According to the stories told to us while growing up, This is a story of a myth or a legend in my country Nigeria; there is a story about a mysterious teacher named koikoi, she love to study and like to teach students she sees great potential in, according to the myth, she died in her study, in the class she teaches at mid night, till date, nobody know the cause of her death, it was known that her ghost never left, it move from school to school seeking new potential in student.

There is this famous school in my town, where rich and poor kids go to, there is no discrimination, you come learn, you study hard, pass well and graduate, the school was more famous because it was a boarding school, immediately you apply and you are chosen to study in that school, you will move to the school hostel, unlike the normal day to day school.

“Betty… Betty…. Betty… have you read this passage, take this book and read, eat this food, I said take it!”, and then she woke trying to catch her breath, she wondered the kind of dream she just had for a moment, felt like she was studying in her dream, by the time she check the time, it was just 30min pass 12am, she remember she had been reading for the upcoming test which is going to take place in two week time, after a little while she realized her two roommate “Gina and Ife” aren’t in the room. “ Gina!, Ife!, where are you both again oh?” she stood to find her loving friends, she then realize they weren’t on their bunk, where could they have gone to at this time of the day, she then remembered they were talking about a party outside to school hostel and their lover will surely be there, now she would have to sleep another night without them?, she thought as she stepped out of the house. A very cold wind blew towards her before she ran back in to get her blanket, she never thought they would make another move to jump the fence after what had happened two weeks ago, at the quick thought of that, Betty ran back into the room and hide under her blanket leaving the door unlock just in case Gina and Ife return

The Assembly

It was 6am when the hostel bell was rang for every student to get up and prepare for another day of study, Betty stood up reluctantly cause she had a sleepless night thinking of the whereabouts of her two friends, she was still pretty mad at them for not taking her along, Gina!! Ife!! She shouted at the top of her voice, but no one responded, then she jumped off her bunk to confirm if they are still sleeping, to her surprise, no one was in their bed, “did they leave early so no one would suspect they went out of the school, did they not return home, are they at their lovers house, are they in the bathroom” all this thought where going through her mind and its making her loss it, she did the usual she does before assembly and there she was on the assembly, the principal was with them on the assembly today, what’s the special occasion, its unlike for the principal to join the assembly

The principal with a very big tummy and long mustache started, “good morning student; this is a very sad day for all of us" at that moment, after betty heard those line from the principal, she became worried immediately, “I hope what I’m thinking isn’t what the principal want to say, I hope Gina and Ife weren’t caught trying to sneak into the school premises” the principal continued his speech, “as you all know, there is a very strict rule against student going outside the school without authorization, early this morning, we found to student dressing in their casual wear, like they are going for a party, punishment would have been the best thing to do to them, but we can’t now because we found them dead, their identity are Gina of class 11 and Ife of class 12, they share room with Betty of class 11, message has been sent to their parent and they corpse will be retrieve by each respective parent”

At that point all eyes were on Betty, “could she have known” but that wasn’t the important thing here, what could have kill those girls, what happened, they were told they could get out of the school, they died before they could cross the fence, is there a killer in the school. The discussion throughout the day was based on the dead girls, Betty refuse to attend class for that day, the next day was a big mess in the school, many people are coming out with different theories and assumption, all Betty could do was listen to them, but the most common one was about the ghost teacher, “madam koikoi” many girls started searching their stories of how she do appear to them in their dream, and some said they have seen pass front of their hostel at midnight, “could all this rumor be true” was all betty was thinking about, she then decided within herself to meet with this madam koikoi everyone was talking about. After five days has and the news had die down a bit.

The Dark Night

It a Friday night, and it was raining heavily, since betty haven’t had new bunk make, she has always find it difficult to sleep all on her own, but that night was different, she couldn't even lay down on her bed, even with the rain, she was feeling heat, she was feeling like someone was watching her in that pitch dark room she’s sitting. 30minute pass 12am, she notice this awful silence, could everyone be sleeping already. She couldn’t move, to her surprise she had someone walking through the corridor of her room, making the sound of a high hill show (koi koi koi koi koi koi koi koi) it was unusual for a student to go out now after what had recently happen, probably it’s a teacher so she thought, then again she realize it wouldn’t make any sense for a teacher to wear that kind of shoe at this hour of the day, as soon as she turn to look at the door, she saw a figure passed through her window, “it must be some student playing some prank at me” she thought, it has happened like that for two days now, some senior student just decided to torment her because they blame her for the death of her friends, she decided not to give in to fear this time around and confront them, the moment she stepped out, that similar cold breeze that blew on her the night Gina and Ife died was the same breeze, though it may not be the same but it brought back that memory, she kept on following the sound of the foot step for a far distance so the person wearing the shoe won’t know she was behind, she followed the foot step to a class, stood at the door, the class was so dark that she couldn’t see anything, the ray of light from the lightning and thunder, lighten up the class for about 2sec but she still couldn’t see anyone in the class room, as she turned to go back to her room, she saw a shoe, a skirt above it and a long sleeve top but with no one wearing it yet its standing, like an invisible person putting on a close, her breathe stop for a moment, she was screaming but no sound was coming out, she saw the hand of the long sleeve stretch towards her and she felt a hand on her shoulder but she couldn’t see, the voice said, come study with me little girl, I will teach you well, she felt herself being elevated and was moving into the dark class, she sermon all the strength she had and scream at the top of her voice, the scream was so loud that all the student in each hostel heard it, the first two teacher to get to that class found betty on the floor cold, like her soul was taken away from her, they couldn’t do anything, all they heard was foot step ( koi koi koi ko koi) walking down the hall way. Till date people still talk about her, madam koi koi. The end

I know I haven't writing this much before, I hope you enjoyed the story.

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