Tiwatope's Redemption

Kayode Odusanya

Description

'Tiwatope's Redemption' is a romantic suspense novelette about a university girl who lives a fast life till a boy walks into her life and changes her for the better.



The story is set in modern-day Nigeria. It also has an undertone message about the negative aspects of drug abuse (like the abuse of Codeine and Tramadol).



It passes a positive message without appearing too preachy.

Sujets

• Fast Life
• University
• Redemption
• Positive
• Substance abuse
• Nigeria

Informations

• Publié par: Publiseer
• Date de parution: 02 juin 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9788828331278
• Langue: English

Extrait

Tiwatope s Redemption
By
Kayode Odusanya
Copyright 2018 by Kayode Odusanya.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 1

T HE SMALL ROOM WAS painted blue on two opposite sides, and white on the other two opposite sides. The reading table and a bed took up most of the space in the room, with duffel bags here and there on the rug. She sat naked in bed, with a lit cigarette in her left hand and a silver colored iPad in her right. The extremely dark skinned guy beside her looked dead till he rolled over on his side. She looked at him briefly and as she brought her focus back to the screen of the tab in her hand; she saw a red dot on her left breast. She let the iPad drop to her lap and looked at the mark intensely with a frown on her face. Her mind went back to a few minutes ago when she was making love to David, and she remembered he had been nibbling too hard on her small perky breast. Gently, she rubbed the spot and looked him angrily.
The lit end of the cigarette had burnt a whole lot and she shook her hand slowly to let the ash drop in the glass ashtray on the bedside stool. Sting s English Man in New York came on the radio, and although she wasn t familiar with classic song, its beat and sweet melody made her start bobbing her head. She took a drag from her cigarette and exhaled smoke in the air.
Towards the middle point of the song, the beat changed to a hard knocking 80s hip hop beat for a few second, and it got her more hyped up. She dropped the iPad on her friend s back and started dancing in bed. The end of the song had the singer repeating same thing over and over, and with time, she found herself singing along with him, repeating the words, be yourself, no matter what they say.
When the song ended, she didn t feel like sticking around any longer, and she shook David, but from the look of things, she knew he wasn t waking up any time soon. She picked her tab from his back, killed the cigarette on the ashtray, and got out of bed. Her denim jeans and white spaghetti top were on his reading chair, but she couldn t find her bag anywhere. She sat back on the bed, and reached for her black bra and panties on the black duffel bag beside the bed.
A dog started barking outside as she moved around, dressing up, and looking for her bag at the same time. She briefly checked her time and saw it was 10:45pm. Shit! she cursed under her breath and hastened her search. Tucked underneath the fluffy pillow she had been resting her back on was her big red bag. She shook her head as she unzipped it, threw her iPad in it, zipped up the bag, and swung it around her shoulder. She was about exiting the room but stopped and walked back in; rushed to the table, grabbed a pen and scribbled something quickly on a jotter, tore out the page she had written in, and walked over to place it on the bed beside David. She looked at him sleeping for a few seconds, and then turned around to leave the leave the room.
David lived in a boys quarter room, so, she was facing the dark of the night once she walked out the door. A few meters in front of her was the building that housed the bathroom. In between the two buildings was overgrown weed about ankle high, with a small clear path in the middle that indicated where people usually walked through to get to the bathroom. To her right was a bushy path, and the parking lot to the left. She sighed, let go of the door handle, and walked towards her little blue Nissan Micra.
There was a puddle of water in her path from the earlier rains of that day, so she climbed a little heap of gravel to her left to avoid getting her shoes wet. She caught a reflection of something to her left; she almost jumped out of her skin when she saw a guy in white t shirt standing still a few meters away from her. She panicked and quickened her pace towards her car but slipped on the gravel and almost like he was using a magnet to get her to him, she slid all the way to the left, till she fell into his arms. Hi? he said with a smile and her scream echoed through the night.
Chapter 2

H E PULLED HER BACK , covered her mouth and restrained her from running. She struggled, tried to get out of his grip but stopped when she heard him say, Tiwatope, we re in the same department. He slowly removed his arm from around her, and then quietly said, Promise not to scream? She nodded and he let go of her mouth. She turned around and got a good look at him. She recognized him as one of the less popular guys in her class; a skinny and tall guy that was called scarecrow behind his back. What are you doing out here this late? He enquired.
I...you scared the shit out of me. She said in a low voice and frowned at him. What are you doing standing here in the middle of the night? A few doors were heard being opened at the main building in front of them, and she turned around to face the place.
I was looking for my dog. He said.
She turned back to him with a quizzical look on her face, turned to her car, then turned back to him before saying, Okay. Good luck with that. I got to go.
She thought his story was bullshit, but didn t want to question him any further before she found out what she didn t want to know. I m sorry, my friend scared me. She said to the concerned middle aged lecturer outside his door. The lanky man in pajamas shook his head before turning around and walking back into his apartment. She took one last look at him before opening and getting into her car. He was still standing in the same spot. It freaked her out.
Tiwatope turned the key in the ignition, and her hearth skipped a beat when the car didn t start. But on the second try, it came to life. When she looked his way again, he waved at her. She reluctantly waved back, and drove out of the parking lot onto the road that led to the main road of the campus.
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S HE SWITCHED HER PHONE to airplane mode when she decided to hook up with David yesterday, and as she turned it back to normal mode, a flood of text messages came flooding; most from Tayo, her supposed boyfriend. He had agreed to an open relationship at the beginning, but the last couple of weeks, he had been trying to get them to be monogamous. She skimmed through the message as she kept on eye on the road, and also shifted gears. It was a Thursday night, and although it was really late, she knew there was a party outside campus today, and a lot of people would be heading out for it.
Her stomach growled, and she frowned. Her hand robbed her belly for a few seconds, and then she reached to the glove compartment. Her hand found a chocolate bar she had been forced to buy at a store earlier on in the day because they didn t have change. She tore it open with her teeth and the first bite she took from it gave her an orgasmic feeling.
Up ahead on the left was her hostel, and a dozen cars parked out there, with people coming and going.