A Boy's Life: The Return of Jenny

A Boy's Life: The Return of Jenny

A Boy's Life: The Return of Jenny is the first book of A Boy's Life Series. It features the return of Jennifer Robertson, the elder sister of Benny and Denny Robertson.



Plot

Benny recounts how he came home from school only to see his sister Jennifer Robertson. She came home from an American University after studying engineering. After the embraces and kisses, they went to a fictional restaurant in Ikorodu: Mega Chicken House. There, Benny says their age: He is 11, Denny is 10 and Jenny is 20. He also says that Denny looks like him except he is shorter.

After they finished eating, they went to Adenike Johnson's house. Adenike is the sister of Michael, Benny's best friend. Benny says he also examined the car and it is from the 1990s. He also says that they is a steering column shiftier. Jenny is mentioned to have an elephant's memory because it was six years since she went there. When they entered the house, they were happy to see each other. After exchanging pleasantries, Benny played games on his cell phone but it was interrupted by his mum's call telling him to tell Jenny to go to church. Then Sylvia Adeniran's text came to his phone. She was thinking of coming for a sleepover in Benny's house. He agreed and also told Michael Johnson to come too.

Benny says that after church, he was looking forward to typing on the typewriter. They didn't have a desktop since it was the year 2004. But he says that his dad will buy a desktop for the house. When they were on the way to church, they saw a wrecked up car. Jenny was white as a ghost because she saw a decapitated human head. Benny says that girls are the weaker sex so  why is he gisting us ?

They reached the church and the service had started. In the middle of the service, NEPA cut off the power supply. Benny had to turn on his phone torch light. After 10 minutes, NEPA brought back the power supply. Benny's phone was running low. Service ended and Jenny's friends welcomed her and started to gossip. Jenny was telling them about her engineering lecturer in the university who married a woman 40 years younger than him (implying that he was in his 60's about to retire). Before he could hear the rest, they were closing the church and they all had to leave. He hopes that he comes on Saturday so he can hear the rest of the saga.

They entered the car and Jenny was driving when the car was making funny noises. After a minute, steam came out from the engine implying engine overheating. Jenny, quick thinking, grabbed a bottle of water and put it in the radiator valve. The car went on normally. Benny was recounting on how the car has had a string of problems from year 1990. When they reached home, Mrs. Robertson gave them dinner and Benny went to the typewriter. He recounts how a boy in school named Albert Onyilokwu told him how his father bought a complete desktop set for N 50,000. He is sure that his dad will put it in the study room and also hopes he buys it soon. After working on the typewriter, he saw Jenny with her iBook G4. Jenny appeared to have plugged it into a bus terminal with an Ethernet cable (topology).

The next day, Benny woke up, took his bath, ate and played video games. But his mum came to the sitting room and chided him with a speech of doing chores, telling him to wash the minivan with Jenny. When he went outside, he complained about how the minivan was old and dusty. The dust was mentioned to have been very thick. After washing the minivan, he entered the car and was pressing the throttle. But he mistakenly shifted the gear stick to reverse and the minivan moved backwards. Jenny was shouting, telling him to engage the emergency brake. When he came out, Jenny hugged him and both of them pushed the minivan back to the place where it was. Benny mentions the idiotic things he had done and how his mom used to remind him if he did something stupid.



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