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Episode 8.
Britney called out and I stopped.
“What do you mean by Ben fed me with lies?” She asked, I really wasn’t in the mood to talk, not even when Ben was standing right behind us staring at me like a hungry lion. I told her we would talk when she feels like talking to me and not when she needs answers.
I said and left for the dance group. Others joined us and a delta lady came with dance steps and how we would creatively put the dance together. Being the only Yoru-ba boy in the dance group, it was kinda weird but I fit it and stood infront to lead the dance.
We were rehearsing when I saw Britney staring at me from afar. The rehearsal was un-der the scorching sun so I was sweating profusely. She held a cold bottled water and walked towards me, she handed it over to me without a word and had a step back.
“Thank you ” I said with a faint smile and returned to the rehearsal. She stood there looking at me and laughing at our dance steps.
We had a break and I sat on one of the big rocks around the place, she moved closer and stood infront of me. I drank from the bottled water she gave me.
“Ade, is it true?” She asked.
“That what?” I asked without looking at her.
“Is it true that you almost caused trouble in the clinic when I was in pain?” She asked.
“Well, I don’t know who told you that but I did that because I was scared, you were in pain and no one was doing anything, I had to shout on them before the doctor came out and did something…and who told you that? ” I asked.
“Ben told me, he told me everything” she said.
“What else did he tell you that makes you feel I am not fit to be your friend anymore?” I asked.
She started stuttering, she couldn’t say a word. I stood up and looked into her eyes.
“Britney, tell me what he told you now”
“Ade, can we just forget about what he told me please, he was just trying to protect me” she said.
“He was protecting you from what? Tell me, he was protecting you from me? Oh wow, now I see, so why are you here with me? Why are you moving to an acclaimed threat?” I queried.
“Ade please calm down, I am just recu-perating, don’t make me go throu-ghthis tough time please, I need you to un-derstand that I am not happy that things turned out to be like this between you and I, I also don’t want him to tell my parent that….” she stopped.
I searched her face for answers.
“That what? Britney, that what?” I asked anxiously.
She covered her mouth with her hand and sobbed. She couldn’t say a word.
“Talk to me Britney, that what?!” I exclaimed.
“Ade I am a sickle cell patient, my genotype is SC that was why I fell sick when the stress was too much on me, Ben was the one communicating with my parents and unknown to me he already told them that I was moving with a stranger and you were the reasons why I was punished because I was out with you talking when the soldiers caught us after light out” she explained.
“What?! What did you just say? He said so?…” I exclaimed.
” I couldn’t debunk it because I was on the hospital bed and they believed him ….Ade I’m sorry, it was all my fault”
I held my head and fury, I starred at him on the football pitch and walked briskly to go and meet him when someone grabbed me from behind as I was about entering the pitch.
It was Yetunde. She hug-ged me and patted my back.
“Ade please let this slide, you know what’ll happen if you go in there to fight, you will be sent off the camp, please Ade, let’s settle this amicably. Britney ran to me and also held me.
“Ade please, i’m so sorry, please, this is all my fault, I shouldn’t have let him get the bigger part of me, I’m sorry” she apologised.
She turned to Yetunde and thanked her for helping her grab me, it made me realise she went to call yetunde where she was practicing to come to her rescue.
I had the intention to knock him out without thinking about the repercussions.
What a blatant liar.
I was calmed so I walked to the pavilion to sit at the edge, I pa-nted angrily. Some of my platoon mates came to ask what happened but I was too angry to talk, Yetunde replied them.
Yetunde sat at my right side while Britney sat at my left.
Yetunde held my hand and fondled it, she whispered Nau-ghty words into my ears.
“Sebi if not that we are in camp, I would just twe-rk for you and give you a nice BJ to calm you down”
I didn’t have any choice than to laugh out loud.
She got me on that one.
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Episode 9.
Yetunde won’t allow me to get angry in peace without interfering the frequency. Anyways everyone need that special friend that’ll have your mumu bu-tton to make you smile even when you are angry.
Britney stared at me as I laughed.
“Oh, see who is laughing, I think Yetunde discovered alot about you while I was away ” she said and faced Yetunde.
“Yetunde, will you teach me how to make him smile just the way you did now? I don’t like the way he got angry today, it was my fault”
“Don’t worry, I will teach you” she replied jokingly.
It was time for drama rehearsal, I was called on the phone to come over to the location where the rehearsal would take place, I stood up and told the ladies I would be going for drama.
Yetunde walked me down the pavilion and held my hand.
“Ade, hope you will be fine?” She asked and I nodded in affirmation.
“I have to go back to the training ground, I’m sure they’ll be looking for me, Britney, hope you will take care of him since you are in same drama group” she asked.
“Yes I will, thank you Yetunde ” she said.
Yetunde left for her training and we headed to our drama location. On the way, she clocked her fingers into mine as we walked to the location.
“Ade, hope you are no more angry, please forgive me, I didn’t mean to hurt you ” she apologised as she ru-bbed my back. I wrapped my hand around her ne-ck and we walked together.
The rehearsal was a success and it was night fall already, I wanted to go for my food in the kitchen, she suggested we get some snacks at mammy market and chill somewhere to talk. I was tired but her expression didn’t give me a choice so I followed her.
We got to mammy Market and got some snacks, we went to her dry cleaner’s corner, he had a small bench there. We sat there with our snacks and started talking.
“I was transported to the hospital when the crisis started, i couldnt lift my legs, i knew you would be worried but we forgot to exchange numbers, no one would have known if not Ben that called my mum, they wanted to come but i was getting better then so the doctor told then it wasnt that serious.”
Then I wondered how Ben got her parent’s number. I was about asking when Yetunde’s message came in.
“Hi Ade, I just saw you with Britney now, I don’t want to disrupt your conversation, we’ll see tomorrow ” I looked around but couldn’t find her.
“How did Ben have your mum’s number? ” I asked.
She stuttered.
“Britney, I just want to know how he got your mum’s number and that’s it” I asked.
“Ben was my boyfriend back in school but we broke up due to a reason, my parents knows him and he comes to our house them, he cheated on me and I broke up with him, he has been stalking me since then, I later got to know that he came to Nigeria to serve because of me, I was also shocked when I saw him here but what choice do I have” she explained.
At that point, I knew my stand and what I might get into if I get myself involved in her so I concluded within me that it won’t more than a friend.
It was getting late, I suggested we go to bed. I walked her to her hostel, she dragged me to a corner where there was no light and wanted to kis-s me, I fli-pped back my head to avoid.
She apologised
“I’m.sorry”
I was surprised.
“Why did you want to do that??”
“I don’t know, I’m sorry” she said and ran inside.
I didn’t feel good about the kis-s
Something wasn’t right.
I brou-ght out my phone and called Yetunde, I told her about it and she asked me to wait for her beside the water tank which I did.
She met me there few minutes later and we talked about it, she told me not to take it to heart and shouldn’t attach emotions to it.
When she was about leaving she hug-ged me and kis-sed me.
If Britney can’t have you, I will”
She said.