The Vacation - S01 E08

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The Vacation - S01 E08

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 8

Within 10 mins of landing in Enugu, we had

deplaned and met with Jude. Laura was on a

phone call while i discussed with Jude.

Jude: Boy, you look worn out (hugging)

Me: As in eh. At a point, i wasn’t even sure if

the flight wouldn’t have been cancelled.

Seemed the rain wanted to fall forever. Good

to see you bro

Jude: guess it fell all over the country then.

My visibility was so low i had to stop

severally. So who’s the pretty lady? (noticing

she just ended her call)

Me: Hey, Laura meet Jude, Jude Laura, my

friend and course mate back in school. Met

again at the airport after bout 3 years.

Jude: Nice meeting you Laura (shook hands)

Laura: Nice meeting you too.

Me: she’s heading to ogoja, and i was thinking

we could give her a lift?

Jude: No problem.

Me: so can we still make it tonight?

Jude: sure. But we’d better be on the way.

Wasn’t sure when you flight would arrive, so

had to refill because these filling stations tend

to close quite early you know. Security and ish

***In 10 minutes, we were already on the

highway, headed to Abakiliki. Sitting next to

Jude in the front passenger seat, while Laura

sat behind Jude.

I placed a call to Favour that I’m on my way.

Now, having turned on my phone when we

deplaned, i had received an email notification

and two text messages. Now was the time to

read them.

**Frank: “Dude ow far? Jude say Dem delay

Una flight. Probably u dey air now coz ur no

no dey go try. Holla wen u get this. (Dialed

his number, not reachable)”

**Dolapo: “Hey, how was your trip? Ur no ain’t

goin try. Sent u an urgent mail that needs

urgent attention. Get back to me ASAP.”

**Opens mail: “Make use of the attached files

and draft a proposal, quotation and template

for XYZ Systems Limited. Send to Mr. Bayo.

Forward me a copy of the mail.

Do that before the end of the day”

Dails Dolapo

Dolly: are you in obudu already?

Me: delayed flight, just leaving Enugu

Dolly: guess you’ve seen my mail?

Yes: I’ll work on it as soon as i get home

Dolly: just make sure you send me a copy

before you go to bed.

Me: I understand.

Dolly: Good. Safe.

At that moment i began to resent my job. Was

actually thinking about crashing right when i

get home. Now Dolapo is gonna keep me up

for another hour.

Like though she knew what thoughts were in

my head, Laura said “guess that was you

bitc*** sorry, your boss?” without waiting for a

reply she adds”you should come work for me

ya know!”.

Ignoring her, i asked Jude, “so baba, how far

is it from here and when do you think we

should be un Obudu”?

“The road is very good from here up to Ndok

junction, except a little bad stretch when

entering Abakiliki, which is about 74 kms from

Enugu. Ndok junction is about 84 kms from

Abakiliki, but because of the very bad stretch

from there to Ogoja, we’ll go through okpoma-

okuku-Igoliand then to Obudu. Lets say by

10pm-10:0pm.” Jude said.

Wondering why he didn’t just say hopefully

10pm-10:30pm i then said “Alright. My boss

just gave me a task. Which is gonna keep me

up longer when i get home. Make i crash

small”.

Laura then ask “so what do you say about my

offer?” I turn to see her rubbing her crotch but

with a straight face. “it might not stand by

the time you wake up!” she adds

“ALI, please leave me alone” i replied her

amidst chuckles.

Laughing, Jude intervened saying “you two

need some rest”.

The stress of having driven in a normal Lagos

traffic earlier in the day, the waiting time at

the airport, the heavenly feeling in the plane

(with my brain releasing several doses of brain

chemicals, to include norepinephrine,

serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin, nitric oxide,

prolactin etc. all responsible for inducing sleep

in men just after intercourse/heavenly feeling,

biochemists in da house), the cool air and the

music playing in the car, I was by no so

exhausted/relaxed that i must have slept for

more than an hour only to be woken up to a

torch light beaming on my face. We had

stopped at an army checkpoint

Jude: oga no be mi,, na dis afternoon mi i

pass here. Rain bin dey fall sef, and Una been

dey inside Una tent.

Soldier: so where u go? No be Abakiliki u dey

run?

Jude: no o oga, i just go Enugu go pick my

bro. Dem delay their flight na why i no come

pass since

Soldier: (beaming his torch on my face, then

Laura and back to Jude). Oya na, carry go.

“What happened?” i asked Jude.

“No mind that man, twas a case of mistaken

Identity, that a commercial driver passed here

in the morning with a Mitsubishi Grandis like

mine and was supposed to collect a package

for him in Abakiliki on his return trip”. Jude

replied as we drove off

“Him no dey recognize face?” turning to

Laura”mi luv, ow far?”

“Lemme alone” she said rubbing her crotch

again, “I want to sleep” she replied

sarcastically.

Jude: hahahahaha (oblivious to the tease),

you two are so funny.

(Began to rain rain again)

“so Laura, when are you going back to

Lagos?” i asked her

“missing me already?” she answered/asked

“you wish” i replied her. “I don miss u pass” i

added

“thank God i didn’t believe you at the Airport”

she said still ignoring my question

“your number one problem is that you love

being flattered” said amidst laughter.

“I’ll b going back in two weeks time” she

finally answered my initial question

“wetin happen? U no wan make Dem enjoy

honeymoon?” i asked sarcastically

“you’re not serious. I’ll be with Cindy” she

answered laughing.

“Cindy lives in Ogoja?” i asked surprised.

“Cindy na Ogoja girl to start with, she’s on

break from school. Her masters program”.

“so what about ur office? Who’s gonna run the

place?” i asked showing concerns

“Fury, you ask too many questions, i wan

sleep” she said turning her head towards the

window and acted sleeping

Leaving her alone, i sat quietly. Don’t know

how much i slept, but i woke up to see we

where in Ogoja.

Within 10 mins we had dropped Laura off at

Cindy’s (with her screaming how and where

the hell did we meet, Jude was in a hurry, so

there wasn’t any discussion) and we were on

our way to Obudu.

Laura had teased saying “you sure you don’t

wanna come in, we could have that 3some you

know” with tongue out.

“there’s plenty of time for that” i said through

the window as Jude drove off.

She shouted back “in your dreams” just as i

looked back to see her and Cindy locked in a

French kiss. Obviously Laura had lied about

when she became bi.

The drive to Obudu (53km) took about 40

minutes. And by 10:15 we were at Franklin’s

gate.

Favour came out to welcome me, served me

dinner of eba and eruru (afang/okazi) soup.

We discussed while i ate (my first solid/real

food since Wednesday)

Had a warm shower and came back out to the

living room with my PC to work on the

proposal. Time check 11:30 pm. Favour was

watching a late night movie on the south

African tv station “e”.

For reasons i don’t know, i sat with her while

she watched the movie as i worked on my PC.

In the course of the movie, i noticed Favour

was worked up, as she kept turning in her seat

at light touching her bosom.

Movie ends around 1am, a point in which she

called it a night. And turn the tv off. I stayed

back to complete what i was doing, sent the

mail to Mr. Bayo and cc a copy to Dolapo. By

1:20am i head for my room only to pass

through Favour’s room to see the door open.

The room was only illuminated by her bed side

lamp and i could see she was self servicing.

A pursed for a few seconds as i saw her insert

her fingers inside her kitty-cat as she flicked

her bean.

“There’s a force behind Mrs. Adamu” i muted

to myself and headed to my room for a well

deserved sleep.