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LOVE ON THE PULPIT – a novel
By: Pastor Taiwo Iredele Odubiyi
(Day 6)
Moroun let Teni in to the apartment and told her, “That man has called, Mr. Dawodu’s nephew. He said he’ll call back.” A pencil was stuck in her hair.
“So, he called.” Teni said under her breath.
Walking back to the table where she had been studying, Moroun told her, “Surprisingly, he has a cool voice. You never can tell, he might be good looking too.” She made faces at Teni.
Teni shrugged her slim shoulders. She didn’t care.
Moroun looked back and the pencil in her hair fell down. She bent and picked it up, put it back in her hair and turned to Teni. “Who gave him the house phone number anyway, Mr. Dawodu?”
“Most likely.” Teni answered and walked toward her room.
She entered, dropped her handbag and Bible on the dressing table and sat on her bed to pray.
She heard the house phone ringing. Is it the pastor?
Soon, there was a knock on her door. “Teni, you have a phone call.”
Thought as much. She got up and went to the living room.
“It’s the pastor again.” Moroun said.
Teni picked the receiver and said dully, “Hello, Pastor Olamide.”
“You sound as if you’ve been expecting my call.” Olamide told her pleasantly.
“Yes, your uncle mentioned you to me.” He truly has a deep voice, she thought.
Oh, how could he? Olamide thought, but to her he said, “So Teni, how are you?”
He sounds confident as well, she told herself. “I’m okay, Pastor. And you?”
She had such a sweet voice and Olamide felt like he knew her already. He responded, “I’m fine, thank you. Well, since you already know I’m a pastor, could I invite you to my church sometime next week or so, to discuss with the teenagers the topic you taught at the house fellowship the other Sunday? I like the angle from which you spoke on ‘How to handle peer pressure’. I was around.”
“Yes, your uncle said you were around.” Olamide heard her say.
Oh God! How much did Uncle tell her? “When can you come?” He went on.
“I’m sorry Pastor but I won’t be able to … I mean I can’t say when I’ll be able to come. I’ll send a message through your uncle to you.” She said.
Moroun, still at the table, turned to fully listen.
Dave was disappointed but undeterred, he pressed on. “That’s okay. How was the fellowship this evening?”
“Oh, it was great as usual.” She answered.
She decided to be nice a little. “But we would have loved to have you around, you know … a pastor to grace the occasion.”
“I had to minister in a church.” He said, and then encouraged by what she said, he added, “Look Teni, could we meet to have lunch or dinner together one of these days, whenever you’re free?”
“I’m a very busy person, Pastor …”
Moroun smiled and made faces at Teni.
“You can’t be busier than a pastor, surely.” Olamide told her.
“Maybe not but I won’t have time, I’m sorry.” Teni said without mincing words.
Could he have been mistaken about her? Her responses weren’t rude but neither were they encouraging. He was doing this only to ascertain if she was the lady for him.
“Oh Teni, don’t tell me you’re always busy, never with a free moment.”
“It’s hard to believe but I really don’t have a free time.”
“Okay, you give me the day and the time that’s convenient for you.” He pressed on.
“Let me explain better, Pastor Olamide …”
“You can cut the Pastor out for now, Olamide will do.” He told her.
“Okay, the truth is that I don’t think I’m interested.” Her voice was crisp.
“In what precisely, if I may ask?”
“In a relationship.”
“I’ve not asked you for one!” There was laughter in his voice. “You should wait to be asked.”
“But that’s what your uncle said.”
“Forget about what he said. Look Teni, I’ve seen you and I know you’re beautiful but I’ve not asked you for a relationship. I just want to meet you to get to know you better.”
“It’s just that I don’t like to waste my time.” Teni retorted in a bored voice.
“That makes two of us.”
“Fine.”
“Teni? Is it Teniola?”
“Yes.”
“Now Teniola, I’m enjoying this conversation. You can learn from me and I can learn from you. The issue is this, you don’t know me and I doubt if God has spoken to you about me but already you’re saying you’re not interested. It’s a bit … I’m sorry but it’s a bit childish and presumptuous. I know you’re being selective and spiritual but so am I. I am highly selective. Are you with me, Teniola?”
“I prefer Teni.”
“What did you say?”
“Teni.”
“Okay, fine, Teni …”
(To be continued.)
In this novel, you will realise the importance of being led by the Spirit of God.
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