Sister-in-Campus 8

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 lot had happened in a span of one week that Joyce had a lot of catching to do. She didn't know where to start from yet she had to. Madam Gladys had assigned herself as her counselor since she didn't want the poor girls problems to be known to others. Everyone had wanted to know who was first year girl who had been raped twice. Her parents had left for Vihiga frustrated just as they had come. From the rape suspect escaping or being made to escape to not being able to take their daughter back home to rest because an approaching exam. The only thing they were happy is that their only daughter was on her way to recovery.

"There are alot of assignments to be done and I will help you some and the remaining we can get them from some of my friends in class." Stacia said as she settled next to her in Joyce's room. Stacia had stopped chasing Godfrey and started associating herself with Joyce. She was glad this time Joyce had reduced her spiritual talks like she used when they were just admitted. It all started on that day when Godfrey was in her room and he used an excuse of going for a short call to escape from her trap. The books he left behind turned to belong to Joyce, so the day she heard she was back from the hospital she decided to take her books. Joyce who had been out of the campus for a whole two weeks.

"That would be grateful dear of you!" Joyce replied interrupting her thoughts. They soon got busy with the assignments till they never heard someone enter the room. He almost got to where they were but Joyce was quick to sense. "Oh my God!"

"Kalos! Why do you want to scare us to death?" Stacia said as she recovered from her shock.

"Not really my dear" Kalos replied a mischievous grin on his face.

Stacia got up from her seat and gave him a tight long hug that even got Joyce upset. First she was trying to keep a good distance from the boy child, secondly she was still healing from the aftermath of the rape incidence. Any romantic gymnastics near her was enough to provoke her and had the hugging couple disengaged she would have stood and thrown her hands in protest.

<< One week Ago

Kalos was the boy that saved Stacia from having a bad day at the computer lab after Godfrey had deserted her. It was a bad day for her to loose a man when she really needed one desperately. She never thought a man could escape her trap so easily like Godfrey had done. However she had gained when she strayed into the computer lab to browse God-knows-what.

"Excuse me", she turned to her neighbor on her right out of frustration as she bit her nails. "Can't login to my Gmail!"

Her neighbor who turned out to be Kalos helped her so much with recovering the Gmail account though she was not really concentrating in the stuff. She was just enjoying the company of an ICT guru. His laptop was running a strange software which she could not understand and she could not understand how he was able to use his laptop and the desktop computer before him at the same time.

“I really need some coaching in this tech stuff if you wont mind. I am just a BComm student very green in Computer related stuff”, She requested when they were leaving the lab.

“I am not such an expert in it but my course in Computer Science is what pushes me beyond my limits. Actually the learning curve for us is very stiff. I wont mind helping a beautiful lady like you especially when am free. Which is your room?”

“I stay in Hostel Saturn 13. When can we start even if it is today? ”

“I am sorry today I’m kind of busy and will try to see if I can make it this weekend”

Today ...

“You promised to come over in the weekend but you didn’t show up” Stacia lamented to him.

“Am sorry something came up and I had to go to town to fix it. It is very foolish we never got to exchange contacts” Kalos apologized.

“How could we have exchanged phone numbers yet you didn’t have yours?” Stacia went on. “So how did you know I was here?”

“Stacia I gave you mine and expected you to text or please call me.”

“But Kalos remember I told you am still learning how to use the smartphone”

“Okay then I will see how to help you learn this things faster”

Stacia wondered loudly that Kalos was such a genius to have been able to locate her without the help of a phone. But he simply reminded her that he had seen her from the window where she was sited and located her based on the location of the window. Anyhow that was still genius to her since se would not be able to locate a room just by looking at the window.

“So what is that that came up over the weekend?” Stacia asked as Kalos tried to settle on the seat farthest on the table. Stacia who by now was back to writing the assignments was sandwiched between Joyce and Kalos.

“My laptop had a problem with its display unit, screen connector was faulty hence it was affecting the resolution of my display unit” Kalos explained.

“Kalos that is enough for a nut like me. You can help my friend here to get some notes from the email and print.” Stacia was now diverting the discussion since she had nothing from what Kalos had been explaining.

“Kalos you ICT guys are really making life very hard for us. From KRA, HELB and now Gmail”, Joyce said painfully.

“But that is where the world is heading to ladies”, Kalos protested. A long silence followed as Kalos tried to do something on his laptop. His mind was fixed on Stacia as he watched her from the corner of her eyes. Stacia on the hand was equally happy seeing Kalos there. Joyce was quite all through paying attention to what she was writing on the papers.

“Now in fact we will need you to help us type some assignments for us on your laptop then you will also print for us!” Stacia spoke in soft but rather commanding voice to the astonishment of Kalos. He hated doing this kind of jobs in his second year yet he knew as much as it looked like torture to him it had far reaching benefits.

* * * * *

Weeks later exams were now approaching very fast and all the parting would soon be on hold till after the exams especially for the first years. Hazy just like Jaymo and his bad friends were all good as they didn’t have to worry about what was coming. Life was as usual to them. While Hazy depended on the male lecturers to pass her exams, Jaymo always got the papers from his friends in Egerton University, Laikipia Campus. The exams that they did at Kisii University was always done there first before being passed here a secret that few people knew about. The examination department knew it was a big loophole but had nothing to do about it since such decisions were carried out from the top. It was a decision that the governing council had reached after it emerged that most lecturers who were on contract were not ready to set new exams as a boycott for their late payments.

All this time Joyce was keeping a low profile choosing solitude when she was not in class or in the company of Stacia who she was becoming found of. Most of her CU friends were taken aback by her unusual behavior of solitude since she had lost the zeal to be in their midst. A few who had tried to bring her back had failed terribly. She now hated them for not being with her when she was in her worst moments. Were it not for Madam Gladys, her parents, Stacia and a few friends she would have not come back to campus. She would have probably committed suicide just like anyone else who would have been in such a position.

All was going on well with her till one day she decided to pay Stacia a visit in her room. She knocked the door but nobody answered, she turned the knob and the door opened. The scene of Stacia and Kalos stack naked in the middle of a mind blowing sex from the way the two were lost in another world was too much for her. Stacia had told her she was going to be relaxing that day in her room as they awaited for the end of semester exams. “So this is what she was calling relaxing?” she kept asking herself as she retraced her footsteps back to her room. The memories she had been fighting to shed off were back again and she almost bumped into Godfrey hurrying off to some place she didn’t care to know.

“Hey Joyce!”, He called on her cheerfully but she wasn’t in the moods at all. She simply passed him like she didn’t know him at all. She soon disappeared into Hostel Jupiter into her room. But Godfrey with his persistence followed her right into her room. She managed to close the door behind her with a lock as if she had seen Godfrey following her.

"Hey Joyce" Godfrey called out.

“Who is it?” She asked angrily.

“Its me Godfrey I want to talk to you” Godfrey answered from outside.

“Just go am not talking to you now”

“How about later?”

“Never! I just need space.”

She felt like people should just leave her alone. Godfrey was supposed to come and help her to witness the good news on the very day Jaymo and his bad friends were to come to her room. She had planed it very well knowing that Godfrey and another CU would be of much help on that particular. Unfortunately none had turned let alone apologizing via a text that they would not come. So when the time came she began to attend to her guests hoping that her friend would come in the process unfortunately things turned different. This was why she was bitter with people like Godfrey, bitter with the entire CU and even anyone she thought would have helped but didn’t. In fact some CU members never believed her that she was going to do evangelism right in her room to the likes of Jaymo. From outside Godfrey could hear the soft sobs of Joyce. He saw himself as a fool looking for trouble standing outside there. If someone came and found her there they would definitely think of many things about him. Perhaps they would associate him with the bloody incident that had occurred to the sobbing Joyce. He left slowly feeling wasted and confused over the whole scene. It was getting dark when he stepped outside Hostel Jupiter. He immediately left towards Manoti hostels to see his friend Jim whom he believed was back to his room.

Joyce on the hand had stopped crying. She was sure Godfrey had left and she felt like visiting the washrooms. She was rushing there to vomit though she didn’t remember anything that she had eaten that could make her vomit. As she came back she picked up her phone to call her mother and ask her about her vomiting condition as it was a rare one to her. Her fears needed to be clear. However as her mother picked up the call noises of wailing filled her ears from the background.

Joyce: Hello mum

Mum: Hello my daughter.

Joyce: What is going on there?

Mum: Hope you are doing well my daughter.

Joyce: Am fine mother. So what is it there?

Mum: We are mourning the death of Daudi.