The Complete Woman!
Episode 8.
I will not say I was disappointed when I saw it was mummy but I was not happy that it was not my husband.
Mummy: Is he not back?
Me: No mom, he isn’t back.
Mummy: Do you have an idea where he went?
Me: No mom
Mummy: Do you have any of his friends contact?
Me: Isaiah does not keep friends , the choir members are all the friends he has.
Mummy: What about that Marvis? Do you have her number?
Me: No ma I don’t.
Mummy: You don’t?
Me: No mom, I used to have it, but then I discovered she told a lie to me some time ago and so I deleted her number.
Mummy: Okay, do you have anyone’s number who can possibly have her number?
Me: Yes, Sister Mary from the choir keeps the contact of all the choir members.
Mummy: Call sister Mary.
Me: But mummy I am supposed to be in my honeymoon. Should I be calling?
Mummy: This girl it’s like you don’t understand what the devil is trying to do, the devil is about to destroy your marriage right before it begins and you are there speaking English. My dear call sister Mary.
I quickly grabbed my phone and dialed sister Marys number, my heart was beating as she picked the call.
Sister Mary: Hello
Me: Hello sister Mary, good morning .
Sister Mary: The youngest wife in town I greet you ma. I must say I surprised to get your call. I hope all is well.
Me: Yes sister. I just need you to help me with something.
Sister Mary: What is that Dani
Me: I need to call sister Marvis, but I can’t find her number on my phone, so I need you to help me with her number please.
Sister Mary: Oh sister Marvis. Its alright, but I will have to text it to you, because its stored to the phone.
Me: That will be no problem , thank you so much.
And I ended the call. Not long, she sent the number and I gave it to mummy.
I watched her as she pressed the figures on her phone and waited.
Mummy: ehn! Erm, hello.
Marvis: Hello, who am I unto please?
Mummy: Please put Isaiah on the line.
Marvis: What?
Mummy: I said put Isaiah on the line
Marvis: Who is this please?
Mummy: My dear, I am his mother inlaw and I want to speak to him so give him the phone or ask him to put on his phone.
Marvis: (stammering) erm erm, sorry ma, he is sleeping, I can’t wake him up.
Mummy: He is sleeping, Marvis he is sleeping, a married man is sleeping in your house Marvis. Not just a married man, a married man that got married yesterday. And to my daughter is sleeping in your house.
Marvis: Am sorry ma, but I was busy before your call, I have to go.
Mummy: Before you go, tell Isaiah I said he should pick up his phone and come home, that his wife, my daughter, is waiting for him. And my dear, do not forget that part of the Bible that days ”I will visit the wicked in my anger and bring upon them my wrath”
And mummy ended the call. I was filled with anger.
Me: Mummy so you mean to say Isaiah is with Marvis and slept in her place and Marvis was never in any accident. Is that what you are saying mom.
I quickly grabbed my bag and packed in my things there was no need remaining in the hotel. Once we were out. I stopped a bike that would take me to my moms place. But then she stopped me.
Mummy: Where are you going?
Me: Mummy I am coming with you, there is no way I will wait here for that man.
Mummy smiled and then answered me.
Mummy: Did he go with his house keys?
Me: No ma, we moved most of my things to his house yesterday and so the key is still with me.
Mummy: My dear you can’t come with me.
I was shocked to hear mom say that.
Me: What? Mummy what did you say?
Mummy: You heard me baby, you can’t come with me.
Me: So where do I go to?
Mummy: You have to go to your husbands house
Me: What husband? Someone that abandoned me on our wedding night and went to some other woman? God forbid I won’t go there o.
Mummy: You will go. You and your husband have become one. And you will not let some devil take him away from you. You will fight for what is yours.
Me: Mummy what are you saying? What am I fighting for?/someone who left me on our wedding night? Ah no na.
Mummy: Do you think Isaiah loves you?
Me: I know he loves me mom, I know this, I just don’t know why he changed. Even last night he was reaffirming his love for me before all of this.
Mummy: Listen to me Dani, you will go to your husbands house and you will fight for him. We will not let the devil win we will fight and win this one. Do you understand me. Go to your house and pray and I will pray OK?
I reluctantly agreed. Even though I was confused at what mom was saying. She stopped a cab for me and told me she would lead me to my house before leaving me and that was exactly what she did.
I prayed and I cried to God daily to touch my husband wherever he was and bring him home to me. I have practically become a shadow of my self. I was still getting congratulatory messages from people, if only they knew what I was going through.
This is the 8th day since my husband disappeared. No calls, no texts, absolutely nothing. I had told myself that once it gets to the 10th day then I will go to the police, but I am still believing God to touch him and bring him home to me.
Suddenly I heard the door bell ring, I jumped up to open and check and there was no one. I went back inside to sit down and continue my crying which has become a daily activity for me. Just as I was about to sit, I heard the door bell ring again. I didnt want to go but it wouldn’t stop and so I got up and reluctantly went to check who it was. When I opened the door, Isaiah was there.
I stood there and stared at him as if I was seeing a ghost. And after some minutes, I shifted from the door to allow him come in. He came in and stood like someone who was scared of his own house.
I looked at him for a while, he was looking tattered and dirty, then I stepped into the kitchen to prepare water for him to take his bath. I stayed in the kitchen until the water was ready, and then I carried the water to the bathroom for him, and then I went ahead to prepare his food. When the food was ready I made to set the table but then I told him that his water was in the bathroom and he should go and have his bath.
I finished setting his food on the dinning and as I turned to return to my seat, I saw my husband fully on his knees weeping.
Isaiah: Honey am sorry, please forgive me.
Tears fell from my eyes and I just kept quiet and allowed them flow.
Isaiah: Baby please forgive me please, I am truly sorry
Me: What happened?
Isaiah: Baby, I know you won’t believe me but I can’t remember anything.
Me: Oh please dont give me that line.
Isaiah: Please believe me, I can’t tell you what happened, all I remember is getting a call that Marvis..
Me: Stop stop stop, I dont want to hear that name in this house.
Isaiah: Bu bu but……
Me: I said stop, just stop. Please go and bath. Just go
I watched as my husband walked to the bathroom and I discovered he has lost weight.
I picked up my phone and I called mummy.
Mummy: Is he back?
Me: Yes mom. How did you know?
Mummy: God told me he will return today.
Me: Mummy I am so angry right now, I dont think I want to stay here with him anymore. Not after all he has done. (Starts crying) mummy she kept him for eight days, she spent our wedding night with him. She kept him for 8days and now he returns and starts giving me stories. Am so fed up.
Mummy: Listen Dani, this is just the beginning. And you have to stand and fight for your home and for your man.
Me: Mummy I can’t, I don’t have the strength, marriage is just 8days old and am already fighting? I can’t mom.
Mummy: You can and you will. A wise woman builds her home not give up on it. A wise woman is a praying woman and a praying woman is a complete woman. A complete woman is a patient woman, a complete woman is a forgiving woman, a complete woman is a woman who is excellent in wifing, in mothering, in cooking, in bed and in everything. A complete woman is a woman who fears God and respects her husband, a complete woman is a woman wholistically. And my dear, you are a complete woman so you will stand and build your home, do you understand?
Me: No mom I don’t.
Mummy: Don’t worry dear, soon you will
I ended the call and I watched Isaiah come out from the bathroom, I watched him eat slowly. I looked at his face and I saw the man that I fell in love with and I knew he was truly sorry. I knew right then that I have forgiven him.
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