TEACHER CHUKS; Season 3 (Part 21&22) – Opeyemi Akintunde

Part 21
TEACHER CHUKS; Season 3
Opeyemi Akintunde

One month passed after that day. All these happened within 3 months after my new birth. Favour had gotten over Mercy’s incident. With what happened to Mercy, she was more committed to helping me with the Young ones, especially since she had quit her job.

She had insisted I played the video for the children, which I was not comfortable with. She told me it was to save them.

What made her win me hands down was when she asked…“What if Mercy had seen a video like this, would she be in Saudi Arabia now?” She asked me and I knew the obvious answer “No, she would have been here with us… Chuks, let me save these ones …” She had said conclusively.

The teens and youths were seriously affected by the video. Some felt pity, others understood that there was nothing on the outside world.

Kenneth was hit badly especially the part where Mercy had said she lost her v!rg!nity. Kenneth had his head bowed and he sobbed for over 30 minutes crying without raising his head.

Everyone tried getting him to raise his head but all to no avail. After crying for 30 minutes, he stood up and went home.

I told Favour, I didn’t like what she had made us do.

Favour told me, she did that for two reasons. First, if Kenneth really loves her daughter and it’s not some infatuation he will marry her regardless. Secondly, she wanted the ladies to see how important v!rg!nity was to men, especially for those who had not been defiled.Life continued, Mercy tried to speak to us on video call every day. She was a part of us, though online.

Kenneth could not bring himself to speaking to her. Whenever she was online, he would step aside. On one occasion, Mercy Specifically asked for Kenneth, but Kenneth refused speaking to her.

We had moved to the structure, about 20 of the teens who were the homeless ones, stayed with us. Mrs. Coldwealth became our matron as she got aids, donations for us. Parents of other teens who came on daily basis brought in food stuffs for the ones in the house.

Things turned around. The teens became on fire for God. Parents were happy about their wards. New teens and youths joined every day.We nicknamed the structure “LIGHTHOUSE”

Tunde had decided to go learn Fashion Designing.

We had volunteer teachers who came to teach some of the teenagers who wanted to still continue their education. They helped them prepare for the Senior Secondary Certificate Exams.

The teens’ preparation for Light up Lagos was in top gear until I received a shocking news.

GLORIA WAS PR€GNANT…

Favour was the one who noticed at first. Gloria was not her usual playful self, so Favour had taken for a pr€gnancy test. It turned out positive. She was 2 months pr€gnant at 12 years old.

’Uncle Chuks, I only did it once ooo, it was a mistake, I didn’t burn my bridge. It was just once…” She kept lamenting. From her story, she had mistaken fallen into sin with someone she refused to mention his name.

When her father got to know about it he was enraged. He was ready to kill Gloria…

Is this how you will pay me back for taking care of you and your younger ones after your useless mother left me? You are just like your mother, a useless dog is what you are.” her father had said.

Since Gloria and her siblings were leaving in the “Lighthouse” with us, there was little her father could do, but there was a problem: she was not opening up on who got her pr€gnant…or could it be…?

Part 22
TEACHER CHUKS; Season 3
Opeyemi Akintunde

There was someone I suspected, but I overlooked it. We didn’t pressurize Gloria anymore about telling us who was responsible for her pr€gnancy, but her father was not going to give up easily.

Favour, Mrs. Coldwealth tried to speak to her father to give her some time. In the midst of all these and the Lighthouse growing on a daily basis to the glory of God, I received another strange visitor again…Who? Rejoice… The first secondary school student I deflowered and turned into a S€x addict.

I was told by one of the teens that Saturday morning that I had a visitor. The moment I set my eyes on her, I knew I was in trouble.

She was S€x personified. She had grown into a fine woman with a tempting shape. I saw the way the teens looked her.

Rejoice made things worse for me, because the moment she saw me, she jumped on me using her whole body to caress me…

”Mr. Chuks, I knew my eyes could not deceive me. I knew you were the one I saw on T.V”

She said very excitedly…

A tissue paper was better than the type of Cloth she had on. I could literally see her entire body. Immediately, the old memories came rushing back…All the time I made love to her in the house I had rented close to her school.

In the midst of going down memory lane, I could literally hear Baba Agba’s voice in my ear…

“Burn this Bridge, Don’t look back so you don’t become a pillar of salt, Get her out!”But then I heard another voice…

“Don’t send her away, you corrupted her, you can also save her …”“Which voice am I meant to follow” I searched within my heart as I took Rejoice to My office, which was a big mistake…

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