Hotel Palaver - Season 1 - Episode 24

4 years ago

Hotel Palaver - Season 1 - Episode 24

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Henry’s POV

I decided to pay Adesuwa a visit at her house that evening. Only to find out she had been arrested. With the help of her cousin Ivie, I located the police station and I paid her bail.

Some minutes later I saw her come out with a police man behind her. “You for don sleep here today” the woman shouted and she hissed.

I saw the shock on her face when she saw me. I guess she didn’t expect that I’ll be the one to bail her out.
“What are you doing here?” She asked and I shrugged, “I..
. Uh ….it’s a long story.” I paused then I cleared my throat.
“I came over to your house to see you then I heard you’ve been arrested”
“How did you find this place?”
“Your cousin Ivie brought me here” I answered and I heard her laugh. “It’s pronounced Ivie” she corrected and I nodded.

“Ivie” I pronounced again, indefinitely pronounced it wrongly cause she shook her head I disagreement.

“Ivie”
“Never mind, you’re hopeless. Your accent would not even let you pronounce it well.”
“Teach me”
“Forget it! What’s the time?”
“It’s past ten”
“Geez!” Adesuwa yelled. “It’s late, this place is not safe
. We need to get out of here before something bad would happen and they’ll say it’s Adesuwa’s fault.” She ranted moving to the front.

“We have the police here” I answered and she scoffed.

“If you know what’s good for you, you would fear them”
“Our lives are in their hands” I argued,
“I’ll be fine and relaxed if my life was in the hands of a five years old child than the police.” She answered and I scoffed.
“They’re not that bad.”
We walked over to where his car was then we entered. There was a brief silence. “Why were you arrested?” I asked, “What did you hear?”

“I want to hear it from you”
“What does it matter?”
“Just answer the d--n question, would it kill you to answer a question?”
“Well, welcome to Nigeria where we answer questions with questions”
“In order words you’re not going to say anything” I assumed and she smiled. I didn’t know why she did. She had lovely dimples, I just never realized them.
I don’t even remember ever seeing her smile.

“I was arrested because I disciplined a spoilt brat for touching my a-s but they called it assault because these so called police have been paid a whole sum of money to make sure I sleep in jail.”

“Oh” i paused.

“Rich folks are always trying to act like they can use their money to buy even the air you breathe. They think they’re indispensable, like they’re invisible, like they can get away with it”

“Not all rich folks” I argued and she laughed.

“No one has proved me wrong yet.” “I came to bail you out”
“I’m yet to find your ulterior motive” “Why would I have an ulterior motive?” I asked then I scoffed. Her must be messed up, I thought then I tried to avoid the topic.

“Did you like kill a child on your street?”
“It was in a school and no I didn’t kill the child. Why are people so quick to assume the very worst of me?”
“It was a harmless question” I argued and she scoffed.

“How did it happen?” I asked and she sighed.
“I took a teaching job”
“That’s… that’s good, how’s the job?”
“I don’t have it anymore”
” Oh” I paused.
Suddenly I heard her break into laughter and I chuckled. “I got fired” she answered.
“Every child deserves discipline, the mother had the guts to ridicule me because she had the upper hand and once again I got treated like trash.” She paused.

“I always get treated like trash” she added with a scoff.

For a moment there I thought she was going to cry.

“I’m used to it any ways” she added and I nodded.

“I’m sorry” I apologized and my phone rang. It was Jummy.

“Why does this song sound familiar?” She asked and I wondered why she asked.
“You know the song?” I asked and she nodded.

“I heard this song….” She paused looking at me. From her look, it made sense where she heard the song. “The day you walked into me” I completed and she shut her eyes.
There was a brief silence.

“Why did you do it?”
“Do what?”
“Storm into the room while I was naked”
“Like you said, it’s probably a habit of mine to walk into naked guest”

“I said that out of anger, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it. Why did you lie about being dumb, why did you come in when I didn’t invite you in? Heck! I didn’t call for room service”

“That’s a whole lot of questions for one night and it’s already late”

“I have the time”
“The thieves wandering at this time will have our time if we don’t find our way out. I’m serious it’s dangerous”
“And I’m dead serious! I need an answer”

“God you’re so stubborn!” She shouted and I chuckled.

“Okay fine! Room 29 instead of Room 49. It was a misunderstanding. I was to clean the manager’s room…. It was a coincidence and for what it’s worth, I knocked like four times before going in”

“It was probably the music” I concluded and she agreed.

“I lied because I was dumbfounded” she answered and I laughed at her choice of words.

“Nice choice of word” I interrupted and she chuckled.

How come I never noticed the dimples?
“I was nervous… When I saw you. I feared losing my job so……I pretended to be dumb” she paused.

“It seemed like a brilliant idea at the moment. There were times I wanted to tell you”

“Why didn’t you?” I asked and she shrugged.

“Because….” I paused, “I was scared of losing my job. Why didn’t you fire me when you had the chance to?”

“Because I …..” I stalled.

I didn’t have an answer to that question. Then I remembered what I told Deji.
“I thought you had issues and I wanted to get to know you better and help you out” I answered and she nodded.

“Yeah I have issues all right! It’s like everything I do goes wrong. Like I never do anything right for once in my life”

“That’s crazy”
“Story of my life” she continued then I saw her clean her tears.

“Your friends really do miss you at work” I cleared my throat. “Really?” She asked with a smile curved around her cheeks. “It hasn’t been the same without you. That’s one of their quotes”
“Definitely Lilian” she laughed covering her mouth. Suddenly she became sad.
“So there’s a job waiting for you at the hotel, that’s if you want it” I chipped in and she turned to me in shock. “You’re not firing me?”

“I don’t recall firing you, you only made that assumption. You have till on Monday to resume that’s if you want the job or else” I didn’t even complete my sentence when she hugged me tightly.

“Thank you” she said then she pulled back apologizing for it.

“I’m sorry” she apologized again.
“It’s okay”

This time I inserted my key in the ignition and there no sound. I wondered why so I decided to check my bonnet. My car battery was missing.

I turned over to Adesuwa who was already out of the car. She shut her eyes in probably in guilt. “I told you it isn’t safe here”

“It’s okay?”
“How are we going to get out of here without the car?” She asked. “You shouldn’t have come for me, you should have stayed where you were. Now I’ll definitely cause you troubles. Urgh!” She groaned kicking the car tyre.

“Calm down” I begged holding her hands.
“It’s going to be fine, we’ll find a way out of this mess. It’s not your fault” I sighed. Then I noticed a policeman start his car.