BIMPE: onihaxy, what kind of man are you?
ME: what kind of man am i?, I don’t get it.
BIMPE: do you ever care to call me and ask about my conditions at all?
ME: which condition is that?.
BIMPE: you are asking me right?.
ME: **frowned*** yes, because I don’t understand.
BIMPE: ** lowered voice*** the seed you planted, you left it for only me to nurture abi?
ME: Adebimpe, what exactly did you want me to do?. A mistake happened, fine, I gave you a solution and you refused to follow it and decided to follow our own directives, what else do you want me to do again?,
BIMPE: ***moved closer **** calm down onihaxy,
ME: this is not the issue of calming down, what exactly did you want me to do?, you want me to pack my loads and move over here to your place?.
BIMPE: ****placed hand on my lap ***** I’m not saying you should move over to this place, I’m capable of taking care of myself. Afterall, you weren’t here when I kept daniella in my womb till I gave birth to her and brought her up to that level,
ME: Adebimpe, you still haven’t answered me. What exactly do you want from me?.
BIMPE: stop avoiding me onihaxy, stop treating me like a kind of trash. Stop ignoring my calls, stop acting funny towards me.
ME: bimpe, did you know that you are funny?.
BIMPE: how?
ME: when anything like this happened to reasonable women, they tried as much as possible to keep it secret from their secret lover, they even try as much as possible to stay away from any secret man and stick to their husband. But yours is the reverse and it amazed me.
BIMPE: you said “secret lover?”, but you aren’t one.
ME: really?, so who am I?
BIMPE: you are my evergreen love, the father of my two kids. It seems you don’t know how much I love you onihaxy, if not that betty is my husband’s sister, do you think I will be happy seeing you with another woman?,
ME: bimpe listen. You are married to a wealthy and good man, I am about to settle down with the woman of my dream, let’s just count whatever happened between us as a mistake. Face your family and let me build mine. You are my ex, I’m your ex too. Let’s let bygone be bygone please.
BIMPE: onihaxy, despite the fact that we had a bad beginning, our paths had always been crossing to the extent that it produced a baby girl and another baby boy is on its way. It’s not just an incident onihaxy, fate had brought us together.
ME: that fate is a bad fate adebimpe, infact, it’s a stupid fate. Let’s just pretend as if nothing happened. Face your family, let me build mine. Ok!!!
BIMPE: ***smiled**** onihaxy, you are just a coward, nothing but a coward.
ME: me?, A coward? What do you mean?.
BIMPE: when real men create a problem, they would stand by it and face it. But cowards like you create a problem and run away from it.
ME: hmmmmmmmmmmm.
BIMPE: and one thing you don’t understand is that the more you try to run away from a problem you created, the more you get things complicated.
ME: that is your own problem adebimpe, not mine, I didn’t create any problem and I’m not complicating anything.
BIMPE: no problem, if you say so. Let me just advice you, avoiding me or running away from me won’t solve anything, it has happened already and there is nothing we can do about it. Be a man and face your problems.
ME: whatever.
BIMPE: ***stood up****, join me in the dinning; let me serve your food.
ME: I’m not eating, I’m ok and I will soon be leaving.
BIMPE: onihaxy, tell me you are joking.
ME: I’m serious bimpe. I’m fine, I’m not eating anything, just leave me alone.
BIMPE: *** picked and scrolled through her phone*** no problem, its ok. ****placed the phone on her ear*** hello honey, you won’t believe it, I took my time, stressed myself and spent over an hour to prepare food for your husband, you can’t believe that he rejected the food for no reason and he said he won’t eat. This will be the last time I will ever entertain him again in my life, infact, I’m calling your brother right away.
ME: ****mouth opened wide*** omo see implication!!!!!!!
BIMPE: ***handed over the phone to me***
ME: hello
BETTY: onihaxy, what is the meaning of all these you are doing?, why would mummy daniella stressed herself to prepare food for you despite her condition and you decided to refuse it?
ME: Betty, it’s not what you think. I just don’t have appetite.
BETTY: and why didn’t you tell her before she prepared it.
ME: ***looked at bimpe in the eyes** ok, I will try to eat little.
BETTY: better, because my brother must not hear about it.
ME: ok dear.
BETTY: return the phone to her please, let me speak with her.
I returned the phone back to bimpe and she was on the call with Betty for like three minutes. From adebimpe’s response, it seemed Betty was begging her not to tell henry about it.
BIMPE: ***turned to me*** so, are you still eating or not?, so as to know whether to call henry and inform him also.
ME: ***chaiii, I don hook** ok, I will join you in the dinning.
BIMPE: **smiled*** better, that my baby. I don’t know why you always prefer the hard way before doing what you are supposed to do without stress. Join me at the dinning dear.
Bimpe left for the dinning and I joined her there, we had some discussions while we were eating. After the meal, I stood up and was about going out when adebimpe pulled me back and gave me a very passionate hug.
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Few months later around September, my temporary contract at the bank was almost rounding up, every member of the temporary staff teams had started submitting CVs and applications to other organisations, some started attending interviews, others began to do eye services to our superiors but I just had this mind-set that I was going to be retained even though I still submit applications to other organisations also.
The tension at work became intense as everyone began to form seriousness, people who had not been taking their job very serious from inception began to work harder just to gain the favour of the managements who were watching and monitoring us for a permanent contract recommendation.
I also got closer to funmilayo by always going to her office to check on her. sometimes, I would buy fruits and ice cream for her while coming from home, sometimes, I would go to her office and suggested that we should go out for a lunch, sometimes, I would stylishly beg her to let me visit her in the weekend with the excuse that I was bored at home and it always worked out and resulted to smiles on funmi’s face and more closeness between us more than ever before, special thanks to the event planner himself “segun” who had been the one supplying me with scripts and proper tutorials. Infact, people at work started referring to funmilayo as my mother. Sometimes, whenever I was discussing with my team members, they would always say “onihaxy, you don’t have any problem, its certain that you would be among the people to be retained here since your mother is still the big boss”.
Benita on the other hand was still pending my request to be her boyfriend, she was still saying the singing the same song that “onihaxy, I’m in a relationship and besides, I can’t date someone at same place where I work. And also, we are more than friends already, but you still have little periods to think about it”. We still hanged out together occasionally; we come to work and leave office together as usual anytime I drove my car to office.
One morning, I was driving to work with benita sitting beside me, I noticed that she was so moody and she looked somehow disturbed, she wasn’t laughing at my jokes as usual and she was just staring at the dashboard. I tried to enquire from her about what was happening to her but she told me that she was fine which I knew it was a lie, she said she didn’t sleep well at night and that she was having a migraine. I pet her and promised to assist her at work when we get to the office.
At lunch break, I went to meet her where she was staying and I realized that she was still moody. I helped her with few of her works and I persuaded her to let us go out for lunch but she declined. She suggested that I should get a take away for her while coming back which I did.
Before the closure of business, funmilayo told me to wait and see her after closing, saying there was something I would do for her. Immediately we closed, I went to benita’s office, I gave her my car key and I told her to wait for me because funmilayo urged me to wait and see her after the close of business. “You and this your mummy sha” Benita said as I left her and returned back to my office. I went to meet funmilayo and she gave me an A4 paper containing some writings, she said “onihaxy, please take this to your seat and help me to type it on Microsoft word just the same way you are seeing it on the paper. When you are through, send it as an attachment to my mail. I will check it when I get to office tomorrow morning”, pats me on the chin and she said “thank you my dear”. We both left her office; she locked her door and went home. I looked at the document, I read through and noticed that it was a two pages presentation, it took me another thirty five minutes to finish the typing and I sent it as an attachment to her mail while I kept the manuscript inside my drawer. I left the office and I went outside to meet Benita who was already seated in the car waiting for me.
I entered into the car and noticed that she was still moody just like the way she was in the morning. I enquired from her again about what was going on with her and why she was appearing so moody since morning. At first, she didn’t want to tell me and she continued to tell me that nothing was wrong with her. After so much begging and persuasion, she finally opened up.
BENITA: ok onihaxy, something is wrong, but what is the essence of telling you since you won’t solve the problem.
ME: says who Benita?, it seems you don’t know how much I care about you. Your happiness is my number one priority. Please tell me, what is wrong with you?.
BENITA: ok, do you want me to be happy?.
ME: yes dear.
BENITA: ok. please, can you do me a favour?
ME: what is that dear?
BENITA: please, can I stay over at your place for some days?, the place where I live presently is an hell.
ME: ***chaiii!!!!!, omo see better offer!!!!!*****
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