Martin is dead.
I had a class mate back then that was.named Martin. He was the type who loved jokes showing.that he was a good comedian. I was so happy and everyone was so happy being around him. He has this good method of approaching people and a good method of collecting what he wants from people.
One fateful day he came to me asking for a favor. He said to me that
someone is about to die right now.
I answered him by saying that:
Who should this person be?
He was so serious about what he was saying. > When I was coming from school, I met someone out there who was familiar and friendly. I felt I have seen this person before and I felt that this person is the only one close to me. So, this person also can be an enemy to anyone. When it occurs to anyone, that person would.be in a state dilemma. So, he began his usual explanations and to crown it all, he said to be sincere, I want you to guess what this person might look like or who this person might be?
I told him that I don't know who this person is and I'm not good at guessing.
He said….
Hmmmmm…. H parameter. Hmmmm…. You are the only one who has an antidote to this person's condition or situation.
I responded
How?
He said to me again..
Old boy…. I'm seriously hungry. This person's name is Mr hunger*. To be sincere, I'm seriously hungry.
I burst into laudable laughter.
So, with all these explanations, don't you think that your hunger would have increased?
Martin is dead
Martin opened a WhatsApp group for students in our set. The invite link has been sent and many of my mates entered through the invite link. That very day, I had a flat battery and was unable to come online and also could not accept the invite link. They have been cracking jokes as usual and have been discussing the progress of our set.
When it got to some moment, it seems they began to talk about our teachers and the way they always behave with students. They talked about how they were marked down in English and talked about Mr George who taught us mathematics. His system of Teaching was somehow not good to us and the way he marked was just alarming.
After some time, I got my phone charged and entered the group through the invite link sent to me by Martin. To my surprise, the first thing I saw one of my classmate sent was Martin is dead. I could not wait to read further or for other responses to see if it was just a joke instead started weeping at home. I wept and cried to the last level. My parents asked me what had happened that was making me cry, I told them that my good friend just died not too long ago. Martin, the one who came to the house last week Friday.
I was about to call some of my friends to let give them the news before I received a knock on my door.
Who is that?
I asked in a sober manner since I'm still mourning my good friend.
It's me Martin…
I responded in shock..
Who did you say you are?
Martin your friend … Ah… you are funny…don't you recognize my voice?
I glued myself to my bed and was cold as I felt it was a ghost that came knocking at my door.
My parents had to walk to the door and open the door. To my surprise it was Martin. I began to shout…"ghost, ghost, ghost…" you can't be Martin. You are a ghost because the Martin I knew died not too long ago.
Martin was surprised to hear this from me.
What kind of news should this be? Where did you hear this from or are you trying to twist my brain or what are you trying to do?
I drew closer and threw sand on him and I asked my mum to touch him which she did. They even hugged each other.
I was short of words…
But where do they get this from?
I saw it in our group that you opened immediately when I joined.
I quickly checked through the messages and saw normal messages. No one was discussing about death issue and what they meant was that our mathematics teacher will fail Martin and so I could not wait to complete or to see the other side of it and jumped into conclusions that Martin is dead*. So, the issue was that Martin is dead in the hands of our mathematics teacher.