A New Creation episode 19
Chapter 19A
“Gentle Gentle” Rofiat scre-med, running after Gentle who was about to walk into the cafeteria. Gentle heard her calling but intentionally ignored her and proceeded into the cafeteria. Seconds after, Rofiat walked in and sat down opposite Gentle.
“Gentle, why you no kan answer me since wey I don dey call na” Rofiat signalled for one of the waitress to come take their order.
“Rough, I been no hear you. How far” Gentle bringing out his laptop from the bag.
“I dey, so what’s up with you and Slimmy” Rofiat asked but Gentle just raised his face up and stared at her blankly before focusing back on his laptop “See Gentle I know you also love my sister but I can’t decide who and who not to love for her, she isn’t a kid any more”
“So of all people, you allowed her to choose Slimmy who you and I know that he doesn’t love, all he does is screw ladies up and then dump them” Gentle replied in a cold tone still staring into his laptop.
“If that was the case, you know I would never have allowed it to happen”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I mean ermm I think, it’s like Slimmy has fallen in love with my cousin for real” Said Rofiat. Gentle pushed away his laptop and cast a gaze on Rofiat, he was about to say something but the waitress that took their orders arrived with their meals. She placed a plate of fried rice in front of Rofiat and a plate of pounded yam and egusi soup in front of Gentle.
“Slimmy that I have known since my childhood days is not capable of loving” Gentle unwrapping the pounded yam and staring into the soup. Mere sight of the soup made him more hungry, he hasn’t had a good meal ever since be moved out of the mansion, he started devouring the food.
“Gentle trust me, Slimmy is in love with my cousin” Rofiat eating her rice slow and steady which is very unlike her tom boyish behaviour. Not only is her eating style different, also her mode of dressing seems different. Gentle had noticed the difference since he s₱0tted her on his way to the cafeteria, she was putting on a feminine blue top and a tight blue jean and complimented it with a pair of black all star shoe. Though she was still without make ups but she looked far more beautiful than when she is wearing a big jean and a masculine shirt.
“Slimmy doesn’t love” Gentle replied with a mouth full of meat.
“And if it happens that he truly love Hadijat!?” Rofiat asked.
“Then I will give them my blessings”
“Deal?”
“Deal”…
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Oj and Halimat sat close to each other on the sofa, they were both enjoying the movie playing on the tv. Halimat has been in his place for a while now, they have been having the best times of their lives. Their love story seems so perfect and sweet, sweeter than any one of them could ever imagine. They seem so compatible that they haven’t even had a single argument or misunderstanding since that night when Oj apologised to her. They seem so engrossed in the movie until they heard a knock on the door.
“Who be that” Oj asked…
“Na me Hercules”
“Enter na” Oj announced.
“Mama ooooh” Hercules hailed Halimat as he entered. “Mama you just be like wine, na everyday you just dey fine dey go”. Halimat just sat there blushing.
“How are you Hercules” Halimat asked with a big smile.
“Mama I for dey fine oh buh na hunger dey everywhere now” Hercules replied as he sat down on one of the chairs.
“Should I serve you something then”
“Haaa na hin you kan dey talk small small, abeg help me oo before hunger kill person for here” Hercules raised his hands into the air to demonstrate his respect and happiness.
“Okay, let me quickly get the food for you” Halimat stood up and walked into the kitchen.
“Mama oooh, who you epp, who you epp, you epp me, you epp me” Hercules sang on as Halimat walked into the kitchen still smiling. Hercules as a young boy spent all his life on the streets before he met a God sent man who decided to send him through school after he realised how brilliant Hercules was. Despite all his involvement with the cult group, he was still one of the most brilliant in his department.
“Hercules how far na” Oj asked after Halimat had left.
“I dey baba but problem sef dey oh” Hercules sitting up and looking serious this time around.
“Wetin happen” Oj inquired.
“The guy wey dey keep weapons for us, hin say one of our guns miss oo” Hercules replied.
“You don yian Small about this?”
“I never tell am yet ooh”
“Call am quickly. Make hin tackle the situation personally” Oj said.
“Ok” Hercules replied as he brought out his phone and was about putting a call through to Small.
“Olboi, go make the call outside na abi you want make this woman hear you ni” Oj said and Hercules went outside immediately.
Halimat walked back from the kitchen with a tray containing a plate of rice and a cup of orange juice.
“Where’s Hercules” Halimat asked as she dropped the tray on the centre table
“He went outside to make a call, he is coming” Oj replied staring at Halimat’s lap lustfully.
“You had better not even think about it, you have had enough for one day” Halimat said to Oj after seeing him staring at her laps.
“How do you even know what I am thinking” Oj laughing.
“Why won’t I know what you are thinking, besides remember Hercules is here so we can’t do anything” Halimat laughing also
“Seems like you really like Hercules yeah?”
“Yes oh, he is very funny and moreover I think he and Small are your closest friends in the frat” Halimat.
“Yeah, they are my personal people, am glad you are getting along with everyone” Oj moving his head closer to Halimat’s head, Halimat also moved her head towards him also but they both jerked back when Hercules opened the door.
“Haaa make una no vex ooh, make I carry my own food before una continue” Hercules rushed to carry the tray on the centre table.
“You can stay and eat your food na” Halimat said.
“Nooo don’t stay oo” Oj countered jokingly.
“Mesef no wan stay before” Hercules rushed out of the house.
“So you are happy now, you this s€× addict” Halimat joked.
“Am not addicted to s€×, I am addicted to you” Oj joked back as he buried his head in Halimat’s brreast.
Chapter 19B
Gentle could hear the knock on the door even with the earpiece placed in his ears and the laptop his eyes were fixated on. He took off the earpiece to listen carefully.
“Hey Roy! Where are you?” He heard the person knocking say. He quickly closed up the laptop and got up to his feet, he recognized the voice and he felt it wasn’t time to see him yet. Luckily, Roy came walking towards the door from the room section at that moment.
“Did you tell him I’m around?” He asked Roy.
“Yes,” Roy stated boldly, raising an eyebrow. “Isn’t it time that you guys handle the matter?” Roy was about to continue moving but Gentle stopped him with a palm on his chest.
“I don’t want to see him now, so tell him I’m not around or that I just went out except you wanna see us exchange words and blows.” Gentle said in whispers but in a strong and threatening tone.
“He’s here to make peace and not too fight with you,” Roy insisted adamantly.
“Don’t say I didn’t warn you,” Gentle made a threatening eye gesture at Roy and drummed on Roy’s chest with his fingers before walking away.
Roy ignored his warning and proceeded to open the door. However, before the door was opened, Gentle had already walked out of sight.
Slimmy stepped in slowly rolling his car keys in his hands and staring around Roy’s living room.
“Welcome Slimmy,” Roy stepped back after closing the door and spoke to Slimmy with a smile.
Slimmy stared at Roy with a broad smile, shaking his head in surprise at the way he was welcomed. “Homey, what’s the matter with you? Is that how you greet your dude who you’ve not seen in a long while?” He remanded with a chuckle and stretched out his hand to Roy for an handshake and then a hug. “Better,” he laughed and patted Roy on the shoulder.
Roy forced a smile on his face and ushered Slimmy into his living room. He wasn’t really comfortable with hosting Gentle in his house and now Slimmy had come for a visit. Hopefully, Slimmy’s visit would solve the matter and Gentle would return with him back to their mansion.
Had he any choice, he wouldn’t have accepted Gentle in. Not because he didn’t like Gentle or Slimmy, but because of their involvement in cultism. He was always scared when anything about cultism was mentioned. That explains their parting of ways after their hundred level when he had found out that the brothers had joined a cult. He also learnt about Fabio’s initiation too after theirs and he believed that they must have influenced Fabio to join them. Since then, he had tried to distance himself totally from them but still maintained contact with Gentle who was closer to him.
“Wow, Rich boy!” Slimmy commented as he balanced on the settee, still staring at the wh0le living room. He had always known Roy to be rich, the O.B.O amongst them during their hundred level days. “Is that your girlfriend?” Slimmy asked, pointing at a picture of Roy and a girl framed to the wall.
“No, she’s my only sister.” Roy replied.
“Oh! I see. What school is she in?”
“She schools in North America,” Roy answered.
“Ehen, the chick na Yankee girl. I wan say make you nack me her number before.”Slimmy said before remembering that he now had a girlfriend that he was trying to be faithful to. He shook his head and smiled to himself. Well, there was nothing bad if he played some away games at times, he thought to himself.
“What should I offer you?”
“Hmm… I love the the design of this your apartment, who painted it for you?” Slimmy ignored Roy’s question, pretending like be didn’t hear.
“Thanks, a friend in the Applied arts department,” Roy answered.
“Ermm… And what’s up with all these Bible verses on your walls? Don’t tell me you’ve started going to church.”
“Yes, I’m born again now. I gave my heart to Christ last year.” Roy replied with less enthusiasm, trying to dissuade Slimmy from dwelling on the matter.
“Haha haha!” Slimmy held his belly tight, almost rolling on the floor with laughter.
“What?” Roy asked in an unpleasant tone.
“Oh boy, I know you well o. You no like trouble but at the same time, you no fit do without girls na. I never forget how many girls you smash for our hundred level first semester o,” Slimmy said and added another round of laughter. “All the choir babes for una church don suffer be that.”
Roy had no choice than to join in the laughter. He wasn’t born again yet, neither was he going to church frequently. He actually painted the room in that way because he was trying to impress a beautiful lady who was trying to make him join her church.
“Oya, turn here.” Slimmy said to him, requesting him to back the walls where the Bible verses were. Roy obeyed. “Oya, quote Hebrews eleven verse one for me.”
“Ermm…” Roy stammered and scratched his head for a while. “For God so loved the world, that he gave us only begotten son, that whosoever…” Roy scratching increased as he couldn’t continue.
Slimmy had another long round of laughter. “Oh boy, you even worse pass me self, na Genesis one verse one you dey quote like that.” Slimmy who also did not know the Bible verse fumbled.
“No be Genesis jor,” Roy argued. “I don forget where the thing dey for Bible but no be Genesis.”
“Shut up, no dey argue. You paint 2nd Corinthians five seventeen for your wall and you no know am offhand. You be truly born again,” Slimmy added and laughed briefly again.
The feeling of the old days was now returning to Roy, he was feeling a bit more free with Slimmy now that Slimmy was relating with him on a friendsh¡p level. The reason he feared Slimmy and was able to relate with Gentle better was Slimmy’s position in the cult and his more strictness.
“Baba, wetin you wan make I give you?” Roy finally asked after some minutes of laughter.
“Ehen,” Slimmy’s face turned serious, it was time now for his main purpose of coming. “Where’s he?” He asked in whispers.
“In the room.”
“But I didn’t see his car outside.”
“Yes, he didn’t park it here. He doesn’t want you announce of his presence to people.”
“Ehen, can I see him?” Slimmy asked in a serious tone, straightening his shirt as he got up. He scratched his head, kind of regretting all the loud laughter he had been making. He was sure that Gentle must have been listening.
…to be continued