IMITATION (EPISODE 1)

MR MIKE: So when you combine hydrogen and... (School bell rings marking the end of the lectures for the day) i guess we'll just proceed during our next class. Dont forget to do a research so you'll know more about this topic by next week. Good Day Class.

CLASS: Good Day Mr Mike.

DANIEL: (Rush over to DAVID'S SEAT) Please can you wait for the other students to leave, there is something i would like to discuss with you. Its very important.

DAVID: (Packing his books for the day) Alright.

20minutes later...

DAVID: I cant really say, but, our parents arent the best people to make friends with, trust me. There would always be something you cant tell them. Take my mum for instance, walk up to her for advice, being totally open, she'll assist you like every mother would, but once you offend her, she would narrate every single secret you've told her from A-Z to the hearing of others.

DANIEL: #LAUGHS# Thats yoruba women for you. They can hardly keep your secret once you provoke them, thats the best weapon they have against you, so you try as much as possible to be in good terms with them, because, if your union should be broken, you'll be surprised how fast news can travel.

DAVID: Well, thats it about my mum, and i dont think the tribe matters, i just believe that its natural for all mothers to be that way. At least, all my friends complain about the same. So what really is the matter?

DANIEL: I think i'm madly in love.

DAVID: WOw! Thats New. Wasnt really expecting that from a nerd like you. I thought all you have passion for is your books. So you're in LOVE, how is that a problem?

DANIEL: I want to tell my mum about it.

DAVID: You're joking, right? After the lecture i just gave you regarding the difference between your parents and your friends?

DANIEL: I know, but I wish i can just tell her everything, you know, be free with her, tell her about my feelings and everything i am going through, she is a woman, so i believe that she must have been through all this at some point in her life.

DAVID: Tell who? Is something wrong with you? Its obvious something is definitely wrong with you. The last time i tried that, i'm sure you still recall the outcome.

DANIEL: Thats your mum, i strongly believe mine is different, i know she would understand me, we talk about almost everything except this particular issue.

DAVID: And you think its a good idea telling her? The same person that warns you from time to time to stay away from women, the same person that cautions you at every given chance to run away from women?

DANIEL: So what do you suppose i do? Since you deem it a bad idea to tell her whats really happening with me.

DAVID: I never said its a bad idea telling her about your life and the sort, but regarding this emotional issue, trust me, its better you sort it out yourself. What would you even tell her? that there is this girl in your church that you really like, that there is this girl in your church that you would like to date? How does that sound to you?

DANIEL: Then tell me what to do, i'm dying slowly here, this girl is always on my head, she is always in my mind, her image appears in everyone i see...

DAVID: Including me?

DANIEL: Stop it!!! I'm not kidding, please just be serious for once, this isnt a JOKE. If only you know what i'm going through right now, you wont be joking around.

DAVID: Hmm, you're serious.

DANIEL: Of course i am, what do you think?

DAVID: Whats her name?

DANIEL: I think its ADAOBI, thats what i hear her friends call her, some call her ADA.

DAVID: What grade and department is she?

DANIEL: I dont really know, but i do know we are in the same grade, we attend the same class for ENGLISH and MATHS, i dont really know about the other subjects.

DAVID: Good. So you see her whenever you have maths and English, right?

DANIEL: Yes.

DAVID: Then you have nothing to worry about. Ill give you a letter to give to her, after she finish reading that letter, you'll be amazed at how fast she'll be interested in you.

DANIEL: #smiles# Like seriously?

DAVID: Yup. Why do you think they call me the LOVE DOCTOR?

DANIEL: #confused# The Love Doctor? who calls you that?

DAVID: People! Friends! Family!

DANIEL: Havent heard anyone calling you that.

DAVID: Then why did you come to me for counsel regarding this particular emotional issue of yours.

DANIEL: David! You're my friend.

DAVID: I know i'm your friend.

DANIEL: Fine, you've dated over 10 girls in a semester, though you're currently single. You know what it takes to win the heart of a girl, but you lack what it takes to keep her.

DAVID: Hmm, are you really that current? Do you really know that much about my emotional life?

DANIEL: What can i say? We all have our difficulties somewhere, no matter how good we are. So the new deal is, help me get this girl and ill teach you how to make women stick around in your life much longer.

DAVID: We have a DEAL then.

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(After the day's lectures, 2 close friends and a newbie assigned to their hostel wing walking to the hostel.)

CHARITY: That guy is so cute, honestly, check out the lips na, that guy is more like an HOT DOG. If only he can blend in, girls would be fighting over him.

JULIET: God Forbid! Me, JULIET, fight over that kind boy, no be guy sef. See mumu, of all the popular guys in school, na that one wey no even exist you wan date, i pity your career.

CHARITY: Shey na the popularity i wan date? abi na the fame go care and show me affection? You no know say na those big boys dey toy with person heart pass those isolated ones.

ADAOBI: #Laughs# Wait O! Who dey talk of LOVE here? I no talk say make nobody date O, i no talk say make una no do whatever with whoever, but my own warning be say, make una no fall in love. Na the trap wey guys dey set be that, once you fall inside, na gbese re O!.

CHARITY: Why would we date someone if we dont love him? Why would we spend most of our time with someone if we dont truly care?

JULIET: Question for the Oguns.

ADAOBI: (@JULIET) #laughs# You no serious at all. (@CHARITY) Well, my dear, thats because they dont deserve our love, thats because they dont deserve our care, attention or affection. Besides, the most foolish thing to ever believe is that a guy approaches you because he loves you and requires that same love in return.

CHARITY: What are you getting at?

JULIET: Abeg where dem bring this girl from? She mean say, the only thing wey guys dey find for women body na sex and nothing else, not your love, care or whatever you wanna offer.

CHARITY: If ...

ADAOBI: (Cuts in) Sweetheart, just forget about this discussion for now, i promise to explain it all to you when we return to the hostel. Once again, Welcome to ACHIEVER'S COLLEGE.

CHARITY: Thanks, you seem really gentle and nice, compared to her (Pointing at JULIET).

ADAOBI: Yea Yea Yea, Whatever. I'm just not in the mood today, thats why i'm not the one doing the blabbing today.

JULIET: No wonder, i knew something is OFF about you. Oya gist your babes na, wetin happen? wetin dull your spirit?

ADAOBI: Ejike Kelvin...

JULIET: Again?

CHARITY: Who is that?

JULIET: That my dear is her FIRST TRUE LOVE, or so she believed sha. That was when she was too carried away to believe TRUE LOVE EXISTS.

CHARITY: So what about him?

ADAOBI: I saw a few blocks away at the dark corner of a lecture room, making out with one girl like that.

JULIET: Ada, you cant live like this forever. You cant give him the power to decide your mood, you cant let him have the key to your happiness. Why cant you just accept it over between you guys?

ADAOBI: #High Tone# I know its over between us, i know we can never be together anymore, but dont you get it? #Little drop of tears falling down slowly her eyes# HAvent you ever been in love before? Havent you ever had feelings, true feelings for someone? that you let that person deeply into your heart, completely into your soul. It aint a switch you just flip, its worse than hell knowing you once had that person and now he belongs to another.

CHARITY: Adaobi, you still love him.

ADAOBI: No, i dont. But those feelings i once had for him cant just vanish overnight, thats the aftermath of a breakup. You try to deal with it, and him being my first love wont make it any easier, because no matter what, no matter how small, ill always have feelings for him.

JULIET: Jeez! Ada, you're so fucked up right now.

ADAOBI: Yea i know.

CHARITY: So you do believe LOVE exists?

ADAOBI: Not anymore.

CHARITY: Not anymore? Look at you Ada, you are a living testimony that love actually exists.

ADAOBI: #smiles# NAh, i'm a failed experiment. I wanted to test him, to know if men are truly capable of love, but i ended up being used and manipulated mentally and emotionally by the person i am supposed to test. Thats a prove that love doesnt exist, he proved me right, but i learned the hard way.

CHARITY: The science department suits you alright.

JULIET: I guess CHARITY is one of us now. You girls get along pretty well.

ADAOBI: (To CHARITY) Thanks for making me smile.

CHARITY: And thanks for bearing the pain for all of you, at least, none of us have to go through the same again.

JULIET: That means you're one of us then, since you're convinced love doesnt exist.

CHARITY: Sure.

JULIET: Cool. So what do we call US? D 3 ANTI-LOVERS?

ADAOBI: #burst out in laughter# Wetin happen?

CHARITY: #Laughing Furiously# She don kolo.

JULIET: At least, i try na, make one una fit SUGGEST?

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