chapter 34

Fikayo rushed into the lounge in which his friends were already seated.

"Who is chasing you?" Kunle questioned when he saw how unsettled he was.

"If it's hired assassin that is chasing you, please, direct them somewhere else abeg!" Ade added.

"Nobody is chasing me! Guys, I'm in trouble..." Fikayo said as he took his seat.

"Who wants to play pool?" Biola cut in.

Fikayo glared at him.

"What!" Biola snapped.

"I said I'm in trouble and you're worried about pool? What kind of a friend does that?" Fikayo questioned.

"Don't mind him, what's wrong?" Kunle asked as they all focused on him.

"I'm in soup. Ifeoma started to suspect that I was cheating due to the money I took out of the joint account to give to Sewa for her upkeep, in-fact, she was very sure of it if not for the lies I thought off at the last minute" Fikayo explained.

"How could you let her suspect now? Okay, did she believe the lies?" Biola asked.

"She did. And this is where the trouble comes in, I told her that I was planning a surprise vacation for her and I wanted to get her a new car as a gift for her birthday which is next two weeks!" He blurted out.

"Ehn... hope you've already paid for the car and vacation trip?" Ade asked.

Kunle slapped his bald head. "Are you daft? Does he look like he was planning anything?" He added afterwards.

"Thank you, Kunle. Sometimes, I feel like Ade has no sense." Fikayo said.

Biola stared at him at first before he then spoke, "Fikayo, you fvcked up big time! Out of all lies, you had to rope yourself into money spending lie? Do you have the money to get her a new car, because you have entered it o and you have to get that car for her!"

"I was thinking that maybe you guys could borrow me two million naira to sort myself and I'll return it by the end of the year"

"Ah! Two million in this economy? Bro, you know how this Nigerian recession is affecting everybody now. As you are looking at me, I can't give you five hundred thousand naira not to talk of a million except I want to be drinking garri with my family for the next three months." Kunle quickly opted out.

"The only amount I can manage to borrow you is six hundred thousand naira, bro and that one sef, I would be squeezing it out just for you." Biola added.

"I don't know why y'all acting like this is such a big deal! Fikayo, would you like to hear what I have for you? And this one wouldn't even cost you up to one hundred thousand naira" Ade said as Fikayo sat upright immediately.

"One hundred thousand naira? I'm in! Shoot, bro!" Fikayo replied enthusiastically.

"You have to be ready to take a beating sha. We'll beat you so much that it'll be very evident on your face, very..." Ade started.

"Who and who will beat him?" Kunle questioned.

"Us now!"

"For what reason?" Kunle questioned further.

"Won't you let me land first?"

"Sorry, carry on" Kunle apologized.

"Thank you! So we'd beat you up to the extent that it'd look very real. And then we'll carry you to the hospital, I have a friend that owns a hospital, all we have to do is tip him to call your wife and then exaggerate the whole package like saying you were beaten with a gun and rushed to the hospital and all that. And then when she comes, you'll tell your wife that you were kidnapped by some armed robbers, they took the car you just got for her and made you transfer all your money, including the one you had planned to use for vacation trip and all that, and finish! That's all, case closed!" Ade concluded and rested on the chair with his legs crossed. He had a proud look on his face as his friends stared at him in disbelief.

"How on earth would you think that would work?" Fikayo questioned with doubts.

"Why won't it work? I have a lot of tactics I've used for women who I promised stuffs and don't want to do them. And she's your wife, she'll obviously choose your safety over some dumb car and weekend trip" Ade said.

"But... I feel so guilty about pulling such stunt on her" Fikayo said with a sad face.

"You feel guilty! Sorry o! Get ready to look for a believable excuse as to why she won't get a car as a birthday gift nor go on a weekend trip anymore then! Since you're guilty" Ade told him.

"I think you should take Ade's idea and make good use of it, it costs a penny other than having to borrow money to buy stuffs you didn't plan for. Plus she'll even see you as a hero afterwards, you got her the car but got kidnapped. You made an effort in her head" Kunle supported.

"This is why I never wanted to get involved in extramarital sh*t! See how it's costing me more money than normal. It's even giving me stress" Fikayo confessed.

"You're the one who isn't smart about it, bro! We've been doing it for years now and our wives had never suspected sh*t but you? You've been at it for just three months or so and you've been getting suspected already? You're a pvssy, bro!" Biola said as he slapped Fikayo's back.

"Whatever! Let's play some pool, guys! I'll have to leave early, I'm threading gently so as to make Oma settle and clear off whatever doubts she might still have" Fikayo announced as he stood up and took one of the pool cue.

"Get ready to loose, bro!" Biola said as he kicked one of the pools with his pool cue.

TO BE CONTINUED...