On a Friday afternoon, Prosper, a 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Klopp, returned from school and met the house empty, the parents were yet to return from work which was unusual because they don't work past 2:00 p.m. on Fridays.
Since there was electricity and his parents were not home, he saw it as a good opportunity to enjoy himself with the pornographic DVDs he had collected from his friends in school. He quickly unzipped his school bag and brought out the DVD plate, but he thought of calling his parents to confirm when they'd be coming home so they wouldn't catch him in the act.
"Hello, Daddy. Good afternoon, sir." He greeted his dad as the father picked up the call.
"Afternoon, how are you, and how was school today?" The dad responded.
"I'm very good, and school was fine. Daddy, when are you returning from work?" He asked further.
"Any problem? Anyways, I'd be returning home in the next hour. My car is with my mechanic now."
Prosper became very excited to hear that from his dad.
He called his mom to ask when she'd be coming back, and the mom gave her two hours as her returning time. He became more excited after confirming the retuning time of the both parents.
With excitement, he put on the DVD player and inserted the disc. He made sure to turn down the volume to the lowest to avoid letting the sound out of the walls of the house.
As the video began to play, he got up to balance on the soft sofa, and immediately after he sat down to enjoy himself with scenes on the TV, electricity was seized.
"Ooooh God!" He angrily exclaimed while beating his hands on the sofa.
He began to pray for electricity to be restored before his parents get back from work; otherwise, he'll be used as a case study by his parents all over the next week.
He waited for 10 minutes and the light was not restored. He decided to go turn on the generator, to at least remove the DVD plate from the DVD player before his parents get back.
He rushed to the backyard where the generator was, checked to see if fuel was in the tank, and he smiled when he saw that it was almost filled with fuel.
He positioned himself and dragged the generator starter, but it refused to start. He did it again with more pressure, and it still remained the same.
He positioned himself again to gather more momentum and dragged the starter with more intense force, and the rope of the generator cut (the kick got spoiled)š.
At this moment, goosebumps took over his skin in the misdt of sweating. Tears dropped from his eyes because he was already in two charged situations if he didn't succeed in remedying the first one before his parents returned.
He couldn't do anything as he became helpless in the situation. He stood there for five minutes, looking at the generator helplessly, wishing he had the power to repair it in a flash.
After his unproductive wishes, he walked back to the parlour to sit and wait for light to be restored so he could remove the plate before they returned.
As he sat down, looking like a homeless child, all his prayer was for God to cause light to be restored, and to make matters worse, time had passed the time his dad said he would be coming back.
While meditating and foreseeing how his dad will beat him when he comes back, he heard footsteps walking towards the door.
Fear gripped him, and he didn't know what to do.
"No, no, no, that can't be my dad, I didn't hear his car horn". He said while trying to calm his nerves.
"Or what if it's him and he didn't return with his car because he earlier said the mechanic was with the car?" He pondered so deeply and couldn't finalize on what to do.
The sound of the footsteps stopped at the entrance of the door and stayed silent. Prosper was very sure it was his dad, so he began panicking. He waited for the dad to open the door to come in, but he didn't.
He got curious about what might have stopped his dad at the door. "Maybe he's peeping at me."
He summoned courage and walked to the door to see who was actually outside, and to his seriousness, it was someone from the electricity company distributing hard copies of the electricity bills to houses.
"Hi, I thought no one was at home," the electricity guy said to him as he saw Prosper coming out from inside the house.
After the electricity guy had left, Prosper entered the house again to continue waiting for a miracle of electricity to be restored before his dad returns.
Just as he sat down again, the light got restored suddenly, and be couldn't contain his joy. "Yeeeeeey!" He exclaimed as he rushed to power the DVD player and removed the DVD plate finally.
Immediately he removed it and was walking away from the parlor, holding the DVD plate in his hand. The mom walked in, and he zoomed off to his room to drop the plate before his mom would notice. It was a miracle for him.
When the dad returned, he lied to his dad, saying that the generator got spoiled when he was trying to put it on to iron his clothes, and the dad didn't pick offence with that.
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