36th STORY WRITING CONTEST. /NIGHTMARE! / By @olabillions

Once again I am here to pen down a piece to this wonderful community, I must commend the effort of the admins and mods of this community for hosting such a good contest, as usual, I hope y'all are doing great, I was you all best of luck, I will be writing about a nightmare in my life, it's a true story though😁.

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In the early years of my secondary school, I wasn't much of an excellent student, I do my best always but in the end my best never amount to high expectations of my parent, I see myself as an average student and that never bothers me as long as I am doing averagely good promoting to the next class, It wasn't a problem throughout my junior classes but as I stepped into the senior level, it became an issue with my parent, they pay a huge amount of money for my school fees (because I attended a private school) and the tone of not repeating a class was always ringing In my ear until I made it to my final class in the secondary school days.

Every exam I wrote to promote to the next class was always on my mind, I doubted my ability, if I should fail, my education will seize, my parent made sure I understood that, then I think, what will I do if my education stops, and that sense of reasoning makes me grind harder as I did good until I got to the final class, but here is the biggest test, in this level, we write our WAEC(West African Examinations Council) it is a board exam and an external one, that is, it is not related to the school but the ministry of education, every time I remember this, I passes a certain emotion in me that makes me scared.

The first and second term of the final class had gone, we were in the month of preparing for the waec examination, in a twinkle of an eye, the date of the examination arrived and we all participated till it ended for a month, every day I have an examination, my parent reminds me of their anthem, as such I will fright but most time I didn't let it get to me as I gave myself enough confidence that I had prepared hard for this, so that gave me a little courage to face the exam peacefully.

After 1 month of finishing the exam I was already a graduate by then, I had written my JAMB (Joint Admission and Matriculation Board) and passed I await my waec result in fear of the unknown.

One day, I was at the parlor with my parent watching tv, then a news flash came in, that the waec result had come out that each student can check their grades as soon as they have the scratch card which we will buy, the news further brought out statistics of the examination stating that the number of students that passed the examination is not up to 2/3 of the whole student that participated in the exam that year.

Wow, I was shocked as I heard that and the sight I saw next was that of my dad, he did say anything though but his sight says a lot, I left shakingly into my room shivering, as such I slept off without knowing.

This was where I had a nightmare, to me then it was real in my dream, I woke up the next morning and I followed my dad to the cyber cafe to check my result, getting there we bought the scratch card to check the result, as we clicked into the waec website and check for my details, seeing my grade, my hand was in my head, I had failed woefully, my dad didn't say a word and I started crying, I cried in my dream and in reality as I woke up I found tears in my eye, at that point everywhere was dark, the time was past 1 am, and I became more scared, that was a nightmare that haunts me until the day I found out my result were excellent. It was a night I will never forget since then I never give in to whatever people think, as long as I believe in myself and what I had done, I never care about what people say.

Thanks for reading through this piece, it is wonderful to bring out this memory of the past, as I write now I recollect a lot of memories during this period.

Greetings and blessings
Written by:- @olabillions