Chocolate & Scorpions √
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[Entry into the #fiveyearssincecollabcontest.]
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Five years is enough to forget how warm and fuzzy their pure hearted friendship used to be between Lola the fashionista, Victor the sportsman, Tolu the actor, Rex the recording artist, and of course, the always forgotten Chinny the baker.
Summer camp in a tiny Nigerian forest, by some twist of fate, pours these eccentric personalities right under the same roof for the second time and while it should be a splendid event with promising entreaties and fun, it is not so rosy with a handful of caustic and downright callous secrets and grudges being laid out in the open for all to hear - including the happiness thief.
Five friends may just realize that their former relationship had been but a coat of chocolate on scorpions or had it been chocolate and scorpions? This sixpence may finally understand why they were unknowningly ecstatic to sever contacts from one another and why they should leave it that way.
Sixpence because Chinny the baker refers to herself as two.
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