Episode 8
THINGS
WE DO FOR LOVE
Up
Nepa!! Up Nepa!! The sound resounded throughout the silent hostel. The owner of
the voice was one of our friends, Frank. Frank is what some would call weird,
some freakish and others frustrating. But the truth is that Frank is really a
cool guy once you can get past his peculiar behavior. He had not finished
hailing Nepa, the monarchs of power in Nigeria before we heard an audible blow,
a visible
spark and a pungent odor.
The
extension had just dealt us a solid blow and since there were only two electric
sockets in the room, we really needed an extension and so Eze went to borrow
Mindy’s own for us to use. In the split second that Mindy’s door was open; we
noticed that Mindy’s friend, Linda was around. Frank instantly knew this was
bad news as we were definitely gonna tease him.
And
tease him we did calling him a spineless chicken who couldn’t approach his
crush. In defense Frank spoke up and told us that we should name any place and
any time and he was gonna approach the girl. The guys told him to go and meet
her now now. Frank said he was gonna do better and ask her out on a date but on
one condition, we foot the bill.
The
others disagreed but Drake and Aso agreed thinking he could not do it. They
even said they would buy suya. The suya alone was enough to convince Frank as
he walked boldly to Mindy’s room and asked Linda out much to the disbelief of
Drake and Aso. But a promise was a promise and so Drake and Aso set out at
night to go and get the suya and the drinks.
As
the guys were walking to the junction to buy the stuff, they met some guys
drinking alcohol and smoking like a village woman’s firewood stove. They
hurriedly walked past the guys pretending as if they weren’t there. They almost
stopped when they heard the whistle but they pretended as if they didn’t hear that
too. Then they heard footsteps coming closer and they actually smelled the dude
before he even touched them. “Una no hear say we dey call una abi or una deaf
abi” He said. “Ah sorry we didn’t know it was us you were calling” Aso said.
So
they went to meet the guys and one of them who seemed liked the leader asked
their names. Drake, thinking on his feet quickly formed another name and gave
it to him also telling him he was a fresher (that card always works). Not to be
the dulling one, Aso did the same.
Thinking
they were 100 level JJCs he made threats like telling them he was a cultist
from another school and that he came to visit his friend in our school. He
claimed he could kill them on the spot or have them beaten. He asked if they
knew he could and they replied “yes” just to make him happy. He said “do you
know ‘aye’?” They pretended like they did not know what he was talking about, they
made him explain to them what ‘aye’ meant and amidst all his threats a strange
laughter started bubbling inside Drake.
Suppressing
this laughter was a great deal of work as he did not want matters complicated…
amidst all his threats he ended up
asking for money for drinks…They simply gave him 200 naira and that solved his
pitiable case… his face lit up and we were free to go. Aso and Drake shared the
cost of entertaining their new found friend… almost regretting that they came
out that night as they just ended up spending money for people. The drink and
suya they went to buy did not belong to them and they just gave a jobless
stranger their money.
As
they were still ruminating and grumbling about all this, a car speeds by and
splashes mud water on them. The reflex action of jumping away turned out to be
a bad idea as everything they held fell down into the gutter including the
drinks.
by
prodigy (@prodeegee) and
Kolade Pelumi (@dricks009)
so... there u have it .. the end of season 1 for room24... it has been quite a season. From the pilot episode I knew it would be a banger series, hence the code name. I was proved right after all. Mad house (issue 4) became one of the highest viewed articles on the blog!!! its quite sad season has come to an end.
from the
pilot.... which got us wanting for more... to the
Ibara experience which got us shaking our heads in disbelief... to the thriller and my personal favorite
The visitor... then came the all popular
A mad house followed by the scary
Hunted or haunted, then
Wrestlemania(fight of life).. forgive my "of lifes" then came the intresting tale of the
Poor rich boys.... to the season finale Things we do for love. I think its cool that we ending on a loving note. Well if you want to know what keeps going down with the lxgents and room 24, stay tuned for the more and intriguing season 2!!!!!. well from me(fill in the gap), prodigy(the smart nigga), ese (spartan and stammerer..(joke though), A.S.O( the "imaginator") jboy (the fine boy), vikitor(the brilliant geek..(i just added brilliant to make him happy sha lol), baller(tycoon of life) its goodbye for now. Season 1 was cool..... season 2 would be even cooler because we would be chilling in the freezer (please get the joke).... till then have a merry christmas and a happy new year
watch out for know your temperament episode 2 coming soon...
