Forty four
Unwanted visitation
After the sports class
Gela: (Goes to meet Brown and the boys) Hi Brown, I'm Angela but you can call me Gela
Brown: Hi
Brian: What do you want, Gela?
Gela: Nothing. I just wanna be friends with Brown or more? (Flirts)
Louis: Hmm
Brown: (With seriousness) I will be candid with you, none of what you just said can happen.
We are classmates, let's remain that way. (Smiles with his full dentals)
Gela: Oh okay, that's understood.
If you need me anytime, I'm available. (Leaves)
Antoine : This school sure loves foreign students.
You should see the way they rushed me when I came.
Brown: Well, they better not rush me, I usually make a few friends.
Which I think I have already.
Brian: That's sweet. (Taps him on his back)
Louis: Are Africans this cool? I mean, your swag and all
Brown: Africans are not different from any other race or continent.
Every human on earth already know what is swag.
Antoine : Yeah Louis, what's your prob?
Louis: There's no harm in asking questions.
After all, a person who doesn't ask for directions will get lost.
Brown: (Smirks) You are right, Louis. So right.
(Sees Becca) I will be back guys. (Leaves)
Brian: I like him
Antoine : Me too
Louis: He is a mysterious one.
Brian: Let's go get smoothies. (They leave)
Becca: I want to be friends with this Nigerian guy. I wanna know more about Dad's birth land
Lucy: Yeah yeah
Kris: Maybe you should fall in love on the way and repeat your parents history.
Becca: (Eyes Kris) Maybe I will.
Kris: See you guys later. (Leaves them)
Lucy: When are you going to tell Kris about your feelings for him?
Becca: I don't know, I don't feel the way I always do towards him.
It's like love is fading or something.
Lucy: That is what Crushing is all about.
You were just crushing on him
Becca: I guess so
Lucy: And since you don't feel that way again, it means you have another crush in replacement.
Becca: I wouldn't say that.
(Lilly enters as Brown is approaching them)
Lilly: Hey guys.
I need your help on something. Can you help me please?
I have been testing my vocals during the holiday.
I want to see if I'm improving…
Lucy: Alright, I will help.
Let's go to the library to listen to it. (They leave)
Brown: (Enters) Hey beautiful
Becca: (Smiles) Hey
Brown: I'm sorry for not talking much with you the other time….
Becca: It's understandable.
I'm Becca, B of KBL. (Extends her hand for handshake)
Brown: I'm Brown. (Shakes her hand)
But um, what's KBL?
Becca: Oh, you don't know.
My best friends and I are in a band called KBL and we sing and post on social media.
We perform too.
I guess we haven't gone that viral..
Brown: No, I don't do music much.
I rarely listen to music.
Becca: Oh, that explains it.
Brown: Yeah.
I couldn't help but notice that you aren't white.
Becca: Oh yeah, my Dad is an African by birth. Well, was an African.
Nigeria to be precise.
But he grew up in South Africa.
Brown: Nice.
But what do you mean by was?
Becca: He died
Brown: Same here.
(Two minutes silence)
So you are half Nigerian.
Becca: If you put it that way, yes.
Brown: Great
Becca: Um, I have to go meet with my friends.
And close time is near.
How about we exchange contacts?
Brown: Alright by me
Becca: (Happy) Cause there's a lot I wanna know about Nigeria.
(They exchange contacts)
Thanks Brown. See ya. (Leaves)
Brown: And that was easy Brown.
Not much work done.
So she has best friends, I bet it's that hot blonde guy and beautiful red-haired chick.
(Smirks)
Not a problem though, not a problem.
Hours later, in the Evening
Mr and Mrs Green are both at home, they didn't go to work which makes Lucy suspicious but doesn't ask anything.
Mr and Mrs Green go to meet Lucy in the 'work out' room, where she and her parents do some exercises.
Mr Green : Orange, isn't that enough?
Lucy: Yeah, I guess so. (Stops exercising)
Mrs Green: With a perfect body I wonder why we still exercise
Lucy: To keep them perfect of course. (They laugh)
Mr Green: Well, let's sit. (They sit on a Long couch in the 'work out' room)
There's something we wanna discuss with you.
Lucy: I said it!
There's something fishy about you guys being at home and not going to work.
(Turns to her mother) Are you pregnant?
Mrs Green: Oh no!
You are okay for us.
It's something else
Lucy: Hmmm
Mr Green: You know your uncle, Mr Thomas?
Lucy: Yeah, the one who got widowed, whose wife died in an accident and his little daughter barely escaped dying.
Mr Green: Good, you know him well.
Lucy: Yeah, what's up with him?
Mr Green: His house got burnt in a fire accident and many of his documents got burnt too.
Mrs Green: He is now stranded and needs to start life from scratch.
Lucy: So? Give him some money to start a business or put him in one of your companies Dad.
I don't understand why you are telling me!
Mr Green: I have decided to give him a job at one of my companies but we also decided that he will come live with us
Lucy: What?!
You went about making decisions without me?
Mr Green: I'm sorry Orange.
Lucy: Why don't you rent a house for him or something, you can even buy one for him.
Mrs Green: We just think that he needs family.
He is the only sibling and only family your Dad got.
You know, the trauma may be too much for him.
He needs a family.
Lucy: I am not liking this!
Mrs Green: It's just for few years,
When he gets over everything, he will leave.
Lucy: He's a creepy man, Mom!
Mrs Green: He's just a man trying to live life as a widower.
Mr Green: His daughter will live here too.
We plan on enrolling her in Royal's middle school.
Lucy: She's about twelve right?
Mrs Green: Yes
Lucy: Fine!
But I'm only accepting this because I have always wanted a sibling and since you guys don't wanna give me one, I will take the girl as one.
Mr Green: That's my Orange!
I knew you would understand.
(They hug her)
Mrs Green: Thanks my sweet baby. (Pinches her cheek lovingly)
Lucy: When are they coming?
Mr Green: Next week
Lucy: Alright
Mr Green: Let's go have our dinner baby.
Lucy: I will be down after I hit the showers.
Mr Green: (Pecks her forehead) Love you
Lucy: Love you both, too.
(They leave)
I don't know why I don't feel good about that uncle of mine. Always giving me shivers!
Somewhere
A handsome boy can be seen making a video call on his laptop.
Boy: Yeah, I have gotten the information needed….
I found her easily…..
I'm going to go slow with the plans, don't wanna raise suspicions….
Don't worry, I'm here for it, I will do it well.
Fadeout