Best Friend - Episode 24

THIS EPISODE MIGHT BE A LITTLE CONFUSING PLEASE JUST READ ON IT WILL GET CLEARER.
WHAT IF I TELL YOU THAT ALL THAT WAS JUST A DREAM HOPE YOU WONT BE TOO ANGRY. ANYWAYS ITS NOT A DREAM.

Doctor Wale looked at the patient for a while through the tinted glass that separated the two rooms, he had been studying and working on him for the past two years with no real success. Pressing some buttons on his laptop he took some sheets and studied them closely and smiled satisfactorily, if these results were right, he was about to have a huge break through in all his years of research that had him making huge sacrifices. The door opened.

"Doctor we are ready" said a young man dressed in an all white aparon.

Doctor Wale walked into the next room where the patient was now dressed in his lab coat and gloves

"Hey how are you my friend" he said gently, waiting to see a reaction.

The patient just stared at him, then at himself and looked surprised. He struggled to free his hands that were well bounded in a cloth like material that folded both his hands to his chest and tied tightly behind his back, he looked up puzzled like he just realized he was bounded.

"What is the meaning of this, why are my hands tied up, where the hell am i?" He asked confused frantically looking up, down ,sideways, everywhere. The walls of the room was painted white as was the ceiling in fact everything about the room was so white, even the bed and bed sheets even whatever it is he wore, the many white bulbs made the room even brighter

"Answer me where am I, is this heaven? Am I dead?" He asked desperately

"Relax, calm your nerves, you are not dead" doctor Wale said smiling comfortingly.

"Who are you? Where is this place?" The patient asked

"My name is doctor Adewale and am your friend, i have been helping you for the past two years".

"What do you....." He stopped now looking quizzically at the plain black mirror to the right of the room it was the only odd thing in white room

"Who is behind the glass? Why is someone watching me?" The patient asked

"Its no one its just my colleagues, they all here to help you" Dr Wale said carefully

"No I don't trust you let them come out I want totearfully" he said frantically

"OK guys come out" Dr Wale said loudly.

Two guys also dressed in lab coats walked out of the room behind the glass signalling to the third guy dressed in a navy blue suit to stay back

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. They came into the white room and the patient eased up

"I want to speak to you alone" he said to Dr Wale

"Sure" he said sitting on the only sit in the room by the bed side and sending out the other guys with a snap of his fingers.

"Where is this place and what am I doing here for Christ sake?" The patient said tearfully

"You have to calm down you are in safe hands, am here to make sure you get better again"

"What do you mean by get better am not sick or am I?"

"Why don't you tell me yourself? Are you sick?"

"No no am not I feel very fine" he said shaking his head affirmatively

"Well you have to prove that to me, this is your last chance believe me, I want to see you out of here"

That statement seemed to confuse the patient even more

"Why am i tied up? Please set my hands free. He begged

" You know I can't do that, the last time you almost strangled my assistant when we loosed your hands" Dr Wale said calmly as ever

The confused look on his face made Dr wale smile lightly

"You don't remembe right?"

He shook his head from left to right, and became sad faced

"OK maybe I will loose you up" The patient became suddenly happy "but thats only if you be a good boy and promise to help me out"
The patient eagerly nodded his head looking at Dr Wale like a 5 year old waiting for candy

"OK first am going to ask you some questions and if you do good I will set you free tomorrow"

His face showed slight disappointment but he agreed anyways

"OK so what's your name" Dr Wale asked

"Fred, Alfred" said the patient

"Oh wow that's beautiful, what do you do for a living?"

"Am a student, 300level medicine"

"Ah that's very good" Dr Wale said with a huge smile "don't you think you are little to old to still be a student?

" No why would I be am just 21 or I will be 21 next June" he replied

"Great answer you have done perfectly today Fred" Dr wale said still smiling.

"One last question, do you know why you are here?"

He cracked his head looking up and then down before finally saying no

Dr Wale scribbled some more on his notes and stood up "Thank you Fred, I promise first thing tomorrow I will get these bounds off your hands OK?" He spoke gently to him like a child

He walked away and then stopped by the door turned and looked his patient moping into space

"Fred does the name Kunle ring any bells?"
Fred's eyes suddenly widened, fear gripped him as he heard the name Kunle

"Oh no Fred you don't have to worry OK he is nobody" said Dr wale and he left.

Walking into the next room he smiled and gave a firm victorious handshake to the young man dressed in navy blue suit.

"Kunle you are welcome hope you enjoyed our show?" Dr wale said smiling

"Wow doctor this is extraordinary, how did you manage to do this? Finally after like forever there is progress. But I still have my fear did you see his reaction when you asked him about me?"

"Nah that's nothing to worry, if he believes he is a 21 year old still in medical school and not realising that was ten years ago, you have nothing to fear our experiments walked perfectly" said Dr Wale

"Once again thanks a lot Dr"

"Its you I should thank, you have helped me more than I can say. So please remember to be here tomorrow we want to spice things up and see how he reacts". Dr Wale said now walking Kunle out of the building.

He drove out of the compound that was in a remote area, in the out sketch of the city, he noticed a Fulani herds man with a single cow standing beside the building but paid no heed as he sped off raising red dust from the untarred road.