100 Days With Mr Romero

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After his father’s burial, Gideon came to terms with the fact that he will he sent to a boarding school. His notion of a boarding school was tough, uneventful and draining and of course it was for him especially during the first period of his junior year. “Boarding school will make you tough Romero.” his mother once told him and to an extent Gideon felt it did. However, he had vowed that he will never subject Ryan to that kind of torture. Later on, he was informed that other boarding schools were well run but as far as Gideon was concerned, boarding schools aren’t meant for broken children especially at tender ages when they needed to experience ideal childhood.

“This is Gideon Romero. ” introduced the science teacher to the class. He was introducing little Gideon who had just been enrolled into the junior high school, a boarding school. Gideon was staring at his shoes shy of lifting his head up or maybe he was afraid. It was his first day at the boarding school. Few weeks after Nanny Grace’s departure from his life, his mother had told him he will be going to the boarding school the next week and little Gideon wept pleading with his mother but she wouldn’t oblige. He was barely ten then and was an introvert. As an only child, he will speak to his toys when Nanny Grace didn’t show up or came late and when his mother acted busy, he will lobby his way to play with the kids in his neighborhood. “Say hi to Gideon” his science teacher Mr. Wellbereck told the kids and they chorused “Hi. ” he waved at them and immediately lowered his head before he was asked to seat.

Back at his dormitory, Gideon was attached to a senior student who was to serve as his guardian but it got to the point that his guardian was haunting him. Griffin his senior guardian will forcefully collect his stuffs, take part of his lunch and made him massage his feet at times. When Gideon tried to complain to the school counselor, Griffin threatened to make his life a living hell and poor little Gideon had no option but embrace the bullying he received from Griffin. Sometimes when he called his mother as they were allowed to once a week, she will call him a nagging child and shut him up when he dared to complain. “You are a man Romero.” She will scream at him and the the poor boy will weep. During their monthly visit at the boarding school, his mother only showed up once during the four months of the term. She sent the driver instead with stuffs, money and supplies which a large portion Griffin took away from him.

When his classmates and the only two friends he had will seat with their parents and converse during open day activities or monthly visits, Gideon will look at them craving to take their place. After the first term of his first junior year ended, Gideon couldn’t wait for the driver to come pick him up and he jumped into the large vehicle excitedly. When he got home, he narrated his ordeal at the dorm to his mother who he thought will finally remove him from the school but instead, he got a shocking reply. “Stay strong Romero. It’s life. “she told him. He wanted to see his Nanny very badly but his mother told him he couldn’t and she didn’t explain why.

Gideon found the holiday very brief and to an extent boring. He spent most of his time watching cartoons and playing video games. He spoke less with his mother who always seemed occupied with one thing or the other. In a short while, the holiday ended which Gideon found too quick and soon, he was back to his high school. Gideon gradually got accustomed to the way of life around the school and bothered less when his mother didn’t showed up. He became more friendly with Jack and Daniel and gradually he found himself talking among his peers. He was a genius especially at mathematics and his homeboys now will tell him he had always had what it takes to be a business man.

When he finished from high school and secured admission to study Business Management at Harvard, he was already a well formed youth who had seen enough torture. He graduated top of his class, obtained a loan because he wouldn’t take a penny from his inheritance and he gradually established his chain of clubs which marvels his mother till date. Gideon’s mother will brag to people with the false fact that she raised her child, made him a man and now he’s better than his dad but Gideon knew the truth. The truth was that he raised himself when she was taking forever to overcome her grief forgetting that her absence from his life was plunging grief into him which somehow motivated him.