Americana’s Diary IV: Not Too Late
Bodmas says after gulping down the drink in his mouth, “I am ready to pay the money, it is sommer that “em” I will issue you a bank draft which will be backdated to year 2000”
“That means when my friend wants to catch the money the money would be paid with interest “is that not what you mean?” the interests on it would be mine or ain’t you gonna give me?”, Dee said
“With heart full of joy would I have given you, but don’t you notice the laxity in what our Americana just said? He has included American style in his payment oh and I doubt the reality of such money”, I said as I take the wine into my mouth to push down the “chinchin” I have grounded with my premolars and molar teeth
“No, I did not”, Dee replied as Bodmas was laughing
“That means you will not be a good Security personnel”, I said smiling
“I have known myself that was why I simply went for Biological sciences in the University, reading inferences? Uhmn! I am damn bad in it, I don’t even know how I scored A2 in Chemistry in my O Level exams” Dee enthused.
“You are not serious” Bodmans said.
“Really?” Dee asked, “am I not?”.
“Oh yea”, Bodmas replied, “you ain’t”.
“I have not been more serious in my life” Dee replied laughing
“So, the inference I want you to draw from what our friend has said is yet unclear to you “shey””? I asked
“Verily unclear Sege”, he replied with all seriousness in his look.
“That is very serious oh, Bodmas said, he would backdate the bankdraft to year 2000, does the year in question, has meanings to you at all?” I asked
“Does the year supposed to have meaning to me?” Dee asked looking more agitated.
“Have you forgotten that that was the year of our graduation from the Secondary School?” I asked him
“Oh, oh, oh. That is true. I have forgotten. You know as we sit together, it just appears to me as if we have just finished from secondary school” Dee added, taking the chinchin into his mouth
“That is why I doubted the sincerity of our friend’s bank draft you know. I hope you now understand.” I said
“Do you mean to say he has no intention of paying the money at all?” Dee asked as Bodmas keeps smiling
“Oh yea! That’s the point from the scratch. That exactly is what I am saying. That was what makes me say I would be willing to give you any sum from the money if indeed the laxity there is not there”, I said.
“Uhm mn”, I get your picture now
“Don’t mind Sege, the money is real and would soon be wired into his account as soon as I get his bank details” Bodmas said pouring another drink into the cups as Shade walks to the balcony standing about 30 centimeters off the entrance door
Shade is a beautiful damsel of Bodmas, she is second to the last born of the family of 8 children. When we used to visit Bodmas’ house when we were in the secondary school, Shade was not as this, she was a bit thinner then and some of us think maybe she was not eating very well like other children, but which our friend, Bodmas said she eats normally and thinks maybe it was because she was the one running the errands for the family at home that that was what cause her stature to be as that then. But now, Shade is now plumply plump with the curves of her body in consonance with her stature. Her chocolate colour is now spotlessly glowing, because she puts on a short-sleeved blouse and a skirt that is about 2 centimeters below her knees, so her arms, forearms, hands and the lower parts of her legs could be seen to be spotless looking like a lady that has just returned from a continent that has no mosquitoes…. Her canine has a small gap, which makes her smiling inviting. She could go for Miss Continental Beauty Contest and win, except that no one could advice that considering the level of immoralities that we do hear that pervades such beauty contests….
“My brother” she called Bodmas,
“Yes darling” Bodmas replied.
“Brother Tee says I should come and tell you that, Bouns and Pancakes are ready that do you mind if I come and serve you and your friends those ones first before the meat-pies would be done?” She asked looking sudoriferous on the face.
“I think it is a better idea… but, how long before the pies are done?” Bodmas asked her sister
“If the electricity suppliers do not fumble, in ten minutes time they should be ready”, Shade replied looking at her brother
“Em, that will be good of you honey” she turns to leave as Bodmas asks “Is Tee in the kitchen with you honey?” she stops momentarily to hear properly the additional words that her brother is saying
“Yes sir. His presence with me at the kitchen makes the work faster sir” She turned and replied him, still waiting as his brother said
“You must have missed me there” Bodmas added taking off his eyes from her to his friends
“Yes sir. I definitely miss you” Shade replied as she entered the living room
Dee turning his face to Bodmas and said, “assuming your sister is yet single I would have said maybe Sege could marry her”
“Is Sẹgẹ yet to have caudal tail?” Bodmas asked looking at Dee, then looking at me
“His fiancée left him unceremonially few months back” Dee replied looking sober
“Oh! Wow! Sorry to hear this oh. Such incident is usually traumatic; I hope you are not brooding over that? Such happens sometimes and irrespective of how one tries to avoid that, those that such would happen to cannot but pass through it”, Bodmas said looking at Sege to see read into his mind
“Uhmn mn”, I said, “I think it is true, irrespective of what you do or how you try to satisfy your partner if such will happen to you it is inevitable”
“Uhmn mm. When I got to the States ‘em’, the lady I was going out with where I was working here and with whom all arrangements have been sealed to get married to before leaving if not for the urgency and the importunity that was attached to my travelling out that put that on hold, I would have been married to her before leaving, but after I left and was there, she also decided not to continue with me, she jilted me after a while” Bodmas said
“Eh hen? I was not aware of that” Dee said looking confused and serious
“Neither was any of my friends aware of the incident nor any of my family members until when I got involved with another lady in the States, that was when my family members got to know about the worrisome development between her and me. The new lady I am involved with is an indigene of Belize. While telling them about the new lady, they asked about the lady here and that I want to do what would make them disown me, it was then I opened up to them that she has bolted off, that I did not want to tell them then because I do not want them to meddle with her decision.” Bodmas said
“But for what possible reason could she have left you?” Dee asked, as he readjusts himself on the seat, and continued “seeing that many ladies love to marry someone who has travelled out”
“No clear-cut reasons were given me up till this very moment that we are interacting, other than “I do not think we are compatible” quoting her as she left me those years” Bodmas said shrugging his shoulders
“Well, maybe it is a blessing in disguise for you, because assuming she did not leave you, I know you will not think of getting another person there and you would have been struggling on how she will come and be with you there or something”, Dee said with his elbows on the seat arms and spreading his palms wide apart
“That is it. If God is doing good sometimes, we would think and it is evil that he is doing” Bodmas added, looking unruffled
“To me oh, may God forgive me o, I think it is good for you oh” Dee added as Shade brings some pancakes and Bouns to where we are, placing them on the table, genuflecting as Sege in-directly asks Shade a question
“You should be almost through with your Degree now?”
Shade steps back a bit and faced Sege “Finished my service last year sir, Yes, I am through with my first-degree sir” she responded, trying to clean the sweat on her face with the back of her arm
“Oh, that is good. I hope it is not that you are planning to leave with your brother to America when he is leaving” I said laughing
“In fact, I would not mind that sir, but my brother being who he is has not given me a positive note on that” she replied using her elbow to push her brother on the seat
“Uhm mm” I said as makes 180 degrees turn and leaves us
“This is snacks to refresh ourselves with, as Bodmas took a bouns, and said in between the bouns in his mouth that, “She studied Yoruba Education and luckily for her, some expatriates needed a graduate in Yoruba in the States so, I have helped her to submit her resume there, we now are all prayers that she will be favoured in Jesus name” Bodmas said putting the rest snacks into his mouth to chew and swallow
“Amen” Both of us chorused
“But what about the issue I have raised?” Dee asked Bodmas looking excited
“I would not know her marital status,” Bodmas said, “although we are close if not the closest out of all the children of my mum, but I don’t ask her about her marital issues except she raised it” he conclusively said
“Maybe you will need to probe into this for our friend or what do you say?” Dee replied asking
“But Sege has not talk on this, who knows maybe he does not even like her” Bodmas said as both faced me
“Do you hear that, Sege? Don’t you like Shade?” Dee asked from me
“I like her and would love something to come up between us if possible, but those ladies some of them would not want to marry someone who is their brother’s age-mate” I replied.
“Let us leave that till then, let Bodmas help us confirm her marital status first of all and from there we will know what to do” Dee said.
“What Sege said is true, but there is a friend of hers who married last year she told me that the brother her friend married to was even older than me, but the brother has some academic challenges this made his academics slow and somehow the brother and Shade’s friend got close in the school and that was all, I would not know why she told me that because then I did not even had it in mind coming home” Bodmas said
“Help us work on that and who knows, this, your sister, may be God’s substitute for our friend”. Dee said to Bodmas.
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