samlak
samlak Painful Pleasure
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Episode 15
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I got to my room, and I met Mayowa,
already sleeping. I just
went straight into preparing for the
next day’s work. Mayowa
had cooked ‘condition rice’ before
sleeping. So I ate, then I
tried sleeping too. It was then my
phone rang, it was my
mum. That was the second time she
was calling me since I
resumed school. I was so happy to
hear from her. I
apologized to her for not calling her
earlier, I told her I have
been busy with registration
activities.
She told me a lot of things, and
repeated the ‘Ranti Omo Eni
Ti o n Se’ speech. But what surprised
me the most was that
this time around, more emphasis was
laid on ‘No 3’ of the
list. She kept on telling me to be
careful with girls, maybe
she had seen some things in the
realm of the spirit
concerning me. I thanked her, and
told her, I won’t let her
down, then she ended the call.
Lectures were going to start the
following day, it was going to
start with an ‘8 o’ clock’ chemistry
class which would last for
an hour. Abdul told us (Mayowa and
I) to get to the venue as
early as 6:30, or else, we won’t get a
sit. We considered it as
an exaggerated fact, how can we go
for a class, 1 hour, 30
minutes earlier.
Mayowa started the ‘church-gist’ in
the evening around 8pm.
He told Emeka and Olu how I was
behaving like a ‘church-
freak’. Those ones, blamed me too,
they said I should have
followed him when he said he was
coming to the hostel,
after all we went together. Mayowa
started talking about
Aramide, how I was talking to her,
about music, and he had
to leave, since he didn’t like music
talks. Emeka was
surprised that I was talking to a girl
again. “Guy, you be
woman rapper o, you never even
finish Sandra patrol, you
don dey start another one.” Emeka
said to me. “Watin be the
girl name self?” He asked.
“Aramide” I answered. I didn’t tell
them I have fallen in love. We talked
till around 12am, and
slept.
We woke up around 7am, we rushed
up and by 7:45am, we
left the hostel for the Chemistry
class.
