Must Read: Choice & Consequence - Season 1 - Episode 7

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Must Read: Choice & Consequence - Season 1 - Episode 7

It was two days after the fracas and I was still running a temperature and nursing my red eye.


Abike was lying on my bed with her small travelling bag on the floor. She had refused to return to school and I was trying hard to put my life back together. I had not set eyes on Petra since the unfortunate incident and Charles was kind enough to desert the room while I tried to repair my relationship with Abike. I loved her still but I was doing a difficult job of trying to convince her. If she was not shouting at me, she was crying herself hoarse. At the minute, you could barely hear her words because she had lost her voice! I wish I could ease her pain, I wish she would let me do that. I didn’t realize how close I was to losing her and the thought scared the crap out of me. The day before, she had woken me in the middle of the night.

”You fell for her because of s-x right?”
I felt as small as a mouse. My first serious relationship was with Abike and I could not hide anything from her but something’s were better left unsaid.


”Did you go all the way, was she good, did you enjoy it, did you call out her name, did you do it on this bed?”God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which kain temptation be this nah? How do I answer yes to all these questions?

”Abike we are trying to heal and I am doing my best here. What is this information going to do for us? How is it going to help you?”
She kept quiet and nodded like she agreed with me but if I felt so, I had another thing coming.

”You don’t call the shots or tell me how I should heal. This is not about you. How many times did you have s-x with her?”
”Here we go again” I said slapping my hand on my thigh.

”You must answer that question. I said how many times or how difficult can that be. Once, twice, ten times, fifty times – you tell me.”


”Abike, I am sorry but I don’t know. You are forcing me to relieve these things again – you’re killing me!”
She shook her head and tears began to stream again. ”Ferdinand, common s-x you will do and be done in how many minutes. I’ve been keeping myself for you all these while but I guess it does not matter anymore. You could not even manage to hold body until we are together again.I beg jare wetin you dey give me all the time we dey school?Is s-x food? If that is all, then do me and let us rest.” She raised her night gown over her head and I looked away.

I had never seen her fully undressed and I was not expecting this. I can’t explain how a normal able bodied man would turn his face at something he always longed for but I had too much respect for her. I adored every single thing about her and I was not about to desecrate her body to prove a cheap point. I picked up my wrapper and threw it across her body but she was fighting hard to remain nake d.

”Do it and rest would you. Do it, if that would make you sane and bring you back to me. Do it I say. I hate you! You cheap thing. I thought we shared something special. Has she charmed you and made every other woman appear as dirt?”
”Abike stop this. I would never take advantage of you in this manner. You know you don’t really want this and I would never do this to us.” I held out my arms but she slapped it and began to wrestle with me. Then I seized her wrist and held them in an upward position. Soon enough she got tired and fell into my arms, crying herself to sleep.

I woke up the next day by 11am to discover she was gone. Her travelling bag was still on the floor, so I knew she was around. I wondered where she had gone and I began to panic when I thought of the river but I dismissed the idea from my mind. She may be a nut case when she is terribly upset but she would never contemplate suicide.On top wetin nah?She was too ambitious to end her life for any man and that included me!

I picked a broom and swept the apartment.

Then I rushed to the kiosk at the end of the road and bought a loaf of bread, 3 eggs, a tin of liquid milk and sardine. I hurried back to prepare something before she returned. This was definitely not my style but I was doing everything within my power to make it right.


Next, I headed for the bathroom to rid myself of the dirt and grime. By the time I returned, there were several missed calls on my phone. 9 of them were from Petra and 5 were from Charles. There were a few numbers I recognised and more I didn’t know.Almighty father, have mercy on me and deliver me from these wahala people. Wetin dey happen nah, abi I just win election?Immediately I began to panic; I tried Abike’s number repeatedly but my calls went unanswered.


Then Charles called again and yelled down the phone ”Ferdinand, where are you? Get your behind to the Secretariat as quickly as possible.

Abike is creating a scene here and even the Local Government Chairman is trying to pacify her as we speak. Dude this place is a freaking circus!”


I turned off my phone and knocked the small stool to the ground. The meal I had just prepared scattered all over the red rug.

The tension and stress within the last 2 days descended on me. Then I did something I had not done since the death of my father – I wept like a baby.