A FLASHBACK...

I could vividly remember when I was newly admitted with my twin brother to OHS (Olubadan High School).  Being a government school, that was my first time seeing such a lot of crowd. OHS was one of the best, recognized and well disciplined government schools in Ibadan, then.  The students were best and neatly dressed in their whites and blues. Here, I was, a short; cutely looking, well dressed in my blue skirt and a white top which was complemented by a blue berret cap which I styled to my desire.

However, I noticed this particular male teacher kept staring at me. As we were matching in, he shouted: that fair girl in berret, come back here. Was he referring to me? I asked myself. He continued shouting and yelling: we don't tolerate indiscipline in this school, what nonsense!  I was so terrified, asking myself what I had possibly done wrong. Now, standing in front of him, he said: why would you be wearing lipstick to school? That's an act of indiscipline.

Haaa! My lips couldn't agree to come together as I was gravely surprised. I replied, sir, I didn't use any lipstick, at all. But he wouldn't listen nor agree with me. He insisted I used my white top to rub the lipstick off. I cleaned, cleaned and cleaned till my lips cracked.  Suddenly, I heard a voice from afar, saying: she doesn't use lipstick, that's her lips. As I turned to see who the speaker was, I realized it was Sheriffdeen, my twin brother.  My twinnie said to him: we're from a disciplined and religious home too. The teacher who was angry became sober seeing I had no stain of lipstick on my white top. He was reluctant to feel sorry. He said: really, that's your lips! Mtcheww (in my mind), I didn't even reply him .

Since then, I just disliked him with his subject, Mathematics.  Whenever, he saw me throughout my years of secondary school, he would shout "pink lips".  Eventually, in JSS3, he summoned me and told me "sorry" for what he did to me years back in JSS1 (because, then, my lips cracked and took some months to heal). We became friends thereafter.