Andrew was a young boy, smart vibrant and strong. He was turned into an introvert by circumstances. Let's see what happened.
He sat at the back row steering at the board like the blind, well yes he is blind not physically blind but mentally, his brain has been covered with shame and pain that he can't interpret what he reads anymore, words dance in his mind they made no meaning to him anymore and he is tired of fixing them up to make meaning, after all, he is a goat, good for nothing, so why bother to be better. He has received several names from his mother and teacher that he accepted to be what they call him, if only they knew if only they will listen to him and not taunt him. He had given up to studies and accepted his new fate, now he is a dummy who only steer but never grab.
" Mummy I don't like my new school anymore they laugh at me, taunt me each time I make mistake and my teacher is not helping matters she doesn't listen to hear my complain, instead she would call me out and ask the class to mock me" Andrew complained
Why won't they mock you, are you not a goat, good for nothing the mother retorted. Since we relocated you stopped taking your studies seriously, you hardly get answers correctly, your teacher complained you only sit and steer, steering at others learning
But mummy I am not dull, and you know it. I use to be among the tops in my former school and I hardly fail questions but som...... Andrew was still talking
So you think you are now intelligent abi! His mother cut in, you think you are the best that's why you stopped learning, you stopped taking your studies seriously the
No mummy, I still want to learn, I love to study. I want to be a doctor but I need you......
You need your head his mother answered, she wouldn't let him finish. You better go inside and play, that is the only thing you are good at you to play and waste away. Never do well
Andrew stood up and sluggishly went inside with tears in his eyes, he had wanted to narrate his ordeal in school but his mother and teacher never gave him a listening ear.
Flashback to what happened. Andrew was a smart kid, very intelligent and cool in his former school, but since they relocated everything changed.
He was bullied by a psychopath school mate Philip, the day Andrew broke the record in his school was the day his predicament started. He answered question meant for grade 4 class even though he was in grade 2 and that was his only offence.
Philip the CEO's son was in grade 4, he was meant to answer a question but he couldn't and no one from his class could answer the question. Andrew while walking through the corridor overheard the question and out of excitement he answered the question and he was correct. This angered the whole grade 4 and Andrew's problem began
After school, Philip and his gang ambushed Andrew and threatened to kill him and his mother if he ever answers questions in school again, they warned him never to get any question correct in the exam, they beat him till he was unconscious. After some minutes Andrew regained consciousness and went home.
Andrew what happened to you, why are you bleeding his mother inquired before attending to his wound.
I was attacked by Philip and his gang after school...
Which Philip The CEO'S son? His mother asked
Yes, mum, he answered.
What do you mean Philip did this to you, that means you must have upset him so badly, tomorrow we are going to apologize to him.
But mummy at least listens to me and know what happened. Andrew pleaded
I don't want to know, said the mother. Tomorrow before you go to school we will apologize to him, we would have gone today but it's late already so tomorrow. You know his father is the only person helping us. He is the reason we still have a roof over our heads and food on our table. We can't afford to make Philip angry because he may report to his father and that may push him to stop helping us.
Please, my son, you have to endure everything Philip did to you, try to do everything he asked you, his mother continued. Try not to get him angry again, please
Yes, mum. That was all Andrew could say. And to be on Philip's good side he had to become a dummy, a goat and good for nothing.
But how long.......... To be continued
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