Inherent Love - Season 1 - Episode 6

5 years ago

Inherent Love - Season 1 - Episode 6

He was seated by the edge of the bed, wearing just white boxer shorts, staring at his phone screen, looking at the double check on his whatsapp chat with Adunni turn blue a few seconds after each IM he sent her, but he wasn’t getting any response from her.

The air condition in the room was on but little specs of sweat were visible on his forehead. He got up after a while and walked over to the window to look at nothing in particular.

Everything had gotten weird after the last time they saw, and he was wondering what had happened. Was it something i did, or didn’t do? Should i have proceeded to have sex with her that day? Different thoughts came to his mind but he just couldn’t make any sense out of why she would stop answering his calls, or stop replying his messages. Complications. He thought to himself and remembered one of the reasons he had decided to stay single for so long.

When he had called to tell Modupe about the new development, she seemed surprised too. She promised to find out what was going on and get back to him. When he didn’t hear from her after a few hours, he called her back, but she said she hadn’t been able to get through to her friend yet. That was yesterday, and he hadn’t heard from her since then. He decided not to call her again because he could tell from her voice on the phone that she was lying about not being able to get through to Adunni. He just couldn’t understand what was really going on.

An idea came to him, and he walked over to his wardrobe. He stood in front of it for a few seconds as if running through what he was about to do in his mind, then he shrugged, open the wardrobe, and pulled out a sim pack from the inside pocket of an old blazer.

He removed the back of his phone, replaced sim cards, put the back back in place, and turned the phone on. He took a deep breath as he dialed her number. She picked up on the first ring. “Hello!”

“Why have you been avoiding me?” He said. When she didn’t reply, he went on with, “I don’t get it. Just tell me something, don’t…”

“Stephen, i can’t talk right now.”
“Adunni, just tell me what I did. What happened?”

She took a deep breath before saying, “It’s complicated.”

“What exactly is complicated? Just tell me…tell me whatever it is.” He said with a disgusted tone.

She said some things to someone where she was and came on again, “Hello.”
“Yea, I am still here.”

“Stephen, let’s meet tonight and talk, but…”

“No. Just tell me right now.” He said sharply. Obviously angry.
“You don’t understand, I…”
“Then make me understand. Tell me something. Give me something…”
“Stephen, I can’t…I can’t..” She was saying in a low tone as her voice trailed off.
“You can’t what? You can’t be with me?” He said and she went silent. He waited a few seconds for a response from her but all he got was heavy breathing. Then he slowly removed the phone from his right ear and disconnected the line. He stood in one spot, hyperventilating as all his body shook in rage. He looked down at his phone for a few seconds then threw it at the wall. It shattered and its pieces went flying in different directions.