Corper shun!

 
   I stared at the first official nightmare of camp life immediately we arrived.  First we were asked by the soldiers to carry our luggage on our heads as any luggage that cannot be carried in that manner should be immediately  discarded.  I didn't opt for this I kept repeating to myself for crying out loud I'm someone's last child, but yes  the hustle was on...
     I staggered on, feeling a bit humiliated as per all the forming I planned to do in camp, being a private university graduate.  Half way through I began to think of what Jesus must have felt while carrying the cross, "my saviour you are God"  I said under my breath, as I looked for a Joseph of Arimathea to come and help me carry my cross as "Golgotha";the girls hostel area was still quite far.  But like Roman soldiers the army guys shouted pointing in my direction " who is that Jezebel? You think this is a beauty contest abi? "
      And just like that, all eyes on me, and I literally felt like entering the ground, but just before I could fall to the ground my Joseph of Arimathea arrived with honey brown eyes, a beautiful face and the body sculpture   of a"Greek god", his name, Chidubem.
      I was lost in his honey brown eyes that when he whispered  "let me help you with that",  I didn't even respond as he set me free from my agony, but from thence, an unimaginable attraction to him erupted like a volcano. I stared at him during the morning work outs, when it was time to eat, at the platoon meetings and even when he was with his friends and I hungrily waited for the attention given to be returned and one day it was...
        It was during the match pass practice and I continued to stare at his macho stature and I waited patiently like the Indian movies I loved so much for him to look back, "look at me if there is a chance that you could love me", I said playfully to myself about 3 times and the fourth time, he turned staring at me with an angelic smile
and my heart started beating really fast like "kilode"
       But as quickly as the show became sweet it soon grew sour, as Dubby lost concentration while staring at me briefly and one of the soldiers noticed.  "hey you! Otondo!" he shouted at Dubem "you are looking at a Jezebel right? Squat fast!"
And Dubem got to a squatting position, I felt  both embarrassed and guilty at the same time. "your hands on your ears"  the instructor continued,  "oya give me a clean frog jump" and just like that pretty boy started doing the frog jump as everyone stared on...
        And that was when I noticed that Dubem had a lot of female fans who almost cried as he did the exercise,  "who could he possibly have been looking at?" some ladies asked and I felt a little sugary inside, with the sugary feeling  dying almost immediately "I have definitely gotten the poor boy into trouble"...
         Later that evening I  searched patiently for him with mixed feelings, partially scared as to whether he would want to see me.  I soon found him seating  in a corner tending to the pains from the ruthless punishment he had served earlier.  "corper shun!"  I chanted, in an attempt to get his attention and he looked up at me, giving a weak smile...  "I would have been really mad if you hadn't showed up" he said calmly and I blushed before replying "elaborate on that with decided cases" ...
         We cracked some other warm jokes before I asked him, "how can I make you feel better?"
  "um"...  He began, wearing a thoughtful expression on that  handsome face of his," maybe you should go out with me" and my heart froze...
     He smiled before asking more directly.. "so... Chelsea will you be my girlfriend?"
But  just before I could scream the loudest yes... The world has ever heard, I received a very hot slap, in the form of a tap on the back and was immediately jolted back to reality.

    "Chelsea it's 20 minutes to the end of the exams and you haven't answered any question, I tried copying from you and all I can see is corper shun! Corper shun!" my bestie funke said to me...

     Yes! This present reality had no Chidubem in it...  In fact it was me and my blank paper in the exam Hall...
    But for me to have come up with such elaborate fiction in the hall...
     "you will  know that this law of contract exams na die"...