At 10:30pm, Ameeyn, KayZ and Udy were all seated in Mubi's car, a silver Gen-2, waiting for him to come and drive them off to the club. Ten minutes, and nearly a hundred complains later from Udy, Mubi came, and they were on their way.
"Am not really into this club thing...", came Ameeyn, who only came because everybody was going. "I just came cuz I didn't wanna stay home alone"
"Kai dai fadi gaskiya...",came Mubi, "We all know you going because Zubaida is"
"Haba Da Allah, everyone knows nothing is happening between us", Ameeyn said in defence.
"Kar ka raina mana wayo mana, you definitely have a thing for her", said Mubi again, taking his eyes off the road to look at Udy, who was beside him in the passengers seat, as if expecting an approval.
Udy on the other hand said, "Come on, give the guy a break. Or are you jealous?"
"Jealous? Jealous ma ass!", said Mubi, looking serious. "Don't you know that I met her and got close to her before he did. If I'd wanted her, I would have gotten her."
"Mubi this doesn't call for violence", came Kay-Z who had been silent the whole time. Everyone laughed, because he was imitating Udy's voice. "Mun yarda"
"Whatever dai, I just want him know that if I'd wanted her, I would have gotten her. He aign't better than me"
"Hey, Hey, Hey, stop talking about me in third person as if am invisible or something", said Ameeyn, who was starting to get pissed with the conversation. "And please, stop acting like a jerk, mun ji baka son ta, mun gane ". All the guys laughed, and Mubi felt defeated. So he was planning to get back at Ameeyn.
Five minutes later, they were at Sunshine, a club they frequent, but they were not alone. Half the Nigerian folks in Melaka were all there, with the exception of Zubaida, who for some reason, didn't show up as she promised. This was the perfect audience Mubi needed to get back at Ameeyn. So he put on a mischievous smile, turned to get the attention of the entire "ears and mouths" of "Nigerians in Melaka" and said it. Everyone, including the bouncers of the club was laughing, with the exception of Ameeyn, who knew he was fucked, because with the people present there, writing the story in the papers or announcing it over the radio won't get as much audience as the people there would.
He went and sat down on a bench overlooking the beach and started thinking deeply. What Mubi said had an element of truth in it, He told himself. Don't lie to yourself Ameeyn, his other part said, its all true. But am too smart to be that guy, he further thought. That's what Zeminsky said before he was dumped, another part of him said. Who the hell is Zeminsky? He asked himself. Then he realized, he had no idea, he just made it up.
Meanwhile, inside the club, Khalil was drunk and having a fight with one of the Bouncers, and Udy and Kay-Z were trying to get him out of the club before anyone got hurt, or worse, got shot. Hopefully, No one got shot.
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The guys were back home and all in the sitting room. KayZ was seated on the two seater with Asma'u attending to his broken lips from the fight in the club. Udy was on the three seater with Catie, the girl he introduced Ameeyn to two months back, and she was caressing his Cigar branded arm, also from the club fight. With their two butts on the three seater, it looked more like a one and a half seater... well, mostly because of her's. Ameeyn on the other hand was seated on the one seater, with no one to tender his shattered image and totally bruised ego. Probably because I didn't get it from the club fight, he thought.
"Why are you so quite today?", Asma'u asked Ameeyn, who knew him to be quite a sweet talker.
"He had a lil feud with Mubi", came Udy, even before Ameeyn opened his mouth.
"What happened?", She asked, whether out of concerned, or an ear for gossip, it wasn't quite clear.
"Mubi said that Ameeyn and Zubaida's relationship is like...", started KayZ, and then he looked at Udy. A mischievous smile crossed both their faces, like the one Mubi had in the club. "Skipper and Miranda's from the first season on Sex and the City - without the sex"
"Why are you so quite today?", Asma'u asked Ameeyn, who knew him to be quite a sweet talker.
"He had a lil feud with Mubi", came Udy, even before Ameeyn opened his mouth.
"What happened?", She asked, whether out of concerned, or an ear for gossip, it wasn't quite clear.
"Mubi said that Ameeyn and Zubaida's relationship is like...", started KayZ, and then he looked at Udy. A mischievous smile crossed both their faces, like the one Mubi had in the club. "Skipper and Miranda's from the first season on Sex and the City - without the sex"
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