Within 10 mins of landing in
Enugu, we had deplaned and met with Jude. Laura was on a phone call while i
discussed with Jude.
Jude: Boy, you look worn out
(hugging)
Me: As in eh. At a point, i
wasn’t even sure if the flight wouldn’t
have been cancelled. Seemed the rain wanted to fall forever. Good to see you
bro
Jude: guess it fell all over
the country then. My visibility was so low i had to stop severally. So whos the
pretty lady? (noticing she just ended her call)
Me: Hey, Laura meet Jude, Jude
Laura, my friend and course mate back in school. Met again at the airport after
bout 3 years.
Jude: Nice meeting you Laura
(shook hands)
Laura: Nice meeting you too.
Me: she’s
heading to ogoja, and i was thinking
we could give her a lift?
Jude: No problem.
Me: so can we still make it
tonight?
Jude: sure. But we’d
better be on the way.Wasn’t sure when you flight would arrive, so had to refill
because these filling stations tend to close quite early you know. Security and
ish
***In 10 minutes, we were already
on the highway, headed to Abakiliki. Sitting next to Jude in the front
passenger seat, while Laura sat behind Jude.
I placed a call to Favour
that I’m on my way. Now, having turned on my phone when we
deplaned, i had received an
email notification and two text messages. Now was the time to
read them.
**Frank: “Dude
ow far? Jude say Dem delay Una flight. Probably u dey air now coz ur no no dey
go try. Holla wen u get this. (Dialed his number, not reachable)”
**Dolapo: “Hey,
how was your trip? Ur no ain’t goin try. Sent u an
urgent mail that needs urgent attention. Get back to me ASAP.”
**Opens mail: “Make
use of the attached files and draft a proposal, quotation and template for XYZ
Systems Limited. Send to Mr. Bayo. Forward me a copy of the mail. Do that
before the end of the day”
**Dails Dolapo**
Dolly: are you in obudu
already?
Me: delayed flight, just
leaving Enugu
Dolly: guess you’ve
seen my mail?
Yes: I’ll
work on it as soon as i get home
Dolly: just make sure you
send me a copy before you go to bed.
Me: I understand.
Dolly: Good. Safe.
At that moment i began to
resent my job. Was actually thinking about crashing right when I get home. Now
Dolapo is gonna keep me up for another hour.
Like though she knew what
thoughts were in my head, Laura said “guess that was you bitc***
sorry, your boss?” without waiting for a reply she adds”you
should come work for me
ya know!. Ignoring her, i
asked Jude, “so baba, how far is it from here and when do you think
we should be un Obudu”?
“The road is very good from here up to Ndok junction,
except a little bad stretch when entering Abakiliki, which is about 74 kms from
Enugu. Ndok junction is about 84 kms from Abakiliki, but because of the very
bad stretch from there to Ogoja, we’ll go through
okpoma-okuku-Igoliand then to Obudu. Lets say by 10pm-10:0pm. Jude said. Wondering why he didn’t
just say hopefully 10pm-10:30pm i then said “Alright. My boss just
gave me a task. Which is gonna keep me up longer when i get home. Make i crash small”.
Laura then ask “so
what do you say about my offer?I turn to see her rubbing her crotch but
with a straight face. “it
might not stand by the time you wake up!” she adds
“ALI, please leave me alone”
i replied her amidst chuckles.
Laughing, Jude intervened
saying “you two need some rest”.
The stress of having driven
in a normal Lagos traffic earlier in the day, the waiting time at the airport,
the heavenly feeling in the plane (with my brain releasing several doses of
brain
chemicals, to include
norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin, nitric oxide,prolactin etc.
all responsible for inducing sleep in men just after intercourse/heavenly
feeling, biochemists in da house), the cool air and the music playing in the
car, I was by no so exhausted/relaxed that i must have slept for more than an
hour only to be woken up to a torch light beaming on my face. We had stopped at
an army checkpoint
Jude: oga no be mi,, na dis
afternoon mi I pass here. Rain bin dey fall sef, and Una been
dey inside Una tent.
Soldier: so where u go? No be
Abakiliki u dey run?
Jude: no o oga, i just go
Enugu go pick my bro. Dem delay their flight na why i no come
pass since.
Soldier: (beaming his torch
on my face, then Laura and back to Jude). Oya na, carry go.
“What happened?” i asked Jude.
“No mind that man, twas a case of mistaken Identity,
that a commercial driver passed here in the morning with a Mitsubishi Grandis
like mine and was supposed to collect a package for him in Abakiliki on his
return trip”. Jude replied as we drove off
“Him no dey recognize face?”
turning to
Laura”mi
luv, ow far?”
“Lemme alone” she said rubbing her
crotch again, “I want to sleep” she replied sarcastically.
Jude: hahahahaha (oblivious
to the tease), you two are so funny.
(Began to rain rain again)
“so Laura, when are you going back to Lagos?”
i asked her
“missing me already?” she answered/asked
“you wish” i replied her. “I
don miss u pass” i
added
“thank God i didn’t believe you at the
Airport”
she said still ignoring my
question
“your number one problem is that you love
being flattered”
said amidst laughter.
“I’ll b going back in
two weeks time” she
finally answered my initial
question
“wetin happen? U no wan make Dem enjoy
honeymoon?”
i asked sarcastically
“you’re not serious. I’ll
be with Cindy” she
answered laughing.
“Cindy lives in Ogoja?”
i asked surprised.
“Cindy na Ogoja girl to start with, she’s
on break from school. Her masters program”.
“so what about ur office? Who’s
gonna run theplace?” i asked showing concerns
“Fury, you ask too many questions, i wan sleep” she said turning her
head towards the
window and acted sleeping Leaving
her alone, i sat quietly. Don’t know how much i
slept, but i woke up to see we where in Ogoja.
Within 10 mins we had dropped
Laura off at Cindy’s (with her screaming how and where the hell did we
meet, Jude was in a hurry, so there wasn’t any discussion) and
we were on our way to Obudu.
Laura had teased saying “you
sure you don’t wanna come in, we could have that 3some you know”
with tongue out.“there’s plenty of time for
that” i said through the window as Jude drove off.
She shouted back “in
your dreams” just as I looked back to see her and Cindy locked in
a
French kiss. Obviously Laura
had lied about when she became bi.
The drive to Obudu (53km)
took about 40minutes. And by 10:15 we were at Franklin’s
gate.Favour came out to
welcome me, served me dinner of eba and eruru (afang/okazi) soup.
We discussed while i ate (my
first solid/real food since Wednesday)Had a warm shower and came back out to
the living room with my PC to work on the proposal. Time check 11:30 pm. Favour
was watching a late night movie on the south African tv station “e”.For
reasons I don’t know, i sat with her while she watched the movie as
i worked on my PC.
In the course of the movie, i
noticed Favour was worked up, as she kept turning in her seat
at light touching her bosom. Movie
ends around 1am, a point in which she called it a night. And turn the tv off. I
stayed back to complete what i was doing, sent the mail to Mr. Bayo and cc a
copy to Dolapo. By 1:20am i head for my room only to pass through Favour’s
room to see the door open.
The room was only illuminated
by her bed side lamp and i could see she was self servicing.A pursed for a few
seconds as i saw her insert her fingers inside her kitty-cat as she flicked her
bean.
“There’s a force behind Mrs.
Adamu” i muted to myself and headed to my room for a well
deserved sleep.
To be continued
