CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE

“Ehm, my fellow honourable gentlemen, I apologise, but you all know, maybe with the exception of one man here, you all know that when ' the call of nature comes, a sane man becomes insane so I hope you understand I did not mean to belittle this honourable house. Nevertheless at this juncture, gentlemen, I must take my leave.”

“As the Honourable Minister for enjoyment, I charge you to go forth and represent us well, enjoy your self minister.”

“Thank you comrade,” William said as he walked away. 

“In fact,” Iliya said. “I honourable Iliya yet to assign myself a portfolio humbly move for the adjournment of today’s meeting.” There were shouts of ' I second, I second.’ They shook hands and returned to their rooms. 

A few weeks later, William returned home in the evening and the ' honourable Ministers' were already meeting. He greeted them and they all welcomed him. William went into his room, dropped his books and came out. 

“ Iliya please permit me to fetch water in your room, I'm really very tasty” William spoke and went ahead without even waiting for a reply. But that was the joy of it, these students who were now neighbors developed a bond, they had become friends, they had even become brothers. Iliya tried to say something but William was gone. 

He got to Iliya’s door and pushed the door but it was locked. He looked at the door and pushed it again but it was still locked. “ Nandem please open the door, you lock your self inside when guys are outside having fun. Open the damn door before i pull it down!” Nandem opened the door but stood in William’s way. 

“What’s up?” Nandem asked politely, a towel tied around his waist.

“why are you having a towel at this time of the day, please move away, I need to go in and get some water to drink.” Nandem didn’t move, William looked at him waiting for him to say something, he didn’t say anything. William tried to catch a quick glimpse of the room but he couldn’t, Nandem had blocked his view. His eyes went to the floor and he saw it, a lady’s shoe, he smiled. 

“Wait there and let me get you the water,” Nandem said.

“don’t worry, I can see you are very busy indeed, let me go to the store and buy myself water,” he whispered' and hurriedly left. When he got to the others, he raised his two hands and shouted ' yes, yes, yes. I knew he could do it, I knew he could do it, that’s my boy.’ 

“Whats up with you? What did you see?” Iliya asked. 

“I didn’t see anything, couldn’t get inside. Bad boy. Why didn’t you tell me he has a profile visitor?”

“I tried to, I tried to, but you didn’t wait for me say anything.”

“Who is the babe?” William asked. 

“We don’t know,” the minister for enjoyment answered. “We had hoped you would be the first person to see her.”

“Wait a minute! Are you guys saying no one saw her face?”

“Finally, finally our boy has become a man,” William was happy as he spoke. “This calls for celebration. We will pop champagne later.”

“Pop champagne for what?” Nandem asked. They were surprised to hear his voice. He was holding a cup of water and had on a t-shirt and knee breeches.

“What are you doing outside?” Iliya was whispering as he dragged him to his side.

“Do you need more condoms?” William asked

“Nooooo, I brought water for you.”

“Which nonsense! water for who?” William cut in. “What you are doing right now is more important than water to me. Welcome to men's club”

“By the way who is the lucky girl?” Iliya asked. 

“Stop asking him all these questions. Let's get to bridge first. He needs to go back and finish the good work.” The minister for Enjoyment collected the cup of water from him and pushed him towards the room. “Go back my boy, you must not disappoint us.” go finish what you started"

“Actually,” Nandem said scratching his head, “she’s about leaving.”

“So soon, why?” William was worried and wanted to say more but Iliya signalled him to stop whatever he wanted to say, Nandem’s friend had come out of the room and Iliya saw her first. She was a pretty girl with an average height. She walked towards them like a shy princess, she had every reason to be shy, they all knew what had happened in the room. When she spoke, her voice was angelic. 

“Good evening,” she said, her eyes met William’s eyes before they could answer her, he had opened his eyes wide in amazement, she corrected herself immediately. “Good evening uncle.” The others looked at the girl, then William to see if it was a joke, it was no joke. Iliya scratched his head. 

“Grace, how are you?” William asked coldly. 

“I’m fine uncle,” she answered timidly, “I, I didn’t……” 

“You two are truly related?” Iliya asked.

“We’re cousins.” The minister for enjoyment was now laughing. “Why are you now laughing?”

“Sorry, sorry, just that she calling you uncle is …..”

“So I’m too small to be an uncle, right?”

“Actually,” Grace cut in. “He is my mother’s cousin.”

“Uncle,” Nandem said, William gave him a sharp dangerous look, Nandem said it again, “Uncle, it’s getting late, I need to get her to the hostel.”

“Good night uncle, good night all.” Nandem called a bike man who had just dropped another passenger and ordered him to take her to the hostel, paid him off and hugged Grace before she left. When he returned to the house, everyone was laughing and making fun of William. William held a stick and went after Nandem. Nandem ran but but William followed him. 

“I must kill you today, no doubt, I must kill you in this house.”

Nandem hid behind iliya while enjoyment minister grabbed William. 

“comon mehn, I didn’t know she’s your sister. Just relax man.”

“Guy chill, afterall you’re the influencer, the special adviser and guiding counselor on how to become a real man?” Minister for enjoyment was laughing while he spoke. 

“Don’t mind him,” Iliya cut in. 

“worse still I was the one providing the condom. Never knew it was for my sister.”