Must Read: Ade

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: Ade

Rotimi being surprised is not a new thing.


When he is surprised, he could be tensed
but in this situation, he was not. He has a
penchant for talking about you as if you are
not there. As he was talking, the girls who
were also familiar with the Pidgin English
knew he was talking about them and as
such they looked askance. They did not
know what his reaction would be. But I
already knew it. He was happy that we
would rock things together with the girls.


I looked at the girls and began my lecture
“Bunmi told me that you girls are l£sb!ans.
Is it true?” I asked another JAMB question.


The two other girls nodded in the
affirmative. Then I knew that they were all
in the act and that they were not in the true
know of what they actually were. The look
on their face even showed that they were
proud of what they think they were.
“The three of you are not l£sb!ans.” I said
and watched the reactions on their faces. I
got what I expected. They all looked up and
into my eyes with utter disbelief.


I continued, “Yes, you are not l£sb!ans. I will
tell you why you are not l£sb!ans. l£sb!ans
only sleep with their fellow women.

They hate the male gender and want nothing to
do with them. They get married to their
fellow females. They naturally are seen
together and do not depend on the male
for anything. They believe that only a
woman can satisfy a woman sexually.

They believe the male are oppressors and even
oppress women when it comes to s*x, so
they hate to sleep with men.”


I paused to look at the effect of my word
and saw that I had caused a storm in their
brains. They knew that they had none of
the features I described above. They all
depended on the male folks for one thing
or the other.
“Or is there any of you here that hates a
man and will not like to have anything to
do with a man?” I asked them. They still
looked astonished with what they had just
heard.
Rotimi was wishing to hear the affirmative.
I could guess that from the way he
anxiously looked from one girl to the other
two and then finally fixing his gaze on his
object of interest—Bunmi.
“No sir, we all love men and can never hate
them. We would love to get married one
day but not to our fellow women.” Bimbo
said after looking into the eyes of the other
two and they had given her the go ahead
to speak.
“That means that you girls accept that you
are not l£sb!ans.” I remarked and they
nodded.
Then Bola said, “Sir if we are not l£sb!ans,
then what are we? We sleep with one
another almost on a daily basis. We do
threesomes most of the time. We thought a
girl sleeping with girls is called l£sb!anism,
but you said we are wrong. Sir, what are
we?”


I smiled. She had confirmed a part of what I
wanted to know—that the three of them
sleep together and they do it almost daily.
“What you are and do is called bisexualism.


It is when a boy or girl sleeps with his or
her fellow boy or girl and still sleeps with
members of the opposite s*x. In your case,
you have s*x with one another and you still
have boyfriends who do you well and
satisfy you. So, you are not l£sb!ans, you are
just bisexuals.” I enlightened them.
A look of relief was awash on their faces as
I ended the statement and they heaved a
sigh of relief.
By then, the staffroom was as silent as a
graveyard because the other teachers had
left the room and we were the only parties
left to our business.



Rotimi looked at me and smiled. I knew he
was wondering how I got to know so
much about the issue at hand. I had never
let him into my store of knowledge about
s*x and sexuality.


The girls were pleased with what they had
heard and wanted their reply so that they
can go for their break and as well plan on
how my rendezvous with Bimbo and Bola
would start in earnest. But I was far from
being through with them.
I had been able to change their mentality
from thinking of themselves as l£sb!ans
and making them know what they were. I
still needed to know how and who taught
them the act of bisexuality.


These girls, from my observation did not
stumble upon the act. Someone had taught
them. I needed to know. My decision had
been that I would ask them and if they
refused, I would tell them to go and that I
would have nothing to do with them. They
can go ahead and carry out their threats.
Something had told me that with the kind
of influence I wield over those girls, they
would tell me. They wanted to satisfy their
curiosity of sleeping with the only
remaining teacher in the school. I was a
hot cake.


“Sir, thank you for the explanation you gave
us. We are very grateful. Sir, can we have
the reply now so that we can go for our
break?” Bola spoke.


She had spoken sparingly since they came
into the room. I looked at them and smiled.


“You can’t get your reply now. There is one
question you need to answer. If not;, your
answer will be no and then I would have
nothing to do with you. Then you can
always carry out your threat and I will be
waiting for you outside there. Just answer
and let’s all enjoy it for as long as we can.” I
replied throwing them into another session
of thoughtfulness.



“Sir, what is the question? We promise to
answer it truthfully.” Bunmi, they ever vocal
of the three, offered.
“My question is simple. Who taught you the
act of sleeping with one another?” I
dropped the bombshell.
The three of them looked shocked.


They looked from one to the other then to
Rotimi and to me. They had not expected
my question. I had caught them off guard…