AGAINST ALL ODDS

Tega was really angry....haba so what if he was 30 and still in his father's house?, or if his friends tonye, chisom and tony had all gotten married and had children....was it because he was eating mamas food that's why she could talk to him like that?

Tega was really pained, he put on his worn out slippers and a really old. Shirt that already had holes in it....

He really did not care, he must go to his regular joint to cool his temper...picking up his nokia touch light phone he left the house......I will show them in this house,he thought to himself, I must make this money and mama would be the first person I will show......

Mama Tega was a woman in her late fifties.....she had 2 children Tega and Ejiro.  Ejiro her daughter was the younger sister of Tega and was already married and doing well with her husband.....but Tega had always been her problem and the black sheep of the family, always bringing trouble home

Her heart was was pained...she had strived soo hard to train him up in the university where he studied Industrial chemistry....but like always he took trouble to school and joined a cult group and was rusticated from the university, it's been 6 years since then, and he has refused going back to school, learning any trade or going into business

Tears flowed down her eyes freely, she wondered what she had done to deserve a coconut head son like tega.....she wondered where he had gone to now?.This morning she simply tried to talk to him about his idleness and he become angry and walked out on her.....she wished papa tega was still alive.....maybe things would have been different

Tega walked into mama Nkechis shop, he was her regular customer and he liked her Pepper soup and she always sold her drinks on credit to him sometimes

Mama Nkechi a fair, fat woman with well rounded hips came to meet him....tegoski ha fa na she said in her sharp Ibo ascent.....Tega replied her with a coy smile and asked for his normal.......still thinking in his heart how he would show mama

Just then a big saloon car parked in front of mama Nkechis shop....the owner of the car came down, his skin glowed under the sun, and his suit was soo clean, well cut and his shoes were made of pure leather....

Tega couldn't stop starring the guy was soo clean.....mama Nkechi smiled sheepishly, this must be her lucky day for this big fish to enter into her shop....she quickly went 2 meet the handsome young man and took his order.....

Tega noticed the young man was looking at him from where he sat down, Tega felt uneasy and tried looking away.....the stranger stood up from his seat and walked towards Tega

.........to be continued

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