INT. NIGHT CLUB_____NIGHT (Scene

In Nightclub, on the stage a female singer is singing and playing a guitar.
Near the stage, there is mass of people,
who are dancing and cheering the singer.
Meters away from the stage, there is a bar.
Adam and John are near the bar.
Adam signals to get the bartender’s attention.


ADAM
(To the bartender)
Hello, Charlie! How are you doing, my man?

CHARLIE
Fine, Adam


Adam and Charlie both shake hands.


ADAM
Give me two glasses of whiskey for me and my friend.


Adam nudges John on his shoulder.
Charlie nods.


JOHN
(To Adam softly)
I shouldn’t be seen here alone, unless I am with my wife.

ADAM
Relax, man.
You are just having fun like a normal young man
should be doing on a Friday night

JOHN
But I am married. Married men aren’t supposed to have fun in clubs alone,
unless they are with their wives!


Charlie is pouring Hennessey into two glasses.


ADAM
Charlie is married, too. Aren’t you married Charlie?

CHARLIE
Yes, with two kids.


Adam looks at John abruptly.


JOHN
But he works here.


Adam speaks to Charlie.


ADAM
Charles, please tell me, on the day of your wedding,
did the pastor by anyway say grooms are not supposed to go to bars and have nice time with their friends?

CHARLIE
Nope!


Charlie passes two glasses filled with Hennessey to Adam, which Adam receives with both of his hands.
He passes one glass to John.


ADAM
(Smiling complacently)
Thank you, Charlie!


Adam dips his hand into pocket and brings out some money and gives to Charlie, the bartender.


ADAM
Keep the change!


Adam requites Charlie and Charlie salutes to Adam gratefully.


EX. NIGHT BAR____THE SAME TIME

As Adam and John are conversing,
a Lady comes to the bar. Her name is Grace. She leers and smiles at John.
She is bossy, stocky-built woman, of thirty-three and she owns the night bar.


GRACE
(Smiling at John)
Hello.

ADAM
Hello, Grace. How are you doing?
You look so beautiful
like sun-goddess…a sun-goddess from Ethiopia.
May I buy you a drink?


Grace wags her finger at Adam.


GRACE
I wasn’t talking to you, Adam. I was talking to your friend.

ADAM
(Shocked expression)
Uh!

GRACE
I know you, Adam. Ladies say, “You are a player.”


Adam scowls, and shakes his head irritably.
He turns away and sips whiskey from his glass.
Grace STARES at John admirably

GRACE
(To John)
My name is Grace!


Grace stretches her hand and shakes John’s hand.


JOHN
(Shaking Grace’s hand)
John Collins!

GRACE
Hope I see you around, handsome?
Have a nice time ahead.


Grace walks away from the bar
and walks to the stage where the singer is performing.


JOHN
Who’s she?


Adam stares at Grace walking aggressively.


ADAM
Grace is her name.
Her father is the C.E.O of one of Nigeria’s top revenue generating Breweries Company,
and she owns this club…

JOHN
She owns this night club... ?

ADAM
Yes, she owns the club, but she drinks like duck!

JOHN
....Does she drink that much?


John darts a quick glance at Grace standing near the stage
where some crowd of people, are cheering.


ADAM
She swallows alcohols down her throat like it was used by her mother in breast feeding her when she was a baby.


Adam sips his drink.


John
(Sipping whiskey from his glass)
Wow.

ADAM
That shouldn’t surprise you.
Then you should see her brother, Francis.
He is worst.
He is a bare-headed and woefully dreaded bully! Have you seen him before?


John shakes his head to signal ‘no’.
Adam continued:


ADAM
He is larger than Jide Kotsoko,
but Kotsoko is much finer, because this guy,
Francis, makes Mugabe look like the finest guy in the world.
His face is rough and rugged like henhouse!
(Sips his whiskey)
Are you sure you haven’t seen him before?

JOHN
No, but I think someone with exact descriptions is standing right behind you.


John points behind Adam
Adam turns and sees Francis holding a bottle of whiskey.
Adam freezes for a moment in fright at sight of Francis.
Francis is an immense large, burly man of six feet plus tall with huge, rocky hands.


ADAM
(Quavering)
Mr. Frankenstein, um, sorry, Francis…

FRANCIS
...were you gossiping about me?

ADAM
No….no no one dares gossip about stallion like you.

FRANCIS
What’s a stallion?

ADAM
(Puzzled look on his face)
Ugh…..stallion?!

FRANCIS
(With a grimace)
What’s a stallion?

ADAM
It’s another name for an extremely handsome person. You know you have a nice nose.


Francis smiles and his face twinkles.


FRANCIS
Sorry. Can I buy you guys’ drinks?

ADAM
(Raising his glass high)
No, thank you so much.

FRANCIS
Ok. I will see you guys later.


Francis shakes Adam and John’s hands and swaggers away.
John stares at Francis as he swaggers away


JOHN
Wow, what a man! Built like a tree...

ADAM
(Glaring at Francis)
...he walks like a lion, too.

ADAM
Enough of Francis’s talk lets hook and have a little chit-chat with girls.

JOHN
What! Which girls... ?


Adam looks around and sees some ladies.


ADAM
(Makes hand gesture toward the ladies)
Those beautiful ladies! Come on!


Adam ambles up to the Ladies and drags John with him.
John resists without efforts.


EXT. STILL NIGHT CLUB___CONTINOUS

Adam dragging John’s left hand. They both reached where the ladies are clattering.


ADAM
(Smoothly)
Hi, ladies!
(To JANE, the most attractive among the ladies)
What’s your name, beautiful? Your face looks very familiar?

JANE
(Flicks a bright smile)
My face? Where?

ADAM
In Paris..Mona Lisa….Nice eyes, amazing smile, style, and slender physique
(Takes the lady’s hands into his)
Wonderful ivory hands
(Sniff the air mildly)
And your fragrance so unique
that only flowers understands…

Adam releases his hands. And let go of the Jane’s hand.

JANE
(Blushing)
Please…..

ADAM
So what’s your name?

JANE
My name is Jane and these are my friends, Amaka, Stephanie, and Mirabel.

Jane’s friends
(Uniformly)
Hello, Adam!!

ADAM
Hello, strawberries!


John is very uncomfortable.
He looks around insecurely.


JOHN
(To Adam in a low voice)
Please, I want to talk to you privately?

ADAM
(Looking at John)
Now?

JOHN
(In a low voice)
Yes, now.

ADAM
(Smiles at the ladies)
I will see you soon ladies…Just a minute.


Adam and John walks from the ladies to talk


JOHN
Adam, we have to go.

ADAM
Now? Why?

JOHN
I want you to go with me to see and talk to my wife. Please…

ADAM
Sure. Let’s go and get your wife back.


Adam and John both shake hands and begin to walk toward the exit of the night club


JANE
...Adam, are you leaving?


Adam and John turn their heads abruptly.


ADAM
Hey, Jane…I will see you later.

JANE
Hope I will see you and we talk some other time?

ADAM
Absolutely!


EXT. OUTSIDE THE NIGHT CLUB___NIGHT

Adam and John walks out of the club,
they strides to the driveway to where John parked his car.


ADAM
(Complacently)
Those ladies were feeling me like I got them on my hook.

JOHN
Sorry.


John opens the driver seat’s door and Adam opens the passenger seat’s door.
John ignites the car.


JOHN
I just need to talk to my wife.


John reverses the car.


ADAM
Relax, man. You will...


JOHN
(Big breathe)
..ok.

ADAM
I care so much about you that if I caught you in bed with my wife,
I will tiptoe to kitchen and make you a cup of tea….

JOHN
….But you are not married.


Adam laughs


ADAM
...I know


John looks at Adam and furrows his brow.


JOHN
I and my wife had this incredible bond.
She knows facts about me more than any other person.


A scowls builds on Adam’s face quickly.


ADAM
(Blurts out)
What?

JOHN
My wife knows things about me that I wouldn’t tell any other person.

ADAM
(Staring at John)
Did you lose your virginity to her?


John throws an angry-side glance at Adam


JOHN
No!

ADAM
Erectil* dysfunction... ?

JOHN
No! Please, stop being so delusional.














EX. THE ROAD_____NIGHT (Scene 10)

In the car, John is driving.
Mary is sitting on the passenger seat
Adam is seated at the back seat.


ADAM
(Dreamily)
She is so lovely, isn’t she?

JOHN
Who?

ADAM
Isabella


Mary turns her head and looks at Adam


ADAM
She is beautiful. She looks exactly like an angel that fell from heaven…..

JOHN
You are kidding…

ADAM
Her cheeks smooth like daffodils....
And her skins so beautiful like a baby. She is the one, Johnny….she is the true one.

JOHN
You want to add her to your “to do list?”

MARY
(Scoldingly)
Nobody is adding my friend to any list.
She is a nice person……and she just got out of a horrible marriage.

ADAM
I think I have found my missing rib...

MARY
(Sarcastically)
...then, you have to visit a bone surgeon immediately.

ADAM
No...I really like your friend.
Each time I spoke with her this evening,
I saw shinning stars in her eyes...I was blind all these years.
I was like a dazed butterfly beating against a bulb...
very confused, but now my sight is crystal clear.

JOHN
(Small laugh)
Are you serious?

ADAM
Yes, I have found my soul mate, I saw her today, and she blew my mind away….

MARY
(Unconvinced)
I think you are infatuating…..

ADAM
(Speaks to Mary)
....I am extremely serious. I saw beautiful,
glowing stars in Isabella’s eyes and it has never happened to me before.

JOHN
(Glances at Adam)
We are now on your street.

ADAM
John, let’s hang out tomorrow, Saturday?
May be go to bar or watch basketball together?

JOHN
I will be busy tomorrow.

ADAM
I have known you for years and you do nothing on Saturday.

JOHN
That was then, but now I have to spend time with my lovely wife


John gives a quick glance at Mary and smiles at her
John stops the car in front of Adam’s gate.
Adam gets out from the car.

JOHN
See you on Monday, Adam!


John waves and zoom the car off.
Adam walks to his gate dejectedly, unlocks his gate and walks in his compound.


ADAM
Tomorrow is going to be miserably boring.


Adam walks to the entrance door of his home.
He unlocks the door, opens and closes it.







INT. MR GRILLS. RESTAURANT____NIGHT (SCENE 13)

At the restaurant Adam is at a table.
He is sitting by himself in a banquette.
A waiter serves him and goes.
Miss Isabella appears.
She is wearing a pink chic dinner dress,
looking preen and exquisitely beautiful.
Adam spots her and stands up.

ADAM
(With smiling face)
Hello.


Adam goes to meet Isabella, escorts her to banquette.
They both sit.


ISABELLA
Sorry, I’m late.

ADAM
No, problem
(Tiny pause)
You look stunning!

ISABELLA
Thanks.


Adam makes a gesture to the waiter to come over.
The waiter comes over to their table.


WAITER
(Politely)
How may I help you, sir?


ADAM
(To Isabella)
What would you like to take, ma’am?


Isabella grins at Adam.


ISABELLA
(To waiter)
A glass of wine with little percent of alcohol, please…..

WAITER
(Politely)
Yes, ma’am.


The waiter exits.


ADAM
(Very surprised)
So you drink wine with little alcohol?

ISABELLA
(Affirmatively)
Yes. Are you surprised?

ADAM
A bit


The waiter comes over to their table carrying a platter containing a glass of drink
He places the saucer gently on the table.


WAITER
Anything else, sir?


Adam glances at Isabella and smiles.


ADAM
Menu, please...


Isabella raises her glass slightly high.


ISABELLA
This is okay for now.

ADAM
(To the waiter)
We will call on you when we need anything.


Waiter nods and leaves.


ADAM
Isabella, please tell me about yourself?


Isabella flicks a bright smile.


ISABELLA
What can I say about myself?
Okay, my name is Isabella Yetunde
and I am an obstetrician...

ADAM
Helping pregnant women and delivering babies, uh?

ISABELLA
Yes, that’s my job.


Isabella sips her glass of wine and smiles.


ADAM
Nice (Beat) so what are your dislikes?

ISABELLA
I hate pretenders...
(Looks at Adam and smiles)
Are you one?

ADAM
Me?! My hairs are real. I am not bald and my nose isn’t fixed. No plastic surgery.


Isabella laughs softly.


ISABELLA
Tell me about yourself, where are you from?

ADAM
Delta state

ISABELLA
The Big Heart of the Nation, you have a big heart?

ADAM
Yes, you want to see?


Isabella laughs again.


ADAM
Won’t you want to check the menu?
They make the best barbeque in town here.

ISABELLA
Thanks, but I love drinking wine on dates.


Isabella looks at Adam’s eyes.


ISABELLA
I want to invite to lunch at my place tomorrow.
Are you free tomorrow?

ADAM
(Starry-eyed and smiling)
Yes.

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INT. LIVING ROOM_____NIGHT

Kwame walks to the TV-SET and turns it on.
He sits on the couch very close to Junior.

KWAME
(Glances at Junior)
What’s up?

JUNIOR
I am fine.

KWAME
Your aunty must be proud of you for coming second position in your class this year,
and writing poems at your young age.


Junior smiles broadly


JUNIOR
Writing poems is my hobby.
(Awkward pause)
What’s your hobby, Uncle Kwame?

KWAME
(Without hesitating)
Basketball (Beat) But at your age, I did some tricks—

JUNIOR
(Obviously interested)
Tricks?

KWAME
(Grins)
Yes, I could bring bunnies from hats, wave my hand
across Segun Arinze’s face and he would look like Ramsey Noah—

JUNIOR
(Interrupting)
Did your hand burn or bring out fire?

KWAME
No…no, I was special….I did special things


Alberta enters.
But Kwame and Junior are unaware of her presence.


KWAME
(More)
I even made presidents swaps places once.

JUNIOR
(Staring at Kwame in awe)
What’s were you called?

KWAME
Moses.


Alberta laughs.
Kwame and Junior stir their necks.
They sees. Kwame grins at Alberta.

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