Chapter 2 The Fellowship

Collins continues to grow in knowledge and wisdom as he progresses through life. By the time he is eight years old, he already recognizes the characteristics of a beautiful lady. As a member of a spiritual family and one with the fear of God, he was forced by his mother to attend the children's fellowship meeting that normally took place in the evenings. As a member of the fellowship, Collins never participated fully or gave his maximum concentration to the prayers, and there were times when he missed the fellowship maybe two or three times a week. When he comes back around 8 p.m.

his mother will try to question him about what he learned from The Fellowship, but he never answered any question.

On one fateful day, Collins returned from school. He did not meet anybody at home and was very hungry at the same time. He went to the kitchen and discovered that the whole pot was empty. His mind wandered as he sat on the small stool near the stove, thinking about what to cook. Though many ideas entered his head, he did not know how to execute them since he does't know how to cook. He also thought of going to mama Isaac's shop to get something on credit, but he knew that his mother was going to kill him for doing that. His memory was enriched with much thought and he was able to recall that the biscuits he normally takes for breakfast in the morning are in his mother's room, on top of the wardrobe. He quickly headed towards the room and with the help of a chair, he was able to get the biscuits and took only four pieces. When his mother came back, she noticed that someone had invaded her room and the only thing the person could be looking for was biscuits. Not thinking twice, he called her son and asked if he took any biscuits from there. Collins, who has the gift of being two steps ahead of someone, said no without waiting for the second question to come in.

The mother immediately called the director of the fellowship and told him what had happened. In the evening time when Collins arrived for fellowship the director called him aside and gave him 10 strokes of cane. After crying Collins told the full story about the biscuits. This even made his moral go down about attending fellowship again and he slept off that night without talking to his mother. In his dream, he took an oath never to attend fellowship again. After 2 months of being absent from the fellowship, Collins noticed a strange face in their compound. A decent-looking girl who his brain told him that they might be in the same age bracket. Every evening the girl ties her scarf and heads towards the venue for the fellowship. She comes back in the evening and in the morning goes to school. There was no chance or opportunity for Collins to befriend her and now what is going to make Collins start fellowship again has finally come.