chapter 25

The club colourful lights twinkled and glistened as Bop Daddy by the Nigerian rapper, Falz filled the club.

Fikayo's eyes roamed the club from the VIP room he was seated with his friends. It was a room built in a way that they could see everything going on outside the room but no one from outside could see them. Expensive bottles of concentrated alcohol and red cups filled with mixtures of Hennessy, Andre, cranberry, coke, ice and Hollandia yoghurt littered the tables in the middle of the comfy leather chairs they were seated on.

Fikayo watched as the girls his friends had brought into the club that Friday night stood up to twerk as soon as the song was changed to Yemi Alade's song titled bum bum.

One of the girls walked up to him to give him a lap dance but he declined politely.

Fikayo felt the chair beside him sink as a result of having a weight on it. It was Biola.

"You've been kind of moody for a while. Try to have some fun. Get mama and Ifeoma off your mind for a while. Even if it's lap dance, let these girls give you. This life is too short, man!" Biola shouted as a result of the loud music.

" Abeg o ! He's the faithful man, getting a lap dance from another woman is cheating" Ade teased as he spanked the a*ss that belonged to the girl in front of him.

"I... I don't know how you guys are always so comfortable doing this. What if your wives get to know?" Fikayo asked.

"We'll beg them and blame the devil. Trust me, women are wired to always forgive us. And then we go back to it, they get used to it" Biola replied.

"I'd die if my wife finds out sha, I'd completely die. I don't ever want to hurt that woman" Kunle said.

"Why do it when you don't want to hurt her?" Fikayo questioned, confused.

"We can't help it" Biola answered.

"That is one big lie! You can help it, you just do it because you guys know nothing will happen and your wives will just overlook after you beg, I'm just saying you'd be so angry to find out about your wife cheating too, won't you?"

"My wife will cheat? When she's not mad! The day I suspect her is the day she leaves my house for her father's house!" Biola raged.

"Fr, man! Cheating is not for women, it's for us. We are polygamous in nature, they are not. Trust me, they'd never do that sh*t in marriage. When they get caught, they get mocked in the society and for life. When we do it, we get seen as men. Men will always be men sort of thing. It gets overlooked. It's a man's world after-all" Kunle lectured.

Fikayo listened and assimilated.

"See, our lives as men is so tiring. We go to work, for our family. Get them what they want, yet these things called wives are so troublesome and toxic. They can frustrate one's existence. So we have to get one or two beautiful youngies outside to keep us calm, sane and satisfied. Those are the ones they call side-chic but we? We call them peace and new. Why? Because, they are still young, new and in town, they know how to love us better." Biola butressed.

"I can't relate cos I'm not married and will never be!" Ade shouted as he poured all the content of his red cup down his throat.

"Who asked you?!" Kunle retorted.

"I'm just saying I can't keep eating one kind of fruit when I can have fruit salad. Where's the fun and life in eating one kind of fruit for my whole life?" Ade countered.

"I don't think women should be compared to fruits though" Kunle said.

"Whatever! I can compare them to whatever I want. Yes baby, shake that a*ss for daddy!" Ade hyped his girl as she twerked continuously.

Fikayo was mesmerized at the way she twerked her a*ss with great ease.

"You see? Now imagine touching that bopping a*ss, get a baby! You too dey dull. Ifeoma's efo(vegetable) is too potent" Biola whispered into Fikayo's ears one last time and then went back to rocking the girl he came with.

And as if the devil was happy to get a new member in his adultery institution, Fikayo sighted a very familiar face walk into the club with two other women in a very short White gown that still looked classy.

Her a*ss was still as big and curvy as Fikayo could remember but she was now very much fairer than before.

What they call skin toning these days?

She was never fair, never. She was a beautiful chocolate skinned girl, but was always jealous of fair skin tones. What Fikayo didn't know was that she'd bleach to become that tone that she used to rubbish.

Fikayo decided to put that thought away as he walked out of the VIP room and towards her.

"Hi" He greeted as she looked up at him, shocked.

"May I sit?" He asked.

"Yes, sure"

"So, long time, no see and no calls" Fikayo started.

She laughed, revealing her perfectly arranged white set of teeth, "It's been what, six or seven years?"

"Six" Fikayo answered.

"Wow, that's long. How have you been? Ifeoma and ... the kids?" She asked looking down at her finger at intervals.

"Ifeoma is fine but no kid for now. I'm fine too, thank you for asking. Husband?"

She laughed yet again, " Uhm.. some of us are not destined for early marriage. I'm still single" She replied showing her left hand.

"Oh, Okay then. Can I have your number so that we can get to hang out sometime?" Fikayo furthered.

He watched as she entered her phone number into his iPhone 8 and he knew he was in for it and getting out wasn't going to be easy.

He was going to cheat on his wife with the same lady he cheated on her with while in University.

He was going to make Sewa his side-chic.

TO BE CONTINUED...