The choirmaster is one that a lot of us admired; he was upright in our sight because of how he lived his life and the type of principles he tried to instill in us. Despite how stubborn a child was, once his mother reported him to the choirmaster, the child tended to find his way to the right track because the choirmaster was not only a disciplinarian; he also corrected with love and so much care and did whatever he could to make sure that kids were on the right track.
For the fact that he could be everything the church and other members wanted him to be, he was not only admired by the kids but also by even adults. The way he throws his hands in the air every Sunday, directing the choir, and how they understand the meaning of every finger in the air and know exactly what is expected of them. Mr. Sunday Sunday was admired by many, but he has a thing against sex before marriage and against being in a relationship when you are not yet at the age for marriage; he just does not support a boy and girl relationship because he claims that is how it starts, and for that reason, he had problems with many of the youths in the church, and his fanbase started to drop drastically.
"If you know you are not of age for marriage, you have no business with relationships," Mr. Sunday advised the youth after Sunday service.
"But sir, a boy and a girl can be friends without being in a relationship; then why do you kick against a boy and girl friendship?" Sandra, one of the youths, asked.
"Do you keep a goat in a yam barn and expect the goat not to eat the yam?" Mr. Sunday asked Sandra.
"No, sir," Sandra responded, supporting her answer with the movement of her head from left to right.
"Exactly, in a boy and girl relationship, it is only a matter of time before one develops feelings for the other; the best way is to keep your distance and just say hi or hello when you see each other, not spend a lot of time with each other," Mr. Sunday gave his final advice and dismissed everybody to go home.
There have been rumors that Mr. Sunday was not as pure as we thought he was, but it was hard to believe. There have been rumors of him having an affair with the choir mistress despite being married, but we have not seen any sign or have any concrete evidence to confirm that. He treats her exactly the same way he treats other choristers; there was no special treatment at all in public, and that made us have our doubts about the rumors.
Later that same day, the rumors became stronger, and this time around, it was everywhere; everybody was talking about it. I was wondering why everybody was talking about it all of a sudden until I heard Daniel explaining and narrating at the viewing center how he and Kate saw them kissing in the church vestry, thinking everyone had gone home.
"So after Mr. Sunday finished his usual Sunday advice to the youths and dismissed us, I was at the church gate when I realized I was not with my jotter, and since Kate and I live on the same street, I asked her to follow me back to the vestry where I must have left it so we will go back home together," Daniel narrated.
"Oga, this story is not complete. After you saw them, what did they do? What did you do? Give us the full gist," one of the boys at the viewing center demanded.
"He kept shouting my name and that of Kate's and asking us to come, but we ran away. At some point, he even shouted, What did you people see?"Daniel responded.
"Ohhh, what a hypocrite he is; all these years he has made himself look so pure, so righteous, more like Jesus Christ himself, but all of that is just hypocrisy at the highest level," Jessy, one of the boys whom Mr. Sunday had stopped from getting a girlfriend, said in response to what he heard.
"I really cannot wait for choir practice day so I can look him in the eye and tell him how much of a hypocrite he is, someone many of us looked up to and who we thought he was, but all his life was all built on a lie," David, another boy in the viewing center, added.
It was a Sunday packed with so much drama and mixed emotions because some people were happy the hypocrite was finally exposed and some disappointed because Mr. Sunday was like a role model to many of us.
