Countless - S01 E79

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Countless - S01 E79

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 79

“oh sh!!!t….I forgot to lock the door!” I cursed silently as I rose up very fast from the bed and staring at me awkwardly from the enterance is Nike, claded in a blue denim jacket and a purple bumshorts.

I didn’t know she was home already. Thought she was at the Super Mart with Joke where they ought to be but whats she doing at home right now?

I’ve restrained my friendship with her to a casual one since I knew her to be suspicious of my relationship with her mum. But apparently this girl is gradually becoming a pest for my farm.

“who’s pregnant for you Uncle D?” She marched forward a bit and stopped just inches away from the bed

I was silently nervous and was just staring at her confusedly trying to come up with a very suitable lie to drop at her feet but nothing meaningful was going on inside my head at that moment.

“you don’t want to tell me?”
She clamoured jerking me out of my thoughts

“erm….um…” I stuttered and before I could blink, she grabbed my phone from the bed and got busy with it.
“Nike, drop my phone nao” I tried snatching it from her fingers but she was quick enough to elude the phone from me by stepping back a bit

“Uncle D, who’s DOS?… Is she your girlfriend?” She inquired staring at me plainly.

DOS is the formular I used in saving Doris number just incase one of her daughters wants to check my phone since Joke is against the idea of us having a passworded relationship, no boundaries between us including our phones

“erm….Nike, please you don’t know her….She’s a nobody.” I replied in an hedging manner

“no…no…no…don’t tell me that! Do you know how long have been hearing your voice from the sitting room? Uncle D, I heard everything…..and I mean E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.” She emphasised and handed my phone to me.

“Nike, why are you crying wolf where there’s none..? As far as complicated situations go, DOS might be someone irrelevant to you or me. You don’t judge people so easily by what you heard or see.”

“not this time Uncle D. Have cried wolf about my suspicion of you before but my mum already cleared the air on that and…..”

“what do you mean ‘cleared the air on that?” I cut in. She sighed and sat down on the bed

“the thing is, I’ve been monitoring your actions since the day I caught you crawling under my Mum’s bed thinking you were after my mum to you know…..” I got the subtle message in her last statement and I nodded her to continue. “Moreover when I talked to my mum after you travelled, she told me that she also had no idea that you were in her room on that day and I believed her cos of how she was shocked when I told her that I saw you in her room, precisely under the bed….” My phone rang and she paused and handed my phone to me.

“DOS calling you again.”

I was suprised when I saw that it was her mum calling again at that moment… I ignored it and tucked it inside my pocket after placing it on silent

“why aren’t you picking it?”

“nothing…just continue what you are saying.” I grabbed the plastic chair beside the reading table and settled in it

“You know we never really had the chance to talk on that issue of what exactly you were doing inside her room on that very day. Tell me, what were you doing there?….” I shrugged and she quickly added “and please don’t lie.”

All through her epistle, I’d been preparing myself for a question like that, so I just cleared my throat and leaned forward fixing my gaze on her beautiful oval face

“firstly, I must say am very happy with the way you’ve handled this issue right from when you saw me in your mum’s room…. Nike, had it been someone else, she would have exposed me to your sister and only gawd knows where I’d be right now if not for your brilliant way of perception. For that I say a very big thank you.”

She blushed at my compliment and I was happy my plan was working

“Actually, I was there for something else entirely. One of my younger brothers was very sick at that time and my mum needed money very badly to get him treated. I couldn’t bring myself to tell any of you about it because of two candid reasons. First, I was still a guest in your house back then and secondly you guys have really tried alot for me and I see it as overstepping my boundaries if I should impose another problem of mine on you again. Which is why I had to sort it out on my own and apparently in the most regrettable way”

“you did what exactly?” She stated inquisitively

“erm….I was trying to break into your…mum’s bedroom to you know….to get some money to treat my sick bro….”

“wait, so you were actually trying to steal from her to treat your brother?” She queried gesturing her hand in a questioning way

“sadly, y…es…and Gawd, I regret it…Nike Gawd bear me witness, I regret it.”

“did you succeeded in doing it?” She asked the question I never anticipated but I was able to reply

“again sadly….no… I didn’t, your mum came back home at the nick of the time I was about to start ransaking her wardrobe.”

She seems to be lost in her own thoughts for some minutes as she buried her head in her palms and eventually when she did raised up her head, she gave me a soft smile and placed her palm on my laps

“its so obvious that you love your brother very much and hearing you confess to the horrible way you wanted to help him means he’s so lucky to have you in his life….” I smiled wryly at her complicated compliment and she continued. “but next time, all you have to do is Mathew 7:7 from any of us and we would have gladly helped you.” She ended with a mild tone of finality

“what do you mean Mathew 7:7 from you?”

“don’t tell me you don’t know that verse in the bible.”

‘how can she expect me to know that? The bible wasn’t included in the list of books required to gain admission into GLOCOTEL, Global College of Thunder and Lightening, so she should just spare me the ambiguous statement’.

“you know am not a fan of that strange book from the greeks, so just be more literal please.”

“hmmm… Uncle anti-bible, Mathew 7:7 means, Ask, and it shall be given unto you…so all you have to do next time is just simple.” She concluded withdrawing her palms from my laps

“I know that now…..and I promise never to ever, and ever to never do that again.”

“promise?”

“yes… Nike, you can absolutely count on it.”

“Fine, that been said, now tell me, who’s the pregnant lady?” Her face was now featuring seriousness and I was totally caught offguard with the direction she just nudged the discussion and the situation become a bit tensed

“like I said earlier Nike, its not….” I was interrupted by Joke’s immediate and unexpected entry into the room.

“why didn’t you tell me you were heading home instead of leaving me all alone at the Mart?” She queried her sister with a slight upset tone. Nike rose up instantly and I did the same as we both stare at the latest intruder.

Nike was nervously silent and thank gawd, I was able to muster up the courage to abate the situation. I walked up to Joke and gave her a tight hug and a soft kiss on the lips. She reciprocated the hug and we disengage after some secs

“how far love?” She didn’t respond as she was still staring at Nike perhaps expecting a response from her. “your sister was here telling me about the……” I was still saying when she grabbed her sister and pulled her closer to her

“Nike tell me you haven’t told him about the suprise…..you didn’t tell him did you?”

“no….no…. I didn’t” Nike replied wriggling out of her grip

“what suprise? Nike? What suprise is she talking about?” I queried eagerly shifting my gaze at both of them

Joke heaved a deep sigh and made the sign of cross. “Nike, Gawd save you! I would have killed you right now assuming you told him” She said hitting her sister playfully on the shoulder

“hello! Suprise crews, the person you are talking about is here…. I mean standing in front of you…”

“honey, just calm down…you will know soon enough…. Patience they say is….”

“a great virtue I know that.” I completed her mum’s usual phrase for her and placed my hands gently on their respective shoulders. “but my dear sisters, not when stucked up in an elevator with a fanatic suicide bomber and moreso have heard those words like countless times so tell me whats the suprise?”

“honey, thats why its called a suprise cos you have to find out unexpectedly.”

“so you not telling me?”

“don’t work yourself up love. You ll find out soon!” Joke said with a placcid smile and I decided to drop the topic. “so what were you guys talking about before I came in?”

‘oh sh!t, can’t she just forget that already?’ I cussed inwardly before Nike came to the rescue

“I was just about telling him about the guy that died this morning”

“oh! That Poor guy….did Darous also knew him?”

“what guy? Which guy is dead?”

“It was that guy that beat his brother because of ticket when you and I was strolling on the street some weeks ago” Nike explained awfully and I became alerted

“whaaat!” I exclaimed in shock. “Chu…cks? Chucks is dead? Gawd! What killed him?”

“we don’t know o, we were on the way to shop this morning when we saw people crying in front of a house. My sister and I got down from the car to check whats going on and thats when I saw his dead body lying on the floor with his Mum wailing uncontrollable beside him.” Nike explained with a doloured voice and I was totally dejected

My initial plan was to use him to get to his brother so I can deal with the gang robbers when they least expected but that can’t be possible now

I took solace in the fact that there’s no use of him anymore because the ganged robbers have stopped bothering me after the Favour issue. They are obviously done with me’. That was my thought after Nike broke the unfortunate and tragic news to me

I went to the freezer after Nike and Joke left the room and took 4 bottles of chilled Goldberg and drank myself to stupor.

Just my own way of mourning another lost spanner from the tool box of Earth.