The Activist - Season 1 - Episode 6

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The Activist - Season 1 - Episode 6

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Shade, the darling of many a secondary student, was the ‘crushe’ of Tade. About six feet, her fair complexion and long legs announces her presence in a gathering. Her smile, strong enough to charm even the strictest teacher, was often a weapon, the weakest weapon she used to her advantage. Her as5 was fleshy enough to sway men’s thoughts, wills and caprices to her advantage. Her brea5ts, though puny, was braless, an action which gave her another weapon against men.

Shade was a paragon of beauty, which to many a sex hungry lad, was the perfect meal for them. However, despite her cordial relationship with Tade, he never had any amorous feelings towards her, which surprised her. So he become a target, an oddity which interested her.

She looked surprised at the sight of Tade, her white dress expressively showing her ‘love’ for the not too handsome crush of hers.

“Tade! Its has been a long time! How are you?” She flung herself to him, her small brea5ts pressing firmly to his chest. “Its has been a ………”

“A year, Shade and if you don’t mind, you are squeezing me to death.” Tade replied.
“Always the brash man, aren’t you? You are a fresher here?” She asked familiarly.

*As if you are a stalite* his mind spoke back, but he nodded at her question.

“Cool! Am also a fresh student of Dramatic Arts, planning on going into the entertainment industry.”

*Before nko* his mind fired back. He was not surprised in any way, at least she had modeled for Pepsi before and had done a couple of Close-up ads, not to talk of the little roles she had in sitcoms.

“What course are you studying?”

“Law.”

“Law? Hmnn. You know what they say about the Law faculty in this school.”

“Wetin you hear?” Tade asked.
”Don’t you know that Law Society usually produces the most radical students on campus; the cult members and those that are against cultism. For example, the current president of LSS ( Law Student Society) is the leader of Red Axes while the vice president is the Leader of Black Brass ( a female cult group). Equity Chambers President is a DSMite ( DSM stands for Democratic Socialist Movement, a group against cultism among other things) and you know what that means.”

“What does it mean?”
Shade looked surprised. “It means that the two Presidents won’t see eye to eye. Meanwhile, the Black Brass has another member as an executive in Equity Chambers. I hear a lot of fights occur between them and I don’t know why its the Law Students that have the highest number of these people.”

“We are intellectuals.” Tade spoke freely, much to the surprise of himself.
Shade dragged him to one corner and knelt down. “Tade, I am begging you, please just mind your business there. Don’t join any of them. A cult member life span is usually short and those anti-cult guys are usually hunted and killed. Ife is a bad place to be carrying any new idea on power. Tade, please! I love you and you know that you mean a lot to me.” Tade’s face shot up in surprise with her admission. “Tade, I don’t want to lose you. Even if you can’t have any thing to do with me, don’t break my heart by joining any of them. I don’t want your life to……”

“Its okay, Shade.” Tade said, his eyes showing concern. “I will try not to.”

She cleaned her legs and eyes. “Am hungry, let’s go and eat.” She dragged a protesting Tade away.

At the eatery, Tade probed her.
“Why did you warn me about LSS?”
“Well, I have seen a little here and I don’t want to see or hear more.” She said quietly.
What did you hear? He asked more quietly.
“Well, you know Wande? Our class rep in SS1 na!” She said, seeing the confused look in his eyes.

“Ermm…”
“The one with goggles, that wears all those Reverend Sisters gowns, that we call Holy Mary?”

“Ooh!” He exclaimed as he remembered her. The lady was an extremely shy lady, who used her spare time as class rep to preach against fornication and ask people to repent.
“So what happened to her?” He asked quietly again.

“I heard she is the Leader of Black Brass!”
“Ehen?” He almost shouted, leading to one or two angry stares. He apologized and resumed to his food.

“What happened to her?” He asked after eating some more.

“When I got here during Post- UTME, I heard that she ran loose when she entered school, that she do boyfriend runs up and down and that she don change gan. That she don hard. The worst part of it was that she killed Kenny!”
“Kenny ke? Her best friend ma ni yen!” Tade said.

Shade shook her head. “I dey tell you say babe don change. Her eyes don dey run red and you dey talk best friend for there. The rumour be say. Kenny na PaceSetters persin and that dem fight each other as per leaders of their groups. After them kill Kenny, they distribute her body parts everywhere.”

“Wow! You heard that one too?”
“No, I saw it with my eyes.” He choked on hearing that. “It was a gore sight. And to think that na only Kenny Wande dey follow talk for school?”

“Na so I come think am say wetin be life sef? See as Wande waste persin life, dem fit waste her life like that too. Na so I think say that if I see any persin wey I sabi, I go warn am. I no think say I fit bear the pain of seeing such. Its almost derailed my examination preparations.”
“So Tade, please am not joking, DON’T JOIN! I have to go.” She stood up and left, leaving Tade to ponder on what she said.