ITS A TWO WAY THING

Nii Mants3
If any one had told me that I would be sending two large boxes of cornflakes,two packs of cubed sugar, two packs of Milo, three packs of powdered milk and a whole lot of other provisions, including an amount of hundred Ghana cedis to school, I would have called him or her a lair.
But here I was me that could hardly afford to take a pack of nido and two containers of Gari to school, today I was taking three, I said a silent prayer thanking God for how far he had brought me. During the vacation, a whole lot of things happened that served as an eyeopener for me.
For example, who would have thought that my own mother would want to kill me, I mean when you think about it, it just doesn't make sense.
It is true that she and I never saw eye to eye sometimes,but then it wasn't reason enough for her to want to kill me and my sibling.
I adjusted my trunk at the booth of my Dad's newly bought Opel Saphira ,and proceeded to add my other belongings.
On any other school day, I would be nervous and worried as hell because one, re-opening of school meant more hardship and and studying on an empty stomach, and two, people who had lent me money the previous term were about to ask me for their money, but on this day, knowing that I had all the provisions I needed for school, I felt more confident and happy within myself, my Dad might have noticed the spring in my steps and the huge grin plastered on my face because he suddenly  hugged me, leaving us in an awkward position.
As we drove on for miles on end, we finally got to the school,when I say the school ,I hope most of you already guessed it and for those who didn't get it and still don't get it, am sorry I can't help.
As I was saying, as we got to the school,  Dad and I got down from the car to pack my stuff from the booth, some few friends who were meddling about the school compound because classes hadn't yet started since it was the first week, and classes normally starts in the second week after re-opening came around when they saw me and came to help me take my stuff to the dorms.
You should have seen the surprise on their faces when they realised how heavy my trunk was.
I don't blame them, I mean just last term, I was the guy that didn't even send a chop box or trunk to school because my provisions could fit into my school bag,not to talk of the fact that I barely had enough money to buy anything at school,and was always perching my friends from letters to food, to even water.
Well that was a term ago, now redemption had found my family and I, and glory be to God ,for in him is redemption.
After Dad had dropped me off, I went about packing my stuff into my chop box and keeping it under lock and key because I knew that if I made a mistake of leaving it unlocked, others will go and shop there.
Several days later school resumed and classes started, I paid more attention to my studies than before because I wanted to make my Dad proud and also because I now had enough food to satisfy my hunger.
School became hectic from the third week inwards, teachers giving a whole lot of assignments here and there,some we understood perfectly and others we had no idea about but had to go research on it.
It was a hectic day as usual, I had just returned from class and had a joyful meal of jollof rice and chicken which we had managed to smuggle into the school with the help of a friend who lived outside campus.
I was feeling happy and thankful, since it had been a while since I ate a delicious food like that in school, to be frank, that was actually a first. I had taken a bath and jumped on my bed immediately since I wanted to nap before the bell went for prep.
I fell asleep in seconds.
I might have slept past prep because I woke up to an empty dormitory, I wondered how my friends could forget to wake me up.
I was about get down from my bed and get ready for prep when I heard shuffling of feet and then the door opening, thinking it was the housemaster coming in to inspect the dorm and to make sure everyone had left for prep, I snuggled deep into the shadows, afraid he would spot me and punish me for eluding prep.
But as I lay there waiting for the footsteps to retreat the way it came, It kept getting nearer and eventually stopped just where I was lying.
I looked down at the pair of feet and realized it was just a student.
I was about to get out of my hiding place when instincts told me to stay and watch since he hadn't even realised my presence.
He suddenly went on his knees and opened the lock of my trunk with a set of keys he was holding just like that, then he opened his school bag and began unloading my provisions into his bag, surprised, I got out of my hiding place and watched his mouth go ajar as he dropped the bag and set of keys and attempted to run, I told him gently not to run and picked up the set of keys and his bag.
My first instincts was to report him to the authorities or get my friends to give him a thrashing  but when I remembered those days when I used to survive in school by depending on my friends and running errands for teachers in order to get a tip, I changed my mind and instead gave him the bag containing the provisions he had stolen.
I locked my trunk once again and kept the keys, including the set of keys which he had brought along in my wallet.
The boy whom I later got to know as Adams just stood there, surprised at what I had just done, I chuckled and went about dressing, after which I went out for prep, but not after warning him to refrain from such acts since the next time might not be me.
Because I knew what people who were caught stealing went through at the hands of those who caught them.
They were butchered like animals.

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So how many of you guys think Nii Mants3 was too lenient  on the guy who tried to steal his stuff?, If you were to be in his situation, how would you have reacted?,Well if it was me, I would bust his ass cause no thief is to be entertained.
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