Must Read: Adventures of Yejide - Season 1 - Episode 5

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Must Read: Adventures of Yejide - Season 1 - Episode 5

On their way home, not much was said
because they sat inside a tricycle with
another stranger. They rode quietly until they
were dropped at the bus stop close to their
home. As they got to the front of the gate,
they bumped into mama ejima who greeted
them with a smile but worry written all over
her face. She asked the ladies if they were
okay, after looking at Dupe’s condition.



Mama ejima stared at Dupe for a while who
held her shoes in her hands. Her scattered
hair, floating in the air due to the wind that
suddenly gusted around the neighborhood.



When it became a little awkward, Yejide broke
the silence and told mama ejima that they
were fine. The woman looked at them one
more time before leaving their sight. Yejide
sighed and got into the compound with Dupe
following behind. As they entered, they saw
oga Lucas who was just walking towards the
bathroom with a bucket of water in his hand.


They tried as much as they could to not be
seen by him because they were trying to
avoid his tireless and endless conversations.


They were not in the mood for his hyper
behavior so they gently and quietly entered
into their flat without being seen.
Yejide sat on her bed thinking of what to do
next while Dupe looked around for what she
could possibly eat. She opened the pots that
lay on the table in their room to see if she
would find anything but they were as dry as
she predicted. She finally opened the fridge to
fetch a bowl of stew she had made the
afternoon before she got arrested. Even
though it was very little, she thought it to be
enough for a small meal for her and Yejide so
she took some raw rice in a bowl and left for
the kitchen. Yejide who had been sitting and
thinking on the bed rubbed her eyes that were
heavy with sleep. She thought she could fight
it but she yawned and lay on the bed before
drifting into a deep sleep. While she slept, she
had a dream. A strange dream of a guy
whose face she could not see. In the dream,
she had been walking when she tripped over
something which made her fall flat on the
ground. Dupe hadn’t been around except for
a guy who stretched out his hands towards
her in order to help her back on her feet. She
stared at the man with no face and hesitated
to reach for his hand but when he saw this,
he bent down close to her and still insisted
that she grabbed his hand. She could only
look at his face with fear and puzzlement,
trying to figure out who he was but everything
became even blurrier. She finally woke to
Dupe eating beside her. She hadn’t been
woken up but she had felt like something
made her get up. Dupe asked if she was okay
and Yejide told her about her dream. Dupe
only laughed and said;
“Na african magic you dey watch for dream. I
was even thinking you would say something
better. Nor dey worry yourself joor. If hunger
dey catch you. Food dey for pot. And your
husband, oga Lucas sey make I greet you.”


Yejide didn’t expect less from her friend so
she just hissed and la!d back on the bed. In
an instance, the dream was long forgotten
just like the rest. So Yejide and her friend
talked for a while before planning on how
they would go about their business in the
same brothel Yejide had gone to the previous
night. As much as that was the last thing
Yejide wanted to do, Dupe was always up to
stimulate her. That night, when they got to
the brothel, Yejide saw that there were more
men at the bar than the night she was there.

The two friends stared at each other before
going to sit down amongst some other girls
that were seated at a corner. Yejide was the
first amongst them to get approached by a
man who took her to one of the rooms. He
was a younger man than the men she came
across. He looked like he was just in his late
twenties. The man did not immediately ask
for s-x when they went up to the room.
Instead, he told Yejide to relax on the bed
while he fetched her a glass of wine. Yejide
who saw all these was surprised but didn’t
want to object because she didn’t want to
spoil her business so she did as she was told.



She looked at the young man with confusion
and a little fear in her eyes because this was
the first time she had actually been treated
that way by a man or rather a young guy.
Yejide couldn’t help but wonder what was on
his mind as he sat down close to her.
“So tell me about yourself?”
When Yejide heard this, she didn’t know if to
laugh or cry at his question. She thought that
it was some kind of a joke or he was drunk.



He brought her to room for a reason but yet
he was beating about the bush. She coughed
out before telling him how uncomfortable she
was with his question. He noticed this and so
he moved closer to her, took the glass of wine
and dropped aside before taking off her
clothes. Yejide couldn’t help but feel very
awkward with his behavior. He was
particularly slow with everything. The other
men would have jumped on her and done all
they could with her body but it wasn’t like
that for this young man. In order not to get
confused, he wasn’t younger than Yejide, he
was just younger than the other men she had
been with.