trousers
when his fingers
felt something.
He dipped his hand
and brought out
a sachet of condom.
He stopped. The
room was
silent for a few
seconds.
“What are you doing
with a
sachet of condom in
your
pocket?”
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EPISODE 7!!!