Must Read: #B•I•T•C•H….. Part 9 As soon as she saw a huge sign board at the front of a building which stated, “LAGOS STATE TEACHING HOSPITAL” , Jummy literally jumped out of the car window before it was even parked. John and Samuel had expected this or perhaps something worse so if they were surprise at all, then it would be because they expected a more entertaining show and all they got was a fat lady jumping out of the window of a a salon car, not just enough fun!, John thought. Leaving them to worry about parking the car properly, Jummy walked hastily into the hospital and went straight to the receptionist desk ignoring the long queue of people waiting for their turn to be attended to, that was how the hospital always was – very busy. “Madam, please you have to wait for your turn, or do you think we are here to sell groundnut?” A lady asked Jummy from the back, Jummy just ignored her, she had better things to do than to reply sick old people, or so she thought. She looked at the receptionist and asked for the room Zainab was as if she expected the receptionist to know every person in the hospital by their first names, the receptionist was in the mood of being nice and asked for more detail about the patient Jummy was asking for, Jummy went ahead to tell her Zainab’s full name and that alone did the trick. The nurse was a fan of Zainab and most definitely saw when Zainab was rushed into the hospital, she asked if Jummy was a friend or relative and after making Jummy promise to get Zainab’s autograph, she gave Jummy the ward number and even directed her, so much for being famous. Zainab was still lost in her thoughts when Jummy pushed the door of the ward and bursted into the room with her large figure, Zainab was startled at first but when she saw it was Jummy, she became relieved and a huge smile formed on her face. “What took you so long?” Zainab asked in a rather teasing tone. “Long ke? Do you know how many red lights we crashed or how many right turns we took even where there were ‘No Right Turns’ sign boards? Just to get here?” Jummy asked, and for some strange reasons, she hadn’t been speaking too much pigin english of recent, Zainab noticed this but didn’t think it was worth talking about. “Who is the ‘we’ you are talking about?” Zainab asked and speaking about the devil, both John and Samuel walked into the room almost immediately. Jummy faced John and said, “we!”, and Zainab got the message, she was about to ask who John and his friend were when she saw the bandage on Jummy’s shoulder and that brought about thirty full minutes of explanation and questions, when they were done with analyzing Jummy’s case, Jummy then started with her own questioning. “So what are you doing here anyway?” Jummy asked. “All I know for now is an anonymous call was made to this hospital and I was brought here, the who, when and why still baffles me” Jummy, who has never liked Richard for once then said, “I know Richard has a hand in this, after all, you were planning on divorcing him, so maybe he doesn’t take loosing lightly so he attempted to kill you” How it happened is perhaps a miracle or maybe that’s how the brain works, but as soon as Zainab heard both the word ‘divorce’ and ‘attempt to kill’ in one sentence, the whole incident came back to her, she recalled Richard beating Clement and then pushing her away, due to the fact that, that was the last thing she recalled, Zainab assumed she had passed out. She went ahead to tell Jummy all she knew, and even chirped in the Dr. Daniel anonymous call part. “He told you he has a record as proof?” Jummy asked. “Yes, he said its in one of my bags at home…” “Then what are you doubting him for, people don’t lie about obvious proves na, can you walk now?” “Not yet, the nurse says, I’ll be good to go by tomorrow” “Okay then, I’ll go to your place now and check for the tape, I’ll be back before you can say ‘African China’” Jummy replied and without even waiting for Zainab to approve or disapprove, she walked out of the ward. John and Samuel followed her once again, they seemed to be loosing their patients already, who wouldn’t?. ******************* Richard had been sitting on a spot for hours just thinking, although he had concluded on what to do, sitting down and waiting for the worst to happen didn’t sound nice to him, he felt he needed to at least do something to improve his situation and that was when an idea popped into his head. “Why don’t I go home and check out for any thing that might implicate me, for all I know, Zainab might still be on the floor in the basement, Dr. Daniel isn’t really someone I can vouch for” Richard thought. He sprung up and went to the bathroom, he rinsed his face and toweled it dry, then he left the hotel, straight to his car and drove home. He got close to home soon enough, he was smart enough to park his car a few distance away from his house, thinking it would give him an advantage. He walked the distance to his house and stood at the “Mai shai” joint which was almost directly opposite his house. To avoid any suspicion, he bought “Mai shai” worth five hundred naira and a bottle of coke. He didn’t eat it, but just stood at point, studying his house just to make sure it was a safe entry. After standing and studying for five minutes and all that had starred back at him were three shiny glass windows, Richard was convinced the house was empty or maybe just Zainab’s body would be inside. NB; Mai shai can mean a couple of things but it all comes down to the fact that, it’s usually sold by the northerners (aboki or mallam), although in this context, it refers to a bread and egg meal. Richard walked in to the house trying to act as casually as he can. ************************************ Samuel had had a little experience with the Nigerian Army and thus his senses had been a little more sharpened during his service which was cut short by reasons he never told anyone, John had asked several times and the response he always got was, “don’t worry Johnny, you won’t understand”. From his little experience, he knew that entering the house after so much had happened won’t be advisable, so he suggested that John parked the car about a mile away from the house and made them walk the remaining distance. By the time the got within arms length of the house, Jummy was already sweating and had already burnt some useless calories, John noticed this and made a joke out of it, “Jumoke, you seem to have lost about two people my size just within this short walk, only God knows what would happen if you walked five miles” the joke wasn’t really funny but there was something funny about his accent that made Jummy laugh out loud, only to be controlled when Samuel shunned her. After Samuel studied the house for a while, and all he saw was shiny glass windows starring back at him, he looked at both John and Jummy and in a military invasion tone, he said; “Seems the coast is clear, let’s move in” They had no idea that Richard was already inside. ************ At times, things happen for a reason, and other times, they just happen for no just reason at all. On another note, is there any such thing as coincidence? Or is everything pre-planned by the man upstairs? Just ponder over that. *** While Zainab laid on her bed with kept her fingers crossed and patiently waited for Jummy and co to come back from her house, she kept on pondering about the anonymous call. Everything seems to start to make sense to her but she still had no idea who the anonymous person was, she really need to know the person, if not to do anything, just to say thank you at least. As for Richard, she still had it in mind to divorce him, and if she had enough reasons to sue him, she convinced herself she was going to do it. *** Richard was just about to enter the bedroom when he heard some footsteps, but he convinced himself that he was just halucinating since he hadn’t slept for a long while. He stood at the door of the bedroom and quickly glanced round the whole room before eventually walking to it, even though he had slept in the room for five straight years, he still felt like an alien in the room and wasn’t comfortable one bit, he had this sick feeling in his stomach. *** On the other part, Samuel seemed to be the one that was in charge of this operation as he led the way, and Jummy couldn’t quite understand why he made them tip toe into the empty house of her friend, she felt they were just deceiving their old age but decided to just play along so that no one would tell her “I told you so”, she hated that statement with passion. John just silently did as he was told and followed the two of them from the back and looking over his shoulder at very short intervals. “Where does she keep her handbags?” Samuel asked Jummy as they paused for a bit in the sitting room. “In the bedroom of course…” Jummy replied curtly, she was getting impatient with all this games. “Okay, where exactly is the bedroom?” “You turn right, you turn left, you turn right again and you turn left” Jummy replied mischievously. Samuel looked at her in confusion while John at the back made to laugh but held his mouth with his hand and suppressed the laughter. “Can you be serious for once?!” Samuel literally yelled at Jummy. “I don’t get why we are doing all this C.I.A… F.B.I thing oh, isn’t it obvious no one is at home, in fact just follow me, I’ll take you to the room!” And with that, Jummy stormed out the sitting room and headed for the staircase which led to the upstairs where the bedroom was. Samuel was furious and wished he had a rope which he could use to tie Jummy up. He followed her upstairs anyways. *** Richard was already going through Zainab’s wardrobe when he heard the footsteps on the staircase, and this time, he was sure of what he heard, he instantly became both scared and alert. He looked round the room, not sure either he should be looking for a weapon or where to hide, after a quick thought, he decided hiding was a better option since he was sure more than one person was coming, judging from the foot steps he heard, and that alone was enough reason to hide since he was out numbered. He thought about running into the bathroom to hide, but the seemed to predictable, he looked at the wardrobe and without a second thought, he found himself squeezing his body into the wardrobe and locking up himself. *** Jummy was just about to walk into the bedroom when Samuel caught up with her and held her hand, just to slow her down. “How can you just go in like that without surveying the environment first?” He asked. “It seems like you’ve worked in the military or is probably working in the military presently, so I understand why you are over protective. Just in case you military men peep before entering your friend’s room, we civilians don’t peep, not when we know there is no reason to peep, Kapish?” Jummy replied and shrugged off his grip then walked into the room. She didn’t think twice before heading to the wardrobe, she already knew Zainab kept her hand bags there. As soon as she opened the wardrobe… WATCH OUT FOR PART 10 part 10 As soon as Jummy opened the door, what she saw nearly made her jumped out of her skin. She wiped her eyes with the tip of her top just to be sure she was seeing right, and yes! She was seeing right. She let out a loud scream which made both Samuel and John run closer to her. Richard was taken unawares so he stood transfixed on the spot, for some seconds, he couldn’t move nor scream, it was as if his brain was still trying to process what he just saw, and that was when it happened. He came back to his senses. Without a second thought, he jumped out of the wardrobe and headed for the door after pushing Jummy out of the way. Samuel saw this and ran after him. Richard could hear the hefty foot steps chasing him and that even made him run faster. Samuel didn’t need to be told that, the person he was chasing was the Richard guy he had heard so much about from both Zainab and Jummy, the guy who was a wife beater and perhaps a killer too. If there was anything he hated more than the devil, then it would be guys who disrespect ladies, that made him run faster too. So the scene was something like, Tom, chasing Jerry. Richard ran out of the the main building into the compound and wanted to head for the gate but he figured he might be caught before that, so he turned and started running round the compound, Samuel still followed him and was already gaining more speed and catching up with Richard. Meanwhile, inside the house, Jummy ransacked all of Zainab’s bag in search of the tape, she felt that finding the tape was more important that running after Richard, after the mile she had walked to the house, she concluded she had had enough exercise for the day. She had already emptied the contents of about three of Zainab’s bag when a pack of cond0m fell from it and John who was at her back saw it, instead of him to keep his big mouth shut and go after Richard just like Samuel, he had to ask, “I thought Zai is married, what does she need cond0ms for?” Jummy looked at him and the kind of stare was enough to let John know his question wasn’t welcomed, so he added, “I’ll go and join Sam outside, that is if he hasn’t caught Richard by now” and left the room. Jummy just shook her head and murmured some words to herself, then she smiled. She had almost searched all the bags in the wardrobe when she eventually got to the Ralph Lauren bag that the tape was, she opened it and did the normal routine, but the tape wasn’t there neither so she kept on searching and by the time she was done searching all the bags and didn’t see the tape, she knew catching Richard was now of top priority. She walked out of the house reluctantly, silently praying Richard must have been caught before she got out. Unfortunately for her, Richard seemed to be un-catchable. At the speed he ran, even Usian Bolt would be scared of securing the gold medal at the next olympics. He knew the right time to turn left and the right time to turn right so as to avoid both John and Samuel. Jummy watched was happening for a while and couldn’t help but laugh out loud, they really looked like kids playing. She finally controlled her laughter and went down to business, she studied how Richard ran for a while and stood at a spot she knew he was going to turn, before Richard could hold his brake, he had already run into the leg Jummy had set for him and with a loud thud he went down flat- its funny how lazy people always find an easy way. Samuel was the first to come around, still pacing, he grabbed Richard on the floor and launched three punches at him. The punches made Richard to start seeing things, the first made him see two tiny angels playing table tennis on his head and the second made him see the same angels playing basket ball only that there were four angels now, as the third punched landed on his stomach, all the angels seemed to have disappeared. Richard passed out – moral lesson? Don’t joke with a soldier’s punch, ex soldier or not. After pouring almost a bucket of water on his face, Richard finally came back to life. Jummy who was already impatient went straight to the point. She held Richard on the belt as if she was ready to beat him up and said; “Am going to ask you this only once, so think before you reply.” She paused for a split second and then continued, “where is the tape?” Richard had made a lot of mistakes in his life, but the worst mistake he made is when he looked up at Jummy in the face and asked; “Which tape”. At times in life, we make mistakes that aren’t called for or simply mistakes we could have easily avoided all because of we didn’t close our big mouths. *** “which bag are you talking about?” Richard asked Jummy. The response he got was unbelievable to both Richard, John and Samuel. Jummy relocated her hand from the waist line of Richard to his chest region, and with the sort of energy you can expect any normal female to have, Jummy pulled Richard up and smashed him down, that action could be likened to “Undertaker’s signature choke slam”. John and even Samuel shifted a little backwards just in case she decided to pull another unbelievable stunt. Jummy squatted close to Richard who was still stunned and said, “I want to believe you didn’t here me correctly the first time, so this is probably the last time I’ll ask you this, better pay attention this time” she paused and gave Richard and inquiring look, as if to make sure he was listening, “WHERE IS THE TAPE?” she asked, emphasising on each word. Richard had already gotten back his composure and was quite scared by Jummy, he was at the verge of peeing in his pants. “I swear to God, I don’t know what tape you are asking about.” “Are you sure” Jummy asked. “Dead sure, if you doubt me, why don’t you search me?” he suggested but Jummy wasn’t interested in that. She stood up, looked at John and said, “he is telling the truth, the tape isn’t with him” “Why don’t you search him to be sure?” Samuel asked. Jummy didn’t like being challenged, and the fact that Samuel was always not on her side made he more pissed; “I’m telling it isn’t there, you can go ahead and search if you like” she said. “But you haven’t…” Samuel was about to reply when John cut in, “lets go back into the house and check. Considering all this commotion, the tape might have slipped off the wardrobe and you might not have seen it”, John eyes suddenly shone like someone who just had a bright idea, “wait a minute; Zainab said its a recording right?” he asked. “Yes” Jummy replied irritably, she didn’t get why John had to ask the question again even though he was there when Zainab was saying her story. “If its a recording, what makes you think its a tape? A phone, MP3 or other electronic devices can record, I don’t think the anonymous guy would be carrying a tape recorder in his pocket and start it without Richard noticing” Just like how John’s eye had shone when he had that idea, Jummy’s eye suddenly shone too, “I recall seeing an Ipod in Zainab’s Ralph Lauren bag” she said. Samuel gave Jummy and inquiring look which asked, “who one is Ralph Lauren now?” Jummy got the look and even though Samuel hadn’t ask the question out loud, she replied, “it’s just the name of a designer” John chuckled. “Alright then, what are you waiting for? Go and bring the Ipod na” John said and watched Jummy run inside the house. “See her big yansh self” Samuel murmured as he too watched Jummy go, John lips curved into a slight smile, slight enough for Samuel not to notice. Richard had already stood up when Jummy came out, instead of him to be planning an escape, he let curiosity take the better part of his judgement, he wanted to know what was in this tape this people have been talking about since. “Is that the Ipod?” John asked as he saw a small white device in Jummy’s hand. “yea, but it has no speakers, we need an earpiece to listen to the contents” She replied. “I’ll be right back, I think my earpiece is in the car” “ahh! That’s double stress for you oh, see why I disagreed with you when you decided to park a ,mile away?” she was ignored and John said, “you searched the other bags and saw no electronic device right?” “yea” “okay, there is not need for Sam to walk to the car and come back, this is probably the thing we are looking for, lets all go back to the car together” “Good idea” Samuel replied, he was delighted that Jummy wasn’t entirely right. John turned and headed for the gate, Jummy followed and just when Samuel was about to follow he saw Richard still standing there and asked no one in particular, “so what’s going to happen to this guy now?” “Oh! Him? Bring him along, we might be needing him” John replied and walked out of the compound. Samuel grinned at Richard and Richard got the message, he wasn’t in the mood to see angels playing table tennis on his head again so he just voluntarily followed them. ***** Zainab must have been thinking too much because from the way she looked, she would probably get sick from too much thinking. The pieces just didn’t seem to fit in her head, the anonymous call, Richard trying to kill her, and why did the anonymous caller even want to help her? After all, nothing goes for free in this part of the world, or so she thought. Her thoughts was once again interrupted by a phone call from the person she least expected, Eric Amaechi or E.A as he is fondly called. There are two important things you need to know about E.A, one is he is the host of the talk show “Single or Married” where he and his co-host who happens to be Zainab, talk about relationships and stuffs like that, and two, he has been crushing on Zainab for over two years, or lets just say since the first time he laid his eyes on her which happens to be two years ago when she applied for the job. Although he and Zainab tries to maintain a strictly professional relationship, he had made several moves at Zainab in which she turned down not because she is married to Richard, or E.A wasn’t an ideal partner but because she didn’t like E.A that way, you know what am mean right? Anyway, Zainab looked at the screen of her phone and sighed, “ohh! not this guy again” She reluctantly pressed the green button and murmured a “hello”, barely hearing herself. “Hey! Zain where are you na?” E.A asked immediately, he so often called Zainab, Zain, it can be argued he has forgotten Zainab’s full name Zainab wanted to mention the hospital but something told her E.A would leave whatever he was doing and run to the hospital with flowers, cereals and many other things she might not be needing since she was to be discharged the next day, she didn’t want to bother him. “Am at Abuja now, we are shooting a new episode of Broken Dreams” she lied. “And you didn’t think it would be nice to inform us before hand so that we could had worked something out?” E.A asked, he really sounded offended. “Work something out? Like how?” She asked, she sounded genuinely confused. “Does the phrase “single and married” ring a bell?” he asked irritated. “Oh my goodness, E.A am so sorry, I forgot we are meant record the special weekend episode today, I’m really sorry!” she apologised, she had forgotten all about the plans she, E.A and other crew members had made about a week ago. The talk show was doing really well, and they already had a large fan base, so the fans wanted more, so they planned to record a special weekend edition to show their appreciation. “What would your sorry change? The whole crew are ready to go, what on earth do I tell them?” “Err… Okay you know what, I’ll be back in lagos by tomorrow afternoon, we can record it in the evening, tell them I’ll bring a celebrity guest along” E.A seemed to like the idea of hosting a celeb, he knew it would hype the show profile so he calmed down, “special guest? Who do you have in mind?” he asked. “I don’t know yet, maybe 3face or even P-cube, I heard they are both engaged and planning to get married soon, it would be nice to have them on the show, don’t you agree?” “Good idea, if you can get P-cube to come to the show then you would be forgiven but if not….” “Don’t worry, Zain is in control” she cut in. E.A laughed and thought it would be nice to flirt a little, “you see why I like you?” Zainab wasn’t ready for that so she just ignored him, “E.A, bye” and she hung up before he could think of a reply. She had barely dropped her phone when Jummy, Richard, John and Samuel trooped in to the room, the look on Jummy’s face told her the result wasn’t good. “What’s wrong Jummy?” She asked a little jumpy. Jummy just threw the Ipod and earpiece to Zainab, “Listen to the content”, she said. WATCH OUT FOR PART 11 part 11 The atmosphere was tensed, as if robbers armed with big guns were present in the ward. Jummy wasn’t her usual “always-kidding” self. John had a blank stare on his face, it was difficult to know what exactly was going on in his mind, but whatever he was thinking couldn’t be a positive thought towards Richard. Samuel had this “Rambo-Kiling-mode-activated” look, from the way he starred at Richard, one can easily know what was going in his mind and it was definitely something that had to do with beating Richard to pulp. But in comparism to the rest of them, Zainab anger was on a totally different league. She had just listened to the recording and after a long pause, a very long pause, she turned to Richard and asked, “did you really say this?” Richard was yet to listen to the tape so he had a blank look of confusion on his face, “say what?” He asked. “Richard did you really say all this?!!!” Zainab yelled at Richard, the floor the hospital vibrated. Richard was shocked, “say what? I have no idea what you talking about”. “Take this” she said, while the Ipod was already in mid-air because she threw it at him, “an listen to the content” she added. Richard caught the Ipod just in time, he plugged the earpiece into his ear and before he pressed the “play” button, he glanced at all the occupants of the room, he had no idea what to expect but he knew it was nothing that could favour him. He pressed the play button. The tape was short and straight to the point, it contained just four statements made between him and Dr. Daniel, “What’s funny Dr. Dan?” He heard himself ask over the tape. “This wife of yours which you despise so much isn’t dead, and am so sure when I resuscitate and stabilise her, she would still divorce you” was the reply he got. “No! She can’t wake up, kill her now!” He heard himself scream in terror. “I’m done killing for you! You need to be taught a lesson”. Was the reply he got. As soon as he had listened to the content of the tape, he slowly unplugged the earpiece from his ears, his hands were shaking like that of an old man who is over 190 years old. “Zainab am sor…” “Oh! Shut the fcck up arsehole!!!l” Zainab cut in, she attempted jumping out of the bed probably with the intention of killing Richard but she couldn’t find the strength. “You know what? Just get out! Seeing you makes me want to throw up! The sight of you is simply irritating” “Babe you’ve got things all mixed up here, that tape is a…” Richard tried to say. “Is a fake? Hun? Is that the best excuse you can come up with” Jummy cut in, “I’ve always thought you were a good liar but I guess I was wrong, even Pinochio would be a better liar” she concluded, and waved her hand at Richard in a mocking way. “Are you still there? I said get out!” Zainab yelled. Richard tried walking towards Zainab but was stopped by John, “I think you should just do as she said please leave”, he said. “And who are you to tell me what to do?” Richard fired. Samuel cleared his throat in a very audible tone, Richard had a look at him and figured he might be needing some surgeries if he didn’t leave now. “I’ll go Zainab, but just know that I’m not the person you think I am, everything is a frame up” Richard replied. Samuel cleared his throat again. “Am going na, you don’t have to act this way” Richard said to Samuel and left the room. * * * * * VENUE: SOMEWHERE AT IJEGUN, LAGOS.(Dr. Daniel house) Since he always dress corporately, wearing a blue pencil shaped Jeans and a red and white striped Polo top was a rare sight, Dr. Daniel bent down to pick up his shoe which was by the door side, he was packing his thing but was uncertain of where exactly he was going to. He knew telling Zainab about the tape would somehow come back to him, but that wouldn’t really have been a problem since he hadn’t done anything wrong in particular to Zainab. What scared him was the fact that, the police were obviously going to dig into his past and that wouldn’t be favourable to him, the only option he had was to disappear, like he always did. After he had packed his bags and clear every trace of him in the house, he finally figured where he was going to, he picked up his phone and dialled a number adding “+27? to the number. “Hello, seems someone is back from the dead!”, the recipient said excitedly as he picked the call. “Why do you sound like this bro? Can’t your brother call again?” Dr. Daniel replied. “Not like am complaining, you just vanished into air like that. I understand you a man now and a man got to do what a man got to do, but dad and mum didn’t view it that way” “Yea, speaking of mum and dad, how are they?” “They are fine, I guess. Although mum keeps on getting sicker by the day” “Okay, I know. Well, tell them their son is coming back home, I think its high time I settle down” Dr. Daniel replied and let out a huge sigh of relief. “Wow! Can I get the name of the drink you drank before calling me?” His brother replied, not sure either to be excited yet. “Shut up bro, you are silly. Am not drunk, am serious, I’ll be on the next flight to South Africa tonight” Dr. Daniel replied excitedly. “Hmmm.. Seeing is believing, am not mentioning anything to them till you call me to come and pick you from the airport” He replied. “Okay then, I guess surprising them would be better, how is Nancy by the way?” “Oh! So you still remember your wife name?” He replied sarcastically and disappointed. “Why are you being so hard on me? Is she fine or not?” Dr. Daniel replied, trying not to loose his temper, he didn’t get why his junior brother was being so difficult. “She is fine, she keeps on crying and praying you would come back to her one day, you know after you left for Nigeria, things haven’t been easy for her?” “I know, I’m coming back now. Anyway, got to go now, I need to book a flight now before its to late, talk to you later” “Okay, bye then, see you soon, I hope” He replied and waited for his brother to hang up, he knew his brother would be offended if he did. Typical Dr. Daniel, everyone who knew him well, knew that. Dr. Daniel pulled up his hand bag up to his shoulder and dragged his trolley out of his building, he looked back at it for the last time and murmured the words, “Good bye”. * * * * * After a quite short drive which felt like forever to Zainab, Samuel finally pulled up at the front of her house. She had just been discharge roughly two hours ago and she just couldn’t wait to get home, she was already getting irritated by the hospital. Jummy seemed to act like she had healed completely even though her injury was still fresh and still had stitches. She sat at the front sit, and as soon as the car was fully put to halt, she opened the door and ran to open the door for Zainab who sat behind the driver’s seat. Zainab couldn’t help but laugh at her friend, “stop being so nice Jummy, its quiet scary”, she teased. “What do you mean? That I’ve never been nice to you?” Jummy asked jokingly. “Do you really want me to reply that?” Zainab asked, and the both knew the answer, the then laughed out loud. Just then, John phone began ringing, he took an excuse and went to a corner to pick his call while Jummy helped Zainab up to the gate. Zainab placed her hands over Jummy shoulder and limped while Samuel tried to make sure the car was proper locked. “Don’t bother locking it, we are leaving now, there is an emergency at the factory, a worker apparently wants to burn down my company” John said as he walked back after making his call. “What!” Samuel exclaimed. Jummy over heard what John had just said but acted like she didn’t, she want John to tell her himself. John got the message, and walked up to Jummy who was still assisting Zainab to walk, the were already struggling to open the gate when John got there, he offered to help and opened the gate for them. “Errr.. Can I talk to you for a while?” John asked. “Who? Me?” Zainab asked in a mocking tone. John chuckled, “na not you miss, Jumoke I mean” he replied. “Okay, I wonder why cute guys don’t talk to me nowadays” She murmured loud enough for John to hear, he just laughed. “Can you walk on your own” Jummy asked Zainab. “Not really but does it really matter, you gonna leave me now wither I like it or not” Zainab replied and removed her hands from Jummy shoulder, then limped into the compound after winking at Jummy. Jummy smiled. “So what did you want to talk to me about?” Jummy asked John once they were alone. “I’ve got to go now, I have issues to attend to at the office…” “Oh! Hope no problem” Jummy asked, forcing a fake surprised tone. “Nothing I can’t handle..” He paused for a minute, “er.. Jumoke..” He called out her name. “Firstly, you need to stop calling me Jumoke and start calling me Jummy, Jumoke sounds like a bush name… And secondly, Yea.. What is it?” “But I like bush names” John replied teasing her. “Whatever… What is it anyway?” “Err.. Would you like to go out with me sometimes?” He asked shyly, the looked away. “What?” Jummy exclaimed. “Oh! Please don’t make me beg” John replied. “Even though your timing sucks, yes, sure I’ll like to go out wit you sometimes” Jummy replied excitedly. “This is usually the part you give me your number…” John requested, grinning. “Err.. 0806XXXXXXX” Jummy replied immediately. “What? How do you want me to remember that?” “You remembered Zainab’s number right? Well if you don’t recall mine, then maybe we aren’t meant to go out” Jummy replied with a grin and before he could reply, she walked out on him and headed into the house. John and Samuel drove off. Jummy got into the house and met Zainab sitting at the mini bar already drinking and obviously deep in thoughts. “Babe, what’s on your mind” Jummy asked concern. Zainab picked up the bottle of brandy, and took a gulp then she threw the bottle on the wall to Jummy’s amazement. “Do your lawyer handles only divorce cases?” Zainab asked in an awkward calm tone which most definitely had a sinister effect. WATCH OUT FOR PART 12
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