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VILLAINOUS

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   I stood by the kitchen window in the kitchen admiring the maize I planted in a run of Milo, an assignment I was given in school. It was already 15cm tall and it danced happily in the cool even breeze. If I only I was a plant too...  Pim! pim! Father was back from work already. I rushed to the sitting room to arrange whatever was not in place. My father was like a raging bull and an all powerful god. He did as it pleased him, he had no room for weakness of any kind. I rushed and opened the gate for him and he was already fuming before I came. I rushed to the car to get his bag from the back seat. "Good afternoon sir" I greeted him.   "What were you doing that you left me outside?" He said without answering my greetings. "Sorry sir" I said as I closed the door to the car. I hurriedly took the bag to his room and came back to give him some water to drink.   "Bring me a bottle of Orijin" he said without even looking at me or the water ...