Kehinde

“My frown is not what’s tempting, you already want to f**k”. Lanre said to him. He smirked. Then he told her she was right. But she putting on a frown makes him want to do it already.

She found it crazy he was even saying that. Who gets turned on by a frown? Lanre hits her palm against her head. She has just realised something, she didn’t go to the wedding alone. She had gone with the bride’s family, and she was also leaving with them. And here she was in the best man’s car without the bride’s family knowing she was going out.

“What?” K asked Lanre when he noticed her distress. “I didn’t tell the people I am staying with for this wedding that I am leaving. Mrs Okafor will be looking for me”. She said to him.

“Please turn back! Take me back to the reception!” She said to him again. “No;” K replied. And he was plain on it. He was not going to take her back. He was leaving with her that was it.

“Mr stop this car jhoor! Wetin you want make people when I de their house think say I be, say I comot from wedding reception I no tell them and I no go their house back? What do you want them to think of me?” Lanre asked in an angry tone. She did not want Anita’s family, especially the mom to think bad of her because she left the reception hall without giving them a notice of where she was going.

Seeing K did not answer, she became more vexed about the situation. “Guy stop this car!” She said to him telling him to stop. She wanted to leave if he was not going to take her back. But K didn’t stop.

“Shey oya werey ni? Abi you don mad? Stop this car, make I no change am follow you o!” Lanre yelled. She had threatened to raise hell if he does not stop the car.

K stopped the car. He parked by the corner of the road. But he ensured the car remained on automatic lock so Lanre does not go out of the car.

“Lanre tunu! Mo tumọ si, kini o jẹ aṣiṣe ti o ba yẹ ki o pe nipasẹ ki o sọ fun wọn pe nkan kan wa ati pe o ni lati lọ kuro?” He said to her in Yoruba. She was surprised. She didn’t know he was from her side.

“I mean, what is wrong with that? All you have to do is call them and tell them you had to leave. If you think they will look at you somehow when you return to them later in the evening, I could just pay for your flight back to Enugu”. K said to her.

Lanre just looked at him dumbfounded. How did he know this much about her. Her name and all. Then a name cane to her mind as she recalled the call from a strange guy five days ago.

“Kehinde!” She muttered.