**PART ONE**
CHAPTER 1.......
It was a bright saturday morning
on the 7th of september 2013.
Akinola oluwasegun was walking
along a popular street in Ibadan,
Oyo state. He was dressed in a
white T-shirt and a black pant
trouser and a black vickers shoe.
He was on his way to Loyola
College, a government owned
secondary school around Agodi
gate GRA Ibadan for his WAEC GCE
exam.
He entered into the school
compound and walked towards
the school building. Being his
first paper English Language, he
had no idea of where the
examination hall was situated.
So, he had to ask for help from
other candidates who had come
the previous days for chemistry
practicals and Commerce. He
walked up to a girl seated on the
staircase reading to ask for the
help.
"Hello, good morning." he
greeted.
"Good morning." she replied.
"Please, are you here for exam?"
he asked.
"Yeah." she replied.
"Okay. Please, which way is the
examination hall." He asked.
"I don't know. This is my first
time here." She answered.
(disappointed) "Okay, lets ask
others the way to the exam hall."
He adviced.
"Okay." She replied standing up
and dusting her skirt.
*TEN MINUTES LATER*
The invigillator walked into the
exam hall carrying a green sack
with the inscription; WEST
AFRICAN EXAMINATION COUNCIL.
No 62. He was accompanied by
five teachers of the school.
A laptop was removed and with
a thumb printing device attached
to it.
"Line up for your biometrics."
one of the teachers barked.
After the completion of the
biometrics. The candidates were
asked to sit down according to
their numbers. The answer
booklets and the question
papers were first distributed
before the attendance was
marked. The paper lasted two
and a half hours. The paper
ended by 11:30am and they
were given 3hours break before
the commencement of the paper
2&3(objectives & the Test of
Orals respectively).
Outside the examination hall,
students were seen in group,
some in fours, in fives and so on
discussing and arguing over the
just concluded paper.
Oluwasegun(segun for short)
wast sitting alone under a big
three near the school football
pitch. He was flipping through
the pages of the WAEC English
language past question. Just then
someone tapped him from
behind. He looked up and saw
his cousin Omolayo Akinola.
He stood up and hugged her.
"What are you doing here?" he
asked.
"I came to greet my friends
writing their exam here. She
answered.
"Where is your centre?"
"Ikolaba grammar school."she
replied.
"Most of my friends are in that
centre."he said.
"Are you the only one here?" she
asked.
"Yes, am the only one here from
my school."he answered.
"You must be feeling lonely
o."she said.
"Yeah".........
The gisted for like ten minutes
before Omolayo stood up to go,
"Let me introduce you to my
friends over there." she said
pointing to a group of 2 boys
and 4 girls gisting.
He stood up and followed her
towards the group. Immediately
they saw them approach they
stopped talking.
"Where have you been? One of
her friends jummy asked
Omolayo suspiciously.
Ignoring her question. "Meet my
cousin, Segun. Segun meet my
friends." she introduced.
"Hi guys." he greeted.
"Hi." They chorused.
They all hung around till it was
1:30pm, 30minutes before the
next paper.
"Bro, i think we should get going
so, we won't be late." Omolayo
said.
"Alright, bye. Segun answered.
Omolayo left with four of her
friends remaining two who were
also in segun's centre. Among
which was Jummy.
--to be continued--