Why Can't We Get Past Here?

“Lanre what are you saying? She is my mother and it is my duty to protect the woman who birthed me”. K said to Lanre. She scoffs. She told him it was also his duty to protect the country which is his first shelter. She told him he hasore duty to his country than to his mother. She told him he should stop covering up evil even if it was family.

“Wait, were you really serious when you said it was you who uploaded those videos?” K asked her. She asked him if she would joke with such a thing. K shook his head. He sat down on the bed looking at Lanre with no words coming out of his mouth. He felt like a fool for so long. He could never had thought Lanre did that. And here she was telling him she has to go welcome his mother at the airport. He wondered if she has what people refer to as a conscience or was it just him not getting it, who Lanre actually is?

“Why? Why are you like that now? Your body don finally cool you? Will you let me be now?” Lanre asked him. K scoffs. He shook his head. He stood up and then called the kitchen asking if the food was not ready yet. He was told the food was coming and the attendant will soon arrive with their food. K dropped the telephone. And when the food arrived, he told Lanre to eat. Once she finished eating, he told her to sleep but she refused saying she needed to go.

“You will go only when I want you to and where I want you to. So don’t you even dare trouble me”. K said to Lanre giving her a warning look. She tried to understand what he was trying to do. Was he trying to subject her under his control?

“You do know I am somebody’s fiancée right? You do know that it would become ugly if I let Christian know about what you did? Please let me go! I no want wahala! I do not want trouble o!” Lanre said holding up an ear. K told her to keep talking but he will never change his mind.

Lanre began to wonder if he still does not believe she is the guilty one. She could not tell what was going on inside his head. He was confiding her, which was something she could not accept.

“Kehinde, why are you doing this? Why can’t we get past here?” Because you are giving me no other choice Lanre. You tainted my mother’s reputation, that I will make you pay. You want to go, that I can’t give you. You have stolen my heart, and for that I will keep you in chains”. K said.

“Just say you want a woman you can control. I am not going to be that woman. No man can control me. I am my own woman”. Lanre said to K. They never seem to ever have an understanding.