Love, Lust And Lost - Season 1 Episode 61

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Love, Lust And Lost - Season 1 Episode 61

She laughed out loud for a few seconds. Her voice sending the toads that had been `croak`ing’ into a deep silence.

What sort of laughter early that morning was disturbing their sleep? As if they ever `sleep’ (present continuous). One would imagine may be toads do sleep cause they never stop their croaks during the night.

“You are funny you know?” She asked rhetorically but it rendered Adefemi’s face on a straight.

How has he acted funny? Or what had he said that sounds funny? He was surprised.

“This work doesn’t offer one much time to do that. You have to rise early and make sure you meet up to sign-in early,” she explained and suddenly went silent.

Her emotion changed as though she weren’t happy with it, with all the troubles she had to face serving her fatherland.

“But,……” He tried to speak but she interrupted him.

“Don’t let’s dwell on that dear. It’s nothing! Let’s talk about you.”

“About me?” He shrugged his shoulders. “Why don’t you let us talk about you?”

They both laughed. They were cheerful and one could read it in their voices. They entered a canteen that sold snacks, – the best snacks in the whole complex.

Students had given the owner the name Mrs. Smalls as a contemporary with Mr. Biggs – widely known. They said her snacks were perfectly made and the taste were nothing different from that of Mr. Biggs’ snacks.

“Good morning ma,” Miss Yemisi greeted.

“Good morning Mrs. Smalls,” Adefemi put his in the usual and widely accepted way.

“`Goodu’ morning young teacher,” she responded and smiled sheepishly towards Adefemi.

She stared back at the teacher and were both engaged for some minutes, using facial language. Later they both guffawed, Adefemi was left clueless of what the laughter was all about, yet he maintained his calm.

“So what do you have prepared for us this morning or are we too early?” Questioned Miss Yemisi.

“Na only doughnut still dey down.”

Only God knew how easy it had been for the new Miss to have known the school so quickly. She even knew the most popular and sought after Mrs. Smalls.

“We’ll manage it anyway. You can give me two and serve my ward anything he wants.”

“Wetin be `Ward’ again o?” Mrs. Smalls displayed her level of illiteracy. “Shey na ward for hospital or one for all these `politico’ them?”

Miss Yemisi and Adefemi rolled in the aisles. Though, Adefemi had no idea `ward’ as of hospital existed – he knew what other meaning it has.

How funny could this mama be?

“Don’t worry Mrs. Smalls, you will understand soon,” she tried not to engage her any further.

“Do not bother to serve me ma. I don’t eat such early before classes!” Adefemi objected.

“Make una break this grammar small small for me abeg. I no go school reach this una level. Na `elementary’ (primary) school my papa power reach to send me.” Mrs. Smalls made joke and they all laughed.

“Well, I don’t `chop’ in the morning,” Adefemi murdered pidgin.

Miss Yemisi as well as himself laughed. It seemed Mrs. smalls also knew why!

“You see, you no even fit speak pidgin well,” she mocked and chuckled.

The next 20 minutes was lively and laughter continued to rent the air until they decided to leave. Mrs. Smalls was glad how fast her work had gone with these cheerful people.

She never wanted them to go but Miss Yemisi said they’ve got something private to discuss and needed to have some audience. Nevertheless, she craved for their company very soon.

As they went out of the canteen, they didn’t go straight to the school. They strolled towards the Astro Turf 2000, a mini `stadium’ in the school complex, discussing. The stadium wasn’t far from the school 2.

“Adefemi,” she called his name, paused as he looked into her eyes. The height between them was about a foot yet their eyes met.

She took a deep breath as one would do after calling his or her lovers’ name – to tell them something of extreme importance, or how much one appreciated them.

“You know, I’ve never been this happy early in the morning,” she started and waited again to cook up what her next words would be but he cut her short with a smile.

“Well, that’s cool! We all don’t need to be tensed up every time. It doesn’t make us look beautiful,” he spoke like a sage. She was wowed about this young man.

“But why did you look tensed in my class the other time?” She changed her voice to a matter of fact.

It appeared they were same age now, she was 21 and he was 14 going to 15 but she had humbled herself so much to this young man’s age. She loved him so much and there in his eyes – she saw what she wanted in her father, brother, boyfriend and possibly husband.

“You know miss, the world ain’t fair to many good people,” he became emotional.

He was starting to shed tears. She could see in his eyes – water forming. The atmosphere had changed rapidly to one being controlled by unknown forces. Heartbeats increased and there was certain `loominess’ and shady clouds hanging about them.

They were alone now in the place, the world – standing facing each other. It only remained for them to hold hands. She didn’t know when tears formed in her face and she sobbed.

He looked up to her yet he couldn’t see her. His visions were blurred by the tears he was trying to prevent from taking a long walk down his face. They gathered to a certain percentage before they were able to swim or drop. Two drops went down from his eyes in quick succession and he saw her clearly now.

He stretched his hands may be he could reach for her face to wipe her tears but he couldn’t. His hands stopped at her mouth. He stood on his toes and he reached the summit, – wiped her tears with the thumbs and pat her shoulder.

“Thank you so much dear,” she must have known why he said what he said earlier.

Was the world unfair to her too? This might be two worlds of different individual colliding.
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“We could shed tears till eternity but if we do not try to make a change where required, the pain would linger on, cling to our being like a plague,” he spoke again in what she found hard to comprehend.

Was this young man reading her mind and telling her she had found solutions to her problems?.