The Activist - Season 1 - Episode 18

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The Activist - Season 1 - Episode 18

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The week rode on, with Korede trying his luck with Toke, the girl who came to see Chuks. As Chuks warned him, the girl was proving stubborn and saucy, despite all his best efforts. Korede was soon getting depressed over the issue, with Tade and Chuks now trying to offer counsel to him.

“Korede, free the babe!”
“Can’t you just get it? That babe has a boyfriend!”

“Make Nightcrawler no catch you! I don tell you oh!”

And so on they went. Korede grunted and left the room, causing some giggles across the room.

Meanwhile Toke was moving closer to Chuks, for she needed help in her courses and the class representative was the best lead she had. As Chuks knew what was at stake, he made the relationship one-lined, making sure she does not even enter platonic level with him. However this did not stop two unknown men from trailing him down and warning him about Toke. He immediately knew who sent them and nodded sheepishly, while making mental notes in his mind. The corresponding weeks gave enough evidence to Toke that he had changed, Chuks started bantering her off to other intelligent but awkward students who did not like her behavior, he avoided any occasion of long conversation and he now starting watching his back, making sure that she or no one else was trailing her.

It came to a head on a certain Thursday, when she went to his room.

“Good morning, where is Chuks?” She asked a stunned Tade, who took a few minutes before answering that he was not back from class.

“I will wait for him here!” She said defiantly while standing outside. Tade did not send her cause, so he closed the door and went to sit down. Korede soon came along and tried to ‘toast’ her, receiving a slap for his troubles. It was not up to thirty minutes after the slap that both of them heard her voice, this time considerably raised in anger.
“Chuks, why are you avoiding me?”
]Chuks ignored her question and walked into the room, anger steaming up. Toke followed, much to the amusement of Tade and Korede.
“Chuks, didn’t you hear me? Why are you avoiding me?”

“Toke, don’t you have common sense to see that I don’t want to talk to you? Or are you too dumb to realize that its not safe for me to talk to you? I have told you to meet Shola and co, yet you are here shouting at me. Who do you think you are that you can shout at anyone?”

“Chuks, answer my question now. I don’t need answers later. Why are you…..”
“Toke, leave my room now!” Chuks boomed at her, dragging her by the hand and ‘throwing’ her out of the house before she could blink.

“Chuks, am sorry, please talk to me.” She started crying as Chuks locked the door and went straight for his bed, blocking his ears with his pillow. Tade and Korede watched with keen interest.

After a few minutes, she stopped and picked herself to go. Korede watched her leave, his eyes following every bounce of her as5. He then turned to Chuks.

“Why are you treating her like that, Chuks?”
“What’s your problem, Korede?” Chuks replied.

“See, I know she has her behaviour, but what you did is not right. Dodging such a beauty when it evident that she is in distress is not chivalry, Chuks.”

“What concerns you?” Chuks replied, looking at Korede like he will slice his head off at the moment.

“Korede e don do.” Tade stepped in. “Chuks, what’s wrong with you? You don’t behave like this to Korede, nor do you lose your cool like that. What happened?”
Chuks looked at Tade and saw concern. “Her boyfriend sent guys to warn me a few days ago.”

“Eh? Hope say they no touch you?” Tade said with some shock. Even Korede’s face altered to shoe some concern.

“Nothing. They just wayla!d me on the way to hostel and warned me. Since then, I sorted her out, not that I abandoned her.”

“But why will they just come and warn you if you had nothing to do with her?” Korede asked just as Tade’s face turned scarlet under his dark skin. Tade was about attacking him when Chuks raised his hand, suggesting calm.

“She had been taking extra classes for BCH from me, since she had issues with the course. They must have seen us together,that’s why they warned me.”

“I understand you.” Korede began. “But its no reason for you to avoid her. At least you should tell her what is happening, so that she can sort herself with her boyfriend. Its her education that is at stake here.”
“I will support Korede here.” Tade said. “Its not healthy, the way you are taking it with her. You will still meet her on this campus and she looked pretty hurt that you are avoiding her. I suggest you tell her, unless you have another motive for seeing her.”
“Noooo! Chuks said. If you guys feel I should tell her, then I will tell her. He brightened up. I have some work to do.”

The month floated by idly, the boring rote of classes, hostel, party and classes again made it a burden. He was already in a couple of associations but had nothing concrete. The only thing that interested and bothered him were the ladies in his life.

Not that he was double dating, in fact he was dating nobody. The problem was that he had three girls competing for his attention. Shade was the first one in mind. Since that day in her house( or Lekan’s house), she had sort of warmed her way into his heart, they had become fast friends and cool buddies, gisting on a lot of things including their plans and relationship and sex. Yes, they talked about sex and at times they did sex text and phone sex, Shade often initiating it and Tade responding. He knew that if he asked her out, she will at least consider it, but he threw it out of his mind, especially as she had a boyfriend already.

Then there is Wande. The Black Brass leader. She had taken an interest in Tade since the day they had faculty colloquim and he had to defend his classmates who were accused of been rude and noisy. He made some quality contributions alongside his apologies, drawing praise for his maturity. Since then, she had been tailing him, trying to get as close as possible. Tade obliged her, not because he had interest in her, far from it, but he did not want to wake up one morning and see himself bleeding from a knife stab or in the hospital. Since his secondary school, he had known that ladies can be difficult in relationships and Wande was no different, plus the fact that she leads a cult.
Then Sophie was in the picture. She, like Shade had a boyfriend, difference was that the boy was in Black Axe and was already known for cutting across people’s chest if crossed. In contrast Sophie was a meek, humble and kind girl, in addition to her beauty of course, who was targeted by the lecturer of the course she took in the previous year. The imp of a man failed her because she refused to sleep with him, leading to her boyfriend finishing the man off during the break. Despite the fact that she was a session older, she treated everyone in his class with respect and kindness, endearing everyone to her. Due to her boyfriend’s status, people often feared and loved her presence in equal measure, though they showed the fear part in her presence but speak good of her when she is away. It was only a few people like Tade that associated with her up close, and like a leper who has just got a new friend, she stayed close to them. Tade felt some sort of closeness to her but cautioned himself for obvious reasons.


He was currently playing everything in his mind when someone tapped him from behind.
“Wetin you dey think for there?” Made said.