Scene 13

(This scene opens with all the staff in the kitchen chatting and laughing).

Chuks: So what did they now do?

Isaac: They just stood there, you needed to have seen Chioma's face that day, even her husband wanted to laugh.

(They all laugh).

Kunle: Babe you be case I swear. But e dey pain me as I no dey there that day cause the kind laugh wey I for laugh ehn.

Titi: Abeg oh, that your laugh wey dey pain like die. Na the laugh for make them vex pass.

Ene: No be lie. Kunle no fit just laugh small small. E go just open mouth, the thing go just they fall comot.

Kunle: Mama...

Ene: um Kop Inua mfo (Close your mouth). (The rest laugh). He will start laughing now. Yeye boy.

(They continue to laugh when Anna checks the time).

Anna: Okay, party is over, dinner time. Titi please go get sir Freddo while I start setting the table.

Jennifer: Let me help.

Whitney: Me too.

(They stand up and head to the things they want to carry to the table. As they do so Anna keeps looking at Isaac. He looks at her and raises his brows and she raises hers too, then they start leaving the kitchen with Jennifer and Whitney in front of them).

Isaac: No I'm not saying it.

Anna: Come on now don't be like that.

Isaac: No.

Anna: It will make you feel better.

Isaac: No... fine, me three.

Anna: There, you see, not bad. How did you feel?

(They start setting the table).

Isaac: Stupid.

Anna: As you should. (Whitney and Jennifer laugh). No it means you are okay, no sane person should feel happy about saying me three.

Titi: (Walks up to them). I've informed him, he's coming. (She heads back to the kitchen).

Anna: Okay. The water is still in the kitchen.

Titi: Okay, I'll bring it. (She comes out with the jug of water as Fredrick comes down the stairs).

Isaac: But you say it and you feel good.

Anna: Like I said no sane person should.

(They all laugh as they take their seat).

Fredrick: Hmm, there's a lot of laughing going on these past months. (He takes his seat).

Jennifer: Yeah well Anna has her ways.

Fredrick: Yes she does.

Anna: (Gives a tight smile). Enjoy your dinner. (The kids smile back at her and say thank you. As she is leaving, Fredrick calls her back).

Fredrick: Anna, why don't you join us for dinner here at the table.

Anna: No worries sir I'll...

Whitney: Come on Anna, please.

Jennifer: And then you can tell us some stories or anything. You are fun and there is usually no fun on this table.

Isaac: Zero.

(Anna looks at them).

Anna: Alright then. Let me get my plate.

Fredrick: Let Titi do it, Titi...

Anna: Ah, no, I'll...

Whitney: Don't worry, I'll go get it.

(Whitney gets up and goes to the kitchen as Anna takes a seat next to Isaac while Tomike and Dayo walk into the dining area and take their seat).

Tomike: Thank God we know what the time for dinner is, if not my son and I would be starving to death since some people don't know their jobs anymore which is to call us when food is ready. (Whitney comes back with a plate and cutlery in hand and heads to where Anna is seated and places it in front of her).

Fredrick: Good evening Tomike.

Tomike: Oh Fredrick, I didn't see you there, good evening to you too. And what is she doing here, this table is not for staff.

Jennifer: Daddy said she could join, insisted.

Fredrick: Any problem with that?

Tomike: (Frowns). Not at all.

Fredrick: Alright then, let's eat.

(They start eating and they start talking and laughing. Tomike glares at Anna and eyes her and then turns to glare at Dayo who was laughing and smiling as at what they were saying, causing him to stop. Kunle and Titi are being shown as they remove their head from the space they are peeping through, through the kitchen door).

Kunle: Med oh, med oh.

Titi: Med oh, md oh.

Chuks: Wetin sup?

Titi: I no know say oga nice like this.

Kunle: See as Anna just sit down full ground dey chop, dey chat, dey enjoy herself dey go.

Ene: You want make she sad before.

Kunle: No na, see just dey free like say na she be their mama. Con see how Tomike dey boil like hot water. (Everyone laughs).

Chuks: No mind that one. E dey pain am cause oga no dey do am good like e dey do Anna after she don seduce am and e no work.

Ene: Chuks.

Titi: Mama that one no be secret na. Everybody know say na money brng her here and na money they keep am. She don try, still oga no gree give her face, na why she squeeze face like un done pap and that her yeye son wey carry face like stone, olumo rock. (They laugh).

Chuks: See mouth, e dey sweet you now to dey talk. If she enter here now na Anna name of Kunle own you go dey shout.

Kunle: No mind am.

Titi: Which Kunle. Which stupid Kunle.

Kunle: Ehr, no dey pretend, we know, I know.

Titi: Who Kunle epp? Who you epp? I'll call you Chuks. I'll call on my Chuks baby, Chuks sugar, Chuksi pie.

Kunle: Oya we hear, e don do, e don do. Chuks kor Chuka ni.

Ene: But real talk oh, una don dey notice something say oga dey give Anna face.

Kunle and Titi: I notice am.

Chuks: And e be like say Anna too dey give oga face small, small. You no see the time wey oga just bring things come for us, na because of Anna oh.

Titi: E be like. Because oga been buy one ear-ring for her wey she dey wear everyday, and I think say the reason why he buy for us so na to cover say he buy something special for Anna.

Kunle: Na true, oga wise oh. Na now I understand the whole tori, plus that time wey e give us ATM. Ahah bae, I no know say you been get brain oh.

(Titi eyes him and hisses).

Chuks: And see she don join them for table, remain for her to sit for madam Eliza dey sit.

Ene: Calm down na, no be so them they do am. Process dey involved, the thing go first dey go jejely before take-off. You go horn first before you overtake.

Chuks: Mama the horning don happen. As she don join them for table so, the thing wey remain na ring then gbam, she don overtake carry madam Eliza chair with am.

(They laugh and continue talking).

Scene closes.