Esther soon finds herself in the little class set for the
cell-fellowship she attends, thinking she was first as usual, of which her
wristwatch affirms she was quite earlier than the set time for the programme
more than ever, only for a voice in that same room to disapprove.
“Hi Esther”
Those two words, as brief
as they were, threw her off guard. She turned around in one swift movement and
saw the strangest thing to have shown up in that environment at that point in
time, to make matters worse he had a bible in his hand!
“Hi!” she stuttered and later found courage to continue, “...so
interesting to have you around!” she tried as much as possible to hide her
shock but it was too glaring. "You're Tade, right?" She asked
uncertain.
He smiled and made sure to
expose his perfect dentition. He got this, he thought as he re-assured himself.
"I can see one of us is well acquainted already," he
replied
This is one of those individuals that motivated and frustrated her
choice of being a 'S.U.' ...and there he was, standing right in front of her
and the thought of it made her want to say “get thee behind me, devil” just
that the devil in question had a bible in hand. “It wouldn’t be bad to have a
taste of a life in Christ like you” Tade replied, hoping to solve the puzzling
look she had on.
'If he was hoping to achieve something, his facial expression was
giving him away. It just didn't look like one that had gotten his heart
convicted by the Holy Spirit!'
“How nice!” she managed to
squeeze those from somewhere, just then they heard footsteps as the youth
co-ordinator walked in “Hi sister Esther!"He said in a sing-song voice and
with a light gait in his walk, he turned to Tade "It’s so wonderful having
you around, brother Tade”
Esther heaved a sigh of relief as John came in to her rescue.
“I got you the form like I
promised, have it and make sure you fill appropriately!” John said as he handed
Tade a pen.
“Sister Esther, you’ll have to follow up on his progress as a new
convert in Christ and I know God will help you make him a strong follower!”
Bro. John said amidst a broad grin! “Yeah right” she thought to herself.
“Ok..?!” at this time Esther and Tade’s faces meet and the latter seemed to be
excited at this development.
___________
"Are you kidding me?!" Susan was astonished. She had
already beeng given the 411 on the situation at hand.
"You should have seen my
face, it was like my doppleganger was suddenly conjured in front of me"
"Tade!...the same guy with the one-of-a-kind haircut? That
pursues anything in skirt?!" Susan asked bewildered as she tried to relay
her level of disbelief
"Yeah, I guess?...how do you know all these about him, never
knew he had become your object of interest though" Esther replied and
rolled her eyes. Part of her wanting to dig for more dirt
"I hear stuff...not
every one lives in a cave!"
"Whatever! Knowing wouldn't add to my grades anyway"
Esther shrugged
"I even heard he has
slept with all the girls in uppercrust hostel..." She lowered her voice
"them sheila and co"
"Holy moses!...susan!!"
Esther exclaimed with a look of reproof
Susan made a zipping of mouth gesture and continued leafing
through the textbook that she was no more paying attention to.
"What baffles me is why he went to your church...I mean,
there's 'new-generation-abundant-prosperity
church' and other hippie-yippie kinds around..." Susan rattled on
"or...did you give him a tract or by any means invite him to your
church?"
"Miss susan, I don't keep a day-to-day journal or register
book of some sort of the hundreds of people I distribute tracts to. Idon't
know!...wait!...maybe brother John invited him"
"Or he's after something!" Susan snapped her
fingers, ignoring the latter part of
Esther's sentence
"I wonder why I disclose issues like this to you. It's not
like you would give me a precious piece of advise or something" Esther
retorted and resumed to punching her calculator like it was about to become
extinct.
"Whichever way, you were one good instrument in turning the
lost sheep into God's kingdom, sister Esther," Susan winked and stressed
the latter part of the sentence in an odd black-american tone.
Esther giggled "okay...drop the textbook, I know it's a
facade and copy what you want and get your skanky behind out of my room!"
"Ohooo...someone knows
how to talk dirtyyy" susan drawled still in the same fake high pitched
black american tone.
Esther threw her dont-mess-with-an-angel look and susan raised her
hands in submission.
"Oops! Calm down st
Mary...
..... to be continued
Written by: Priscilla Oyinlola
(... also read preceding episode and stay tuned for new episodes)
Lolz... You won't seize to amaze me! Good piece.
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