🌟🌟. TECHNICAL vir-gin
#Episode_2
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” Hello,”She said at the same time with the caller on the other end, then continued, “Who am I speaking with plea-se?” She asked trying ha-rd to recollect the voice but couldn’t.
“It’s bro Kehinde, the brother you met in the bus this morning on your…” the caller explained.
“Oh! Okay! Am sorry I forgot to save your number this morning because I was rushing to beat lateness..” She explained and brother Kehinde responded almost immediately,
It’s okay, I un-derstand” brother Kehinde responded almost immediately and there was silence at the other end.
“Have you closed from school?” He asked, “I c@m£ around your school to work on my car and I thought I should give my church sister a lift so she won’t have to fight with the conductor” he said tea-singly, laughing over the phone and Sade gave a faint smile.
“Thank you my brother, i just closed from school but I won’t be going home immediately” she replied carefully . “I want to go to the mountain from here. Maybe some other time sir” she said.
“Which of the mountains, if you’re going to the Aladura mountain, you can join me because that’s the direction to my house” he explained and Sade gave a surprise exclamation.
“Ah! Ah! You know the Aladura mountain?” She asked with her mouth wi-dely open.
“Yes I do, who doesn’t know Aladura mountain? That’s where I spend my weekend with the Lord.” He replied and it impressed her. She like working with like minded people, people who are lost in their quest for more of God. She had wanted to turn down his offer even though it was the said mountain she was going, but for the fact that his Christian life impressed her she would accept his offer for a lift.
“Alright, am walking towards the school exit gate. Where in p@rticular are you?” She asked, and hastened her steps.
” I’m outside the school gate, you will see me once you come out of the gate ” he replied and just then, Sade c@m£ out and sighted him standing in front of a Toyota Corolla car waving and smiling at her. She returned the smile and walked up to meet him. They exchanged greetings and he opened the front car door for her to enter before went the other way to enter the driver’s seat.
“You won’t believe I’ve been at the mechanics’ works shop since that morning you saw me. They as-sured me that my car would be re-ady this morning only for me to arrive there and found out that it has not even been t©uçhed” he said shaking his head sadly.
“I had to stay back and watch them work on it. Since morning,it now that they just finished working it after several discouraging attitudes they have been displa-ying since morning.” He narrated with with a tensed up face.
“It’s a pity sir. These handwork people are like that everywhere, their tomorrow means next week. Thank God they finished it up today.” She said looking at the roadside hawkers throu-gh the glas-s window as he drove the car at a moderate speed limit and brother Kehinde took that opportunity to have a good look at her and he smiled satisfactorily before looking away.
“What if you come and worsh!pin my parish this Sunday?” He asked, concentrating on the highway.
“Me ke, no oo” Sade replied disagreeably,
“Am very committed in my parish so much that if I miss church service in a year, everyb©dy will notice it” she said laughing.
“My pastor won’t even permit me to miss a Sunday service for any reason…” She continued,
“Hmmm.. Are you the Pastor’s wife?” He queried trying to feign seriousness and she bur-sted into laughter.
” No, am not. I’m just a committed worker” she explained and he twisted his mouth in such a funny way that got the both of them laughing.
“You should worsh!pwith us rather, I promise you, you will enjoy our parish Sunday service. You may even decide to divert to ours” she tried to convince him.
“Well, because of you, I will give it a thought and possibly a try. But on one condition o” he said whining his eyes pla-yfully.
“And what’s the condition?” She asked and observed that brother Kehinde was not driving throu-gh the route she was familiar with.
“Wait, this is not the road na. You have to go straight a bit and then turn to the right hand side” she quic-kly spoke up demonstrating with her hands as she him direction.
“There are many short cuts to the Aladura mountain but this is the shortest and it’s a bit motorable. That place you are directing me to is the longest route.” He explained and drove on.
“Back to our previous business” he said smiling like a spoilt child.
“Are you re-ady to meet my conditions?” He asked looking at her as she looked throu-gh the window fearfully, trying to observe the thick forests on the both sides of the road.
“What’s the condition?” She asked abs£nt mindedly without looking at him and there was silence…
“Brother where are you taking me to?” Sade out bur-sted opening her two eyes wi-de and looking behind several times in fear.
“Hahaha… Ah! Sister mi, are you scared?” Kehinde asked laughing ha-rd in such away that displea-sed her,so she frowned her face but her heartbeat increa-sed ra-pidly as she began to imagine the worst. Soon some Bible pas-sages started dropping on her mind and she began to combine the quotations with prayers silently in her mind.
” Fear fear baby! We are almost there” he said pointing to an old sign post which re-ad,
“This way leads to Aladura mountain” the sign post with a rusted black arrow symbol pointing to the left re-ad and in no time, the car pu-ll-ed over to the backside of the mountain which was almost a place land and she recognized the place.
“Ah! Boda Kehinde, you raised my blood pressure. I thought you were going to use me for rituals” she said, breathing down with her two hands on her che-st.
“Kini? How can you even think of that?” He bur-sted into laughter.
“I’m a Christian not a ritualist” he said calmly and off the car ignition.
“So, what are you saying about my condition ?” He asked looking at her as she turned her wristwatch over to check the time.
“Am still waiting for you to name it” she said and began to put herself together to climb down the car.
“On the condition that you hang out with me after the service so I can more about you and your Christian faith” he said and waited for her response.
“Well, I can’t promise you that yet because I alre-ady have an appointment with my fiancé. We shall be visiting his elder sister in the hospital that Sunday” she said without looking at him. He shook uncomfortably on hearing the word fiancé but he adjusted himself and feigned a smile.
“Wow! Good to hear that my church sister is alre-ady engaged. But you can at least squee-ze out little time out for her church brother too. I don’t think am asking for too much.” He said and twisted his n£¢k pleadingly.
“Okay, let’s see how it goes first. If we comes back in time, I will call you but if not; we schedule for another day. Let me go and pray before it gets dark. I nee-d to leave this place before 6pm today.” She said and began to open the car door.
” Can I come pick you by six?” He asked and saw her restlessness then continued,
“You know this mountain is almost my second house. You may find it difficult getting a bus that will convey you home because today is Friday” he explained but she didn’t respond so he re-leased her to go for her prayers.
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After 3hours of Marathon prayers, Sade noticed that it was getting dark, so she checked her time and found out it was alre-ady past 6pm.
She quic-kly said the grace, packed up her bible and jotter and walked down, following the major road she was familiar with.
She had to carefully climb down the rou-gh mountain which was covered by bushes and large stones. By the time she arrived the valley, she was p@n-ting for air and sweating profusely. She trekked a long distance and arrived the major road where she would board a bus but just as Kehinde said earlier, there was no bus. The few buses that pas-sed bye were filled with pas-s£ngers and the pri-vate cars were not re-ady to st©p as each of them ran on high speed with their glas-ses whined up.
Her phone began to ring but she couldn’t pick up because she was worried as it was alre-ady very dark. It was her fiancé Kolade and her roommate that were calling and the phone kept ringing repeatedly.
“Hello” she answered Kolade’s call.
“My dear, where are you?” Kolade queried worriedly over the phone.
“I told you this morning that I will be going to the mountain after work” she said and he affirmed it.
“I’m waiting for a bus that will convey me to the town and have been standing here for over 1hour but there’s no available bus…” She explained and he interrupted her.
“Bur…but why did you have to stay there till late in the night na? I told you to wait till tomorrow so that we can go together but you insisted. Look now, you are in the middle of no where without any possible means of coming back…” He began to complain bitterly and it got her upset,
“plea-se, plea-se am not re-ady for your nagging right now. Don’t bother about me, I will find my way to my house with or without a bus..” She fired at him angrily and ended the call when she saw two boys from nowhere approaching her.
” Haunty , you dey wait for bus? ” one of them asked with a de-ep Yoru-ba ton-gue while the other one walked behind her and stood adjacent to her without saying a word. Fear gr!pp£dher heart, the thought of brother Kehinde flashed her mind and she began to regret for not allowing him to come back and pick her up. Her phone rang again and it was Kehinde, she looked at the two boys fearfully before picking the call.
“Hello, brother Kehinde” she said in a whisper and he suspected that she was in trouble.
“Where are you right now” he asked standing up to dress up.
” Am at the major express road that leads…” The call ended while she was still talking as one of the boys covered her mouth and snatched the phone from her while the other one f0rç£d her hand bag and threw her to the ground…
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