Must Read: Adventures of Yejide - Season 1 - Episode 2

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Must Read: Adventures of Yejide - Season 1 - Episode 2

When Yejide gave the man the money, she
begged for her life to be spared and
fortunately for her, he let her go. She wasn’t
still herself even after she left the hotel that
day. She couldn’t wait to get back home to
tell Dupe about her encounter. As she arrived
at her compound later that morning, she
quietly walked into her flat, shutting the
doors behind. She sat on her bed, sighing in
relief but almost in tears. In a period of
twenty-four hours, she had given herself to a
man who cheated her and almost sent her
early to grave. All through her reign as a
prostitute, she had never had such encounter.



She stayed awake, just sitting up in bed until
she heard Dupe open the door from outside.
“Dis one wey na me dey always meet you for
house. Wetin dey happen?” Dupe said as she
walked in but Yejide didn’t respond.
“Yejide! This one that you’re looking like they
stole your money. What happened?” Dupe
said again as she walked over to Yejide and
sat on the bed beside her.
“Dupe! You no go believe wetin happen. They
did not only steal my money oo. You for don
dey mourn me.”
“Ahn ahn Yejide! Wetin happen now?”
Yejide sighs as she tells Dupe about her
encounter with the young man she met the
previous night. When she was done narrating,
she paused and waited for Dupe’s response;
Dupe burst out into laughter before talking.
“Na so you keep your face like s--t? Cheer up
now. Wetin don happen don happen. But
thank God you’re okay sha.”
‘I know….” Yejide was about to say something
before she was cut short by Dupe.
“Bet come oo. So you still no collect the
money? You messed up oo”
Yejide looked at Dupe who said it with all
seriousness.
“Dupe! I’m saying I was about to die and
you’re talking about money. If I die, who go
use the money?”
Dupe just laughed and stood up from where
she was seated.
“You’re funny oo” Yejide said, while watching
Dupe who didn’t even look like she was a bit
affected by the story or even scared that it
may have happened to her.
“Ahn ahn, wetin now. No be true I talk. Okay
if you live without the money wey dey buy
your food, pay your bills, explain how you
wan survive.”
“Ahn ahn, you’re acting like you haven’t seen
worse. God go provide now.”
Dupe laughed as she continued, “Ashewo, God
know you?”



But as she saw the look on Yejide’s face, she
kept a straight face and apologized.
“Sorry, I don dey go.”
Dupe who had taken off her clothes with a
towel wrapped around her body left the room
for the bathroom with Yejide still sitting down
on the bed. Yejide kept thinking about the
situation she had found herself in earlier that
morning. She didn’t even report to the hotel
management nor did she say a word to any
other person because she was scared and
thought it would also be embarrassing if
people found out that she was the cause of
the incident since she was a prostitute.
After about a few hours, around the hour of
their normal departure time for the streets,
Yejide still hadn’t gotten dressed. Dupe was
almost done dressing up and Yejide hadn’t
put on her outfit yet. She sat on her bed
feeling very worried. Dupe saw this and sat
down close to her before saying;
“Yejide, C’mon girl. All because of what
happened yesterday night. It has only
happened once now. Don’t worry, nothing will
happen okay? Na dis small tin dey make you
tink like dis. Nor worry.”


Yejide only looked up and smiled at her
friend. She knew she was trying to cheer her
up but she couldn’t stop thinking about it.
She later opened up and told Dupe that she
wouldn’t be going out with her that night.
Nobody stressed it, so Dupe got dressed and
left the house without Yejide.
Into the night, around 11:00pm, Yejide who
had been sleeping woke up panting really
hard. She had a worried look on her face with
her palm resting on her chest. She had been
sweating in the darkness and hotness of the
room since there was power outage and she
and her roommate couldn’t afford to maintain
a generator. She relaxed back on the bed and
whispered to herself that it was just a terrible
dream. She had just dreamt about Dupe
getting into some sort of trouble. She almost
called Dupe but refused to let what she called
her anxiety spoil everything for Dupe. She
managed to fall back to sleep and had a less
disturbing sleep throughout the night.


The next day, Yejide woke up at around
10:00am and decided to do the house chores.
Dupe wasn’t back yet and Yejide didn’t
expect her to be back at that time either since
she normally returned home past midday. She
finished her house chores and even met oga
Lucas when she was on her way to the
bathroom. They both greeted each other and
oga Lucas made his funny remarks as usual
before waving her bye as he said he was on
his way to work. After Yejide was done with
taking a bath, she went into her flat, put on
some clothes and took the leftover food from
yesterday to go warm it up in the kitchen. She
put the food on the stove and went back into
her room to do a few things before siting
down on the bed to use her phone. After a
few minutes when she had completely forgot
that she put something on the stove, one of
her neighbors from outside her flat which was
coming from the kitchen shouted;
“Na who dey cook oo? Your food don burn
finish.”


At the point, Yejide jumped when she got
back to her senses and realized that she had
just allowed the only cooked food they had to
burn. She dashed out of her room and into
the kitchen to meet mama ejima (a nickname
usually given to a mother of twins).
“Mama ejima. Thank you oo. I don forget
finish.” Yejide said as she entered the kitchen.
“No worry. I don commot am. Pele.”
Yejide thanked her again and left for her
room with a kitchen towel tied around the hot
pot of rice in her hands. As she got into the
room and dropped the pot, a call immediately
came in. She looked at the caller id and saw
Rita, one of she and dupe’s friends who were
into the same business with them. She picked
it up and greeted themselves. Their
conversation was as thus;
“Yejide! You never hear?”
“Rita wetin happun?” Confused Yejide asked.
“They have arrested our girls oo. Just
yesterday night for prostitution they say.”
“What? Including Dupe?”
“Ahn ahn Dupe no be the same? She dey
there na.”
“Oh my……so how you con escape?”
“Me I no go yesterday. I heard from a
source.”
“Do you know what police station?”
“Yes I have the address. I’ll text it to you.”
“Okay thank you.”
“Wetin you wan do?”
“I want to try to get her out of there now.”
“Ahh okay good luck sha.”
“Yes please don’t forget to send me the
address.”
“Okay no problem. I go send am now. Bye
bye.”
“Yeah bye”