WRONG ACT
"Ama, how did you do it?" Yemi, her elder brother asked.
Ama chuckled dryly, adjusting her skirt. "You do know that when I want to do something, I do it. Why'd Simi turn you down? Yes, we are friends, in S.S.1. Nevertheless, you're our senior, and you graduate soon. All because of Timothy, she said no to you." She made a long hiss sound and continued. "You know dad has two sim cards. One which he uses everyday, and the other which he doesn't fix in his phone everytime, as it is for business purposes. I used the other sim to text her as though it was Timothy who sent her a heart-breaking message."
"Ama! Really? That's too much. You are just fourteen, while I will be sixteen soon. Yes, I love your friend, but isn't what you've done going to cost us, if dad finds out? Moreover, did you delete the message when you used dad's phone?"
"Nothing can happen. I used mom's. She was about to get me, when I quickly dropped her phone. Thank God I removed dad's sim already."
"I am scared because mom's phone saves messages if not deleted. And you know she gets messages from her customers daily. Ama!" Yemi said with fear.
Ama laughed loudly. "Okay, no problem, scared brother. I will delete it when we get home. Funny thing is Timothy traveled yesterday, and told us he'd be back in four day's time. He went to his village to visit his sick grandmother. He told us the network there is poor, and that he won't be able to converse with anyone. I seized the opportunity. Try ask Simi why she's sad. Use this opportunity to tell her you love her, okay?"
"Okay, thanks."
It was still break time when their parents came to their school. They met with the proprietor and their children. Ama had mistakenly sent the message to Mrs Simi, one of her dad's clients.
Mrs Simi had gone to their dad's chamber to abuse him. He was embarrassed in the presence of his colleagues. Mrs Simi withdrew the big work she had for him, because her husband saw the message before her, and accused her of cheating.
It caused a dispute between him and their mom, before they headed to their children's school.
Ama had confessed that it was her. She had saved Simi's number as Ms. Simi on her phone, and sent the message to Mrs Simi unknowingly, before realizing that it wasn't her sim, then resent it to Simi her friend.
The proprietor went crazy by their act, asked their parents to permit him discipline them his own way before any other thing. Their parents agreed and left.
The proprietor called for an urgent assembly. He told everyone what they had done. Simi was shocked.
They were beaten by a teacher, everyone watched them cry.
"Students, don't ever try to lie, impersonate or deceive anyone, else you face punishment like this, or even bigger ones."
Victor Apata
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