TEMI {MINE} Episode 17
Written by Anthony Temiloluwa Kenny (Saintkenz)
“Ohh No.. Racheal again?” Tunde thought hard as Dami enounced her full name. Racheal Fatoyinbo had been a girl he had vowed never to have anything to do with again ever since he called it quit with her.
Racheal was the girl that bumped into his life after Eliza travelled for her masters more than two years ago. The pretty girl who appeared to him like some sort of nonpareil, and naive girl made his stonyhearted became unthaw. He felt genuine love towards her then and that made her unreasonably ditched out all his other side chicks, including Eliza when he called her to inform her that he stopped loving long time ago and that he already had eyes on other lady. The other lady then was Racheal Fatoyinbo.
There relationship blossomed at it prime like an heyday, it made Tunde rued over all his years wasted as a philanderer and changed him to a serious-minded fellow. He really loved Racheal and that made him consecrated to making her his wife.
“so how on earth did you meet her” Tunde found his voice ..
“I have not met her, i dont even know her” Dami quickly spewed out with a scowled face making Eliza eyes furrowed in suprisal.
“What! You dont know her? Then how come you know her fullname and ,,,”
“She was a girl that rescued me some months back” Dami curtailed him. totally oblivious of Eliza who seemed to be more intrested in the conversation.
“So?” Tunde demanded Dami to continue ..
“I was involved in an accident some months back, where i got hit by a hit and run vehicle. Nobody came to help out that moment as i lay unconsiously on my pool of blood. But later woke up in some sort of domicile hospital totally unawared of how i got there.”
“Wait did you just say domicile hospital?” Tunde quizzed out confirming his fears.
“Yes, a domicile hospital. It was the doctor who attended to me that told me Racheal was the good samarithan that saved me but not long after the doctor got a call that the so called Racheal was dead!” Dami announced.
“Whaat” everybody in the room shouted.
“So soo this Racheal is dead”? Eliza toned out reflexively.
“Yes, dead. But i was never really bothered about her not until you accused of me of betraying your feelings by marrying her. I tried to comprehend it but couldnt, that made me returned to the doctor for more enquiries. The doctor always felt reserved whenever i asked him about this girl. But the only clue he gave me so far was Tunde. He told me your fiance knows somethings about her” Dami said making Eliza slightly confused, thought she smelt bantam of truth in everything Dami said. How could she have believed all the wish-wash a gabby policeman said.
“So kindly tell me what you know about Racheal” Dami asked throwing the question at Tunde.
Tunde felt stupiefied with the question Dami threw at him. He knew what the meant, it meant he has to divulge all the secrets he had kept long time ago. The only reason that staunched her relationship with Racheal. Yes, Racheal was naive and harmless but she was still an instignant of death. Being with her would kill faster than a stray bullet not to talk of ebola virus. Anyways, if he really want to tuck Eliza’s trust to his side now, then he had no alternative than to unsheathe all what he embedded within.
“I i and Racheal were lovers ..” Tunde started renting off the quietude of the room. The look on everybody face confirmed their avidness to hear him talk.
“Riiing Rinng” Tunde’s phone yelled out. He looked at the screen to meet an unknown caller. He sighed
“Hello who is this?” Tunde answered.
“Hello long time friend” the caller responded with jocularity. Tunde instantly recorgnized the voice exuding his phone. The voice belongs to the same impish person he left Racheal, the death stigma Racheal carried. Nobody could be so dreadful, arch and pukish like Dr. Banji. He always thought.
“What do you want?” He asked trying to quench his restiveness.
“Well well well! It seems you already recorgnized my voice, thats good of you. Quick one, there was this dumbbell i cut of my tail by directing him to you. I am sure you would have encountered him by now. What i will tell you is that i dont care about what you will tell him or how best you will be able to acquit him off your head, but one thing i will say is that you must not say too much. Remember you have already known too much, and your respiration lies on how best you know how to curb your mouth. You have known too much, you must not say too much and if you say too much, definately you will see too much. Good bye.” The caller menaced out before dropping the call.
Tunde had a haptic feeling his heart was about to be ripped off him. He wanted talk but didnt know what next to say. He was scared of using his mouth. Scared of stopping to respirate, scared of death. He wished he never met Racheal.
“Who called?” Eliza was the first to ask.
“Never mind honey” Tunde quickly straightened her frowzled face. He had thouhg he needed to unconver all his secret afore, but now he couldnt. He was not ready to stop respirating. Not ready to die.
” You see there are somethings that are better left obscured, by that you tend to be saved from there gravity they might incure. Eliza, lets believe this Racheal issue is part of my past, we shouldnt allow the past come haunting our present. Racheal is gone,but here we are today. All i know is that i love you now and i will love you forever. You are the best thing that can happen to me, with you i will find everlasting joy and happiness. I am ready to love you irrespective of anything that happened, or may still happen. Eliza Badejo please marry me ..pleasee” Tunde begged like a toddler crying after a dark chocolate.
Eliza heart pondered, she wanted to say Yes but the look on Dami halted her mouth. She veered her head towards the angle her mother stood quietly for decade. Her mother look seemed to be filled with vagueness and wispy. Her look didnt approve or disapprove Tunde anymore. She shook her head in dilema.
“I dont have a home, i dont have a mother, i dont have a father, i dont have sibblings, i dont have any one, i dont even think i have a future, but one thing i know i have is a heart, a heart filled with love for only you Eliza. I still love you. I love you more than my heart. But how i wish i can stop loving you because i know i am not the best guy for you. I dont worth you. As much as i want you to stay with me forever, be the mother of my children, my children should call you mummy, but then i dont think it will be possible because i dont have the source. Eliza, i love you very much, l love you soo much, but i am nobody but I still wnt you to stay and fulfill all your promises you make. Remember you said NOBODY will take you away from me. You said that, remember ? Kindly fulfil that.” Dami voiced out with uncontrollably tears…
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“I remember dearie, and i am not going back from my promise” Eliza voiced out with smiles playing around her already tears moisturised face.
“i promised nobody will take you away from me, i am going to fulfil that. I am sorry our hearts went seperate ways earlier, but they are now finally back together and nobody is seperating us this time.. Okay” ?
“Yes dear” Dami answered.. already carried away by the euphoria of the moment. He was oblivious of the Busayo standing at a strategic angle observing the whole tensed egress with queasy eyes.
Busayo tried to decipher if she was happy for them or at pity for Tunde who just loss the battle of love once again. As she couldnt choose between the two, then she infered that all that matter now was her daughter happiness.
“i love you so much baby.. Please promise me you wont leave me again.. Promise me you make me go hurt again. Pleass say it please” Eliza threw out with excessive tears sopping her face. The love she once tried to quell had doubtlessly boomeranged. Her baby was finally back to her, her only reason to walk the surface of this planet earth.
“I promise You.. Nothing in this world will make me leave you again. I am yours forever.. I pray to die a day before i would have to leave without you” Dami poured out with passionate eyes looking only through Eliza’s. They both held each others head in their hand, wiping each others tears.
“Goodluck to you guyz” Tunde grumbled with poker-faced and evident he was pained. Eliza instantly broke away from the snuggle with Dami and lurched after Tunde who was already at the doorway.
“Hey Tunde” Eliza called out trying to introduce a smile.
“I am sorry for how it finally ended between us..and at the same time i want to say thank you for standing by me. I really appreciate that.”
“No problem.. I am just concerned how you will let him aware of your heavy secret now” Tunde whispered with a banter tone leaving Elizas’ smile being replaced with a sad but frigid face.
“I dont mean that baby girl.. Its not what you think” He quickly muttered to coo Eliza’s anger trying to revolt.
“OK” she murmured.
Tunde left her standing and prodded to where Dami stood watching both them with nosey eyes.
” You becareful of Banji and Racheal they are not what you think they are” he croaked out. Before leaving them deliberately ignoring Busayo still looking as if she was watching a flick.
Dami scoffed.
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“oga.. Awon omokunrin meji kan bere yin” (boss, two guys asked after you) the peremptory short old man informed Tunde immediately he stumbled out of his car. The old man was unaware of the his boss grogginess.
Tunde decided to diverge to a nightclub downtown to purge out the left overs of his misery caused by his loss of Eliza. He intentionally drank to stupor with cereberation he would forget all about Eliza. The girl she almost have but lost at end.
He belched out large volume of gas spruce with alcoholic odour being transuded out, which of course was enough to tell the gateman what is on ground.
Tunde waved his hand to dismiss his gateman as he prowled down to his apartment like a drunkard he was. Though all the while he was driving back home, till the time he lavished on his gateman inside his compound. He had this eery feeling something was about to happen though he couldnt infer.
On getting to his room, an odd feeling oozed out to meet his stupor state again, almost jerking him off his hangover. He felt his head swollen like a yeast in bread, an action to depict he was more than scared.
He swerved his nosey eyes arround to confirmed he was alone. And though they affirmed to him he was, it seemed to him that wasnt. He brought out his phone to call someone, some sort of his saviour.
“pon pon pon pon” the keypad bleeped as he punched them. Now he was scarier than ever, as he listened to random footseps approaching him from behind. He tilted his head to look back but “POOOW” a gunshot was heard.
Tunde touched down swimming on his pool of blood.
“Hello Doc. He is dead!” A brusk voice growled out to ….
Hello Doc. He is dead!” A brusk voice growled out to Dr. Banji on phone.
“Are you sure he is dead?”
“Very sure. I shot him at a close range Doc.” the brusk voice confirmed again leaving Dr.Banji’s troubled spirit lenified.
“Good good.” Dr.Banji gruntled out
Their arcunum is saved for now. He thought.
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Dami seemed to be enjoying the flaccid and empathy side of Eliza’s mother. The woman who had resigned to fate, also ceded all the hatred she felt towards him. She had begged for Dami’s forgiveness over all her past nefarious attitude in which Dami never thought twice before granting her.
Dami returned to her previous appartment in Eliza’s compound. He had stopped working as a driver. Though most times, he drove out Busayo, it was on a ground of lenity, and not on salary making. The cordial relationship they once lost had been restored. Busayo no longer see him as a scum or gold digger.
Everything seemed to be perfect.
Eliza too was steeped in happiness whenever she remembered Dami now belonged to her and how her mum had let go her hatred towards him, now supporting their relationship.
Thats was the kind of life she solicited for. A life where everything will become perfect with Dami in it. A life she had dreamt of numberless of time. A dream consisting of a perfect relationship full of jape, trust, humour, passion and love.
Well, everything was still not as perfect as she wished, she still had a thorn in her flesh. A thorn relishing a kind of blistering pain and sometimes frustration. A heavy secret she needed to divulge to Dami before she could find serenity and peace of mind.
Her mum had begged her to narrate everything to Dami. But she wished she had had the effrontery to do that. She didnt want loose him again, telling Dami she is sterile might stop him from loving her.
“Honey.. Have you explained your condition to Dami” Eliza remembeted how her mother asked her with a concern pasted on her face.
“No mom.. I haven’t found the right time to do tell him” She voiced.
“Hmm.. Honey. When do you think the right time comes ? My daughter, . Since you claim he loves you, then i dont see anyreason why he would reject you. You need to tell him now! Tell him now and know your stance. Pleaase”
“You see mum..i am thinking of a better way to present it to him” She voiced wih a wannabe grin.
“My daughter, what is it?” Her mother asked in eagerness
“Mum..i am thinking of establishing him first, then getting settling down with him before explicating things. You he has alot of thing to handle now” Eliza peached.
“You dont mean that!” Her mom yelled out updating a pesky look on her face ” You mean you want to buy his heart with money ? C’mmon baby girl dont be so naive! You think setting him up and marrying him will make him overlook your predicament ? No no! Its never done that way” She stood up from the big sofa and paced towards her. She held her daughter’s arm
“My daughter, you dont need to do all this thing before he can accept you. If he truly loves you like you claim.. He will accept you for who you are. Dont give him anything on the ground of buying his heart because of your flaw. Dont do that please”
“Oh God..help me” Eliza muttered out as the memories transuded her. She was not ready to loose Dami again.
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“Baby hope there is no problem” Dami threw at Eliza who sat down with reccession obviously lost in her world of dyshopria.
“Nothing really” she muttered out with enough smile to conceal her depression.
“Are you sure ? Just tell me what the problem is. I noticed you have not been yourself for somedays now. And its so evident that whatever it is, it has caused you insomnia, merely looking at your eyes. Just tell me what the problem is okay ?” Dami pleaded
” Seriously there is nothing.. I am just been carried away by some little stuffs thats all”
” Ohh! I see. did you miss Tunde ?” Dami quizzed with a timid face.
“of course no! I mean not even when he Is dead now. Well its true he was a human and he his death deserves a kind of anamnesis by us.. But he isnt question here”
“Hmmmm.. Ok. So tell me why you stopped working. I think i havent seen you go to work since we came back.. So what happend”? Dami asked, he never realy wanted to back off easily.
The Eliza he once knew was always a cheerful type especially whenever she saw him. Not even when her mother was still a discrepant.
“Oh that ? I was relieved from my work ever since i came back from the hospital then.. Have ..”
“Wait! Hospital ? Why ? When? What realy happened to you baby ? Tell me, i mean something that got you relieved from your is obviously not a minor issue” Dami curtailed with rarity making Eliza mouth insentive.
She didnt have it in mind to mention “hospital”. It was a slip of mouth and now she couldn’t afford to lie to Dami.
The urge to explain everything about what happened her and her sterility kept eroding in her but the fear of Dami’s reaction towards it got her mouth fastened. She wanted to uncover everything right there, but also not ready to loose her Dami. The love of her life.
“Baby please say something, what happened to you ?” Dami voiced again after what seemed like he had waited for millenary.
“You see honey, i really have something important to share with you. Promise me once again that you wont take on a negative reaction..” Eliza begged with fear. Her eyes already an inch to drip the hot tears.
She has made up her mind to uncover her heavy secret ….
To Be Continued….
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Eyaaaa…so pathetic