Throughout that day till Friday the next day, I was still feeling so disturbed until around 6pm when my phone rang, I checked and it was henry on the line.
I was so scared to pick the call and I began to wonder if I hadn’t gotten myself into any trouble. The phone rang the second time and I picked up.
ME: hello sir
HENRY: hello mr onihaxy. Long time.
ME: long time sir, how is family and work?.
HENRY: everything is fine, and yours?
ME: fine too
HENRY: you don’t even bother to call me again for sometimes now, that is very bad of you.
ME: I’m sorry sir. I changed phone not too long sir, so I lost many contacts.
HENRY: that’s not an excuse, if you cared to call me, you would get the number from my sister.
ME: I’m sorry sir.
HENRY: no problem.
ME: thank you sir
HENRY: that aside, can you come over to lekki this weekend, we need to see and it’s very urgent.
Me: ***ghen ghen…. E don happen*** what is that sir?
HENRY: it’s not something serious. We just need to see and discuss something very important. As a matter of fact, it’s very urgent.
ME: ok sir. Aren’t you travelling to Abuja this weekend?
HENRY: No, I will be at home all through.
ME: ok sir, I will come around on Sunday afternoon.
HENRY: alright, no problem. Do have a nice day.
ME: and you too.
“What could henry want to discuss with me?”
“What could be happening?”
“Onihaxy, E don happen”.
I woke up on Sunday morning and prepared for church, I got to church and I couldn’t concentrate well on the preaching as my mind was already at lekki. I was just looking at my time all through the service and looking at the preacher at the same time hoping that he would round up on time. I got out of the church at the closure of service by 12:30pm, with my bible in my hand, I walked towards Maryland bustop, crossed the road over to the other side and I boarded a brt bus down to cms. While I was in the bus, I called henry to inform him that I was coming and he told me that he would be expecting me. Immediately after the call, I remembered that I didn’t inform Betty that her brother told me to see him. I opened my bbm to chat with her.
ME: hello dear.
BETTY: hi love. What happened to your line since morning?
ME: nothing jaree, I was in the church, so I switched off.
BETTY: alright dear, how was the service?
ME: fine and good.
BETTY: ok dear
ME: betty, I forgot to tell you previously, your brother called me two days back and he requested to see me?.
BETTY: really?, what for?
ME: I have no idea dear. Aren’t you aware of it?
BETTY: not at all, he never told me anything.
ME: really?
BETTY: yes, he didn’t tell me anything. Maybe I should call him.
ME: no, don’t worry; since you said you weren’t aware, just pretend as if you didn’t know.
BETTY: ok dear, so when are you going to see him?
ME: today. infact, I’m already on my way.
BETTY: ok dear. Hope you will give me feedback when you are through?
ME: trust me dear.
Betty and I continued to chat until I got to CMS bustop. I board another bus to lekki phase 1 and another bus from lekki to the junction of henry’s house. I walked down from the junction until I got to Henry’s house and i knocked on the gate. The gate was opened by the same gateman I used to meet there and I entered the compound. I knocked on the main door and I heard a female voice from behind asking me “who is there?”, on hearing the voice, I knew it was Adebimpe and I replied her saying “it’s me onihaxy”, the door was opened and I entered. Adebimpe released a loud sounding hiss and she walked away while I entered and shut the door from behind.
Bimpe walked away with a frown and she sat down at the other end of the chair while I sat at the opposite extreme. She picked up a remote control with her left hand to lower the volume of the sound system while she picked up her phone with her right hand, scrolled through it and made a call.
“Henry, come down stairs, your guest is around” was what I heard and she dropped her phone and increased the volume of the sound system. She adjusted her sitting position and concentrated on the telemundo she was watching on the TV without caring or giving me any attention.
“Chaiii, bimpe no even send me at all, wahala dey ooooo”.
I was scared as I sat on the chair, the look on bimpe’s face was like that of a wounded lion, and it was her scariest facial expression mood I had ever seen. She didn’t talk to me neither did she offered me any drink.
Moments later, henry was walking down the staircase, I looked at his face and I observed that he was not smiling. The look on his face was also scary. I got scared the more and I began to think of so many things.
“How come both of them are wearing the same scary look?”
” I have never seen henry in this mood before”
“Neither have I seen bimpe like this before also”
” Definitely, I’m in serious trouble.”
As henry got down from the staircase, he walked towards bimpe and sat down beside her. I bent forward and said “good afternoon sir”, I was shocked when he looked into my face and said “mr onihaxy, there is nothing good about the afternoon”. This time, I was more than scared, infact I was shaking on the seat and wondering what could be going on.
ME: haaaa, sir!!!!!!!, what have I done wrong sir?
HENRY: so many things. Infact, everything
ME: haaaaaaaaaa. What is that sir?
HENRY: **** turned to bimpe***** darling, please get him something to drink before we commence this meeting please.
BIMPE: Me?, get him something to drink?, not me.
HENRY: please dear. I thought I have begged you over this issue. Please just let it go and leave everything for me to resolve. Please!!!!!
BIMPE: ***looked at me as if she should chop off my head****** stood up reluctantly and went to the dining room.
ME: “surprised” **begged her keee?, to let go of what?, e be like say my fowl yansh don open***
HENRY: just wait and let her be back.
ME: ok sir. Please where is daniella sir?
HENRY: she went out with our new maid.
ME: ok sir
BETTY: ****returned with a can of cold malt and a glass cup and dropped them on the stood beside my seat and returned back to sit beside henry******
HENRY: please drink.
ME: I’m ok for now sir.
HENRY: no, I insist. You are just coming from the hot sun, and seeing bible with you, I believed you are coming here directly from church. So you need something to cool down first.
ME: ok sir. ***** opened the can, poured little drink inside the glass cup and I drank little****
HENRY: now let’s go to the main purpose of this meeting.
ME: ok sir
HENRY: ***turned to bimpe****, please lower the volume of what you are watching and concentrate here please
BIMPE: ****reluctantly reduced the volume of the sound system*****
HENRY: ok mr onihaxy, as you are looking at my wife and I, what is our relationship with you?,
ME: sir?, relationship as how?, I don’t get it sir
HENRY: to you, who are we?
ME: ok, now I get it, you are my in-laws sir.
HENRY: right from the day Betty brought you into this house and introduced you to us as her fiancé, have we ever treated you badly before?
ME: no sir.
HENRY: Are you aware that my sister is playing a deadly game just because of you?
ME: yes sir, she told me.
HENRY: good. Did you know that she is going against our father’s wish and she is likely to be disowned after her education just because of you?
ME: yes sir.
HENRY: ok, do you realize that she will break an engagement with another man and end up hurting someone just because of you?
ME: yes sir.
HENRY: if so, then why do we deserve the opposite of the way we treated you?
ME: opposite?, I don’t get it sir.
HENRY: ok, weeks before Betty travelled out, you stopped calling me and my wife, my sister took her car out of this compound and gave it to you, yet you never called me or my wife for appreciation, or you thought that we aren’t aware of it?
ME: I’m so sorry sir.
HENRY: finally, my wife called you and you ignored her calls several times.
ME: haaaaa.
HENRY: what is haaaaa?, I was here seated beside her while she called you several times and you won’t pick up, she decided to use my second line to call you, you hanged up immediately after hearing her voice. Seriously, what did we do to you to deserve all this?
ME: ****feeling remorse**** I’m so sorry sir
HENRY: seriously, I don’t blame you at all, if not for Betty who begged my wife to always keep in touch with you so that you won’t feel detached from the family in her absence. I never knew you were like this.
ME: I’m so sorry sir, I’m promising you that it won’t repeat itself again, I will amend sir.
HENRY: but wait, I want to know what actually happened that you don’t always pick my wife’s call and hanged up whenever you heard her voice from another number. Just tell me.
ME: ****chaiiiii!!!!!, what do I say now*******
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