*****Episode Three*****
*Six Months Later*
Ekene was in his shop attending to
some customers when his phone
started to ring.
Ekene checked the caller ID but he
found out that the caller’s ID is just
ordinary number. Ekene picked the call
thinking the caller was a customer.
Caller: Hello!
Ekene: Hello!
Caller: Please am I speaking with
Ekene?
Ekene: Yes and who am I speaking
with?
Caller: Am chioma, Ifeoma’s friend. She
asked me to call you for her
Ekene: Okay. How is she doing?
Chioma: She is fine but she is in labour
Ekene: Okay but where is she now?
Chioma: i brought to the hospital so
she is in the maternity ward
Ekene: Please text me the hospital’s
address and I will be on my way right
but can I ask you a favour?
Chioma: Which is?
Ekene: Please stay with her in the
hospital for me
Chioma: Okay
Ekene ended the call, quickly attended
to the customers and luckily for him,
his master traveled. Ekene lied to the
sales girls that his master had just call
to inform him that some of their goods
has just arrived and he needs to follow
the people that brought the goods to
the werwhouse where they can off
load the goods.
Fifteen minutes have passed but Ekene
is yet to find any keke. Ekene was
about to start trekking when he
sighted a keke coming towards his
direction and he quickly stop and
entered it without bargaining with the
kekeman.
The kekeman got to a particular
junction and stop when he sees other
vehicle owners stopping. He asked
another kekeman why they were all
stopping and the other keke man told
him that two cars were involve in an
accident.
On hearing that, Ekene decided to trek
if he wants to get to the hospital on
time. Ekene brought out money to pay
the kekeman but the kekeman refused
to accept the money.
It took Ekene thirty minutes to get to
the hospital. He hurriedly entered the
hospital and met a lady sitting at the
reception. His instincts told him that
that Lady was the same Lady he had
spoken with on the phone few hours
ago so he decided to start up a
conversation with her first to know if
she is Chioma or not.
Ekene greeted the lady and after they
exchanged peasantries, he asked her if
she is Chioma and she said “Yes”.
Ekene further asked her about Ifeoma
but she replied him by saying ” The
doctors haven’t told her anything for
the past two hours she brought
Ifeoma to the hospital”. And that left
Ekene pacing back and forth in the
hospital.
An hour has passed and Ekene is yet to
see any doctor coming out of the
maternity ward so he decided to go
meet the doctor in the maternity ward
but when he was about heading there,
the doctor came out and told him that
Ifeoma can’t give birth on her own so
he will have to deposit N70,000 for
them to do an operation.
Ekene told the doctors to carry out the
operation while he goes to the bank to
withdraw the money which was a lie.
Ekene came out of hospital lost in deep
thought because he has no one or
anywhere he will be able to get the
money from. Ekene thought about
asking Kate for the money but later
decided against it because he was
afraid that his master will get to find
out and if he does finds out, that
means end of him learning trade.
Ekene was still thinking of a way of
raising the money when a thought
came flashing through his mind
*Six Months Later*
Ekene was in his shop attending to
some customers when his phone
started to ring.
Ekene checked the caller ID but he
found out that the caller’s ID is just
ordinary number. Ekene picked the call
thinking the caller was a customer.
Caller: Hello!
Ekene: Hello!
Caller: Please am I speaking with
Ekene?
Ekene: Yes and who am I speaking
with?
Caller: Am chioma, Ifeoma’s friend. She
asked me to call you for her
Ekene: Okay. How is she doing?
Chioma: She is fine but she is in labour
Ekene: Okay but where is she now?
Chioma: i brought to the hospital so
she is in the maternity ward
Ekene: Please text me the hospital’s
address and I will be on my way right
but can I ask you a favour?
Chioma: Which is?
Ekene: Please stay with her in the
hospital for me
Chioma: Okay
Ekene ended the call, quickly attended
to the customers and luckily for him,
his master traveled. Ekene lied to the
sales girls that his master had just call
to inform him that some of their goods
has just arrived and he needs to follow
the people that brought the goods to
the werwhouse where they can off
load the goods.
Fifteen minutes have passed but Ekene
is yet to find any keke. Ekene was
about to start trekking when he
sighted a keke coming towards his
direction and he quickly stop and
entered it without bargaining with the
kekeman.
The kekeman got to a particular
junction and stop when he sees other
vehicle owners stopping. He asked
another kekeman why they were all
stopping and the other keke man told
him that two cars were involve in an
accident.
On hearing that, Ekene decided to trek
if he wants to get to the hospital on
time. Ekene brought out money to pay
the kekeman but the kekeman refused
to accept the money.
It took Ekene thirty minutes to get to
the hospital. He hurriedly entered the
hospital and met a lady sitting at the
reception. His instincts told him that
that Lady was the same Lady he had
spoken with on the phone few hours
ago so he decided to start up a
conversation with her first to know if
she is Chioma or not.
Ekene greeted the lady and after they
exchanged peasantries, he asked her if
she is Chioma and she said “Yes”.
Ekene further asked her about Ifeoma
but she replied him by saying ” The
doctors haven’t told her anything for
the past two hours she brought
Ifeoma to the hospital”. And that left
Ekene pacing back and forth in the
hospital.
An hour has passed and Ekene is yet to
see any doctor coming out of the
maternity ward so he decided to go
meet the doctor in the maternity ward
but when he was about heading there,
the doctor came out and told him that
Ifeoma can’t give birth on her own so
he will have to deposit N70,000 for
them to do an operation.
Ekene told the doctors to carry out the
operation while he goes to the bank to
withdraw the money which was a lie.
Ekene came out of hospital lost in deep
thought because he has no one or
anywhere he will be able to get the
money from. Ekene thought about
asking Kate for the money but later
decided against it because he was
afraid that his master will get to find
out and if he does finds out, that
means end of him learning trade.
Ekene was still thinking of a way of
raising the money when a thought
came flashing through his mind
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