Talebearing24- A Friend Fell From A Tall Tree

           A childhood friend of mine in my neighborhood called Kingley going to the same school and attending the same church with me could not forget a day he fell from a mango tree not too far from my dwelling. Kingsley and I used to go to school together in the morning and waited for each other after closing hour so that we could come home together being the fact that we were living in the same neighborhood and our parents because of us were also friends.

          I could remember vividly we were in Senior Secondary School 1 then when we noticed that there was a tall mango tree not far from my house. Then was the season of mango, apart from the mango trees that we used to visit after school hour to pluck the ripe ones, we also paid visit to the nearby ones. Sometimes, we went to pluck ripe mango on our way home and ate all so that we would not be suspicious and beaten. This did not affect our house chores even my friend used to hawk after school hour while I would wash dirty plates we used in the morning when rushing to school. This was how we were plucking the ripe mangoes around without the consent of our parents.

          One day, I did not go to school because I was ill but Kingsley went and on his way home, he branched at the mango tree not too far from my house to pluck the ripe mangoes. On getting there, he saw three ripe mangoes at the top of the trees, he continuously threw sticks to them but he could not get them, then he decided to climb this tree and found his way to the top of the tree where these ripe mangoes were hung not knowing that what was good was not meant for a single person. When he got there, he met a snake and he was seriously scared therefore rushing down from the tree but because he was frightened, one of his hands missed the tree and he fell. When he got down, he even thought he was dead because the tree branches with the leaves beat him mercilessly on his way down but he was able to walk again with his eyes red and his school uniform dirty and torn.

I was outside the house when he was coming from this mango tree and narrated his ordeal. What a pity!