Treacherous game

The young man was tall,board_shouldered and dark complexion.he wore a sleeveless black jacket over am immaculately white tee_shirt and sat patiently,rather poised,on the low wall outside one of the classrooms on the ground floor of the university library complex .some student,mostly female in the adjacent classroom engaged in a lecture,stealthily glanced admiringly at him. They thought that he had a nice face,a handsome boy with large innocent eyes,thick black hair and an appealing physique.

Billy who was part of this lecture signalled to the other boys outside. He was certainly that Stanley was perched there ,awaiting him. He was there in time because the lecturer was almost rounding off the legal method lectures for the week.

*As I earlier intimated you,ours is the most dignifying organization you could ever join in this university or anywhere else*Stanley whispered in all seriousness. He was sharing the same desk with billy in a now completely empty classroom.

*Why not give me some time to arrange myself Stanley......when I've decided ,I promise I'll let you know* billy muttered hesitantly.

*Billy you don't have all the the in the world .Two booklet have already been filled up and the third is going to be the last* Stanley moaned.

*I've got to think* billy blurted.

*think over what ? how long do I have to continue with my persuasion? have I not told you that I'll link you up with the influential members of the organization who will help you sail through the interview? we were the beat pals at HOWAD and I wouldn't rope you I to something that is going to be detrimental to your success in this Institution* Stanley coaxed

*I know but.....*

*but what?* Stanley retorted sharply.

*of my own free will I'll join you guys but you can't force me into any kind of commitment when I'm not ready*

*the interview is coming up in about a month time I just wish that you'll be there to witness the caliber of people who want to be jackals. why not tell me that you are not interested in my invitation and I'll never bother you again.*

*it's okay Stanley,but give me twenty_four hours to make up mind .could you come to the maisonette by this time tomorrow?*

*Very well but don't be silly billy* Stanley warned scrutinizing the other boy's face in a potently dangerous countenance,quite alien to Stanley character.

*I don't understand you Stanley !*billy laughed as he rose from the desk,yawning and stretching out his arms.

*I heard that you are romancing the Redbeard* Stanley growled as he looked pointedly at billy.

*Redbeard?*

*damn you why are you pretending that you have never heard of Redbeard?*

*I have but ain't got nothing to do with them* billy said under his breath.

*can you swear that no guy from the Redbeard has approached you to join them?* Stanley probed .

*All I know is that I have not join any group as at now* billy replied emphatically.

*but you intend to join them sooner or later?*

*I.i.iii*

*I what billy?*

*you're a nag*

*be honest*

*I'm not obliged to disclose my privacy to any one* billy snapped

*not even to me?*

*certainly*

*anyway,I would advice you not to ever contemplate joining the Redbeard .In fact a y group apart from the jackals will drain you materially,financially and at last will endanger you*

A minute later billy and Stanley were strolling out of the. building,plastic file in hands,into the bustling colourful quadrangle in the scorching afternoon sun. pack of student littered the quadrangle and beyond,student were being ferried to and fro the library complex and the main university or hostel,by motorcycle and buses . The two friend were now talking and laughing as if they have not discussed anything that has been on the verge of a turbulent disagreement some moments earlier. They were the of same height and they probably shared the same soft eyes,aquiline nose which was a bit upturned at the tip of each nostrils and a generous but well_shaped lips with a thin line of virgin moustache,the kind of lips that induce girls into wondering how it will feel having a lick of such lips. The two friends differed in complexion

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Stanley James at hearth was a really gentleman;

although his dropping eyelids endowed him with a snobbish and nonchalant disposition. He was also handsome to a fault such that many sometimes wondered how he would have fitted into the weaker sex. Few boys are ever in the focus of penciled and mascara eyeballs and Stanley was probably one of such few .

He was fond of dressing like a "yuppy". American jeans,tee_shirts ,sweatshirt,caps,which were most of the time worn on the reverse;boots,earring on the left ear and a gold chain on his slender neck. He was most fond of jacket of whatever fabrics or materials,from sleeveless monkey_jackets,to the romantic Russian inspired long wrap cashmere coat which he donned during severe harmattans.

Stanley's trendy attire was the desire of many youths and undergraduate of the renwick university and not just a peculiarity of the university of new harbour where he was a second year student of medicine and surgery. But being a yuppy was expensive,quite expensive if you want to be original. Stanley was born I to a rich home . His father was the managing director of one of the upcoming bank in city z . The accruing portion per siblings also favoured him. Unlike most country one families,they were just two to milk their parents.

Stanley has always wanted to be a medical doctor,he had never wished for something else he wanted anything he desired and he seldom hungered too long for a such desire .Since his junior days at the hope waddell training Institution,he has fallen In love with the laboratory coat and the stethoscope which hung down either from the ear of a doctor or the pocket of the laboratory coat. As at then he thought that it was only doctors that were permitted to use the laboratory coat an moreover,he had been highly impressed by the elusiveness of the revered faculty to aspiring candidate from city z where he was domicile ,across to city x the capital of his state of origin medicine was the revered profession,tacitly in vogue or so it seemed to Stanley. Anything explicitly or implicitly in vogue was Stanley's weakness he weighed every reality and concept against its acceptability but paradoxically,he loathed the acceptability of any vogue to every class of the society.

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Stanley was a hard working and brilliant student he has always been studios for he was aware that a dunce falls out of the esteem of every advanced mind even if he were as pretty as a monarch butterfly. His priority was to excel academically so that his esteem will never be puncture in any way he knew that he needed to excel at the big examination he therefore shunned all form of social gatherings that was his hallmark and faced his books.

When the senior school certificate result were released ,he was instantly the toast of the state as his result was the best for that year and the schools best in the previous 6 years the university entrance exam also favoured him and he was admitted on merit to the profession he had held so dear to his heart .

Stanley not only admitted into the university of new harbour harbour four month after leaving high school he was also among the LUCKY SEVENTY who were finally initiated into the Eastern zone of the jackals confraternity. The jackal confraternity was a secret cult now off the university campus a d it is also present beyond,some said the jackal confraternity was not a secret cult in the exact sense because their activities were carried out in the open others claimed that they were still a potently dangerous clan which could harm under the pretext of standing up for justice and humanity . However the confraternity was the only one of it kind as they resorted to be outside the university campus and had on their list elites of the society.

cultism of the general type was in vogue in most of the country one universities,although they were the Infamous illegal organization on campus they were feared and often respected by the very population that they terrorised they are the secret society meant for boys who had started secretion "real" male hormones;men of bravado and dignity their membership was usually shrouded in secrecy and probably modelled on a miniature degrees after the Sicilian secret society the mafia truly the ruled lime the mafia by blackmailing and exploitation using vendetta and other form of violence as method of enforcing their demand on their opponent it was rumored that in addition to the mafia style ,the secret cult perform various satanic rituals.

Stanley fitted well into the jackal confraternity one of the five acknowledge cults in the university of new harbour. Numerically the jackal was the lowest and they wielded a low degree of influence on the campus but they prided themselves with having the best brain and most lectures in their camp. This confraternity was greatly admired by those student who wanted to be a part of the masculinity without wantonly drawing themselves into criminal acts for such person if there is anything good in the secret cult it began and ended In the jackal confraternity there still remained the sharing of secret the meeting of new face,the night parties and the psychological satisfaction that one belong. In a country like county one , one needed connection and belongings or there would be nothing for one it was with such thoughts that Stanley have gone to fill the jackal confraternity form after he had received his admission letter .