Lulu Thomas was my bestie when we were in secondary school.We were tied together whenever we bounced the school boundaries. He was the type of the person who never listened to nonsense. I really befriended him just because he seemed to be of the same feathers as I.He was a dark skinny, so slimy that they nicknamed him ‘Mr bones’. Lulu never trusted a man except those he believed to be his closest even though he could deny their sayings. Lulu was a genius in teasing through comments whenever we were learning. Most of the classmates hated him though some liked his behaviour. He was liked by more than half of the class. Lulu was caught a couple of times bullying other students and was severely punished and was even suspended. At first Lulu was a drunkard. He used to smoke weed. He was addicted with those stress killers. He used to urinate on his bedding whenever he was drunk.His performance declined very fast. I heard that when he was coming in the school from primary school he was a genius. He was great in mathematics and physics. He was a good boy.He was responsible and respectful. His behaviour changed when he was in form 2. The form 4s who were called the fathers were gone after writing their national examinations. The form 1s were left in great peace, they could do whatever they wanted now. The later were barriers to the former’s freedom. Boarding life started to bring good smells to them. This was the time to call from their parents on the things that they thought the form 4s will grab from them. That is when Lulu emerged. He started dripping and show-offing that his dad was a millionaire. His dad was a successful businessman based in the South. Whenever he requested anything,clearly he could receive it. His pocket money started to overflow. I heard that by time he could have k200 as his pocket money for a Month. That was the largest amount for other’s could have k5 which was enough for the whole month.

The money he had made him to start a leading a rude life.He started to go in the bars,saying he want to buy a soft drink .
Time passed while he was going for a soft until he started buying alcohol. That become his behaviour. He also went along with weed. He started not to attend classes. He was always in the tarvens. He could start fights outside the school campus and hide in the hostels.

At school Lulu started to tease tease other students.

The last term of form2 came and Lulu failed .
He had to move on to form3 as the government made the policy that secondary school students should not repeat a class.

The first term of form3 is when I met Lulu. I attended the previous classes from a different school.
I came to this school due to parental reasons. On the first day I didn’t see Lulu, he was not in the class,maybe he was in the bars. On the second day,upon entering the class I saw Lulu. Uncombed hair, a big unbuttoned school uniform shirt ,red eyes, untightened school shoe.Before sitting on my chair he yelled
‘Is this the intruder’ while pointing at me ,
‘Yes!!’ the whole class answered there landlord.
‘Leave everything to me he said’ while trying to jump the desk that was in front of him’
Pwww!! Luckily his left foot stepped on a shoeless of his right foot. He fallen on the desk. The whole class laughed at him. He stood there and walked straight to me and slapped me and he went straight out of the class. The whole class was starring at me by then. I said nothing. I put my hand on my cheek then lifted it upward and rubbed my hair ,the whole class laughed.
This is when I came up with a plan to take their hearts to me.i had to do something quickly to grab their attention.
‘Hey guys my name is Umisha sorry for doing this in your class but this is not how we were doing it in Ukraine’ ‘I came..’ but before I could finish my talking somebody from back seat shouted ‘he was studying abroad guys’ that is when the class started roaming my name ‘Umisha’ ‘Umisha’ .
They kept shouting my name that they took me up and started throwing and receiving me in the air.
Lulu came in and he was received with books,pens,bags and everything. He was amazed to see me being treated a hero. After a while Lulu said sorry to me while everyone in the class was listening.
‘Am just sorry I was tempered please forgive me and am about to’ but before he continued I said ‘already forgiven bro’
That is how I befriended Lulu, thanks to the lie that I was studying in Ukraine.

After hearing more about Lulu I promised myself that I should do everything to put that guy in right track again.
That’s when I started going out of school boundaries just to see where Lulu spend his days. I ventured everywhere he went and I had to do my work on him. Firstly I forced him to go to church together and he agreed. I forced him for a few weeks but thanks that after 7weeks he started to force me to go to church. I always took him to evening preps were we could study together .Within a month a change was seen in him . He started to go for morning preps and he never missed class again. One thing he could not stop taking weed and alcohol. By trying he managed to stop alcohol and it was difficult for him to stop weed. He went to meet a doctor who gave some precautions.

When we were entering form4 Lulu was a changed person .
He was the one who waked me every 02:00am to go and study . Truly Lulu started to work extra hard. We wrote our national examinations and exchanged goodbyes . He went his way and I went my way. When the examinations were out I heard that Lulu Thomas was the best student in our school. Too I passed.On a sad note I received a phone call from a friend that Lulu had died of asthma, a problem he never told me he had.
I really miss those days with Lulu Thomas and Once more I wish them.