Thread by @GbengaWemimo

It started in JSS1
The class teacher was tired of the noise-making of all the students
She decided to do a rearrangement
She paired a male and a female
It was very intentional
At that age
Girls are squirmish about talking to boys
Boys are also wary of girls
The result was great

The noise making in the class reduced drastically
The students talked
But in whispers
The teacher also made sure to separate close friends and siblings
It worked like magic
That was how they began
She was paired with him
They were both eleven years old
She was not shy at all

She was an athlete
Long distance athlete
She was very good!
He was her cheer leader
They were both in the same House
During the inter-house sports
She was the queen of the track
She also did long jump and high jump
He liked to watch
He supported her with a passion
He liked her!

Before long their classmates started calling them names
Teasing them
Treating them like they were dating
He didn't mind
She didn't mind too
Academically they were both average
But he helped her with her homework sometimes
Especially when she had to train
He didn't mind at all!

By the time they got to SS1
They had knitted together in their hearts
They spent break time together
They spent prep time together
They were in the boarding house
They also spent stolen time together
Talking about family, friends, teachers, whatever!
Just being together was life

Second term of SS2
A new boy was admitted into the school from nowhere
He was different
He was intelligent
He was eloquent
He was devious and rough
The boy was placed in their class
He didn't know how it happened
His babe started warming up to the new guy
It was humiliating

The new guy was so good that he was made to lead the debate team
He won laurels all over
His babe won laurels in sports
The two of them were constantly travelling for sports and debates
Somehow the new guy snatched his babe
He stole her affection and turned her head mercilessly

He simply couldn't compete
He tried
His babe told him there was nothing to it at the beginning
But as time went on
His babe started dodging him
When he went to her hostel to ask for her
She would either be sleeping, out or tired
She was always with the new guy
He lost out badly!

His friends told him not to take it
His instinct told him to deal with the new guy
But the new guy was mad!
He kept company with all the bad students in the school and still surpassed all academically
He was a strange act
He started using earrings in SS3 and even dyed his hair

Teachers found the new guy outrageous
He was very intelligent and devilish
The principal called him a rough diamond
The new guy was unpredictable and crazy
He had no way of getting even
He ate the humble pie
They graduated
The new guy dumped his babe and moved non-challantly

He hated such people
People who come into someone else's life just to ruin it and moved on without a care about the damage they caused!
He tried to get his babe back
His babe wouldn't even consider it
He still couldnt compete with the new guy even after he had dumped his babe!

He moved on
His babe moved on
Everybody got married
Twenty years later, the school had a reunion party
He went
His babe went
The new guy also attended
The new guy was so successful
Why do evil people get everything!
He saw his babe looking at the new guy like he was some hero

He loathed the new guy!
How dare someone who left wreckage's, pain and destruction in his wake be that loved
His babe was married but he was sure she would sleep with the new guy if he asked her
She still loved him
He saw it
She didn't even look in his own direction
Not once!

He left the reunion party by 12noon
It started at ten
It was supposed to close by 5pm
He went to the local market
He asked questions
He was directed to a man
He told the man what he wanted
The man told him what it would cost
He didn't want to kill
He just wanted to punish

He wanted to put to open ridicule the confidence of the new guy
He wanted to teach him a lesson
He got what he wanted
It was in a white handkerchief
He was supposed to use it to touch the new guy
He got back to the reunion party by 2pm
The organizers we're doing mock awards

As usual the new guy was given the Influencer award!
Everybody clapped
He had really done well for himself
The new guy went to receive the award
As the new was coming down the podium
He saw his opportunity
He walked towards the new guy and shook his hand with the handkerchief

The new guy smiled at him
Shook his hand and and walked away
He waited!
Nothing happened!
The new guy didn't go crazy
The new guy didn't fall down in an epileptic fit
Nothing!
He had spent years waiting for vengeance, spent time and money and yet Nothing!
The party ended
He lost

Few days later
His hand started seizing
He just noticed that whenever he wanted to move the right hand
It wouldn't move!
Wow!
He went to the hospital!
He was told he was losing control of some nerves
His wife ran to church
Prayers were said!
Still no improvement!
Pain persisted!

Eventually he got to a prophet
The prophet told him to go and confess his sin
He started making calls
He got the phone number of the new guy
He went to see him on a Sunday
He took his pastor along
He confessed
The new guy was a brother in Christ
He forgave him and prayed for him

He was fully restored!
The new guy introduced him to the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt listened to their stories and laughed!
They all became brothers in Christ
Sharing one communion
Forgetting old realities
Walking in the light as one!
Hallelujah