Love, Lust And Lost - Season 1 Episode 80

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Love, Lust And Lost - Season 1 Episode 80

He had been soaking garri when the call came in. The phone wasn’t with him, it was left where he had plugged it to charge. The door to their parlour opened and his junior brother brought the phone to him.

“Femi, phone e ring. (Your phone is ringing),” he stood in front of him.

He was the replica of Adefemi, same face and everything, people would have mistaken them for a twin if not because of the age and height difference.

“Who is the caller?” He said after he had swallowed a spoon of garri laced with groundnut.

“Just number, no name!” He showed the screen to his brother who collected it from him and he left; went inside to continue watching the movie he had been watching before his brother’s phone interrupted.

Who be this one wey go make this garri `swello’ up now? He said in his mind as he dropped the spoon and transferred the phone to his right hand; pressed the green button to answer the call.

“Hello, who be this?”

“Hello Georgio, how far na?” The caller hailed.

“I dey, who be this?” He asked once more.

“You dey mad abi? You no recognise my voice. Na David,” the caller revealed.

“Arh baba, na you? Boss, I hail sir!” He chuckled.

“So you no even know my voice?” David changed his voice; clear of a laugh.

“How I wan take know your voice when I no even get your number?” He put in funnily.

“Na true sha! How school na?”

“Bros when you go come back na? You know say na Tuesday be inter-house sport and na you we put mind for – for Green house.”

“Mehn, this competition dey enter january o, we just even enter semi final for Volley-ball and Running.”

“Chai! That means say na last we go carry be that o!” He stared at his bowl of garri that was already swelling. He thought about added water to it but he knew very well it was disastrous; that would make it swell even further.

“Shebi you dey run Relay? Make u, Sule with Enoma share the race among una self.” David suggested.

“Me no like to dey run all those 100m or 200m cause I no too dey get hope of catching up if I go start badly. And Enoma don say na 4 by 4 him wan run! Wait first, the Relay, who go complete am make we be 4?”

“Make una tell Mr. Oshai say make e find my replacement.”

David was the tallest in Green-house followed by Enoma, the rest of the few students in Green-house were either too short or weren’t capable of participating in any event.

“Mehn, dem no do us well at all at all, why dem carry all those fast runners go Yello and Red house come leave dwarfs and lazy people for green-house. This last don sure for us o!” Adefemi lamented.

“I believe say as you dey, we no fit ever carry last,” he laughed and hailed Adefemi who also returned the gesture.

“Guy, before I forget wetin make me call you, how far about that stuff wey I send you?” David became serious again, drawing Adefemi’s attention.

He stared at the garri that was in his front once again and saw as it had moulded as though it were intended for Eba. He pushed the bowl away as it became unattractive to him.

“Which stuff be that?” He finally asked.

“You wan tell me say you don forget? God! Which kind person be this?” He exclaimed as Adefemi laughed, then David continued, “Fatimah parolz na!”

“Arh baba, I just remember o! Abeg no vex.” He smiled broadly as he apologised. It struck him now that he had forgotten all along, the time he should have carried out the assignment and neglected it.

He stood up from the bench he sat across, as his grandfather was in the bedroom close to a nearby window. He walked along the corridor, heading to the backyard where he knew he would be free to talk without restraint.

Then he broke the silence “ bros abeg you no go vex for me, me and that babe no dey talk again, na even today we fight.” He broke the news David didn’t want to hear.

“Hahaha” he mocked “na joke you dey joke guy because you no fit carry that one come! No be even this time you go tell me say you dey fight with that babe. I no even wan know wetin cause una fight. Guy abeg, call that babe settle the matter now now now. I go even send you 1k (one thousand naira) credit self make you take call her.”

Adefemi was dumbfounded. He removed the phone from his ears and stared at it, at the name or number may be he was speaking to another person, then he returned it back to his ears. Yes, he never knew he was speaking to the hero or may be not. Might be that he had forgotten who David had become the last 6weeks; the name he had made for himself and the one he was about making for himself if he could come out with his colleagues with Gold medals at the competition they were participating in at Abuja. Then without a second knowledge, Adefemi’s brain interpreted something, yap, this is the perfect chance to start getting gift; dowry as though he were the father of Fatimah. He nodded in his mind that was a good idea, nonetheless he was going to try to talk – so Fatimah could accept David’s proposal.

“Hello, you still dey there?” David inquired after a moment of silence from Adefemi.

“Yap I dey. Okay, I hear, I go call her settle the fight. The thing no even go far self bros. We go surely settle am.”

He said in his mind, `i don get credit wey I go use call Zainob inside, after I don talk to Zainob finish I go call Fatimah with anything wey remain.’

“Guy abeg settle am fast fast. I go even send you another one tomorrow so that you go get enough. I go make sure say you dey get credit everyday until that babe go be my own.” David promised to the amazement of Adefemi.

“You mean am? But what if after she don gree for you, that means nothing for me be that o?”

“I get plans for you but first carry out the task first, the reward go surprise you!”

His eyes glittered as he heard David made that statement. Mehn, be like say this guy don dey make am for this competition wey dem go o, chai!!!

“Bros abeg explain to me how this competition be na.”

“Forget that one for now, call that babe first settle the matter, I dey send the credit now now now!” David said and ended the call.

Some few minutes later, his phone beeped and he saw the code, sent it after he had added some other numbers/codes. His network provider informed him he was 1000airtime richer.

But did he later call Fatimah that day? Journey into the future!.

Find out in Episode 50.

Meanwhile,……….

The car suddenly had its tyres screeched and brought to a stop. The driver didn’t park well as he alighted and was walking into the Ikoyi club lively.

“Oga, Oga,” rent the air as the gateman pursued him. He halted and turned back angered.

To Be Continued…