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PATIENCE PAYS
#WritcoStoryPrompt3
I read it once, then twice. I wasn't imagining it - I had won the lottery!
My name is Oma well am basically an orphan and also from the Eastern part of Nigeria. i do have relatives but it's well known that you get to know those who love you in your hard times.
I graduated from AZIK college in 2014 as a biochemist with a first class result, but I had no job. Or maybe because I had no one to connect me as the world now deals on connections. Back then in my second year in college I met Jude - he was a student of chemical engineering. We became close friends as I shared all my problems with him and he did same. Jude's parents were well to do in Ibadan so he had hope of getting a good job while I had none. Jude was like a guardian angel to me. I can recall the very day I cried to Jude about a lecturer of mine who wanted to have canal knowledge of me or he would fail the course. Jude, without much hesitation, went up to the lecturers office after some hours, he came out, took me by the hand and we left school campus for a weekend out.
We lodged in a hotel and he requested for two rooms, I smiled within me. We went out for dinner not in a restaurant but in a place full of flowers and water flowing out from several holes, it was a beautiful scene. And it was there Jude poured out he's heart to...
I read it once, then twice. I wasn't imagining it - I had won the lottery!
My name is Oma well am basically an orphan and also from the Eastern part of Nigeria. i do have relatives but it's well known that you get to know those who love you in your hard times.
I graduated from AZIK college in 2014 as a biochemist with a first class result, but I had no job. Or maybe because I had no one to connect me as the world now deals on connections. Back then in my second year in college I met Jude - he was a student of chemical engineering. We became close friends as I shared all my problems with him and he did same. Jude's parents were well to do in Ibadan so he had hope of getting a good job while I had none. Jude was like a guardian angel to me. I can recall the very day I cried to Jude about a lecturer of mine who wanted to have canal knowledge of me or he would fail the course. Jude, without much hesitation, went up to the lecturers office after some hours, he came out, took me by the hand and we left school campus for a weekend out.
We lodged in a hotel and he requested for two rooms, I smiled within me. We went out for dinner not in a restaurant but in a place full of flowers and water flowing out from several holes, it was a beautiful scene. And it was there Jude poured out he's heart to...
