07/02/2022
PART 28
" THE SHENANIGANS"
©️Opeyemi Akintunde
“Hello Wisdom! We have our baby! Get yourself to the project house first thing in the morning. Take the first flight down here, I will get there as early as 6am and cover for you. I will tell them you went for a business meeting in Abuja. Say the same to the guys too.”
“I can’t believe we did it.” Wisdom said.
“Yes, we did, this is a major sale for you unlike the few millions you make from those virginity sales” Osas said
“Yeah! I thought I was the boss of this thing because of my frequency of selling the virginities, but SHE Osas, I think I like this new route. Instead of 20 virginities in a month that will give me about 100 million, why not do the baby business that will give two times of that. I gave the idea of merging forces together, but I didn’t know it will yield results this fast.” Wisdom said excitedly
“200 million or what did you say, the baby from the two stars worth nothing less than 2 billion. Remember, it’s the first fruit from both of them. The first always carries special stars. So we auction it for 2 Billion and we spilt the money into two equal parts.”
“Two equal parts, it can’t be equal, my game produced the seed” Wisdom said greedily
“And my game received it and nurtured it into becoming a pregnancy.” Osas said raising her voice
“But I came up with the Idea of collaboration” Wisdom drove his point further
“HE Wisdom, You know how much I respect you owing to the fact that I met you in this business, please let’s keep it that way. “
Osas ended the call abruptly. HE Wisdom was a collage of many things, both positively and negatively.
Osas sent a text to wrap up their conversation.
“Please remember to call the guys to come over for the meeting tomorrow morning, and remember the goal is for them to agree to abort the pregnancy. Let all our theatrics lead to that. “
*****
HE Wisdom held his phone in disbelief,
“Did that newbie just hang up on me” Wisdom could not believe Osas hung up on him. He was not her mate as a Shenanigan agent. He was way ahead of her. She just joined the business/ agency two years back, but she quickly rose up in fame because of one of her major hits. She had sold the star of a prominent Christian author; Mike Cello. That made her popular at the Shenanigan Fair.
Wisdom counted his own year of service. He had been a Shenanigan agent for 8 years. He had come to Lagos as an apprentice. One of his distant cousin who was into selling of Vehicle spare parts had come to the village to pick him up. He had been so excited by the move, but what he met in the city was nothing close to his expectations.
From strenous work, bad health, to hunger, he started suffering the moment he resumed work with his boss. After three years of slavery, he told himself he was done. He started looking for means of making money the easy way. It was during his quest that he had visited a herbalist who told him about the Shenanigan Fair. He told him he could sell some of his stars in exchange for money or better still sell the stars of others.
Wisdom remembered going to the fair with so much trepidation hoping to see scary things but he was met by a rude shock of seeing, beautiful faces, Handsome and clean guys, Wealthy Politicians, Some notable Clergy men both Muslims and Christians, Traditionalists were not left out. He saw Celebrities as well.
Wisdom remembered how he had been shown around. It was a big fair , with different traders. The herbalist took him from table to table. There were buyers and sellers. The first table they stopped by displayed pictures of young girls.
“Virginities for sale, 1 million naira each, except for this one, she goes for 2.5 million”
“What makes her special?” the herbalist asked
“Church girl whose parents have invested prayers of blessings into her life. You can use her virtues to produce over 100 million if you are very good at what you do” the trader said
“Hmm, sounds tempting” the herbalist said. “We will check back, we still want to check around!”
The Herbalist and Wisdom had stepped away from his table.
“Baba, this place you brought me, I don’t have money to trade. “ Wisdom said
“Calm down… You can trade with your own virginity, I know you are still a virgin?”
“Trade with my own Virginity?"
“Yes, Invest in yourself, Sell your virginity and whatever money you make out of it, you will start buying the Virginities of young girls which you use for your good luck charms for business.”
“If I sell my virginity, won’t the person who bought it be using my stars to prosper?”
“Most definitely, but you will in turn use other people’s star to prosper, that’s how it works in the dark world.
Most of us have lost our stars, so we thrive on other people’s stars. It’s an unending circle of monkey eat monkey. “
“Ok, so how much will my Virginity be worth?”
“You want to know?”
“Yes!”
“Come with me”
The herbalist had taken Wisdom by the hand to a table set far away from the other tables. Wisdom read the banner over the Shed. STAR WEIGHT CHECK
“Greetings, I would like to check the Virginity worth of this young man”
“ OK” the female attendant answered
“Come to me” an old woman seated on the mat said to Wisdom.
Wisdom walked in fear towards the woman.
“Kiss me” the old woman said
Wisdom jumped back. He couldn’t tell whether it was out of fear or disgust, but something in him rebelled at the thought of kissing the old and ugly looking woman.
“You call me Old and Ugly?” the old woman said suddenly. Wisdom was more afraid knowing she had read his mind.
“Would you prefer I appear like this?” Before Wisdom’s very eye, the old woman transformed to a beautiful teenager, fair and slim, just the way he liked them.
Wisdom nodded…
With that he moved in and kissed the old woman turned beautiful girl. As he was withdrawing from the kiss, the girl had turned back to the old woman. Wisdom jumped back in fear and disgust again…
That got the old woman laughing;
“Humans will never cease to amaze me, what your eyes see is what lures you to destruction. When I was a beautiful girl, you came easily, but when I got back to my normal self, you ran. Man, the boy has some hundreds of millions of stars, if he gives himself 12 years from now, he would make some clean money, but his virginity is worth 10 million at the moment. As he grows older, the value will increase"
“Wow! Lucky you!” the herbalist screamed
“Thank you!” the herbalist said “How much do we pay for the weight check?”
“Don’t bother, I have taken the star worth from him”
Wisdom did not get that, he looked at the herbalist questioningly
“When you kissed her, she has withdrawn some stars from you for payment”
“Stars can be withdrawn through kissing?”
“Yes, but only in small measures!’
“OK! So what next?" Wisdom asked
“We get a female buyer for your virginity, and I am thinking of someone who can that high “
“Who?’
“Madam Evelyn!”
To be continued
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