"You know you can join if you wants to right" a voice whispered from behind.
ZENON got startled, it was a boy who has been observant of how Zenon was lost in his minds watching those who were playing football on his hostel nearby field. At that moment he hasn't even settled in at all and before he could be allocated to his appropriate room in the hostel, he ought to undergo some documentation at the hostel administrator.
Zenon stared at this boy for a while and he then responded " I'm new here as you can see" with a smiley face
The boy replied" Wow!! you need to go secure your room before the hostel administrator close for the day, anyways I'm Habeeb Salim Olayemi, a new student too faculty of engineering"
Zenon was somehow impressed and curious, although he had to reciprocate at first, he said" I'm zenon Efosa Ikupaye, faculty of engineering too", then he looked away and murmured" Even though that's not what I ever wish for". On hearing this by Salim despite the fact that he thought he whispered to himself, Salim on the other hand got slightly curious but he thought to himself to be Mute about it and not asking him why he'd uttered such statement to himself. At that point, he felt they were friends already so he assisted In packing his belongings to his hostel, he also helped ZENON in locating their hostel administrator for his room allocation, fortunately for them Zenon was assigned to a room before his. His reaction was so priceless as he kept on grinning while dragging zenons box on the staircase. However their hostel happened to be two-storey building with forty-eight rooms, and the supposed number of occupant in that room were just two, perhaps a final year student and also a new student as it was compulsory for every new and final year student to resides in the school hostel. Furthermore, It was already 8pm in the night and ZENON haven't had anything for dinner, his initial intentions was to starve till the next morning, fortunately for him his stomach disagreed, he was left with no option than to either prepare something to eat that night or he should set out to get some snacks before their hostel security locked their entrance gate at the due time which generally was 9pm, although he was considering cooking but he felt tired. Meanwhile after several of minutes of being silent, observant and critical thinking on the solution to his empty stomach Salim showed up at his door, he knocked
"Zen are you in?or you're sleeping already?"he asked with a kinda loud voice, anyways it was a boy's hostel, always buzzing no time for silence
ZENON responded with a fainted voice
"Yeah, I'm in, you can come in the door ain't locked" Salim rushed in, slamming the door which gave a very loud noise that startled Zenon roommate who had been sleeping for hours even before zenon packed in. He rosed his heads up and noticed this two niggas sitting on the empty bed in his room, he immediately spranged up and pointed his torchlight towards them with a very frightened face and a shaky body
" What are you two rats doing here?"
His voices were so deep almost sounding like a drunk nigga. This left Zenon and Salim speechless, he asked again but at this time he threatened to stab them although it was for his safety, never did Zenon and Salim made a statement,this guy asked for the third time but at this time he sounded kinda calmer than he was initially, it was at this moment,Zenon could spoken
" Sir! I'm zenon Ikupaye your new roommate and this is my friend Salim he's just here to...."
This guy cuts in " He's just here to slam the door to wake me"
"Not at all, it was a mistake, I'm really sorry about that sir" Salim stuttered
"It's Robins, not sir and don't come into this room slamming the door like you have never had it" he said rudely
Zenon was somehow disappointed by his roommate rude utterances, he comforted Salim to let it slide.
"Back to what brought me here" said Salim with an exciting naive smile
" Have you had anything to eat yet?" He asked Zenon
Zenon nodded in disagreement saying he might probably starved overnight because firstly he doesn't have the strength to unpack his stuffs to take anything from it and secondly, it was already 9:20 which no one is allowed to stepped out of the hostel
Salim with his kind gesture stretched out a nylon to offered him, inside the nylon was an orange juice and some snacks. Zenon immediately snatched it with an appreciating smile and handshakes, he was extremely excited and in no time he was already snacking on them, they bade each other good night and Salim left while Zenon locked his door and went to laid on his bed, counting the ceilings and also chewing his snacks.
As an African parents, his mother called
" Efosa, Have you had something to eat at all?" she asked with a concerning voice...
With a sleepy eyes" Mummy call me zen or my Yoruba name Dimeji, I don't like you calling me Efosa at all"
His mother responded with a loud harsh voice" You must be senseless,
Go and tell your father's family, I only did you a favor by giving you that Yoruba name because my mom, your grandma is Yoruba. Efosa you are Edo not Yoruba"
" mummy!!" He grumbled
"I said have you had anything to eat? What did you eat? His mom asked again
" Someone got me snacks tonight mommy" he said smiling
She exclaimed" Be careful this boy, I'm telling you, you barely got to School and someone is already buying you dinner"
" Mummy good night it's time for bed now, Don't forget to pray for me oo" he said sarcastically
His mom also responded with her loud voice " I will pray for you, but ensure you don't collect anything from any stranger in that school henceforth ,you don't know who is who, do you?
"No ma "he replied frustratingly
" That's my son, make sure you call me everyday okayy" she said
" I will mommy, I love you ,Good night"
Their conversation ended and he laid down to pray first before sleeping