However, since they were the clique of the refined and happening girls of Lycee du General Leclerc, they decided to dissimulate their collective disappointments under their mantle of foolish and ignorant pride. Nonetheless, they tried to investigate serenely, whether Manteur hasn’t done the same with a rival group of girls. The group up of Bakala, Zambo, Mvele and Risdoh was the elite group in the school yard. Risdoh was a member but a distant one. Because Melima was pregnant and was no longer coming to school, hence they wanted to find out whether other group of girls had not been deceived by Manteur. But the real secret was not to avoid other girls to fall into the same trap they had fallen into. it was a calculated attempt to maintain their status of top girls in the school yard. For they thought that, if Manteur had gone to bed with them all and made them false promises, it was still to them a kind of victory, but if he had done the same with their rival groups, then Manteur’s act was the ultimate humiliation. They were shocked when it became clear that all the girls at Lycee du General Leclerc had gone to bed with Manteur. The salacious news started spraying like wild fire and also that Manteur’s France’s address was bogus.
Intelligent Risdoh had known that long before members of her group could. For she had secretly written a letter to France, using the address given to her by Manteur and it came back with these short sentences: “retour à l’envoyeur” in French or in English: back to sender and on the envelope was this special mention in French: “n’habite pas à l’address indiquee” or in English: doesn’t live at the indicated address. Why Risdoh wrote an advance letter to Manteur when he was still in Cameroon has remain a mystery. Perhaps she had a premonitory sign that, Manteur was deceiving them or it was just a calculated attempt to over take her rivals who were no other persons than her friends. But what is certain is that, when Risdoh received her envelop from France with the above phrases written on, she was shocked. An individual earth quake stroked her under her feet and the tremor affected her examination results. But by a stroke of luck, she managed to pass. But Risdoh kept her personal disillusion to herself and when her friends were facing their own shock at discovering that, Manteur did not only deceive them but deceive the entire school, she was not worried.
But from that day when she received the enveloped that almost gave her heart attack, Risdoh’s dreams and determination was to go France and get married to a White man and also have all the goodies that are expected to follow such unions. But how will she go to France? She could not convince her mother to send her, for she had not yet sat and pass her advance level examination. Risdoh therefore, with a heavy heart, had to continue her studies at Lycee du General Leclerc. But her head was no longer there. She began successively failing her exams and could not even pass to the upper sixth form, in order to qualify to seat in for the advance level examinations. Sensing that, her plans to make Risdoh to become another Tsanga Delphine was almost on the line, Noako, (the name of the mother of Risdoh) decided to go war against her daughter’s repeated exam failures. Risdoh was truly a lucky girl and born in family and in a nationality (tribe) that education was given genuine importance and for both sexes.
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