©️Opeyemi Akintunde
AS INSPIRED BY THE LIVING WORD
I waited for my mum to get to our place. I waited for her like my life depended on it….
She got in by 10:30am, she must have left the village as early as 4:30am to have gotten to us by that time.
Mrs. Teju was surprised to see her. She lied to her that she came for a wedding in Lagos. Maami told me to escort her to Mummy J’s place and the couple didn’t suspect a thing….
“What do you mean, Iya Yemi?” Mummy J was madly surprised when my mother had said to her that…
“Mummy J, the place where we want something to grow, the ground itself has approved it”
“Iya Yemi, answer me, was this planned by you & your daughter?” Mummy J furiously asked
“Not really” my mother lied ” It has always been my prayer that my child will enter a good home and fortunately God decided to answer this way”
“God made her pregnant for her boss?” Mummy J asked in total disbelief
“Whether it is God or it is the devil, the pregnancy is a good thing. Mummy J support us in making the man accept the pregnancy, you will have your cut…”
.”Ha! God forbid…. Iya Yemi, you are a wicked ingrate. Now, the picture is clear, this is your doing… You were the one that instigated Yemi. This is the reason I don’t like mothers visiting their children where they are serving as maids. They begin to push the children to misbehave.
Ha! Iya Yemi, God will punish you for this you have done. How will I face this couple now?” Mummy J kept lamenting….
My mother was not ready to chill at all, when we got back to the house, my mother called Mr Teju aside and broke the news to him. Mr. Teju’s look broke my heart….
“Yemi, why did you let it happen, if my wife finds out, it will kill her… Please you need to abort this baby…” Mr. Teju said
“En… what did you say? My daughter is not aborting oooo, I thought you will be glad that my daughter helped you change your story. All these years with your wife has amounted to nothing, but a few months with Yemi has amounted to something.”
“Yes mummy, you are right, but this pregnancy is not a joy giver, it wants to take joy from me. I’d rather stay without having a child and still be married to my wife, than having 100 children without my wife.
I love my wife and what has been happening between Yemi and I shouldn’t have. I seriously regret it. Mummy, please let me get you some money, so you can help me flush it out.” Mr. Teju said walking out on us.
My mother was a fighter, she went to the living room where Mrs. Teju was watching T.V…
“Mummy, your husband has impregnated my daughter and he wants her to have an abortion. It is not possible. We don’t abort in our family” Mummy blurted out
Mrs. Teju was confused at my mother’s outburst, she took a look at my stomach, she looked at my face, she looked at my mother and rather unfortunately, her husband walked in on us holding a large sum of money….
He had been caught red- handed. Mr. Teju understood immediately, my mother had let the cat out of the bag, he went down on the ground, prostrating in apology to his wife.
Mrs. Teju’s shock did not let her utter a statement, instead surprisingly, she went back to watching the T.V program….
It was 24hours later we knew something had gone wrong with Mrs. Teju…
To be continued…
