CHAPTER SIX (6)
As a Result of this, Johnson attached himself to Nathaniel's room in Dr.Karl's special Guest house where Nathaniel is living, feeding was not easy for him and there was no enough money to buy some essential textbooks, Johnson really smelt rod... He could only eat by the mercy of some students, his two girlfriends aslo dumped him up and ran away from his agony of life. As time went on Nathaniel began to treat Johnson very badly, he was no longer happy with Johnson's stay in his house... Though Nathaniel didn't tell Johnson to vacate from his house but his actions towards him vividly portrayed his mind.
As the humiliation on Johnson continued to increase, Johnson became tired of the unending insults and embarrassment from Nathaniel and his girlfriend, at time he couldn't longer cope with the obnoxious character of Nathaniel towards him, he moved out from his house. In order to prevent Johnson from being a wanderer in the campus, Isaac decided to share his small bed in the school hostel room with him...Isaac became gen food-provider for Johnson.
The semester was very hot and Thorny as far as Johnson was concerned,As time went on things began to go beyond control. Johnson was weak when a lecturer announced to them of selling his two books,and failure to the buy the books the person is automatically considered as a failure and the two courses were very important to Johnson, there was no way to raise money to buy the books... He decided to solicit Nathaniel about the problem but it went to the contrary, Nathaniel replied him that he don't have money that the only money he has is from his parents that he want to use it to change his wardrobe...All the clothes in that wardrobe is old and that I want to use the remaining money in my account to change it, can't help you because I don't have money, Nathaniel Concluded.
Johnson was dejected and confused, Isaac too can't help because he is also buying the books and he's also from a poor family like him and his parents can't afford the two of them, despite all appeals from Johnson with an ocean of tears , Nathaniel was not moved to do anything about that instead he mocked him for uselessing his life in the campus.
At last Johnson failed the two courses and other one course in the semester, his performance in the semester has nothing to write home about, he got three carryovers out of his eight courses and that's a very big blow to his Educational system being in the final year.
After the semester, Johnson went home and nobody saw him again in the university when school resumed for the second semester, that was how Johnson dropped out of the university from his almost finished studies in civil law (400 Level Second Semester).
In the village, things began to turn from bad to worse... No one was concerned to help Johnson achieve his aim of becoming lawyer , Johnson became despair and finally decided to quit from his journey to become a lawyer so he decided to do some minor businesses in the village just to fend himself and his old uncle and at least to set up a business that's reasonable but still the same no big amount of money was raised to set up business that's some how worth profiting, after much suffering from his colleagues in the village, he decided to move to the city to find a better job doing, at the city he was first taken as a gate keeper but later dropped himself from the work after finding out that his Master(Employer) is Nathaniel's Father.
He later ventured into street Hawking business, he have to hawk his goods from one street to other just to set a table in his home, Life was so unfair to Johnson even in the city. One day,he hawk his goods to Congressman's street in Akazu city as he was waiting for people to patronize him he saw a black Jeep coming back towards his direction after the person had droved off,he was little happy, he thought the person was coming to buy his goods but it went to the opposite.The Jeep stopped beside him ,he saw a lady who sat at the back seat of the big expensive cat,the lady was in suit she ordered Johnson to sell her some fruits, her spectacle was firmly fixed on her face while she was asking for him to sell for her, both the lady and Johnson was dumbfounded when they caught the sight of each other, Behold the lady was his old university friend who was a Political Science student and also a friend to Nathaniel, Johnson was shocked looking steadily at "FLORENCE" (The Lady in the Car), he didn't know when the goods fell down from his hands.
"Johnson" is this you? Florence surprisedly asked.
"Florence", Are you the owner of this big Expensive Car?, He asked.
She stepped down from the car and embraced him Warmly, Florence was very glad to see Johnson again after years back in the university but Johnson was not happy, he remembered how Nathaniel had put him with his negative influence in his menace, She took him and went to a nearby restaurant to discuss the way forward and how life has been treating him since he left the university, she was shocked when he pronounced his plague. 'Am really sorry Johnson, Besides all Hope is not lost yet, I believe God will do something great for you in the appointed time, just don't loose hope in God she advised.
The advice was not for Johnson, though he was physically present with her but his mind had been wandering in the world of thought since he met her in the road, He remembered his position in the department of Civil Law , Actually he was among the best students in his set those whom the lecturers were expecting to go out of the university with first class degree in civil law but reverse was the case for Johnson.
Instead of first class or Second class upper degree in Civil Law, he finally became a first class degree holder in street Hawking.