Yemisi episode 4
YEMISI
Episode 4
(Awele palace)
Yemisi: I wouldn’t have come if not for my father who forced me
Lara: anyways good you are here ,labake is about to dance
Yemisi: hmm I think she would win ,but how come as the prince not seen anyone he wants to marry ,you all are beautiful
Lara: maybe he is just waiting for you (teasing)
Yemisi: please stop it Lara ,it can never happen and I can never marry the prince
Lara: well let’s watch and see
(Drummers beats the drums as labake started dancing)
Labake: (danced forward to the prince)
Prince rokanmi: hm! Drummers please stop stop all the drumming! (Stands up)
Labake: (smiles) my prince
Prince rokanmi: listen up maidens ,am so sorry but none of you are up to my taste, I dont think I really like any of you to be my wife
Olori 2:son!!
Prince rokanmi: mom please !(just then he sighted yemisi)huh! mom mom ,she’s here ,I knew she would come for me! (Walks forward to yemisi as labake stood looking very angry)my good people of awele,I have found my wife !
Yemisi: at last he has chosen someone!
Prince rokanmi: (drags yemisi out as everyone stared) she’s the chosen one
Yemisi: what? But but I never performed for this competition
Olori2:wow son you have made the right decision, she is not only beautiful but has a great voice, my wife ,welcome
Yemisi: hmm!!!(confused as she kneels to greet Olori 2)
Labake: (talks to herself) what is so special about her
Lara: she’s beautiful, smart and intelligent
Labake: meaning am a dullard right?
Lara: I never said so !
Labake: am out of here! (exits angrily)
Lara: hm (joins the rest of the villagers clapping for joy ad the drum beats )
Prince rokanmi: (smiles at yemisi)
Yemisi: (stared angrily)hm! my queen!
Olori 2:yes iya wo mi
Yemisi: can I go home?
Prince rokanmi: no ,you will have to meet the wh0le family!
Yemisi: I want to go meet my parents and inform them about this
Olori 2:you can go !
Yemisi: thank you my queen !(exits quickly)
Prince rokanmi: but mother !
(The bakre compound)
(Living room)
(Baba yemisi and mama yemisi seated discussing with yemisi)
Yemisi: baami you won’t tell me to calm down ,I dont even know the prince and you both want me to get married to someone I know nothing about ?how is that possible!
Baba yemisi: whether you like it or not you are getting married to prince rokanmi, he is the prince of this land, he owns everything a girl dreams of ,why are you using your hand to destroy your happiness?
Yemisi: baami this has never been my happiness, am going to school tomorrow because my exams starts tomorrow, am not getting married to prince rokanmi and no one will change that! (Barged out of the house)
Baba yemisi: you had better go and talk some sense into your daughter because this opportunity won’t go to waste
Mama yemisi: (exits)
(Outside)
Yemisi: (sits on the bench ,reading as mama yemisi interrupts )
Mama yemisi: my daughter, can we talk?
Yemisi: what is it again ?
Mama yemisi: yemisi, I was once a teenager like you my dear ,tell me who you want to spend the rest of your life with ?do you have someone you are in love with?
Yemisi: no ,m ,yes !yes maami, my heart belongs to someone very special ,someone out of this world, someone I can spend the rest of my life with in old age ,yes maami, I have someone I love wh0le heartedly
Mama yemisi: hmmm and does he loves you to? His he from this village?
Yemisi :yes maami, am sure you would like him .
Mama yemisi: have you met his relatives?
Yemisi: no have never seen or hear him talk about them
Mama yemisi: just be careful and I really don’t know what to do with all these prince rokanmi stuffs
Yemisi: maami please ,please convince baami I don’t want to marry him,please ,please (sobbing)
Mama yemisi :I ll try ,stop crying my daughter everything will be alright
(The stream)
Olakunle seated by the tree side as yemisi hugs him from the behind)
Olakunle: my life ,my choice whats the matter?
Yemisi: (sobbing) just k-ss me ,k-ss me kunle
Olakunle: I will k-ss you until you tell me why you are crying, what’s the matter baby ?
Yemisi: I !I am getting married soon
Olakunle: ohh you have started with those silly pranks of yours
Yemisi: no kunle ,this is not a joke at all am not joking
Olakunle: to who then?
Yemisi: to the prince of our land kunle, I need you to come with me ,tell me everything about you and what of your relatives, I need you to come to my house with a proposal, please !!
Olakunle: hey love ,calm down you need to relax
Yemisi: now is not the time to fold arms ,the prince wants to marry me at any cost
Olakunle: well I don’t have any relative but I have a God father, come with me and don’t tell anyone about this ok?
Yemisi :but to where?
Olakunle: to where I stay ,dont be scared love ,am right beside you
Yemisi: hmm!
(In labake house)
(Mama labake picking beans as labake walks in angrily)
Mama labake: you lost again?
Labake: yes mama ,yes ,what is it sef? Am tired of yemisi always taking my man away from me ,first it was kunle now it’s rokan, she won’t get married to rokan as far as am alive ,never !
Mama labake :hmm I told you that girl is the enemy of your progress, she takes all that you desire
Labake: not rokanmi, this time I will make sure she suffers ,what nonsense?
Mama labake: that’s my daughter, if you don’t teach her a lesson she won’t leave you alone
Labake: I think I know what to do ,enough is enough !(exits)
War is in drawn in the battle line,what will labake do? Is yemisi ready? Does she knows that her friend envied her a lot ?
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