The Activist - Season 1 - Episode 22

5 years ago

The Activist - Season 1 - Episode 22

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Tade woke up suddenly. It looked like a dream whatever he saw, but it reminded him of his present predicament.

His present predicament with Wande.

He saw her a day ago and tried dodging her again. However she cornered him.

“Tade, come here” She ordered him. When he refused to answer her, she moved quickly to hold him back.

“What’s wrong with you? You behave like you don’t know me, you refuse to acknowledge my advances and now you avoid me again?”

He just looked at her like a person who had just been tranquilized.

“Tade, is it that I am not desirable enough or you just don’t like me? Answer me Tade!”
Tade would have liked to tell her to gather her sh*t together and stop bothering him, but considering that she is a cult leader, that would be like sending an open invitation to all sorts of harassment. Besides, Korede’s case was still fresh in his mind, so he decided to play it cool.

“Wande, its not like I hate you. Its just that I can’t really date you.”

“Why? Why Tade? Am I not attractive?”
“Wande, its not about beauty. The fact is that I barely know you and I can’t trust you, not with the reputation you have.”

“As a cult member? Tell me, are cult members animals? Are they not human beings?”

“I don’t see it like that Tade’s voice rose up. You guys think you are cool, well you are not! To me, many of you are just savage beasts in human flesh.”

“So am not human enough to date you, Tade? Is that it?” Wande ran off, bursting out in tears.

“Noo, its not like….” Tade’s voice trailed off as he watched her leave.

Remembering what transpired made him to start wondering how heartless he could be. Wande was a lady, cult member or not and it must have hurt her to have a guy reject her, especially with the current circumstances and what he said. He then did something that normally he won’t consider smart or wise.
He picked his phone and called a number. It rang a few times before the owner picked it up.

“Wande, am sorry” He started
“What are you sorry about?”
“I am sorry for calling you inhuman. Even though I have somewhat being affected by cult attacks, I should not have judged you the way I did. I don’t know about your past and I have no right to attack you that way.”
“Uhmm.” Wande said, though he heard her sniff.

“Were you crying?” He asked, genuinely concerned.

“No, yes… Yes I was crying” She answered back. “But am okay now. Tade, I want to get a reply.”

“What reply?” Tade said, even though he knew what she was asking for.

“About my question now.”
“Well, I don’t know you, at least you are not the Wande I knew in school. Besides, I have been warned not to get close to you.”
“By Shade abi?” Wande said. “That b*tch!”

“Not by Shade, wait why are you expecting her to do such thing?” He asked.

“Because she is a b*tch with a capital B. She will say so, after dumping me for that half-baked boy called Lekan.”

“Dumping you? What do you mean?”
Wande laughed hysterically. “So she did not tell you all this while? Don’t bother on how I know about you guys, I have been following you since you entered campus. She did not tell you that we dated and had fun as sisters, eh? She won’t, which Naija babe go tell you that kin history?”

“Eh!” Tade let out a small shout, almost waking his roommates.

“Don’t disturb anybody’s sleep. Yes, we have dated and done some random sh*t which none of us is proud of really, only that I found Lekan first and tried to polish him, only for her to come and steal him off me.”

“Eyah.”
“I wish her well, but what annoys me is that she keeps chasing any guy that comes near to me. At least she should give me a chance to have a boyfriend.”

“But you are attractive and you have a cult persona that is strong. At least one cult member should be interested in you.”
“See, its not like that. Who wants to have his or her mind torn in two places? Or don’t you know that if I have a cult guy as a boyfriend that my mind will not be at rest?”

“Really? I thought it suppose to be an advantage.”

“Na you dey see am like that, Tade. If im cult group go one assignment and they shoot am nko? Abi you no sabi say cult persin be flesh and blood? What of if na on top mission im come die?”

“Besides as a cult member, your life is always at risk, always. You no sabi when one idiot member go find trouble and you gast defend am. As a leader, me myself gast dey watch my back.”

“Eyah. It must be tiring.”
“The worst part na if your boyfriend cult group come get kwanta with your own cult group, if the leader no dey mature na wahala be that! Shey you go get mind fight your boyfriend? The thing taya me abeg. Na just the fear and ‘respect’ people dey give me I dey look, if not, na to comot fully.”

“Okay, I will think about your request, Wande” Tade said. “I need to sleep.”
“Good night. Thank you.”

As soon as Wande hung up, Tade started to think on the conversation and Wande. Why did Shade not tell him all this? What did she exactly do with Wande? Did they ‘f--k’ each other? He did not know why this was unsettling him, as he had no plans at the moment to date any of them.

Abi I don dey trip for this Shade of a girl? He asked himself, before shaking his head strongly to the negative.

After some more thinking, he decided to sleep. The day may roll something interesting along his way.

The day brought something new, almost a miracle he dared to say.

Korede was up and running!

He was not yet out of the hospital, but he was now looking stronger and more active. He was even beginning to ‘scope’ the nurses in the hospital, choosing the student nurses obviously as the older ones were sort of unattractive to him. Even Korede had standards, no matter how cheap they looked.

Tade and Chuks were listening as Korede as he gisted them about the nurses and the patients.

“You see that Nurse Nike ehn, na she dem suppose use as advert for Close-up, na so she dey shine teeth anytime she dey come here. At times I dey wonder if na so dem dey teach them for class.”

“The other nurse, Nurse Peju no dey smile unless she wan give persin injection. Even after I follow am yarn, she still dey form say na she dey carry the whole Africa for head. Besides she too dey complain sef. Na so she almost give that baba heart attack the way she dey handle am.” He pointed to an old man, obviously sleeping.

“Korede, how are you doing?” Tade asked just to get pause from Korede’s talk
“Am fine, isn’t that obvious?” Korede replied.”They will allow me to leave during the weekend.”

“That’s cool. You must have missed classes now.”

“Yes, I must get lecture notes…..”

“No I mean friends, colleagues.” It was Chuks that was speaking.

“Abeg, none of them missed me. Abi you see any of them?” Both Tade and Chuks shook their heads. “Na only you two and Toyin that has been here.” He then sat up straight and pulled Chuks shirt tightly.

“The people wey beat me say make I pass this paper to you” He brought out a dirty looking paper and gave a surprised Chuks.

Meanwhile, in Motion ground, two ‘lovers’ were having a heated discussion.