having been hit on the head with a tennis bat.He could not bear the excruciating pain. He decided to stay down as the pain jostle down his spine. He struggled to figure out who had hit him from behind as he knew fully well that he had taken down the group of four boys that attacked him.
As he managed to turn around,he couldn't believe who he was seeing. His eyes widened as he saw who held the tennis bat.
'Francis!',Kenneth called out, still amazed.
'How could you .....'.His voice failed him.He felt dizzy.He thought the world was melting away,but then he realized his eyes were shutting.He tried to lift his hands but it weighed more than he could imagine. He noticed he was blacking out and before he had counted up to five in his mind,he drifted into unconsciousness.
'Ken, please wake up!' was the first words he heard as he slowly drifted back to life.It was another of his friends,Ben,who had rushed him to the school library to regain consciousness.
Awww! Ken screamed as he tried to sit up.
'My head aches,where are we ?
'We are in the school library' Ben answered
'We couldn't take you home ,as we didn't want your mom to know you passed out.I thought we could sort this out ourselves '
Ken remembered the last face he saw before he passed out.
'Oh! who would have believed,my best friend would hit me with a tennis bat?' He asked Ben
'Think less about him now' Ben said reassuringly.
;We must focus on getting you back to fitness' .
'Where are the others ?'
He asked,still fazed by the thought of what Francis had done
'They should be here by now.They went to report to the head teacher'.
Janet,Festus and Gift who were also Ken's friends stepped into the library and joined the conversation.
What really happened ? Janet asked
'Francis happened' Ken replied
'But why would he suddenly attack you with a gang of boys'.
It was only then the Ken's mind flashed back to an announcement the school's head teacher made some weeks ago.
'A mathematics quiz competition has been organised by the state government for students of this region.Our school will send a single representative while the best student at the end of the competition would walk away with #300,000 as well as a scholarship to any university of your choice. I urge you all to work hard while we pick the best student to represent us'
Ken had won the school's test while Francis came second.
Now Ken could figure out the reason why Francis had hit him with a tennis bat.
'He wants to stop me from taking part in the competition.There is no way I'm going to let him do that.
How sure are you about this ? Festus asked,
I'm super sure about this and there's a way to confirm my claims'. Ken said.
'How exactly do you intend to go about that ?' Ben chipped in
'We test him' Kenneth said.
'And how do we do that, Francis is smart and you know that', they all said almost immediately.
'I think I got an idea' Ben said. They closed around and Ben related his plan to them..
Episode two ....
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