On the worktop, he looked over at the armchair he had designed. It was a rough sketch of an armchair with a carved out lions head at the side of the chair. The idea was to make the arm chair fit for royalty but, it just came off looking like he spent too much time watching National Geographic channel or Lion king.
"No, that's not it," he soliloquized. He shifted that drawing aside and stared at the next one. This sketch was a lazy chair, the kind young Tv shows used to give off a kind of youthful vibe to their viewers. The chair was sketched like the half of Avocado pear and just like the seed, the person would have to seat on the inside.
It was definitely pretty but, it was missing something.
'No matter where you go! Remember roads that will lead you home!'
He reached into his pocket and brought his phone out, looking at the caller ID he discovered it was his wife-who he saved as My Love.
Picking it, he smiled and said, "You just can't get enough of this your sexy Rivers husband, can you?"
She scoffed, "So full of yourself," she said as he laughed, "I wanted to say that I just arrived at the office and your crayons, oil paints, water color and sketchpad are in the study, in case you're looking for them."
"Huh? How did they get there?" He asked beginning to stroll out of the kitchen to the study.
"You fell asleep on them and left them in the balcony again," she chuckled, "don't worry I picked every last one, okay?"
"What would I do without you?" He said grinning from ear to ear.
"Loose all your drawing materials," she replied as they laughed, "gotta go now. See ya at 7pm."
As the call ended, it hit him.
He ran down to the kitchen with the sketch pad and after some few rough sketches here and there, he smiled, "Voilà."
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"Awwwwn," Clifford cooed, "they're so cute."
Terrence looked at Clifford like a horn just came out of his head as he said, "Cute keh?" He hissed "there's nothing cute about this," he said pointing to his phone.
"About what?" Gillis said walking into the office, he pulled the laptop bag strap over his head and said, "What are you guys watching?"
"Porn," Terrence deadpanned.
Clifford laughed punching his hand away, "it's just a cute video of some little white girl and boy kissing," he smiled.
"Like I said we are watching American small children porn," Terrence said.
Henrita looked up from her table and said, "Animal."
"Your elder brother," He retorted then hissing he turned to Gillis, "Just imagine this small children as they're small like this, they're already spoilt, kissing each other. So, when they grow Wetin they go do? {what will they do?}" He snapped his fingers, "Tah! Oyibo people dey spoil their children eh! Tah! {foreigners spoil their children}"
"Eh, leave it for them are their parents complaining?" Clifford asked.
"If nah my mumsie, she go beat you eh, till the whole community come to hold her," he said, "when they hold her she'll say, 'leave me may I beat am oh! As she small like this she don dey know man, that means say her destiny nah ashawo nah. Abeg free me may I beat am deliver am' {if it were my mother, she will beat you so bad it'd take the entire community to stop her and when they do, she'll say 'leave me alone let me discipline this child! As little as she is, she is already having feelings for the opposite sex, that means she is destined to be a prostitute. Please, leave me to beat her and deliver her from that evil spirit}" he said making everyone laugh.
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