Countless - S01 E80

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Countless - S01 E80

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 80

Three days I spent mourning the death of the person wey no concern me. My Madrid conscience have been at my neck, asking me what’s my own business with the mourning of Chucks’s death that I’ve remained inside the house for 3days

The fourth day after Chucks death, I gathered myself together and resumed my boxing training

Oh! please pardon me for not telling you earlier that after so many contemplations on how I’ll always be able to defend myself against any unexpected violent incident like the ones that happened in my home town, I enrolled myself at a local boxing center at Muda Lawal stadium Asero there in Abeokuta with the sum of 10k

I must tell you, I nearly ran away after the 2nd day session. The 1st day, I was tutored by the captain himself. Firstly; on the punching bag, secondly; Upright stance, thirdly; Semi-crouch and fouthly; Paddings.

It was quite exciting and funfilled to the extent that I even thought I’d mastered the art of straight jabs and strong jabs when my 3rd blow disconnected the punching bag from the hanging rope with a heavy thud on the floor. The captain told me that the rope is already weak but I argued with him that, he’s just been economical with the truth

The 2nd day, I’d gotten to the center 30mins prior to the training time and met a few guys hanging around waiting for the arrival of the Captain. After exchanging salute slogans with them, I bought chilled soft drinks and roasted stick meats for all of them

30mins later the captain arrived and I persuaded him to arrange me with someone more formidable to spar with and he promised to grant my request

Promptly 5’oclock, the captain commanded a small secondary school boy that came late to spar with me

The little boy is within the age range of 13-16yrs old, with a below average height of 4ft

I’d laughed my bowels to stupor when he stood confidently with the boxing gloves covering his small hands before me in the middle of the circled crowd

“captain, if you wan purnish this boy for coming late, don’t you think you are taking it too personal already? Or you wan make police arrest me for commiting murder and child abuse?” I said after I’d managed to subdue the laughter

“wetin make you talk that one?” The captain had asked me back after stepping into the circle to officiate the spar

“I swear, this little mouse can never survive my left hand slap talkless of a blow…. Capo, he go die ni o”. I’d replied jokingly to the amusement of the crowd

The Captain wore a frown face and glanced around at the gathered crowd that consists mainly of secondary school students of E.C.H.S and a few older guys

“its like too much confidence dey worry you abi? Ok shall we make a bet? Hun?” The captain asked making a questioning gesture with his hand

“I don’t do betting but, if you insist on taking your promo this far, then you can’t blame me for accepting your offer…so what do you propose?.” I’d replied calmly with a confident smile

“hmmm, ok. You ll both fight for 10mins. If you manage to land a straight jab on Small’s face, I’ll give you back your 10k and you ll do your train for free, but if you fail

to do so, then you ll pay me double or I’ll beat your ugly ass myself.” He explained with a ‘do you understand?’ look

I stared at my opponent and smiled cheepishly at him. He has this irritating confident smile on his boyish face that makes me want to rush at him and beat him silly but I subdued the urge with another smile

‘if thunder no wan strike Mtn and its customer care, I think you should be able to land 9000 punches on this boy’s face….Think of it, you’ve got height, muscle, long hands and stamina than him, so Darous this should be as easy as sin.’ My Barca conscience communed to me as I moved closer to the Captain

“don’t say I didn’t warn you, trust me, you will be needing an ambulance very soon?” I told him confidently while he handed me my gloves and I put it on

He pondered on my words for some moments and shrugged with a smile. “You better have what it takes to back up your words because if you fail to deliver a single punch, you’d better contact your bank in advance or you are dead!”

With that, he motioned for the crowd to create enough space for us and blew the whistle for the commencement of the spar

The spar began with me, making a wild rush at the small boy with the intention of sending a straight jab on his face, but somehow, the boy was quick to parry my miscalculated attack and before I could regain my foot after staggering forward, he sent a direct hook below my ribcage followed quickly by another bolo punch just below my left chin which sent me sprawling on the floor

The impact of his 20kg blow was so excruciating on my body to the extent that I began to beg the captain to cancel the spar after 6secs

“you no fight again?” The captain asked with a smirk on his battered face

“yes abeg o! Am on my period, lets continue when I finish abeg…” I pleaded with a groaning tone and he cancelled the match

The guys I bought drinks and meats for earlier helped me to my feet and also applied some pain easing balm on my ribcage and left chin. They also helped in begging the Captain to forget about the bet and since then, those guys have been helpful in helping me to learn more about the techniques and strategies of being a great and a self-dependent boxer

Now back to the present, I resumed to training and trained very hard for 3hrs although It was vigorous as usual

After bidding my new training buddies a goodbye, I boarded a bike home.

It was already past 8pm when I got home feeling very exhausted and after taking a nice shower, I joined Doris and her daughters at the dinning table where a sumptuous meal of pounded yam and ugwu soup with assorted meats and crayfish was served as dinner.

***

I woke up the next morning to the sound of a message notification tone from Adedoyin on my phone and it reads:

‘Darous, you can’t avoid me forever. Sooner or later you are going to need me and when you do, I’ll gladly help you out because afterall, you are my Boy and I love you. Miss you so much.’

I smiled at the message and wonder how some people can be so stubborn

Around 9am on that Saturday morning, Nike came to my room to inform me that her mum wants to see me

“hope no problem?” I asked her while getting inside my track trousers and Stephen Curry’s top

“I don’t no o, am just a messenger.” She replied smiling and at the same time putting my flip-flops at my feet and we both left the room

***

I opened the door and stepped inside the room leaving the door slightly ajar as I stood beside it. “you said you wanted to see me?” I asked Doris who appeared busy selecting some clothes from the giant wardrobe in her room. She turned around towards me and gestured me to close the door. I did and settled on the bed while she sat on the chair infront of the dressing table

“Darous, I’ll forever remaing grateful to you for this….” She pointed to her belly. “wonderful gifts….I’ll never forget it.” She paused to study my reaction. She got a blank one from me so she continue. “it still seems like a dream to me, can’t believe am having a male twins atlast.” she smiled happily and continued. “You’ve made me so happy, so how can I also make you happy? Tell me anything, I’ll do it.”

“before I tell you that, please tell me you already know how to handle your daughters, I mean what you plan to tell them about the source of your pregnancy.” I stated with a look of concern

She smiled calmly making her dazzling white teeths to adorn her beautiful face. I couldn’t help but to admire her looks as she adjusted the straps of her bra and smiled again. “thats brilliant of you to ask….Well, I plan to deliver my babies in the UK, so as to avoid any uneccessary queries from my daughters. I’ll come back 2years after delievery when I would have gotten a perfect excuse to give anybody. But before I depart for the U.K tomorrow, I think its appropriate that we have this discussion.” She ended with another smile

I sighed. “Doris, you don’t have to pay me. What I did, I did for free….but if you insist on rewarding me then I think I’ll be okay with whatever you do for me.”

“really?”

“absolutely.”

“ok. Lets meet at erm….erm….MoonGate hotel around 5 in the evening. Ok?”

“but moongate is too far nao, wha….”

“you’re right but just wait for me at Crown Royal junction, I’ll pick you up from there. We can talk better at MoonGate after we must have had some rounds of super-sex before I travel tomorrow….ok?”

“that sounds cool.” I replied smiling

“remember, nobody, and I mean, nobody must know about our meeting, okay?”

“Got it. See you then….” I rose up and marched towards the door and exit the room after getting a hug and kiss from her

***

Evening came very fast like a speeding bullet. Nike and Joke have gone to the hair dressing salon for their hairdos since 3pm

At 4:30pm, I was already at Crown Royal junction waiting for Doris to pick me up and I’d barely waited for 5mins when her Toyota Highlander Wine Jeep alighted infront of me

I hopped inside and sat beside her on the passenger seat and she zoomed off

Some distance into the journey we began to chat happily before she tucked her hand inside the bag beside her and brought out a fruit

“eat this for your strenght dear.” She handed me a big ripe apple fruit with her right hand while the left was on the steering wheel. I collected it and began to eat it instantly

“hmmm, so sweet…Just like your p---y….am gonna eat your p---y bad today dear..” Those were the last words that came out of my mouth before she swived the car into another route contrary to the one we are heading before. I looked at her and wanted to question her about the sudden change in direction but unfortunately, my body became suddenly weak and I dropped my head on the headrest as I lost concsiousness

Only gawd knows for how long I was out, but when I opened my eyes? My environment became an alien to me