DOUBLE DATING

 

TO IMPRESS HIS FRIEND JOHN CHATS WITH MICHAEL ABOUT HIS HOLIDAY ROMANCE WITH BUNMI. BUT THEN IT ONLY TURNS OUT THAT BUNMI IS MICHAEL’S FIANCEE

 This story is set in the day at a leisure park in Lagos, Nigeria.

 

MICHAEL: Wao! John, it’s been ages since we last met.

JOHN: Yes. But I was in your neighbourhood last week, I asked after Saint and I was told you had moved.

MICHAEL: Even if I hadn’t moved you would have found it difficult tracing me with the name “Saint”. I am known as Mike around here You know, my real name. So how do find Lagos?

JOHN: Oh, wonderful. The ladies are really sweet. I travelled to Jos with one angel last week and we really had a great time together. S*x with her was hmmn… fantastic!

MICHAEL: Hmn… Can see you are still the same sexy old camel.

JOHN: Blame me not. Nature is the guilty one here, you know. Well, you seem to be waiting for someone here at the park … who is the lucky person?

MICHAEL: Ofcourse, I am waiting for … eh, what’s the problem? What are you starring at?

JOHN: Wao! (spotting Bunmi approaching) I can’t believe this …

MICHAEL: (confused)  Can’t believe what?

JOHN: (both starring at Bunmi approaching) Th – Tha – That is the lady I travelled to Jos with last week. She must be looking for me. B – bu – but how did she know I could be here? Perhaps, she is only passing-by and just sighted me … Hey, she is almost here … Hi, Bunmi. Good to see you again so soon. (Silence as all seem dumbfounded at Bunmi’s arrival worsened by her shocking and hlpless stares at Michael). Hey, you two are just staring at each other… have you two met before?

MICHAEL: (sadly) Sure. Bunmi here has been my fiancée for years … So sorry, I never really told you about her.

JOHN: (shockingly) What?!

MICHAEL: But I am afraid that’s all over now. Years relationship, gone down the drain just like that … (starting away as Michael and John remain foxed and dumbfounded) I am out of here John.

JOHN: (to Bunmi) So, you have been Mike’s Fiancée? …. B – Bu – But why didn’t you tell me about him? (unable to respond, tears stripping down her face, Bunmi turns around and begins to walk away, sobbing silently)  Hey, you are leaving also? (she keeps walking) My God! It’s a crazy world! Gush!  

 

DOUBLE DATING, a scenic drama written by Solomon Etuk and First published by KAMPUS KLASSIFIED MAGAZINE in 2009 and reproduced for WARD9ice as TAKEAWAY.

 

THE STORY AND ITS CHARACTERS INCLUDING THE SETTING HAVE NO TRUE EXISTENCE OUTSIDE THE IMAGINATION OF THE PLAYWRIGHT.

 

THIS STORY MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR PART WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER.