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Casting theblessedman

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hmmm.... Hmmm..(throats my cough) sorry, I mean to say cough my throat.

Wetin go happen be say, una no go vex say ah late enter this thread...abeg kindly accept my beggings and apology in Jesus name.

Oya lets go.

NAME (before I started visiting brothels): IDOWU OLUWADAMILARE EMMANUEL..

NAME(after I started visiting brothels) : FOLARIN DAROUS EMMANUEL.

Relationship Status: Varies according to climate and environment. I.e, if I dey my fiancee area, am engaged, but if am outside her dormain, oh boy, My relationship Wifi na free o.

Location: anywhere wey rapture fit happen. Any place thats immune to Monkeypox and bomblast. But presently am in Abeokuta, the Gateway state incase you wan give me money..

Nairaland crush!: oh! My God!... Them plenty o.... But Just 4 d sake of mentioning, make ah mention but few... Chumzypinky(mama twins), PamelB, Fiyah, SmartestpopQUEEN, Queentie, Marianneada, Mimienudies and Pfolar plus E.t.c.

Thanks o.

phlimsy911:
Thanks but I thought you said two updates

yes boss. Have dropped them both..

101. COUNTLESS.


[T.C.T.L.S.S] To Cut The Long Story Short, You know that awkward moment when you start regretting ever boasting and telling a small girl like Emmanuella that you were very good at mathematics when you were still in secondary school just because you wanted her to face her studies squarely instead of running around the neighbourhood senselessly? And the next day she came back from school and asked you to help her solve a simultaneous linear equation in front of her elder sister that you've been crushing on? That was exactly the kind of regrettable thoughts that was running inside my brain as I slowly approach the Gee-pee tank where Mama Joy assumed the snakes to be and I could hear the woman is already praying fervently with each step I take forward.

'A confluence is a place where two or more rivers meet, wetin we go come call a place where two big cobras meet?' I thought.

Just few inches away from the Gee-pee tank, my phone rang out and before I could even bring it out, one big cobra crawled slowly into view from behind the Gee-pee tank and positioned its head at the small hole beneath the fence blocks that linked to the bush outside.

Cold shivers ran down my spine and I swallowed hard at the sight of that sneaky creature.

The next thing I knew was that, it took me less than eight seconds to get out of the compound and started running madly towards my house. I didn't even let my collision with Mama Joy to even stop me from breaking Usain Bolts record as the fastest man alive.

Umbrella cannot stop the rain, but it allows us to stand and walk in it. So also Confidence doesn't guarantee success, but it gives us the power to face any challenges.

'Darous, with a little bit of confidence, you could have killed that snake succesfully before it escaped.' my mind mentored after I'd gotten home.

***

4hrs later, I was sitting beside Jide's bed inside the hospital, patiently waiting for him to finish the meal I bought for him. Blessing after my arrival had taken the chance to go home.

After Blessing had left, Jide confessed and narrated to me with a teary face the details of every vengeance mission he had taken against me since the day Lola had easily convinced him that am truly a bad backstabbing friend.

I did the same by narrating my own misdeeds to him before we both begged eachother for forgiveness.

I should have told him about my recent encounter with Favour (who claimed to be pregnant for Jide) but for some unknown reasons, I decided not to. I concluded in my mind to convince Favour to meet Jide and explain things to him herself and to help them reconcile with eachother. Atleast, I realized from that moment we spent crying together that Jide was now a totally new being.

Back to the present. I handed him the drugs the doctor prescribed for him and he swallowed it after which he drank a glass cup of water.

"thank you Darous....you're indeed a good friend...." Jide said after eating and now resting his head on the wall behind him. The needle connecting the water drip to his left hand was still there likewise the big bandage on his forehead.

"eh, you no dey hear word ni? I said stop thanking me...." I said with a frown.

"why shouldn't I?..." Jide cuts in with a serious tone. "how many people can do what you've been doing for me even after you found out about every bad thing wey I don do to you?"

"guy, don't forget I hurt you first...." I insisted.

"and you too shouldn't forget what I did to you before that..." He countered.

"thats why am telling you its pointless of you to be thanking me....seriously I should be the grateful one here...." I reiterated

"why? What makes you say that?" He asked, adjusting his left hand to a more comfy place before letting out a fizzle sound.

"hmmm.....am just grateful because fate still gave us the chance to make amends....."

"hun...thats right" He attested shaking his head slowly.

"guy, lets just be happy you are now ok and move on from there" I said and gulped down the remaining 5alive on the stool beside me.

Some moments of silence escorted my last statement as we both engaged in deep thoughts before Jide spoke again.

"anyway, thanks for everything..."

"thunder wan fire you?" I asked in a funny tone.

"chai my friend, you never end your relationship with that nonsense weapon? You suppose don upgrade now"

"no...atleast not until Nepa starts giving us regular lights."

"ahahah! Bad boy. Thank Gawd say ah no die... I swear ah for miss you die for heaven."

"see mumu...infact you deserve an award called Mumu'dor...who tell you say you go make heaven if you die?"

"you self na idiot. How you tey know say ah no go make am.? When ah still holy pas you?"

"wait, you think say devil go gree make you, one of his trained and most skilled agent sneak into heaven? Ogbeni forget that one, we both know say Hell will be boring without you jor." I said and we both busted into an uncontrollable laughter before we were interrupted by the emergence of a nurse.
"I can see your friend here has finally elevated your low spirit Mr Jide." The female nurse commented as soon as she finished checking the remaing drips on the hanger and adjusting its tap.

She stood infront of me on her sylph stature as I flashed her a smile. "you are?" She asked

"Darous." I replied with a smarmy smile.

"hmmm...am Amaka...am incharge of attending to your friend" She said with another smile.

"thanks alot nurse Amaka....I can see my friend already owes you his life...maybe you should give me your bank account so I can transfer his life to you?" I asked trying to take a dig at Jide. I took a glance at him and saw he was already dozing off.

"hehehe..." nurse Amaka laughed out loud. "funny you...tell me, how did you managed to do what we the nurses and even his girlfriend has failed to do for the past 5hours?"

"and whats that?" I queried.

"I mean getting your friend to cheer up. Tell me how you did it." She asked with a smiling face but before I could come up with any funny reply, another nurse enterred and our attention was shifted to her as she moved closer to nurse Amaka.

"what is the matter nurse Bose? New emergency?" She queried.

"no...not atall...the emergency patient we have is being handled by the doctor and other nurses..." She explained.

"I see..." Stated Nurse Amaka. "then why are you here? Its not yet time for your rounds, is it?"

"no...erm... Nurse Amaka, that woman is here o and she's looking for you."

"which woman?" Nurse Amaka asked with a confused tone.

"I mean your private patient....the woman you asked to come today for her anti-natal....." She explained further.

"oh!...." Lamented Nurse Amaka as she began heading towards the door."Mrs Adedoyin.." She turned around to face Nurse Bose. "you mean she's here already? I thought I told her to come by 2pm. Why's she here so early?" She asked and didn't wait for any answer before walking out of sight while Nurse Bose remained standing and apparently starring at my dozing friend. I shifted my gaze to Jide and rose up. I beckoned the nurse to join me in laying Jide flat on the bed so that he can have a comfortable rest and she did.

"thank you." She said after we'd succesfully laid Jide on the bed and the latter had began snoring hard.

"what? Thank me? For what?" I asked.

"for helping me with the patient now." She replied.

"ah! Phew! Do you know that this idiot you called your patient is my best friend?" I asked while staring directly in her eyes.

"hmmm...I didn't know you have an idiot as a friend...."

"hehe....but please don't tell him I said that o..." I said in a playful manner.

"ofcourse not...." She replied, obviously taking my words seriously. "anyway thanks alot."

"eh, look here, I won't stand and let you continue thanking me for doing nothing." I said in low stern tones.

"are you angry?"

"what if I am?"

"then I will give you a anti-angry injection." She said with a sexy smirk which on a normal day would have gotten my d!ck erected but seeing as I was only catching fun just to pass time till Blessing comes back and take over watching Jide, I let it slide.

"let me be going jare...nurse Amaka will soon be shouting my name now as if am the only nurse in this hospital." She said and turned around and began marching towards the exit. Just as she was about to fade from sight, I quickly remembered the name of the woman she said was waiting to see nurse Amaka so I hurriedly called her back.

"eh! Nurse Bose...please just a second." She turned around and waited for me to join her at the corridor of Jide's ward.

"hope no problem?" She asked with a slight uneasy stare.

"not atall."

"ok?"

"please who's the woman you said wanted to see Nurse Amaka?" I asked.

"you mean Mrs Adedoyin?"

"yess...." I replied.

"what about her? Do you know her?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I think I do...please can you describe how she looks for me? Maybe she's the one am looking for." I stated and she gave me a description that fully correlates with the same Adedoyin have been avoiding.

"She's the one, please again, can you tell me what she's doing here?"

"you know I can't do that? Its un-ethical and un-proffessional of me to do" She claimed.

"huh-hoh...you also know that it will be un-friendly to me as your patients friend and also un-reasonable to me if you refuse?"

She let out a sigh and I gave out a victory smile when she said "ok. I'll tell you." and so she did.

The next thing I know after She told me all I need to know about Adedoyin was that I got home, and started packing all my properties from my room, after which I ran to the garrage to hire a truck where I started onloading all my belongings and few hours later, I was already on my way to Ekiti state.

But on the way, I couldn't stop asking myself this question;

"how am I sure am not infected already? Eh? Abi which kind life be this self?"

Adedoyin is carrying two things in her body. One is Pregnancy, while the other is??

Well, you can GUESS IT!


T.B.C

COUNTLESS 100, is dedicated to, Milky3, Yesjacky, Holuwarsweun and YoungesD.

It was your comments that motivated me back into my deep thinking and that helped alot in inspiring this updates.

Thanks guys... You are awesome


100. COUNTLESS


The memories of all the awful things I did to Jide, my friend, some years back all came rushing back into my shangoic brain like a tornado. I couldn't help but agree that am the cause of my own undoings. However his twisted way of getting vengeance against anyone that have wronged him might seem extreme, I realized have technically earned everything Jide has and had done to me.

Or tell me, what kind of friend am I? Eh? Judging by everything I did in the past?

But one piece is still missing from this puzzle....how Jide found out that I stole Lola from him?
How? How?
I rose up and began pacing the breadth and length of the room while lost in deep thought.

The question kept echoing continuously in my mind even after I'd returned Jide's diary to where I took it and laid flat on the bed, now staring at the ceiling as I kept on wondering how Jide knew back then that I duped him after snatching his dream girl away from him.

30mins I spent on that thinking task but still couldn't come up with anything as to how he knew.

The only reason I was even able to remember what I did to Jide back then was because the day Jide first asked me to help him toast Lola coincidentally falls in line with the day our Biology teacher made a funny mistake during his teaching period on that day. He wanted to write Biology as the subject on the chalkboard but instead he wrote Batistuta. It was later we found out the reason for his mistake was because the above named Argentine legend was among the goalscorers that defeated Nigeria in the worldcup match that was played between the two nations on the noon of the previous day of that said day. Since then, the man had gotten that nickname. Mr Batistuta.

After several minutes spent on trying to find the puzzle from my past misdeeds, I resigned myself to the fate of the unknown and slowly closed my eyes for sleep to consume my weary body.

*****

I can't really tell for how long I was asleep but it was the sound of my phone that brought me back from dreamland.

Pursuing the remaining sleep out of my eyes with the back of my hand, I slowly used my left hand to reach for my phone lying beside the second pillow and checked the I.d. It was Blessing.

"hello Darous....whats popping?" Came her soft voice.

"erm....am fine. Blessing...erm...hows Jide?" I queried expectantly now sitting properly.

"we thank Gawd...he woke up few hours ago...."

"whaaat?..." I shouted at the sound of that goodnews forgetting that I had to keep a low profile so I don't give Bella and Bianca the slightest hint of my presence in Jide's room.

"yes Darous...."

"wow!...thats goodnews....thats...thats really great...." I chuckled on for some moments before Blessing ended my chuckle trip with her next statement.

"I want to ask when you are coming here." She asked outrightly.

"why?...is something wrong?" I asked feeling slightly anxious.

"nope.... I just want to come home and pick some cloths and stuffs for both of us and you know, it won't be okay to leave him all alone here. He might wake up anytime." She explained.

"oh....I see.....erm...you know what, just give me till...." I paused to check the dial of the wall clock. "eleven. I will be with you by then." I stated assurely.

"ok bye..." She said obviously about to end the call but I quickly interjected with a question.

"wait Blessing...."

"what?"

"did he ask of me when he woke up?"

"who? Jide?"

"no...Donald Trump.... Answer me jor...." I said with a slight angry tone.

"sure...he's the one that even asked to see you...he said he's very eager to see you." She stated and some moments of silence escorted her last speech before she spoke again. "can I end it now? Na borrow credit ah dey use o."

"yeap...yeap....sure....see you later." I managed to say.

"ok. Thank you Darous....Jide is so lucky to have you."

"how I wish thats true. After everything I did to him in the past...." I murmured that to myself after she ended the call.

I had barely ended the call when two angry knocks landed rapidly on the door. I jerked back frighteningly confused on who might be at the doorstep and what could have warranted such heavy knocks by that hour of the day.

The knock landed again this time but it was Bella's angry voice that accompanied it. Then it dawned on me that my earlier noise had Judas iscarioted me. In simpler terms, it sold me out.

"come outside you bloody bastard...you can't hide in there forever..." came again with another level of anger.

If there's one thing I have been able to learn since the inception of all my troubles, its how to man up to any new challenge. Knowing fully well that hiding inside the room won't make this descendant of mother Eve go away, I quickly dial the number of courage and boldness to come and help me on this new ordeal have gotten myself into and fortunately the beating rate of my heart slowed down gradually just seconds later.

"oya...Chisom!" I said to myself just before I opened the door and stepped outside.

***

"after everything I did for you Darous, how could you have payed me back by sleeping with my sister?" That was the same statement Bella had been repeating the moment she saw me step out of Jide's room.

The weather was quite cool and was getting ready to rain when I stepped outside and she met my emergence with series of fist-hitting on my chest as she continue to sob and voice out her anger on me.

She did managed to let me know how her sister had reacted bitterly when she showed Bianca my picture on her phone.

All my effort to make her believe that I didn't mean to hurt her or her sister either proved futile and all I could do was keep quite and let her battery of anger shut down by itself.

Few moments later, it did shut down, cos all she did henceforth was sniffing. I then pulled her closer and escorted her to her room where we began a sobless and angerless discussion.

"I already told you that I didn't know you guys are siblings.....I swear to gawd of...." I was still saying when I was interrupted by someone shouting my name from the compound.

"Brother Darous!!....please come o....I need your help ooo...."

I rushed outside immediately and nearly collided with a woman known as Mama Joy who was panting heavily at the door steps.

"follow me please...abeg..." She said and began running out of the compound and I instantly followed suit.

We got to the gate of her house and I quickly stopped her from entering the compound before I spoke.

"Mama J, whats the matter....you can't just expect me to enter here without knowing whats going on?" I asked curiously holding the panting woman by the shoulder.

She managed to calm down a bit before she spoke out.
"my daughter said you once...told her that you sabi kill snake wella..."

"ah....that one....yes I did...." I answered instantly but before I could tell her that I was only joking with her daughter on the day I saw her crying bitterly infront of a chemist shop because she stepped on a very big earthworm that looks like a snake. I'd tried to pacify the girl but she won't stop crying and it was until I had to tell her that I am an experience snake killer and that I often command most of the snakes I caught to kneel down and raise up their hands for thirty minutes before I kill them that the teenage girl eventually stopped crying.

"thank God I found you at home."

"wait....don't tell me you call me here because of snake." I asked with a nervous look.

"thats exactly the reason why I came to call you. two big cobra dey the back of our poultry now now, dey don dey disturb my chickens for sometime now......abeg help me...." She ended with almost one knee on the ground.

'chisos! This na serious palava o. Me wey be say na temple run mode ah dey always put myself whenever I see snake na im this woman come dey beg to come help am kill snake!...ah! Wetin ah wan do o...how I wan tey escape this palava o...ah Joy, na teenage thunder go strike your left yansh o.' Those are the kind of thoughts that was playing in my mind during the short period the woman and I spent at the gate.

Before I knew it, Mama Joy had grabbed my hand and began dragging me inside. "lets hurry up before the snakes escape again."

"wait..." I said wriggling my hand out of her grip. "I need to go back home and get a weapon."

"which type of weapon?" She asked eagerly.

"erm....cutlass.."

"we have it here...lets go and get it..."

'ah...you have it? Chai...ah don die today.'

"wait...you said the snake na cobra?" I asked trying to use a delaying tactics maybe the snakes would have ran away before we get there.

"yes na. 2 Cobras"

"spell it please. Kobra or co-orbra?"

"which one be spelling again? Please nao...I will even pay you some money if you help me kill it. Pleeaase."

"its not that I can't kill it, but I need to know the type of snake am dealing with. There is Kobra and Cobra. One is immune to cutlass while the other is immune to gun." I paused to clear my throat. "There was a day my father's grandfather came home very sick after he had gone out to help one of his neighbours to battle a ckobra. We used all the medicine in the house but we were unable to heal him. He gave up the ghost after three years of scrotum infection. Same thing happened to my mummy's grandfather. We tried everything to heal him also but we couldn't. Samething happened to my elder sister father's grandfather... Samething happened to my younger sister father's grandfa....."

"am deeply sorry for your loss...but please lets go. I promise nothing will happen to you."

"how can you promise me safety when you can't even protect your own chickens...abeg shift make I go check if the stubborn snake still dey there." I stated all that in my mind as I followed her to the poultry where she handed me a big cutlass and pointed a corner to me where a big Gee-pee tank was located.
"the snake is at the back of that tank." She said and moved back.

I took a deep breath and prayed silently that the snake shouldn't be there again.

ADECULATE:
Finally finally am here, great work darousmart. U re truly a fabulous writer. Patiently waiting 4 more update sir, more mb to ur fone nd more thunder from sango to ur brain. Lol

thanx bro. Updating today by Gods grace

Holakizzo:
bruhs na beg i dey beg .... Or if you want 10 gallons of oil to appease your shango ...tell me cuz i go personally donate am ..... Just gimme tha update wey dey make me look like gentleman ....

working on it bro. Just be a lil more patient wit me. Thanx.

Habeebat61:
Finally back from Flashback Uncle Darous e buru gaan!!! (u r too wicked) TBM thank u D journey was awesome! May God continue to bless u amen

thank u my dearest dear. Updating today sha

queenitee:
Awwwn, I missed Darouz

surely, yur guy is coming bk wiv d next update. Keep in Touch...

huntsman007:
bros it was gud as ever.. .Expecting more loud updates. *Tuber of Rice*

aiit bro.

baski92:
lol i hear you, oya come update before i call the god of thunder for you

even if u call am, he no fit ans. Gawd of thunder don join ASUU strike against the F.G

baski92:
if really you could do that to a guy you call your friend, bro you are a bad person

we are all a bad person bro. Its the little little goods we do sometimes that covers the track of the bad ones in us.The world isn't white and black bro. But its proven already that Darous is the bad boy.

ftosino:
if na me be jide,
i go do pass d one wey hin do,
am more ruthless than him,

ah bro! Seriously?

MichaelBlake40:
Finally!!! TBM u r now dishing out updates,carry on I'm at your back.

trust me bro, i hav no plan to relent. Thanx 4 being here

Damibiz:
That was too bad of Darous,bt who am i to talk...we all did bad in secondary school sha....bt like Real madrid alway said,VENGANCE IS SWEET

yes o brother regular. We can only pray nd hope those awful things we did bak then dnt come bak to hunt us one day as it is in d case of Darous. Weldone bro regular. U're awesome

badohemmy:

Mr TBM, first let me congratulate you on this work, as a writer I understand how difficult it is 2 mix penning and everyday life esp since writing does not pay the bills or put food on d table in Nigeria. It's not easy to pursue 100 episodes and still keep ur readers either coming back or glued to the work, thumbs up.

During my school days, I learnt from a Dr. (name withheld) that there's only one right way to write and it is by writing, this your work is proof of that. You successfully mixed sex, violence and anyhow story, lacing it with comic relief, I must commend u.

I understand that its not easy to maintain such a high standard over a period of time but you have managed to do that safe for the grumbling that's been springing up here and there, my advice is that you start nearing the end, before your fake fans gv up. However, i'm sure the real ones will stick like glue no matter what, for their sake try updating once in 3 days minimum until it's over.

You keep saying you are not a writer (or baby writer) but your potential is massive. If you ever decide to take it to anther level, I trust you will go far. Yourself and Chipappi hv the Best stories I've read on Nairaland.

As for PrinceofPrince, you did a good job in seeking out ghost readers, i'm glad u didn't catch me. now that I have met you guys, i'm a ghost no more.

Thanks for keeping me entertained over the last 3 weeks when I stumbled upon this story. God will not allow Buhari leave Nigeria wt your brain, amen

bros eh, u be complete genius o. I cork my gun 4 u o. Thanx 4 d words, they were absolutely moralic. Thanx again. I owe you one tuber of rice....

DEDICATED to the memory of a Friend like a Younger Brother, Shodunke Oluwafemi Isaiah who passed away after a brief headache on the 31st of August 2017.

A middle finger to Death, for taking away such a young and vibrant young man from us. R.I.P.P Isaiah.....your memory lives on.


99. COUNTLESS.


Two terms had passed since Jide was parentically forced out of school.

All pleas from the rest of his extended family to his father's to make him rescind his harsh decision on his first child all proved a fizzer. Therefore, after more than a month on this wildgoose chase, the family eventually bow down to his father's decision and all what they could do at the moment is to wish the teenage boy best of luck.

That was how Jide became an untimely drop out from secondary school as a result of his.......his.......well I can't really come up with the perfect adjective to describe his errant actions.

His mother had been a great mother to him during those trying times. She took him to Odeda where her younger brother abides, and also a far away place from Olomore where his father's house was situated and it was there Jide had learned all the necessary skills to become a professional Tiler.

Darous on his part, save for the occassional feelings of guilt thats always puncturing his conscience whenever he remembers the role he took in how his friend became a drop out, he's undisputedly having the best moment of his 17years on earth with Lola, the girl he stole from his friend.

"I fvcked up....I shouldn't have gone that far." Darous had soliloquized to himself on his way home from school one sultry afternoon. "I shouldn't have taken Lola from him talkless of swindling more than one thousand naira out of him....ah!" He lamented while simultaneously bitting his own lips. "there's no excuse for what I did....no..."

"but there's still chance for you to make amends...." An elderly woman's voice startled him from behind and it was when he turned around that he realized that he had subconsciously made the wrong turn and that had thereby led him to the cassava plantation of the elderly woman.

"erm...erm....am sorry ma." He stuttered, struggling to find his voice.

"nothing to be sorry about my son. I believe God purposely led you here for a reason. I can see you are very disturbed...." The confused Darous just stood rooted to the same spot as the elderly woman began to unleash a 20mins of sermon on his teenage ears. "look up my son, what do you see?"

"erm....sky and....the sun." replied Darous after staring at the sky for a brief moment.

"good...and thats to tell you that, the remaining sun in the sky can still dry a lot from your cloths of past mistakes and thats if you're ready to wash them clean." Its on that idiomatic conclusion that the woman ended her counselling and guided Darous out of her large farm.

"yes.... I need to start washing the cloths by first of all, end everything with Lola. I know she won't take it easily but I will have to apply a strong detergent, if am ever going to succeed in making my cloths free of her stains." He concluded in his mind just before he succumbed to the call of nature on the night of that day.


****

"you filthy whöre...stop disturbing my life, am tired of you. Leave me Alone."

"is that what I deserve from you after everything?" Lola had cried out bitterly when it seems Darous has really made up his mind to end the relationship. They had been on the issue since breaktime when Darous had approached her at the shed and had told her bluntly that its over.

"breaktime? No we still have 10mins more nao...." Lola had replied ignorantly and oblivious to what Darous was implying.

"I can't believe that with all that expensive beauty of yours, you still have enough space in your skull to make space for dumbness."

"whats wrong with you? Are you high or what?....please if this is a joke, please stop it." That was the statement she made before Darous dragged her out of the shed, most importantly away from the eyes of the unneccessary audience they were creating, to the groove section of the school compound whence he'd spoken to her more explicitly.

"bet with me Darous, you will regret this....I swear to you on my virginity you took that, I will never rest until I see you suffer." Lola threatened effusively at him before she exited the groove fuming with extreme anger and hatred towards Darous and all Darous could say to himself after she left was:

"weldone Darous, the mighty drycleaner." He said with a wryly smile and followed it with a light chuckle. "now that have washed the stain away from the cloth, whats next is to spray it under the sun to dry it. Eheh."

HAD I KNOWN?. This phrase has never been said before a regrettable action was taken. It always come at the end of it. Had Darous known, he wouldn't have taken Lola's threat lightly cos there are stains that can be easily removed when washed with something mild and simple as a bucket of water.

While there are also some that takes all your Hypos and will even make sure fainting is imminent upon you before they fled your cloth. And likewise there are some stains that always make sure they damage your whole cloth before leaving it. Such stains are raw Cashew juice, the water from a vehicle's battery and etcetera.

Oblivious to Darous was the fact that Lola belonged to the latter group.

***

4years Later,
Darous now 20yrs old was in 200level at the Federal college of education there in Abeokuta and things were really going smooth for him as an individual and his entire family at large.

Lola on her own, after failing twice to gain admission into an higher institution had enrolled herself in a catering institute as an apperentice and as at the time of this events, she has a few months left to become a standard caterer.

Things had not been running smoothly for Mr Adekunle, the man Jide was living with and that had thereby reduced their daily meals to once or twice per day, solely depending on how luck really shined on them and thats the level they had been maintaining for the past 4 months.

On a fateful saturday afternoon, Jide was sitting inside the balcony of their apartment when he noticed that a wedding reception will soon take place on the small football pitch beside their house.

Instantly, he knew his stomach will never go hungry for that day.
Without notifying his sleeping uncle, he dashed towards his wardrobe and began preparing to attend the reception.

It was one of those times when you have to dress extremely well enough to get the attention of the waitresses in an occassion so that they can serve you the best foods, so also was Jide on this day.

He had barely sat down for two minutes under the broad and large canopy when a female waitress approached him with a plate of jollof rice and chicken meat.

Without raising his head up, he collected the food and began devouring it hungrily. Half way into the food, his eyes caught the sight of a beautiful lady among the passing waitress who was seen approaching the serving area and he hurriedly dropped the rice he was eating on the table before he began to approach the lady.

Sooner than expected, he got to where the lady was getting ready to carry out her next duty and he cleared his throat before talking.

"Lo...la.."He called slowly in a whisper as if the lady will slap him if she caught him calling her name. "Lola...?" He called again but more audible this time around.

"please we will get to your seat very soon, just stay in your seat. Please." Lola replied without turning around to see the person that just called her name. She didn't bother about how the person knew her name because all the waitresses claded in a pink shirt and black jean, including her wore a tag that bears their names on the brest side of their cloth.

"its me Jide." He stated hoping that would get her attention and so it did.

"whats that suppo....se..." Lola stated and stuttered out the last word as she turned around to see the same guy she'd spent half of the last two years searching for now standing before her. "am I dreaming?....Jide? Is this really you?" She said with a suprise filled eyes.

"flesh and blood o...na me be this o." Jide said with a warm smile as they both engaged in a tight cuddle for a brief moment.

"we have a lot to talk about but am very busy right now." Lola stated after they'd both disengaged from eachother when they noticed that the eyes of other guests were now on them.

"thats where I live over there." Jide said pointing to the direction of his house. "holla me there. I'll be waiting for you in the balcony."

"alright. Later dear." Lola said and smiled before they both returned to whatever they were both doing before the meeting.

***

"longtime dear" Lola said with a placcid smile after they'd both settled down on the long bench inside the balcony.

"eheh.....is that what growing up has done to you or what?"

"what do you mean?"

"you calling me dear? And this recent one just makes it the second time in the space of 4hours....something you never did during the 5years we spent together at school."

"its not like that jare...." Lola said with a shy wink.

"And after all the gifts I bought for you, you still didn't find it enough as payment of my tuition into your Dear College back then."

"wait...what gift are you talking about?"

"ahahah....don't pretend now...its too late for that....am not even concerned about that now...."

"but seriously, you didn't buy any gift...."

"what of the ones Darous gave you?" Jide explained.

"you send Darous to buy gifts for me?" inquired Lola, with a confused expression.

"ofcos yes.....whats with the look?"

This sounds like the perfect time for her to get even with Darous. She wasn't lying when she claimed explicitly that Darous never gave her any gift. Infact, he never mentioned Jide to her again since the day they shared their first kiss. Right now seeing the look on Jide's face, all she needs to do to get Jide mad at his friend is just to add a few lies and Darous would be nailed to the cross.

She smiled sheepishly as she gets ready to kick off this Countless, a story of sex, betrayal and vengeance.

"erm Jide...I have something more to tell you...." So She began.


*******


End of FLASH BACK.


Hows the trip so far?

Habeebat61:
TBM long time thanks for d continuous updates... But u do Jide strong thing o haba! No wonder e dey always look for ur downfall.... lol nice one and more of it pls...

thanq my dear. Updating today o. Thats for sure

Stevedison:
Kia za VlessedMan make i kwam updat'am pwor this Story kwa. Walai me i dan wait ai dan taya.

The flashbak is taking too long baba. Shorten it make this story dey blend go.

Eagerly waiting for more updates asap

dnt wori...next update wil signal d end of the flashback. Thanx

GeneralOyas:
Guy,be serious with this story

i am. But been busy.

girlhaley:
It's official... Sense has departed from you!


But jide no try o... Cuz of some girl, you wasted your future.... No wonder he revenge on Darous because of Lola's case


Friends backstabbing friends since time immemorial


Welcome back BlessedMan

thanx to u Alhaja Fatimat. May d blessings of this auspicious day fall on you. Amen. Happy Eid-feverything.

Damibiz:
Something happened indeed...welcome back man

thanx boss.

spanzed:
Thanks bro For dropping this.

thanx to u too bro 4 stayin tuned. Thanx

98.COUNTLESS.


>F.B<


"easy Jide, even if you use all your father's salary to buy gift for her, am not sure she's going to date you." Darous said, as they both settled on the bench at the front of Jide's father's house after they had both returned from the football pitch on the evening of that day.

"What makes you say that? Did she tell you anything more as to why she can't date me?" Jide said with a look of total gripe and eagerness. The young lad has obviously been blinded with a very rare insurmountable toxins of love and its on that ungrammatical reason that makes him very desperate to be willing to sacrifice his own future at the expense of teenage love. Eager and ready to make use of his own exam fees to buy gift for a girl who might never succumb to his call of love. But albeit his reason for embarking on this errant journey was because he's got an alternative way to get another money to pay for his exam fees.

Should I tell you how he planned to do that? Well yes...I will tell you exactly his alternative way of getting money for his exam fees.

Jide had devise a plan to steal the same amount he's ready to part with from his fathers purse when the latter will be busy watching the Nigeria versus Sweden 2002 Korea-Japan world cup match inside their sitting room at 2pm on the following day. But what remains obviously oblivious to the soon-to-be culprit is the fact that, his father had made up his mind without informing him or his second wife who happens to be Jide's mother that, if Jide his first son, ever steals from him again, that instantly signals the final whistle of his education.

"talk now, wetin she tell you?" Jide asked again, now with more eagerness and tension in his tone when it appears to him that Darous isn't willing to shed more light on the issue.

"it doesn't matter Jide, but please, am telling you as a friend, to stop bothering your....."

"are you ready to talk or not?..." Jide curts in.

"listen....."

"to what?" Thundered Jide.

"are you stupid or what exactly is wrong with you? How can you say you want to use your own examination fee to buy gift for a girl who obviously doesn't like you one bit? What will happen if you drop out of school? Do you think Lola will want to spend the rest of her life with someone that has no future?...." He paused to study the reaction of Jide who appeared expressionless at the moment. He heaved a short sigh and continued. "let me tell you the fact Jide, whether you use yourself to do ritual just to buy something good for her or you do it by robbing the central bank, I can tell you factly that Lola can not agree to date you. Either for money or free."

He ended conclusively, hoping that will will sway his friend's mind away from wanting to date Lola but the other boy wasn't ready to budge, not even if his life depended on it.

"thats where you are wrong Darous..." Jide replied rather calmly than furious.

"am wrong?"

"yes you are. Wait....shey you still remember my uncle that was living with us before we enter ss1?"

"hmmm...uncle Bolu right?"

"yes...."

"ok. What about him?"

"do you know he eventually got married to Alhaji Adaena's beautiful daughter living beside our house after all the problems and troubles she made him went through?" He ended with a questioning eyebrow.

"what!....really?" Darous asked suprised.

"yes na?" Jide replied.

"Ahah, thats awesome..when did that happened that I didn't know of it?"

"it happened the following week your father told you not to come to our house again because of what...I did to your neighbour."

"you mean when you stole Mr Chinedu's Sagem My-X5 phone and said it was me before your father eventually found it with you and you still went on to claim I gave it to you to keep for me?"

"ehn...see it as a payback for telling my father that I usually run out of class during school hours to go home and watch film." Jide stated un-remorsefully and all Darous could do was shake his head pitifully. His friend has always been fond of paying a one naira evil back with a millionaira worth of vengeance. He could go to the extreme of sponsoring a deadly terrorist group to distablilize the peace and unity of a great country just to get even with the ruling president because the latter had asked him to pick litters around the school compound for coming late when they were both in secondary school and the president had been the labour prefect at the said time.

"do you really have to do all that because I snitched on you? Don't you know I was only protecting your future?"

"I don't need your protection Mr Protecter. That duty is meant for my parents alone. All I need from you is to just be a friend to me and as far as am concerned, friends don't snitch on eachother." He paused before he continued after a brief silence. "will you tell me what she told you as to the reason why she can't date me or not?" He asked, eventually bringing the Arsenal of the discussion back to its original fourth position where they'd started.
"well, Lola actually told me the only thing she'd be accepting into her life is Jesus Christ...so I advice you to get that into your thick canine skull."

"thats bullshit. How does her church life gets involved with her dating life.?"

"I don't know, but judging by the way she reacted after I told her you love her, am sure she's damn serious." He stopped and noticed the change in his friends countenance so he quickly added. "am sure she's really a religious addict if not yet a religious trafficker already gan self."

"hmmm," Hmmmed Jide after a brief moment as he shifted in his sitting position. "wetin go happen be say, na the gift go fit do am. Help me buy better gift dash her, she no fit say no to that na? Or what do you think?"

"What I think?" Darous asked, holding his right palm on his chest.

"yes na?"

"well apart from the fact that you're willing to spend your exam fees on a lady, I think you are a talented idiot. How can you place your own future lower than the pleasure of having a girlfriend?"

"Darous, no go there again o...no go there...ahaha, shey you no dey there when Abdullahi and Michael dey abuse me since Ss1 say ah no fit get a simple girlfriend till ah die?"

"so all this suicide huzzling to toast Lola na simply because you want to prove them wrong?" Darous asked rubbing his palms together in a 'I can't believe this' manner.

"ehn nao"

"at the expense of your own future?"

"Darous...."

"my friend, na devil's first eleven dey pursue you...."

"wait... Ah dey come." Jide interrupted as he rose up and entered the house while Darous was left sitting down on the bench thinking of what just transpired between them. His friend just subconsciously gave him a tangible reason to take Lola for himself.

"how can he deliberately steal a phone from my neighbour and be saying it was I that stole it just because he wants to revenge?" Darous stated in a soliloquizing manner. "well, I think this is my chance to pay the idiot back for the humiliation and severe beatings I received from my Dad on that day. Yes, I must get even with this fantastic idiot..." .

***

"take this and help me buy something nice for her." Jide handed 6 wads of 100naira notes to Darous who reluctantly collected it.
"Darous, I trust you on this please no fvck me up. Friends always look out for eachother.."

"thats if they are on the same team." Darous completed the phrase mentally as he rose up, tuck the money in his boot-cut jeans and exited the place with just one mission in mind which is to get even with his friend but their actions begs for this question: Who's keeping the scores?

***

The 3rd term examination of Egba Comprehensive High School in the suburb of Abeokuta there in the gateway state came and went like a flash.

While brilliant students were being promoted on the merit of excellence, so were the dullard students that got repeated were also failed on the merit of woefulness and worstfulness.

While the promoted students were getting 'keep it up' remarks from both their class teachers, principals and well wishers, so were the repeating students getting remarks such as, 'there is still room for improvements', 'Try harder next term', 'Advice to withdraw', 'I will rather use my money to raise a poultry than send a legendary dullard like you to school', 'This result is the end of your education', and etcetera synonym phrases from class teachers, principal, vice principal, guardians and parents respectively.

However cruel and disdainfully that kind of plight might portrayed itself to be for those that failed to get promotion, still can't be compared in any measurable terms to the fate that befell a certain Olabanwo Olajide of Ss2A who after failing to register a single present mark during the examination process due to failure to pay his school fees, was also sent parking from home by his own father when the latter had found out that his son didn't pay the money given to him for the required fee and that errant act had been the cause of his failure to get promotion from the penultimate class to the graduating class. And to further add more to his C.V of failures, all his effort to get the Girl of his dream crashed in absolute futility.

Ironically, the contrary is the case for a certain Idowu Oluwadamilare a.k.a Darousmart of the same school and class whom had not only passed in almost flying colours but was also crowned with the euphoria of being appointed as the assistant senior prefect boy of the next session while Lola, his new girlfriend was also appointed as the social prefect girl. His own appointment can't be said to be fully based on his blurred brilliancy as there were hundreds of students who were absolutely more brilliant than him in the school and academically arguably more qualified for the post. So therefore, his appointment can be said to be parcentagely based on his unrivalled neatness, dutifulness, unlatefulness and mostly out of the percentage was his handsomeness.

Then something happened.


TBC

huntsman007:
seems Buhari has declared a come back home for everybody... Let mesef kukuma return home and be welcomed with a Sweet refiling update. jst like d prodigal son
.
[b/]Welcome back sir TBM.
Thanks for za update[b] hope u av come to stay sha

thanks boss. Nice having u back bro.

gabonsky:
Nobody is paying TBM for the story he is putting here, Let just appreciate him because He is also a busy man too and have to fend for himself....

more shangocious to your inward braintology

thanx bro. You're my hero. You're the best.

yewande1234:
Thanks for d update Sir, more ink to ur pen and more data to ur phone

thanx dear. You're awesome. Thanx alot

sorry famz for low updates. Now that Buhari have returned with my common sense, the story will be back fully on board. Thanx for your understanding.


97. COUNTLESS


>>>FLASHBACK contd..<<<


"urm.....Lola..." Darous cleared his throat as they both stopped beside the road linking to the school gate. This new task from Jide is gradually becoming a more daunting task for him.

Although he had been able to find a cunning way in the past to toast Bukky and Hajarat, two of the most beautiful girls in school and had been dating and dated both respectively since he was 15years old and apparently in SS1, but what he's never really done is to toast on someone else's behalf. He only agreed to do this because he saw how desperate Jide, his friend appeared while asking him to help him out. He couldn't turn him down also knowing how embarrassed Jide always feels whenever the rest of their crews were discussing any girlfriend related issue.

"you shouldn't have treated her that way na...." Said Jide.

"who ask you to put mouth inside this matter?...eh?" Abdullahi retaliated angrily. "look here, always stay on your own Girl-less path and never ever cross to any girl-ful issues like this....you hear?". Abdullahi retorted further at Jide at the end of the drama reheasal that always held at the end of every thursday schooling activities when the latter had bumped into an un-invited conversation going on between Darous and Abdullahi, and had been unable to restrict himself from spitting his own opinion which unfortunately resulted in total embarassment for him. "and if you ever and ever again, put your mouth in my matter again, I swear, I will use this biro..." Abdullahi warned further waving an Eleganza pen at Jide's face. "I will use this biro to shook your face a thousand times that satan will have a hard time recognising you in hell. Idiot." He hissed and rejoined the others while the embarrassed Jide was left standing like someone that thieves had just robbed off his last penny.

Remembering fully well of that incident which happened in his immediate presence was what prompted Darous to subconsciously acceeded to his request in the first place cos turning him down at that moment would have hurt the dude badly. Moreover, this is his friend and yes he has to do this for him.

A FRIEND IN 'need' they reshuffled and added just letters 'i' and 'd' to make IS A FRIEND 'indeed'.

So friendlically and no matter what it takes, even if it means sacrificing his own feelings on the way, Darous feels he has a sense of obligation to do this for the sake of friendship.

Wait! did I just said his own feelings? Oh! My bad. I didn't mean to tell you that fact, atleast not yet. I wouldn't want you to found out just yet that Darous has also been a secret admirer of the elegant beauty standing presently before him. Yes he has feelings for her, the same girl his friend had ask him to help ask out. Complicated isn't it? Yes thats just one of the ironical scenes from the theater book of life.

It all started when providence brought the two of them together when, Darous and Lola were both sitting for the Junior Waec Exams two years earlier and Lola's seat happens to be beside his own based on the alphabetical order the seats were arranged.

Barely minutes after the commencement of the exam had Lola started whispering Darous name. It seems as if Lola had not prepared atall for the exams as she was always calling on the not too brilliant Darous to give her most of the answers to the questions asked. Even asking him for the plural form of 'FART'.

Truth be told, it was the way her pre-breasts always engrossed his vision whenever she calls on him for an answer that initially connected his xender application of reasonings and generousity to her before the exchange of answers began and thanks to the invigilators negligence of duty, the teenage examination malpractice went unnoticed.

Like I said earlier, I didn't mean to tell you that just yet, but I guess thats what happens when you're the one God created just after Basket mouth.

"Lola, you know my friend nao..."

"which one? Abdullahi Olowopere or the tall Uwala Michael?" Lola who was obviously basking in the euphoria of getting the chance to talk with one of the most sort after boys in school asked with a smile just before they stepped outside the school gate.

"no....no...." Darous replied as calmly as he could.

"or Seun, baby onifun(doll with no intestine)?." She asked with another smile trying to prolong the conversation.

"none of the above Lola...its Jide...."

"oh....that idiot...?"

"cut it Lola...thats my best friend you're calling idiot....."

"Sorry....sorry." Lola said with an apologetic look.

"its alright...its ok... Lets just get to the main reason why I wanted to see you...."

"which is..?"

"my friend likes you. He wants you to be his babe and I swear to you on the life of our Maths teacher Lola, you won't regret it...I promise you." Darous stated with a serious look.

"ahahahahah...Gawd...." Lola suprisingly bursted into an uncontrollable laughter to the shock of Darous.

"whats funny?...." Darous asked slightly confusedly.

"is that the only way your friend can think of apologising for what he did to me?....telling you to toast me for him?"

"what apology? What did he do to you Lola?" Darous queried agogly now fully confused about the path the discussion just swayed.

"don't tell me he didn't tell you how he's been telling everybody in class that am his girlfriend?...."

"what?" Darous lamented eagerly. "Wait...Jide really said that? are you sure about this Lola?"

"ofcos am 100percent sure. Or why do you think I hated him in the first place?" Lola stated while readjusting the straps of her school bag.

"hmm. So whats going to happen now? You can't forgive him and forget?"

"forgive him? Even if I do, I can't date him. He's such a looser and we are not in the same class."

"ahah...how can you say that when you're both in the same SS2A.?"

"am not saying technically but figuratively am way above his level." Lola said as they both rounded a corner not too far from her residence.

A moment of silence escorted Lola's last statement before Darous could find his voice again.

"erm....Lola, why can't you just forget...."

"forget what? No no no....I can't...."

"why can't you?"

"nothing. Please can we just not talk about any Jide-like related issue again?"

"hmmm....then what do we discuss? I can't go back to him without any good news." Darous asked after pondering on her statement for sometime.

"then find a good news to tell him."

"like what?"

"well," Lola shrugged. "you can tell him Jesus loves him. Thats goodnews."

"funny you...."

"tell me something Darous, do you like me?" Lola asked in her attempt to change the topic.

"sure...everybody likes you...." He replied shyly.

"I know, agapely. But do you like me? I mean you."

"what would you do if I tell you I don't?"

"nothing."

"are you sure?"

"yes..."

"you sure you won't wake up nakèd at midnight and start cursing my creator?" Darous said sarcastically.

"com'on....I won't...and I can't. Its a free world. You can like and hate whoever you want."

"ok....I....." he paused when he saw how eagerly and anxious she was staring at him as they've both stopped behind the uncompleted building at the back of her house. "I...I...."

"Please say it nao."

"well, I like you." He declared finally.

"yes! I knew it...thats why you helped me out during the exams right? Cos you like me?"

"well, actually, I can't say. Lets just say, my brain always malfunctions at the sight of beauty..."

Lola was totally elated the moment those words started flooding out of Darous's mouth. To her, getting the attention of one of the most handsome boys in school is one thing, but getting complimentary words from him is another great feeling entirely.

"then, whats stopping you from asking me out for yourself? Instead of hiding under the umbrella of your friend." Lola asked taking a quick glance at the back entrance of her house probably checking if there's anyone watching them.

"I....I don't know...know....maybe...cos my friend already likes you...."

"I will rather date the first born of lucifer himself before I agree to date a miser like your friend. Please can we not bring him to this topic again?"

"ok. So...." he was still talking when Lola quickly wrapped her arms around his neck and drew him towards her face before she placed a kiss on his lips.

The kissing moment lasted longer than the excitements of Nigerians when APC won the presidential elections and dollar started forming boss to naira few weeks after.

"now tell me, do you like that?" Lola asked after they had disengaged after the kiss.

"like what?"

"the kiss!"

"hmmm....yeap...I do..."

"fine, if you want more of that, then get your friend off my back." She said and started walking away towards her house.

***

"how far...? Have she accepted me?" Jide queried Darous the moment they saw eachother on the evening of that day.

"ah...erm...Jide....hmmm..." Darous stuttered

"wetin happen na? Talk...did she accept?"

"nope...nope...she said..." He stopped scratching his head to come up with a good lie as Jide starred anxiously and eagerly at his face. "she said you've offended him and will never forgive you talkless of dating you."

"oh! I know." Jide lamented dejectedly and Darous was very happy to see that reaction.

"and unless you are ready to spend more than five hundred naira to buy gifts for her, I don't think she can ever date you." he said all that, knowing how stingy Jide is whenever money is concerned to further spice up his claim thinking he will back down.

But just when he thought he'd ended Jide's chances of threading further on wanting to date Lola, Jide gave him the greatest shock of his teenage existence when Jide shook his head briefly and came up with a least expected reply.

"guy about that one, my Pman just give me 600naira, my exam fees, if I give it to you, you fit help me buy something nice with it na....."

"what!" Darous declared in shock. "your exam fees?"

"yes Darous. I love that girl more than my life."


TBC

Emmysky:
Mr. TBM...If you know say story don tire you den you talk instead of wasting people's time. You updated last on August 4(almost 3 weeks ago).
The worst fact is that you come online on NL, Your last seen is barely 2 hrs ago and you just ditch this thread and this story doesn't seem like it's ending soon.

P.S:Am sorry if it made you angry and i know that you ain't been paid for this but atleast be sincere to us rather than hiding as if someone is after you.

still looking for the right words to use in tendering my humble apology to you guys. Till then, I say am very sorry. Never meant to hurt you guys. But updating soon. Remains some proof-readings to do.