So Fiyin hadn’t broken up with Femi, despite everything she told him. Was he being stupid or stubborn? And now he brought her to the hospital to introduce her to everyone. How dare him? He was going to make her a laughing stock to everyone who knew she had wanted him, especially the nurses. Femi must be feeling on top now, right? Well, it wouldn’t last, she still had a plan B although she never thought she would have to use it. Now, she would. Femi could not win her here, never!
This war has just started, she told herself as she dialled the Minister’s number…
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“Bola! Bola!” Justice Bola Arowolo jumped as she heard her husband shouting her name. she stood up hurriedly and left her grandchildren in the small sitting room to see her husband striding down the stairs to meet her, glasses in hand, clearly upset.
“Yes, dear, what is the problem?”
“Your son! Your son is the problem! Do you know the report I just received?”
Bola kept quiet, knowing her husband of 37 years, he would react first and think later. Trying to talk to him in the reaction stage was like trying to douse a fire with petrol, he will explode. Poor man had never learnt the virtues of patience.
“What report is that?” She asked, figuring it had to do with the Hospital, although she had thought Fiyin was handling that fine, much better than his father had in fact.
“Your son is dinning with the devil!” Her husband shouted dramatically.
“Devil bi bawo? Don’t say such things jor! My son will not dine with the devil in Jesus name, only with the host of Heaven.”
“Eh ehn? Host of Heaven abi? More like host of destruction, if my reports are true and I don’t doubt it because I trust the source explicitly.”
“What are you saying, old man? What happened to Fiyin?”
“Didn’t I tell you I didn’t like the snake girl he was dating? That I preferred he tie the knot with that lovely Tiwa girl, did you agree with me?” He asked her. “Now, I hear that the girl is in cahoots with the devil himself!” He joined is two index fingers together to prove his point.
“I didn’t say I didn’t like Tiwa, I asked you to let him make his own choices. With his first wife, Helen, we encouraged him to marry her and see how that turned out, I didn’t wa…….”
“Wasn’t it the girl that died the last time? This time around, I hope our son survives what he has carried!”
“Ori mi ko loruko Jesu, I reject it in Jesus name, my son will not die!” She shouted as she made the God forbid sign over her head.
“Okay oh, better tell him to stay far away from that Femi creature, okay?”
“What did she do?” Bola asked her husband, “She seemed like a perfectly nice girl to me.”
“She is not a perfectly nice anything, Bola, she’s a pretender. There are so many things I can say about her, if you only knew…..
“Granma!” Nathaniel, the older of Seun’s 4 year old twins called her.
“Dear, I am coming, okay, wait in your sitting room for me” She told them.
“But Granma, Amanda has crying”
“What did you say?”
Amanda is crying!” His twin, Andrew corrected from the door way.
“Why?” Bola asked as she ran back into the room to find her granddaughter cleaning tears from her eyes, she was closely followed by the twins and her husband. Grabbing Amanda, she put her on her legs.
“Mandy, why are you crying?”
“Its grandpa!” Amanda sputtered, “he’s saying bad things about daddy and Aunty Femi.”
When four sets of eyes turned on him accusingly, the Minister wringed his hands together. “No, dear….no… I wasn’t saying bad things about her, I just said she’s not very nice.”
“But, granpa, Aunty Femi is nice. I want her to be my mummy.”
“Don’t you want a kind and good mummy?”
“Granpa!”The child wailed, “Aunty Femi is very kind and good.”
“Okay, I am sorry I said those things about her, I didn’t mean it.” He said as all 3 children frowned at him.
“Aunty Femi talks to me nice and she buys gifts for me too and daddy smiles plenty times when she’s around and Aunty Ose likes her and cook too and Aunty Seun and Aunty Bolu and….”
“Me too!” Andrew shouted, excited.
“And she buy burger for me!” Added Nathaniel whose one passion was food.
Their grandmother pulled all of them to herself, “Your grandpa was just saying that you should be careful no matter what. He didn’t mean that Aunty Femi was bad, okay?”
She smiled as the three children including her husband all nodded their head obediently.
“Good! Wait here, I will go and talk to your grandpa outside, alright?” She left them seated, smiling and dragged her shamefaced husband outside to his office where the children would not hear them.
“You know what, dear? Bolu is supposed to pick the kids next week, how about I go drop them in Lagos and see this Femi girl myself, ehn?”
“You will do that?” He asked, relieved.
“Of course, this is my son oh, I can’t let any woman trap him at all and he has a child so we must be extra careful in times like this.
“Okay, thank you, assess her. That will take the load of my chest. If she’s a bad seed, get rid of her as quickly as possible. Okay?”
“Alright.” She said as she kissed his cheeks. “Don’t worry, okay? I will handle it. By the way, who sent you the report?”
“Erm, someone who had our interests at heart.” He told her, unwilling to mention names.
“Okay oh, I have heard.” She left his office.
Question: One word for Tiwa.
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