Details
Date of Publication 3rd August 2018
Publisher Self-Published
Time to Read 7 minutes
Where to Read Medium
Synopsis
A reluctant night out with an old friend turns into an experience much deeper than the occasion.
Excerpt
I sat next to Arinola and her sister. I noticed they were dressed up to hit the clubs. They were going out tonight, no doubt. Chai, I hated clubbing in Lagos with all my heart and soul. And Arinola hadn’t come back to Nigeria in twelve years and her mother had just passed away. How the hell am I going to use style to say I can’t join you in the smoke-filled, dry-ass, young-filled, snob-filled clubs?
“You are coming out, right?” Arinola asked. It wasn’t a real question. It was a rhetorical question I had to respond to and to respond in only one way.
“Yeah, sure.” I swallowed the thing that chooked me in my throat. I then hoped for something else. My brother was supposed to meet us at Polo club but no one knew when he was going to arrive, and he wasn’t responding to anyones messages. So I thought, maybe we’ll stay in Polo Club for so long people will be too tired to go out. After all, everyone there was older than me, and I was tired. Arinola’s father left shortly after I arrived. One down five to go.