S.I.M.S Episode 20
(STEPPING INTO MAGGIE’S SHOE)
©️ Opeyemi Ojerinde Akintunde
I sat in the living room close to twenty minutes listening to the moaning sound and screaming of Mrs Beecroft and my husband. I shut my ears most of the time, trying to tell myself I was probably hallucinating or hearing voices. I kept walking around in circles, I went into the kitchen to take a cup of coffee, but it did not drown the voices coming from Ray’s room…
I wanted to be sure if What I was suspecting was real, I walked cautiously to Apostle’s room. I saw the door was not locked. I peeped through the open door and met Apostle and Mrs Beecroft in the very act…
“ Jesus!” I screamed…
I ran down the stairs…
I stayed in the living room for another 5 mins before Mrs Beecroft came down..
“ I can’t believe you, Mrs Beecroft, to think you are one of the executives of the Women of virtue, this is crazy… I can’t believe this… Oh my Goodness! How I am so sure Pastor Maggie was not murdered by you and Him…” I stood in her way
“ Get away from me, I wasn’t doing anything with the apostle, we were only discussing something really personal” Mrs Beecroft said
I felt I was going to run mad in the real sense of it…
“ You said what?” I asked
“ We were not doing anything out of the ordinary “
“ So you are telling me I am crazy or I don’t know what I saw!”
“ Exactly, we all know you have bipolar and psychosis , this is probably one of your hallucinations, Don’t you think so?” Mrs Beecroft said sarcastically
“ I am not CRAZY…, Oh! I get it” I clapped my hands in applause to Apostle and Mrs Beecroft. Apostle was sitting on the floor of the last stairs bare chested
“ Happy, I think you need to take your pills, you are imagining things”
Apostle said with a sarcastic smile…
“ Really Ray?” I said clapping “ I give it to you, you are one hell of a smart guy, so I get the plan, you knew I had psychosis and you saw that as a way of blackmailing me… I get this….Tell me I am right… You married me because you know if I try to talk about your private life, you and everyone will say it’s not real and just a figment of my imagination”
Apostle gave a knowing wink instead of answering me… With that, Mrs Beecroft pushed me away from her front… I was so weak by the realization that I was tricked into the Marriage.
My Weakness was being used against me…
“ But I am not mad, I am not mad” I said repeatedly to myself as I saw Apostle walking her to the door
I picked up my phone and called my mother. I narrated in a rush , all that had happened in a week, but my mother didn’t believe me either.
“ Happiness, are you planning to walk out of that marriage? If you do, I will disown you…Your Husband has called me to inform me on how you have been acting strangely of recent to the point that you do not allow him to have sexual inter course with you…”
I hung up, because it was plain to me that Apostle was smarter than I thought. He had played a smart one on me. He had called the only person who could fight for me.
I sat down in the living room, expecting him to come in. He had escorted Mrs Beecroft to her car and stayed another 10 minutes in her car.
When he came in, I calmed myself down as I needed to ask him some questions…
“ Why did you marry me?, Honestly” I asked
“ I needed a wife for public reasons”
“ Are you a man of God? “
“ Surprisingly, Yes!”
“ And you feel God is not angry at what you are doing?”
“ I know He is, but there is nothing I can do about it, it hurts me that I am doing this, but I can’t help myself”
I didn’t know what else to ask, but I had a request…
“ I can’t stay here and watch this sin, can I relocate to another country?”
He was quiet…
“ I like you happy, it’s just that I am not content with you, you can still stay here and if you accept me the way I am, I will be the best friend and Husband you will have…”
“ What are you proposing?, So you expect me not to have sex again?” I asked since he said he was no more attracted to me in that regard
“ You can have a boyfriend, who I will pretend I don’t know!, we can keep this our little secret and continue the work of God” he said
Words to express my emotions at that point may not be found in the dictionary, then just like a whisper from behind my ear, I heard
“ Greed…”
I looked back and saw no one…
“Was this a show of Greed or something spiritual?” I asked myself
Out of the blues, I saw Apostle prostrating and pleading…
“PLEASE! Happy don’t leave me and don’t take away my women from me!”
I had never been that shocked in my life… But what made me more confused was why God had not punished him for this act of His… Apostle was highly anointed and God was proving Himself in his ministry…
I stood up and found my way to my room, I had no answer to his request, I had to think about it….
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In the course of 3 months after the wedding, I had seen about 7 married women in our home, and each time we saw in church, we pretended all was well. Annoyingly, each of the women thought she was the only woman Apostle Ray was sleeping with…He was that smart…
I started getting used to the system as I couldn’t say a word to anyone for fear of being tagged Insane…
At some point I came to the conclusion that it was his problem and I was going to give him 6 months to one year, before relocating to somewhere else, probably Kenya…
It dawned on me, why Pastor Maggie was not friendly with all the women in the church, I believed she felt betrayed by them as they were sleeping with her Husband. No wonder, people didn’t respect her, No wonder, her messages were always watery. No woman in that shoe will be mentally okay to prepare a sermon…
I told myself unlike Pastor Maggie, I was going to enjoy my life to the fullest. I was going to dress to kill, I was going to make the stupid married women look like fools.
I started exploiting Apostle Ray for money, which I was pumping into my business.
Anytime any of the women came around and were on their way out, I will give comments like…
“ Thanks for doing my job for me, please make sure you take some pain relievers when you get home and some anti aging pills”
Most of the ladies will just leave without saying anything, but Mrs Beecroft was high audacious. She was the only one who would give smirk remarks like
“ I like it that way, I know you are just talking out jealousy, I know he hasn’t touched you since you got married, so pathetic…”
I always felt like throwing something at her, but I had a joker up my sleeve…
Apostle had told me I could have a boyfriend, Guess who I had my eyes on, Mrs Beecroft‘s only son… He was 30 years old, single and Handsome.
Apostle and Mrs Beecroft were about to get the shock of their lives. They thought I was crazy! I was about to show them crazy in capital letters…
S.I.M.S Episode 21
(STEPPING INTO MAGGIE’S SHOE)
©️Opeyemi Ojerinde Akintunde
I had seen Gabriel with his mother one Sunday Afternoon after service. He was looking dashing… Nice haircut, well ironed outfit and good looking.
I made some findings and found out he was the only son of the Beecrofts’ who had returned from studying abroad.
My brain went to work and I knew this was payback time for Mrs Beecroft.
I had gotten home that Sunday and searched online for him. I opened a fake social media account in other to chat him up.
I started chatting with him as a secret admirer…
“ Hey handsome… I attend your church and I must tell you, I am simply crazy about you.. I am not a stalker, just wanted to let you know how handsome you are…Bless you!”
He didn’t reply my chats for two days, but on the third day, he simply replied
“ Thank you, Bless you too”
I continued sending him prayer messages everyday, till he eventually chatted me up one night..
That one night sealed it up as we chatted for 4 hours non stop.
From that night, we chatted everyday, We even spoke on phone. He didn’t recognize my voice. He became smitten with me.
Meanwhile, Apostle continued his escapades especially with Mrs Beecroft and on one occasion when Mrs Beecroft was leaving, I told her
“ Say me hi to Gabriel, please inform him his secret admirer says hi”
She was shocked…
“ What did you say?”
“ Never mind, it’s none of your business anyway…”
“ What have you done to my son?”
“ What have you done to my husband?”
I saw fire in her eyes as the meaning of my words sank into her….
I needed her to think about what she was about to do
“ If you try anything funny, I will let Everyone who cares to listen what you have been doing with my husband, so use your brain when discussing with your son”
She ran out of the house really fast…
I had a very good laugh….
Apostle dragged me by the shoulder
“ What have you done?”
“ Exactly what you have been doing and you advised me to do, I also have a history in liking what belongs to other people, so I like Mrs Beecroft’s son, is there a problem with that?”
Apostle was shocked…
“ What’s wrong? Have I done something wrong?” I said giving the most innocent look ever and when I noticed he couldn’t say a word, I continued…
“ You think you are Greedy? Welcome to my world”
I picked up my phone and called Gabriel…
“ Hey handsome, how are you doing? I have decided to give you what you have been asking…Yes…a weekend together, Yes…” I continued talking as I walked up the stairs…
I knew Apostle must have been wondering if he was dreaming. He stayed in the living room till I came down with a box of clothes. I wore one of my glamorous dresses, highly tempting with a well made up face…
“ You are not going anywhere” he said blocking my way
“ Sorry, That part of English sounds like French In my ears, which unfortunately I don’t understand “
“ You are my wife and you shouldn’t be prostituting yourself around”
“ Oh oh, well the last time I checked, you are my husband and you shouldn’t be prostituting yourself around”
“ I am a man, and so it is allowed”
“.Oh, well I am a woman and I have emotions too”
“ Over my dead body will you go out of this house” He said
“Well, That is a good option, I can kill you and in your words, they will think I was having one of my psychotic crises”
With that he stepped out of my way…
“ I may not be attending Sunday service, because I intend enjoying myself to the fullest, you know you have really starved me for months”
I saw that little boy that he told me he was, you know the kind of child that loves to have what belongs to others and yet was not ready to let go of what was in his hand… Well, it was time to get even…
As I stepped out of the gate, I stopped a taxi and asked him to take me to the hotel Gabriel and I had discussed about. I heard His voice…
“ Do you love me?” I looked around and I didn’t see who spoke
I got into the taxi not giving the voice a second thought…
As we journeyed, I kept hearing that voice asking all over again
“ Do you love me?”
I wasn’t ready to listen to that voice,I had been cheated and I wanted to get even, besides I also needed some manly touch and Gabriel was going to give it to me. I knew it was going to be tough the moment Gabriel discovered I was the one, but I would make him do what I wanted….
To be continued!
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Hmmmmmm…. This is serious oooooo
I hope she listens to the voice
am liking this girl right now
This is becoming really serious ooo
This is getting out of hand.