My guy Henry was living with his elder brother Ben in a 3-bedroom flat in Ikeja.
Ben, his babe, and two other guys stayed there together.
But Henry had a problem, Henry was broke, and you know how these things be when you're the only broke guy among a group of friends...He was literally the houseboy.
His own brother had spent years treating him like he was just a street guy.
Steady insults. Embarrassment whenever they go out together. Lot of stuff.
His routine was pretty simple,
5:30am - Wake up, feed the dogs, sweep compound.
6am - Off to café in Ogba. Use their light and WiFi all day.
7pm - Come back home. Wash all the plates in the sink. Clean the house. Buy fuel for gen.
Every. Single. Day.
"This your YouTube wey you dey do, na scam abi legit work?" Ben's babe would mock.
His brother's friends: "Henry, all of us don buy car. You still dey press laptop for café. Why you no just do Yahoo?"
Henry would just smile: "I no fit do fraud. E no dey my blood."
They'd laugh, and normal thing, he runs errands, even as useless as going to buy food from the market.
One of the days, bro got monetized on youtube after months of working. First month, 3M
subsequently, ₦5-6 million monthly. Clean money.
No one in that house knew.
He didn't change anything. Same routine.
Same Nike slides. he just got an extra one.
Same 2019 HP laptop with tape on the side.
But he started contributing ₦50k for food - even though he barely ate at home.
Started buying fuel from his own money without being asked.
They still mocked him.
"See this one wey dey try form helper now. Don't worry, when hunger catch you, you go talk."
Henry just dey smile. Dey stack. 5 months straight.
Until that evening.
He came back from café around 9pm. Hungry die. Saw rice in the pot with one piece of meat. Thought it was leftover. Ate it.
Ben's babe gave him the most disrespectful slap of his life.
"Are you mad? That meat is for Ben! You no get sense abi?"
The room went silent.
Henry just stood there. Cheek red.
Ben came out: "Ah, sorry bro. You know how these babes dey be na. You sef suppose ask before you chop."
The other guys: "Omo, you sef no try o. You for ask."
Nobody said anything to the babe.
Henry just nodded. Went to his corner. Didn't say a word.
Few months down the line, rent was due.
Ben and his guys were struggling. Clients no pay. Crypto don crash. Bets no dey enter.
They needed ₦1.8M urgently to sort the rent but shishi no dey
One morning, Henry told his bro that he was leaving and packed his things quietly. Called a cab, all he had in the house was his ghana-must-go bag, a backpack and a polybag
Ben: "Guy, where you dey go?"
Henry: "I don see my own place. One-room self-contain for Berger."
Ben felt somehow, but he was too broke to even argue.
Later that evening, Ben got an alert.
₦2,000,000.
Then a message:
"Bro Ben,
Thank you for housing me and feeding me all this while. I am very grateful.
I took Sarmie's YouTube mentorship a while ago and it helped me sha.
I could not tell you when I started making money because I know you and the guys would want me to start clubbing and flexing, and I wasn't ready for that lifestyle.
I'm sorry I didn't say anything.
Please manage the token I sent for your rent. It's just my little way of saying thank you.
My regards to your babe and the gees.
Always your bro,
Henry."
Ben called immediately. Henry didn't pick.
He sent another text: "Guy, I'm sorry. I no know say..."
Henry replied: "No wahala bro. We move. I just need peace to work. We dey together my egbon"
No fight. No animosity.
Just silent departure.
Today, Henry dey his own. Stacking in silence.
Ben is also OK too, but he still doesn't have any other stable source of income, just sporty and once in a while win from Crypto trading. Last I heard, he won some bets from @89billionaire's edit.
He and his babe will be getting married by October tho.
Don't take the story to heart, I just felt like writing and I did.
Bye
@kayda_001@stanley_az@GuyMr10 I see your comment, I go read again but na still same nonsense wey you spit I dey see. For your mind you drop quote of wisdom. You poor oo(hin go still tell me hin guide pass me).
@BrightAfeno This is an awesome tool but it lacks context especially in elderly health niche, my script will be talking about blood vessels and I'm seeing something else.
Sometimes I don't download, I get ideas and search somewhere else.
I buzz my brother make he borrow me 200k, he talk say he no get. I come buzz my mama, she say make I wait, next thing, she buzz my brother say she need 200k. My brother give am, she come give me 🤣
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