Inherent Love - Season 1 - Episode 8

5 years ago

Inherent Love - Season 1 - Episode 8

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The car was quiet as Stephen processed what Adunni had just told him. A skinny teenage girl dressed in brown Ankara attire with glasses on was putting handbills on the windshield of all the cars in the parking lot. When she got to his car, she smiled and handed him the small white paper. He collected it without looking at her and placed it on the dashboard. The girl said thank you and left.

“What exactly are you saying?” Stephen finally blurted out.

“I’m saying Modupe hooked me up with you so she could at some point have sex with you.”

“That’s preposterous.” Stephen said with a shocked look on his face. “Did she tell you that?” He added.

Adunni rolled her eyes before responding with, “No. Ann told me.”

“And you would take Ann’s word for it?”
“I called Modupe right after my run in with Ann, and she couldn’t give me a direct answer when I asked her about it.”

“There has to be a logical explanation for this.” Stephen said looked lost in thought for a few seconds before adding, “Please call her right now, I don’t have a phone.”
“Stephen, this is definitely not the right way to handle this.” She said.

He agreed with her. He knew he had to see Modupe in person, but the whole story still sounded really absurd to him and he needed to make sense out of it someway.

“At first I thought you were also in on it, that’s why I stopped responding to your messages.”

“What?” He said and sat up. “Why would you think that?”

“I don’t know. Writers do weird s--t, I thought you were…I thought you were playing out a character in your book or something.”
“So what made you change your mind?”
She looked ahead like she was thinking of something, and then said, “I found out something else.”
“You…”

“Stephen. I can’t. She needs to tell you herself.” She said, cutting him off. She leaned forward and looked out the windscreen. “I think it is about to rain. I need to get to my car.”
“So…”

“To be honest with you, I’m still confused about this whole thing. Just talk to Modupe, alright.” She said and sighed. After a few seconds of silence, she got out of the car and leaned in the car door window. “Call me when you speak with her, okay?” She said and started walking towards the direction she had initial been headed.

He watched her through the rearview mirror as she cat-walked away, wondering if she ever felt anything for him. He remembered her singing the old Mariah Carey song to him and the make-out that ensured afterwards on her couch. Why is she so calm about it all, he thought to himself.

His phone was all battered up, but he could still make calls on it. The only problem was that he had left it in his apartment and he didn’t want to go back there just yet.

After thinking of his next move for a few minutes, he decided to go get something to eat first and then make up his mind on his next line of action.