Fair Chance

I have known Chinedu quite well since childhood. We even went to the same secondary school, and all the time that I knew him, he had no beard not even a strand of hair under his chin. We all knew this until he traveled three months ago. Then, upon returning last week, he looked so grown up and manly, with a full grown beard that even looked wild. It was as if he was born with it.

I asked him for the secret behind those hairs, those beards under his chin, but he wouldn’t say. He claimed he was already growing them before he left, but I knew within myself that he wasn’t growing those hairs before he left.

It was until yesterday, when I visited him after he took his bath, that I discovered the truth. I was alone in his room when I saw the kit. It was an oil kit that contained a hair booster, a beard booster, whatever. When he came out from the bedroom and saw me handling the oil containers, he let out a laugh, realizing I had already caught him. But before he could make any statement to justify his reasons or whatever, I had already scrubbed a good amount of the oil in my hand and dabbed it on my chin too. Who doesn't want that kind of beard