The Stealth Engineer and the Fall Guy: A Tale of Two Secrets

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My friend Paul finds it difficult to keep a secret. He will always rush to share it with us as soon as he hears something or after any discussion with his girlfriend, revealing that he has no secrets from us.
One faithful day, his girlfriend decided to go through his chat with us, which was when she discovered that we knew everything that had happened in their relationship and all that they had always discussed. She was angry to realise that for a fact, her boy cannot keep a secret.

Growing up, my parents usually considered me the good son of the house, tagging my elder brother as the bad seed. When anything happened at home, it was always his name that was called and he always received the punishment. On every occasion, they were right to punish him until one fateful day when no one was at home. I became very bored and decided to know what was inside the television set. It was an LG television, those models then that looked like a box. I took up the screwdriver and loosened all the screws on the television, the first thing I saw was a thing that looked like a magnet, thoughts started popping in my head and before you knew it, I started losing everything inside the television.

It was very easy for me to lose them so I had the confidence that it wouldn't be so difficult to couple everything back to its original form. By the time I was done, I decided to fix everything back the way I saw them, and that was when the problem started. I will screw everything to the back of the television, thinking it was how I had seen them. I was proud of myself, already saying to myself that I was going to be an engineer in the future. There was a power outage at the time I was done and I was unable to test what I had done to know if I had fixed it properly.

My dad came back late that evening and decided to watch the 8 pm network news on the NTA, the power indicator came up but the television did not come up. I was just by the cord when my dad saw me and asked me what had happened to the television. This is how I lied to him that I knew nothing about it.

The next day was a Saturday and my dad decided to take the television to a repair shop. As soon as the technician had opened the back of the television, he burst out laughing. Surprisingly, my dad asked what the matter was, and he had told my dad that someone had reassembled the television and had done a terrible job. The first thing that came to his mind was my elder brother and on getting home, he accused my brother of spoiling the television and he was not given a chance to defend himself. Seeing the punishment my brother was receiving and not wanting to spoil my reputation, I stayed quiet and to date no one knows the story behind the spoiled television.

My name is Hive account@rishagamo, and this is my response to the Hive student week 36 prompt. TITLE: SECRETS