Americana 4

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 2000”

“That means when my friend wants to catch the money the money would be praid with interest “niyen” o, the interests on it would be mine or aint 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 “jejely” went for Biological sciences in the University, reading inferences? 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.

“Oh yea”, Bodmas replied.

“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 “sey””? I asked

“Verily unclear Sege”, he replied.

“O lagbara nigbayen o”, Bodmas said, he would backdate the bankdraft to 2000, does 2000 has meanings to you?” I asked

“Does the year suppose to?” Dee asked looking serious

“Have you forgotten that that was the year of our graduation from the Secondary School?” I asked

“Oh, that is true. I have forgotten. You know as we sit together, it just look 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 bankdraft”, 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 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, jare, 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 staying 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 in the secondary school, Shade was not as this, she was a bit thinner then and some of us think may be she was not eating very well like other children, but which our friend, Bodmas said she eats normally and thinks may be 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. But now, Shade is now plumbly 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….

“Bùọdá mi” she called Bodmas,

 “Yes darling” Bodmas replied.

“Bùọdá Tee says I should come and tell you that, Bouns and Pancakes are ready that shall come and serve you and your friends those ones first before the meat-pies would be done?” She asked

“I think it is a better idea… but, how long before the pies are done?” Bodmas asked

“If the electricity suppliers do not fumble, in ten minutes time they should be ready”, Shade replied

“Em, that will be good of you honey” she turns to leave as Bodmas asks “se Tee na wa nibe pelu re ni?”

“Bẹni sir. Awọn gan lo mu ko ya wa diẹ” She turned and replied him

“You must have missed me there” Bodmas added

“Yes sir” Shade replied as she entered

Dee turning his face to Bodmas and said, “assuming your sister is yet single I would have said may be Sege could marry her”

“Se Sẹgẹ ko ti niru nidi ni?” Bodmas asked

“His fiancée has left him unceremonially few months back” Dee replied

“Eh ya. Sorry 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

“Uhmn mn”, I said

“When I got to the States ‘em’, the lady I was going out with where I was working and with whom all arrangements have been sealed to get married if not for the urgency and the importunity that was attached to my travelling out that put that on hold also decided to jilt me after a while” Bodmas said

“Eh hen? I was not aware of that” Dee said

“None of my friends were, in fact my family members were not until when I got another lady in the States she was an indigene of Belize, that was when I decided to inform my family members of what had happened.” Bodmas said

“But for what possible reason could she have left you?” Dee asked, as he readjusts himself on the seat, as he contined “seeing that many ladies love to marry someone who has travelled out”

“No clear cut reasons were given me uptil date, other than “I do not think we are compatible” quoting her as she left me those years” Bodmas said

“Well, may be 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

“That is it. Bi Ọlọrun ba nse ire nigbamiran, ibi la o sọ wipe o nse” Bodmas added.

“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 indirectly asked 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.

“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

“In fact I would not mind that sir, but Bùọdá mi has not given me a positive note on that” she replied

“Uhm” I said as she left

“Oúnjẹ ìpannu niyi o, 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 are all prayers that she will be favoured in Jesus name” Bodmas said

“Amen” Both of us chorused

“But what about what I have raised?” Dee asked

“I would not know her marital status,” Bodmas said, “although we are close if not the closese out of all the children of my mum, but I don’t aske her about  her marital issues except she raised it” he concluded

“May be you will need to probe into this for our friend” Dee said

“But Sege has not talk on this, who knows may be he does not even like her” Bodmas said as they face me

“Ngbọ Sege? Don’t you like Shade?” Dee asked

“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 agemate” 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 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 may be God’s substitute for our friend”.

(Watchout for V)