I used to be very funny and careless during my university days. I guess life hasn’t hit me then and I was still very young. I had that feeling of a girl who just left her parents place and who’s just getting to experience freedom. I was very popular in the university for a new student.
Another thing which helped me then was because I dress very well. You’re never going to catch me off fresh. That was when I started going to clubs, lounge and so many places adults visit even though I was not up to eighteen years old then. I was just fifteen. I was two months away from turning sixteen but the fact that I already gained admission into the university made me feel like an adult.
Luckily for me, my house was not far from the university and my granny’s places wasn’t far from there too so if I wasn’t in my parents place, I’d be in my granny’s place or my hostel.
My dad was so fond of sending me money every week and if I don’t call him to ask for money, he will call to ask me why I haven’t asked him for money. This means that he knows how much I spend money and wants to make sure that he’s always there.
I’m someone who increases the way I spend money if I realize that my allowance has increased or I’m getting money from a particular source steadily.
That was what happened and there were days when I won’t even go to my hostel for a week because I was out having fun.
The only good thing about it was that I was very brilliant and even though I don’t read much, I always pass my exams.
When it’s time to pay my school fees, my dad gives it to me as usual every year. When I was in my third year, he debt me my school fees but I chose not to pay the money immediately because I was waiting for my friend who we pay school fees at the same time so that we’d pay when her money is ready.
Unfortunately, out of carelessness and overspending, I started spending out of my school fees. I knew I was spending but I was hoping to refund that money when my dad sends my weekly allowance. Sadly, my dad didn’t send me enough money and he said it will continue like that for a while since he had a project he was working on.
My heart was just banging and I opened the calculator application on my phone all for me to realize that I already spent fifty thousand Naira.
I began to shiver because I didn’t know what to do. I started sleeping at home all day because I needed to save up my transport fare so I could pay my school fees.
Well, my friend was the only one going to school and I was crying everyday and night.
One afternoon, I was sleeping in my house when a call woke me up.
My heart was beating so fast. I’ve been like that since. If I’m sleeping and I receive a phone call, my heart will beat so fast.
Then, my friend told me to come to school that there is a dance competition going on. Well, I heard earlier about a company who wanted to come to our school to promote their brand but I wasn’t willing to go due to what happened to me. It wasn’t just a dance competition, it was a twerk competition and back then in school, no one wins me when it came to twerking.
I was angry at first because she knows my condition but still wants me to come to school to twerk but I was calm when she told me that there is a prize to be won.
I got to school in ten minutes and I went to the backstage to write my name down so I could contest for the twerking competition.
The time to twerk came and I gave it my best. Fortunately for me, I won. I wasn’t surprised that I won because my performance was lit.
When the wanted to give me the prize, I was expecting myself to win a cash prize of twenty thousand Naira but to my surprise, I won a hundred thousand Naira. I screamed on the stage because I knew how badly I needed money.
I was extremely happy and I thanked my friend for calling me in the first place.
I woke up very early on the next day so I could go to the bank to pay my school fee with my friend.
That one call saved me from being embarrassed. That one call saved me from not writing my examinations.
That one call saved me from carrying over a whole year courses.
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