That evening, Okezie stood outside his compound
eating roasted corn and coconut. After standing for a while, Ebuka came. They
exchanged pleasantries. Okezie cut half of the corn for him.
“Give me
coconut na,” Ebuka told him.
“It has
finished,” Okezie told him, throwing the remaining coconut into his mouth.
“wicked
boy.”
“I agree.
Go and buy your own. Poor man.”
After
a while of normal gests, Ebuka asked him how his first day at work went.
“It went well.”
“Ehe?”
Ebuka said expecting details. “Did they give you your job back?”
“Someone
else took over my job and the person cannot be sacked.”
“O my God!”
Ebuka exclaimed, throwing away the corn in his hand. “So what did they say?”
“They gave
me two options, either to employ me and reduce my salary or just pay me off.”
“Chai! See what
I caused.”
“I have
told you to stop saying that.”
“So what
will you do?”
“What do
you suggest?”
“Me? I will
not give you suggestion again o.”
Okezie
smiled.
“I will
still think about it,” he said.
They
kept quiet for a while.
“Guy it’s
getting late,” Ebuka said. “I need to go.”
“Is true
sef. I don’t know what to eat this night.”
“I will not
suggest to you,” Ebuka said.
“Please
stop it,” Okezie said laughing. “Let me get fries.”
Ebuka
took his leave while Okezie got some fries and went home. That night, he
thought about the two options and wondered what to do.
‘if I get
paid off’ he thought, “what will I do with the money? It may not be enough to
start a business. If I take the job, I don’t know how small the salary will
become.’
After
a long time of thinking, he decided to take the job back. He turned over and
slept
The
next morning, Okezie was in the office…
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