Countless - S01 E66 (Story Episode)

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Countless - S01 E66 (Story Episode)

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 66

We scoured for Favour for more than 20mins before the driver began to lose his cool after I asked him to reverse his car to check maybe Favour was hiding underneath it

Perhaps, he’d probably thought I was trying to joke around with that incensant request but I wasn’t, because nothing rational was going through my brain at that very moment

How can I be so daft and sturborn? I still had a death issue to worry about, instead of me to channel my thinking and concentration towards the possible outcome of the imminent premonition of death, no, I still let a forking daughter of Eve rob me of my purse!

A whole me! Being robbed by another pussee? ‘Oh gawd of thunder whats happening to your son!’ I lamented mentally in agony as the search was finally stopped

The driver scowled me a deadly stare and accosted me rudely, asking me to pay his money without delay

His embarrasing actions have already attracted many on-lookers attention towards us beside the car

One good term they say, deserves another, but every body that ate my bread and sardine with Can coke seems to be against me including Jide.
He kept on reminding me each seconds of what a stewpid and educated fool I am

The two women also made matters worst by telling everyone standing by about how have been toasting and wooing the said lady since the start of the journey till we arrived. That alone made even my would-be sympathizers to start giving me a scornful abased look

Thats how my bread and sardine just vanished like that o

While the driver was busy talking to someone, I stood beside the car and started contemplating on how am going to excuse myself from this mess

I mistakenly switched on my conscience and it was my madrid conscience that spoke first

‘didn’t I tell you, you don’t alw….’

‘will you just keep quiet? Who ask you to talk?’ I cut in angrily and switched it off when I realize that no sensible solution was coming from that department

I consulted my brain and an Idea strucked me within 20secs of consultation

I called Jide and gave him an insight on what I was about to do. He doubted that the driver will succumbed but agreed that its a long shot and worth taking

We marched towards the driver and began to explain to him

“Sir, I can give you your money if you can take us to the nearest bank, I swear to gawd, I’ll pay you your money just believe me sir”. Seeing the scornful look on his face, I quickly added another ingredient to make the aroma of my speech more salivating “and I will add 5k to it making 12k sir”. I concluded and looked at Jide, he gave me a ‘nice try’ shrug as we anticipated in eagerness of the Drivers verdict on my proposal

“oponu, lo pe mi ni? (you think am a fool?)” he lamented rhetorically in the local dialect but being a nice guy, I’ll subtitle it for you.

“ibo lo ti fe ri owo?(where you wan see money)”

“erm..Sir, don’t worry about that, since the lady have stole his wallet which consists of his ATM card, he ll transfer the money to my account and use my ATM to withdraw the cash at any bank you take us to” Jide tried to explain as amicably as he could

Fortunately after too much persuation and begging plus pleading, the man finally agreed to take us to the nearest GTbank beside the NITEL Company adjacent Itabo which is almost a 30mins journey from the bustop on the agreement that I sum up the payment to 15k which is almost twice the amount I’m suppose to pay for the initial amount

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We got to the bank around 12pm. A lot of people were on the que. With Jide’s ATM card firmly held in my palms, I hurriedly joined the que while the driver held Jide as hostage in the car

The only people that were safe from the effect of the scorching sun were the ones loitering under the awnings beside the ATM machine

About 7 more people to reach my turn, the driver came to me with Jide and started frustrating me again. Asking me to hurry up or else he will involve the police. I pleaded humbly untill 1 person was left infront of me on the que

He waited on standby till it finally reached my turn to use the machine

After inserting the appropriate commands, I withdraw all the 76k I transfered into Jide’s account and vacated the ATM premises

I glanced around for the driver and Jide for 6secs before I saw them whispering to me from under a mango tree adjacent the entrance of the Bank

I was headed towards them with the 76k tucked in my back pockets when I spotted the back figure and stature of the lady that stole my wallet standing at the entrance of the bank

Throwing every sane and moral reasoning into thin air, I ran madly towards her and without giving a d--n about her beauty, gave her two thunderous slaps from behind which knocked her to the ground

“you this coniving thie……” I swallowed my words when I saw her face. Sh!t, it wasn’t her or was it? Same heights and complexion but different cloths

What happened next was totally overwhelming