Chapter 2: Yusuf

Today I woke up as early as possible because I was having Dr. Marwan's course. It was a carry over course for me and I literally ought to give it my best this time around. While recklessly driving to school, I managed to light up a cigarette while listening to "Dear Bunmi", a song by one of the influential artists in the country. I loved the song, it used to remind me of my ex girlfriend – how I took advantage of her and dumped her. I had become a very bad boy these days, the opposite of whom I used to be in the past.

As soon as I arrived at school and was driving to the faculty's parking lot, I noticed from afar that there was only one space available and someone with a Camry in front of me was already driving there. Thus, I overtook the person and parked there instead. It was fun and I didn't even look at the person when I stormed out of my car talk more of apologising for my selfishness. I hastily walked away from the scene and headed to my department. It was a mistake I greeted our dean, he called me and began raining insults on me that I was the first student to get carryover in his faculty since the creation of the school few years ago. He was so angry. Well, after the scenario I went to Dr. Marwan's lecture.

"Yusuf, is this the right time for you to come to lecture?" He said making people to turn to me. I had entered the hall through the back entrance.

"Don't blame me, blame the dean" I said looking for unoccupied seat in the back.

"What happened between you and the dean? You hit him or something?" He queried me.

"It's personal" I said about sitting down. 

"No, come over here!" He yelled at me.

"Ahh, I hate front seats" I lamented. 

"Right? Just come over here!" He said. 

Thus, I walked to the front and he asked me to sit close to a girl after having sent her friend away. I obeyed because I didn't want to carry over the course again. As he continued with his introductory class the girl I was sitting close to kept turning her face away from me. It didn't seem strange to me after all I had taken a cigarette while in the car. Perhaps she hated the smell, I should have put on perfume again.

"Here, Yusuf" Dr. Marwan said handing me an A4 paper after the class. "Write your name and make sure they all write their names before returning it back to me in my office. It is my first attendance." He was a man that loved taking attendance, I took it for granted before and that was why I literally got his carryover. 

"Okay!" I uttered, and just as he left I began searching for my pen. I thought I had brought it with me but unfortunately I didn't, so I turned to the girl I was sitting close to. "Can I have your pen?" 

"Here" She handed me the pen. 

"What is your name and matric?" I asked her after having written my own information already. 

"Actually, I expect to write my name by my own self" She said turning her face away. 

"Just tell me or forget about it" I said. 

"Fine!" She stood to her feet. "Fatimah Bulama, BS/4/09" She said and then left. I was expecting her to ask for her pen back so that I could show her my true colour. You know, I was practically not happy with how she kept turning her face away from me. Was I smelling that bad? I wondered as I turned looking at her buttocks while she was walking away. She wasn't that beautiful in the face but she was tall, bold, smelled good and had attractive buttocks. 

After writing the names of the 26 students that were present in the lecture, I headed straight to Dr. Marwan's office and gave him the attendance – list. I was about leaving his office when he stopped me taking off his eyeglass. 

"You haven't stop smoking, have you?" He said.

That moment, I knew he had also sensed the smell of the cigarette I had taken while on my way coming. Was I even smelling that bad, I wondered again? I should've put on some perfume on me before leaving the car. 

"Don't you know it is a pollution? Didn't you see how that girl I asked you to sit with was turning her face away from you?" He added.

"Actually..." I was saying when he cut in. 

"Stop it, this is your last warning!" He said.

"Okay sir" I muttered.

"You may leave" He said putting back his glass. 

"Alright" I said leaving his office.  

I didn't go home that moment because I was having a fresh 200 Level class with Dr. Lailah. So I went to the lecture venue which was Hall C5, a 150 seaters hall. It was a surprise that the lecture hadn't started yet. Do you know Dr. Lailah? She was a very strict woman, so beautiful and hardly missed her lectures. If she first you into a hall, just don't even mind entering. She had been tough on us since 100level, I never knew I would pass her last year's course because we had severally had issues. 

"Yusuf is here!"

"Yusuf, come over here!" 

My friends began shouting as soon as they saw me. I was like a king, you know? I was someone that literally everyone had to love. I walked to them, had some chats before Dr. Lailah came. She lectured us using the projector as usual and left after giving us a very complicated assignment. Although somehow my friend, Suleiman said it was a simple assignment. 

"Didn't you see how Karimah was looking at you? She still loves you!" Adnan said as we walked out of the hall, he was talking about my ex girlfriend – the girl I used and dumped. 

"That's true!" Suleiman chimed in.

"Yes, and I think they should settle" Isah suggested. 

They thought I was stupid to fall for their mere words, they should try more harder and even then, I wouldn't reconcile with Karimah. By the way, what did they take me as? A guy that would marry the girl that only knew how to open her legs for men to penetrate inside her? I only used soft words to get into her, and only God knows how many men had used soft words on her too to get what they want. She was a naive girl, I would never marry her — same applies to all the girls that give me their body. I would only marry a virgin, the one neither I nor any man had ever touched. That too when I had fully settled down. A very decent girl with all the qualities a man desire in a woman. 

"Guys, I don't like Karimah again" I said as I unlocked my car using the remote. "You guys can date her if she's appealing to you but me? No way! She has already expire to me, okay?" 

"Ew! And why should we date her?" Isah said. 

"Do I know?" I rose a brow.

"You are a bad guy, repent!" Suleiman said. 

"And you're a saint, right?" I glared at him. 

"Easy, man! I was only playing" He friendly punched me wearing a smile on his face. 

"Bettrr!" I rolled my eyes. "I should get going"

"Can I come with you? I didn't come with my car today, it has developed some technical issues" Adnan uttered. 

"Yeah, sure" I said.