What are friends for? Episode 14

What are friends for?

Episode 14

A kitchen they call it, but this time not filled with plates, pots and microwaves but something looks like kitchen cabinet- a table which has about three broad plates with each places having thousands volume control button and other features with a very tiny pipe running from it to small boxes raised above them. Sometimes, it looked like barber’s shop but then seeing guitars hanged and keyboard mounted close to these broad plates and small enclosed and transparent section with a raised microphone and a big earpiece worn around the head that covered the whole width of the ear. Then the whole building is an enclosure without a space for air to come in- not even a window but thank God cool air finds its way in even if knowing how is another mystery people (Nath included) won’t bother asking how until the day the air vex and won’t come in again only for them to be sweating profusely but will still not go out- what a kitchen it is!!!

This is where Nath resumed to after departing from his friends. He has recorded more than four songs in that same kitchen and he’s there to cook another using his holiday. No wonder he’s always with an earpiece and a note pad, writing and cancelling and some times, he takes his pen close to his mouth, scratching the lid lookes to the sky or anything above; shake his head somehow; remove the pen from his mouth before he writes something in the air like there is a book there before he eventually wrote in his note pad.

Pam also found himself in similar environment. But his was a very large building having series of chairs arranged. The forefront of the long room was raised above others with steps to move to the level of the other space. There were different plates too and boxes but this boxes were of bigger sizes and found in many locations. The small enclosed section here is for drum set. The whole building was decorated.


Pam does more of church activities- it’s either he’s there for service or he’s there to rehearse more on his favourite musical instrument- the guitar

For Rita, ninety percent of her time is in her parent house. It’s either she’s chatting, surfing through her social handles, watching movie, playing games, listening to music or doing house chores, and yes, sleep. When she wakes in the morning, she does the chores before she eats then lands on her bed to operate her phone before she finally sleeps and when she wakes up, she does some more things, eat again and sleep and that was the routine for her.

It was a really boring holiday for her and she can’t even wait to resume. Whenever she tried reaching out to her friends, she ended up discouraged cause she was always given reasons to hang up the calls or stop chatting. She was already very angry with both of them and had promised herself not to try chatting them up again because of how boring it could be- it was filled with good morning, good afternoon, how was your day? Good night messages.

“Hello Rita! Bae how far?” that was the first lines Rita heard after picking up a call she had ignored for about two times. She replied with not-too-pleasant tune “Yes! Good evening and who am I speaking with please?” like she didn’t save the contact of the person she was talking to.
“Are you kidding me? Have you changed your phone or what?” The caller replied in surprise. “Rita if you are joking please let me know. Besides, I have to tell you this quickly before I get engaged in another activity now. I just felt you need to know maybe you don’t know or you might have forgotten that today is Nath’s birthday”

“Today is his birthday, so? How would I know when the both of you did not have my time and were always giving excuses anytime I tried to reach out to you like I was forcing myself on you two. I have decided not to call or chat both of you up again after all you have done to me. If not that you called today, you think I will know today is his birthday? I stopped checking both of you status and in fact, that was why I pretended as if I didn’t know you are the one calling. You guys left me and were doing your own thing - I don’t even have an idea of what is taking all your time that you can’t even spare few minutes to talk with me.” Rita poured out angrily

Pam while listening to her began to scratch his head like someone who is about to lie to his parent. He squeezed his face all through her talk and sometimes, show the attitude of someone who is in an hurry but was delayed with a talk but Pam had to pay full attention after knowing how angry Rita is. “Rita! I am so sorry and I apologize on behalf of Nath. We couldn’t tell you about other things we do aside from studies. Anytime I am at home, I am always coordinating the youths in my church-I am the President and we are always planning and having programs. And for Nath, he is a musician and also a producer. So anytime he’s at home, he’s always helping his senior brother in the studio. In fact, he released a song today for his birthday. Check his status to get it” after saying all of this, he pleaded until she laughed.

Rita suggested that three of them meet to celebrate Nath’s birthday at a beach. Pam nodded in agreement to her suggestion and also suggested three days time which was a Saturday. Both of them decided to do video calls and put Nath through along the process. They did it and tried reaching Nath but just immediately he connected, he held the call and that took a while. Pam asked that they do it later.

Rita dropped the call and went ahead to check Nath’s WhatsApp status. She checked through his birthday photo shoot photos- Nath looked radiant in his stripped shirt accompanied by a black trousers and brown blazers shoe matching his belt. Then his black hat and his positions with a guitar on a field complemented the rest of the pictures on his status. Then at the extreme end of the status is the link to his new music he titled “Obianuju”

She was so curious to know how Nath sounds like. So she clicked the link and it straightaway got connected with the chrome browser on her phone, she got on the site, then the interface and saw two options- one is an arrow pointing downward for download and the other is a square painted which indicate to play. She tried clicking the download link but her faulty screen clicked the play icon and the song began to play. She listened for a few minutes, stopped it and clicked download again and this time was the right icon. She was waiting to the see the downloading icon but she got on another interface. It was an irrelevant post and she saw “to continue.   download, click download” and she did that only for her to get back to same interface. She was frustrated and was about leaving the browser only for an ad to pop out at the top. She was attracted to the graphics of a man in a 69 sex position with a lady and without thinking; she decided to check the content out.

Her one click landed her on a YouTube page filled with erotic videos. “I have promised myself not to watch this again and I will not because I don’t want to stir up my sexual drive again this time. I have stopped sex and porn” this thought was busy sounding loud in Rita’s ear but she was already getting curious to see the content. She paused and couldn’t press anything then.....

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