Falling deeper into the pit of destruction. Finale

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Months later, Tayo couldn't understand why his winning streak suddenly come to an abrupt end even though he still maintained the same winning technique he had been used to.

The betshop attendant told him that it's quite normal to experience loses as a gambler, but overall, he assured Tayo that he was still doing better than alot of other gamblers.

He advised Tayo to start staking bigger sums of money. "You shouldn't be playing small again at this level, the higher the stakes, the bigger the reward", the snake- eyed bet attendant admonished him.

Tayo thought that he was right and followed his advise. But the higher he staked, the bigger his loses turn out to be. Soon, Tayo became alarmed and frustrated.

By this time his studies have already began to suffer. Tayo was now spending more time in focusing on analyzing the outcome of a game before a bet. He had literally abandoned his studies.

One day, Tayo woke up with a little fever, he was also feeling very uncomfortable at the lower parts of his body. His illness became worse the following day and he Just had to visit the a clinic outside the school.

The test results showed that Tayo had contracted an STI. This came as a rude shock to him. He had to spent most of his gambling earnings in treating the disease that lasted for a couple of weeks.

After his recovery, Tayo sank deeper into the abyss of gambling. He was determined to recover all the money he had lost in the cause of treating the disease. But he still continue to lose the little money he had left.

Needless to say, Tayo's life never remained thesame again. It was as if he had totally forgot the primary purpose of being in the university. Most times, he'd starve himself as he spent most of his allowances on the gambling racket. Soon he began borrowing money from other students just to be able to feed. But as soon as he had money in his hand, the hunger would vanish and he would head straight to the betshop.

Tayo literally became a shadow of himself, he never paid attention to his physical appearances anymore. He was always looking unkempt and uncared for. A chronic borrower whose friends had already deserted him. One would think that he looked more like a drug addict than a gambler.

The results of the second semester exams were released and Tayo had failed woefully. But strangely enough, Tayo wasn't bothered even though he knew that he might likely spend an extra year in school.

From time to time, Tayo would call home and ask that his parents send a sum of money in form of a department or faculty fee. These werr all lies indeed. His parents were already becoming worried at his constant demands, which ofcourse never happened before. And whenever they try to ask further questions, Tayo would protest and threaten to run away from school if they fail to send the money.

Tayo's parents were very surprised by this tone as Tayo had never spoken to them in such a rude manner before. "Maybe it's the stress of study that is making him like this", Tayo's mom tried to calm her husband.

He had also found the habits of returning to the school premises late in the night after he had spent almost all day at the betshop. This was the first time he had won quite a substantial sum from gambling for over three months. He was able to win a sum of forty dollars while staking just seven dollars. Tayo wasn't very excited because he knew that the money lost in those three months were well above the forty dollars. he had just won. But atleast, this could keep hunger away for the next couple of weeks, he thought.

He was walking on a lonely path when a gang of three boys jumped on him. Tayo quickly realized that they had been following him since he left the betshop as one of the faces was that of a fellow gambler who he was familiar with. Tayo knew that they were about to snatch the money from him and he tried to resist. He was still struggling with two of them when the third guy dealt him a heavy blow with a metal rod on the side of his head. Tayo fell to the ground without a sound.

Tayo was taken home for proper care after the deep cut on his scalp had been treated at the hospital. His mother was full of tears when he saw him. His parents noticed how much he had lose weight but the serious head injury he was carrying made them forget to ask him what had been happening to him.

Laying on his bed, all alone in his room. Tayo wondered how his life had become a living nightmare in a couple of months. He cursed the day he discovered gambling and began to cry convulsively, he had already reached the depths of great depression and he wondered if he would ever get his life back. He also wondered whether he would be able to break free from the shackles of gambling addiction.

Two days before Tayo would return to school, he overheard a discussion between his father and a elder cousin in the sitting room. His cousin was getting married in two weeks time. Tayo saw when his cousin gave his father a sum of $1500 to help him make all the wedding arrangements, before leaving the house.

From a slightly opened bedroom door, Tayo watched his father keeping the roll of money in one of the drawers in the sitting room before going out to attend a meeting.

Ten minutes later, Tayo also left the house to a nearby betting shop with the money in his pocket......

Later in the evening, Tayo's mom had just finished with her cooking. From the kitchen, she called out to her son several times to come pick up his food but Tayo never came out of his room. This was quite unusual as Tayo was always conscious of his meal time.

She casually walked towards her son's room but the door was tightly locked from the inside. She thought Tayo was fast asleep. Fortunately, his bedroom window of was still open. She decided to raise the curtains of the windows to call again when she saw the most horrific sight of her life.

Tayo's stark and emaciated body was dangling from a noose whose other end was fastened to the ceiling fan. Tayo's mom broke into a Cascade of agonizing screams that pierced every corner of the house.

Upon hearing his wife's deafening wail, Tayo's father ran into the house like a man possessed. As soon he saw the body of his son, he felt as if his heart was about to fly out of his mouth. This has got to be a nightmare, he said to himself. He still could not believe his eyes until he forced and broke the door open..... Then he saw the suicide note, with tears already streaming down his face, he read his son's words with the greatest pain.

The End

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The story about a student committing suicide due to gambling addiction is true and happened in a state in my country. But the story up there leading to a death is actually a figment of my imagination.

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