It was 2:00 in the afternoon, Mr Sailor, Dan's dad drove his tired old car which cried and danced like an old woman to the parking area of Gideon secondary school which Dan attends to pick him up. The school compound was designed with hibiscus flowers which sat around the school fountain in a circular manner. To the right side of the fountain is a sculpture of mr sailor in an army uniform and the well known AWM sniper in a posture which looks like he was ready to disembark on a mission, his facial feature of long nose and big mouth were accurately detailed in the sculpture, he was tall handsome with brown eyes and a physical fitness that could captivate a goddess. As usually, the students of the school echoed "old soldier never die" a name he was given to my the community after his retirement from the Nigeria army. He was seen as the country hero in his community.
The school compound consists of two main buildings with an outer look of a 1990 high school building, with a big sign of the cross at the top of each building. The class room lined in corridor facing each other with an aluminium glass door The building were painted in with and blue and with fifteen class room which could accommodate thirty five student each The behind of the middle school is small cafeteria, a lively space where students share meals, stories, and jokes.
Dan walked out of the main door of the building number two which was for student between the fourth to six year in high school. He was darked skin ebony, brown eyes like that of a cat, and a pointed nose like a Viking, and a little bit to tall for his age with a physical fitness that looked like a mini super man which earned him the nickname “Viking”. he shyly ran to the car with a a speed lighting and smashed the tired old door of the car and bent his head how as he embarrassingly whispered “dad I asked you not to pick me up any more, I am a grown ass man and can take care of myself and beside I don’t want my friends mocking me the next day about your crying car”. The student kept chanting “old soldier never die.
With a calm voice like that of a flowing river he replied “I am your father you don’t have to be ashamed of me or any of my properties and I have the right to pick you up and drive you to school until I feel like you have come to the age to take care of yourself, and that reminds me is that why you left for school this morning without telling me? Okay, do you think we should help your friend by giving them a lift?, he said in a mocking voice.
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Dan looked up to him with a face like he was about to cry without realizing when he whispered yes. He wined the mirror of the car down as he screamed on top of his voice “John, Seth hop in lets give you a ride home. His voice was as loud like that of soldier giving order to seven thousand troops even thou John an Seth d were only only 20 meters away from the car. He then called out to Cynthia who was the daughter of his close friend “Cynthia hop in lets give to a ride home he said in a soft voice. Cynthia was a beautiful 17 year old mixed race girl, her dad is a retired soldier who meet her mom during his military training in the united state of America. She was always the the talk of the town as she was intelligent and a half cast.
After five minutes of driving mr sailor noticed the tension in the car was really weird especially from his son who began to sweat like a Christmas goat waiting for justice to be served. What is going on between you guys he asked despite knowing the boys were shy because of the girl. What is going on between you guys he asked again setting the tension to a high new level, but he got no replied from anyone. No problem, someone has fallen in love he said as they drove off and dropped off everyone before getting home.
Dan's family compound was designed with designed with hibiscus flowers and a little touch of okra with a mango tree to the left end of he compound, an orange tree to the right end of the compound fens and a coconut tree at the opposite direction. A modern three bedroom flat stood at the middle of the compound with an aluminium roofing zinc and an uncompleted parking area right in front. Behind the house was a rabbit pen and a poultry for birds, the compound smelled occasionally as a result of the waste product of the bird house.
Dan was welcomed home by his younger sister who was one year and seven months and had just started to walk. His mom was in the the kitchen preparing yam and egg sauce for dinner which was Dan's favourite meal but it was pretty unusually to Dan as she was fun of always preparing dinner at 9:00pm in the night and it was only 3:30 PM. After changing up to his house cloths he helped his mom in the kitchen, washed the plate, swept the house, washed his school uniform before deciding to take a little nap so he would be able to stay up most of the night to study.
While he fell asleep he fell into state where he could not understand, it was like a bright light or the sun was passing through the walls of his room and going straight to his eyes even though his eyes were closed and then he felt a force pulling him out of his body, he tried to fight back but could not after three minutes, gave up. It was not the first time he had gotten this weird experience but it was the first time he had failed to fight back the force that was pulling.
