As Henry got down from the staircase, he walked towards Bimpe and sat down beside her. I bent forward and said
“good afternoon sir”, I was shocked when he looked into my face and said
“mr onihaxy, there is nothing good about the afternoon”. This time, I was more than scared, in fact I was shaking on the seat and wondering what could be going on.
“good afternoon sir”, I was shocked when he looked into my face and said
“mr onihaxy, there is nothing good about the afternoon”. This time, I was more than scared, in fact I was shaking on the seat and wondering what could be going on.
ME: haaaa, sir!!!!!!!, what have I done wrong sir?
HENRY: so many things. Infact, everything.
ME: haaaaaaaaaa. What is that sir?
HENRY: **** turned to bimpe***** darling, please get him something to drink before we commence this meeting please.
BIMPE: Me?, get him something to drink?, not me.
HENRY: please dear. I thought I have begged you over this issue. Please just let it go and leave everything for me to resolve. Please!!!!!
BIMPE: ***looked at me as if she should chop off my head****** stood up reluctantly and went to the dinning room.
ME: “surprised” **begged her keee?, to let go of what?, e be like say my fowl yansh don open***
HENRY: just wait and let her be back.
ME: ok sir. Please where is Daniela sir?
HENRY: she went out with our new maid.
ME: ok sir
BETTY: ****returned with a can of cold malt and a glass cup and dropped them on the stood beside my seat and returned back to sit beside Henry******
HENRY: please drink.
ME: I’m ok for now sir.
HENRY: no, I insist. You are just coming from the hot sun, and seeing bible with you, I believed you are coming here directly from church. So you need something to cool down first.
ME: ok sir. ***** opened the can, poured little inside the glass cup and
Drank little****
Drank little****
HENRY: now let’s go to the main purpose of this meeting.
ME: ok sir
HENRY: ***turned to Bimpe****, please lower the volume of what you are watching and concentrate here please
BIMPE: ****reluctantly reduced the volume of the sound system*****
HENRY: ok Mr. Onihaxy, as you are looking at my wife and I, what is our relationship with you?,
ME: sir?, relationship as how?, I don’t get it sir
HENRY: to you, who are we?
ME: ok, now I get it, you are my in-laws sir.
HENRY: right from the day Betty brought you into this house and introduced you to us as her fiancé, have we ever treated you bad before?
HENRY: right from the day Betty brought you into this house and introduced you to us as her fiancé, have we ever treated you bad before?
ME: no sir.
HENRY: Are you aware that my sister is playing a deadly game just because of you?
ME: yes sir, she told me.
HENRY: good. Did you know that she is going against our father’s wish and she will be disowned after her education just because of you?
ME: yes sir.
HENRY: ok, do you realize that she will break an engagement and end up hurting someone just because of you?
ME: yes sir.
HENRY: if so, then why do we deserve the opposite of the way we treated you?
ME: opposite?, I don’t get it sir.
HENRY: ok, weeks before Betty travelled out, you stopped calling me and my wife, my sister took her car out of this compound and gave it to you, yet you never called me or my wife for an appreciation, or you think we aren’t aware of it?
ME: I’m so sorry sir.
HENRY: finally, my wife called you and you ignored her calls several times.
ME: haaaaa.
HENRY: what is haaaaa?, I was here seated beside her while she called you several times and you won’t pick up, she decided to use my second line to call you, you hanged up immediately after hearing her voice. Seriously, what did we do to you to deserve all this?
ME: ****feeling remorsed**** I’m so sorry sir
HENRY: seriously, I don’t blame you at all, if not for Betty who begged my wife to always keep in touch with you so that you won’t feel detached from the family in her absence. I never knew you were like this.
ME: I’m so sorry sir, I’m promising you that it won’t repeat itself again, I will amend sir.
HENRY: but wait, I want to know what actually happened that you don’t always pick my wife’s call and hang up whenever you heard her voice from another number. Just tell me.
ME: ****chaiiiii!!!!!, what do I say now*******
ME: *****silent for a while*******
BIMPE : *****looked at me in the eye and appeared somehow scared*****
ME: eeeehmm, Mr Henry. It was actually a transferred aggression.
HENRY: transferred aggression as how?.
ME: most of the time, it was either our customers provoked me, or my superiors. It actually led me to transfer aggression to many people. I’m sorry about that.
HENRY: ok, now I understand.
BIMPE: ***smiled*** that’s true; some customers can be so rude and annoying at the bank.
HENRY: but all the same, that shouldn’t cause you to treat people who cared about you anyhow.
ME: ok sir.
HENRY: I used to work as an enquiry officer with a bank back in those days, and yet I placed a balance between my job and my family.
ME: thank you sir.
HENRY: Actually, I have wanted to call my sister and advice her to forget about you and move on. I’m serious.
ME: haaaaaaa.
HENRY: I swear to God. Because I can’t imagine a man claiming to date my sister and yet, he refused to call, visit, and equally ignore our calls. Thank your stars and thank my wife. If not for her who suggested that we should invite you over and enquire from you. Honestly, I don’t have that patience.
ME: *** turned to Bimpe***** mummy Daniela, thank you very much ma. I’m really grateful ma. And please ma. Forgive me ma. It was actually a transferred aggression ma, it won’t repeat itself ma.
BIMPE: let’s just thank God. Try to change and adjust your ways, because I can’t imagine how you will treat my mother in-law when you treated us this way.
ME: I’m so sorry ma.
BIMPE: no problem.
HENRY: ***turned to bimpe*** hope you have forgive him fully and whole heartedly.
BIMPE: **smiled and rest her head on Henry’s chest**** yes dear, I have.
HENRY: Mr. Onihaxy!, next time I hear that you aren’t calling or not picking calls again, I swear to God, you will see the other side of me.
ME: I heard you sir, I will try my best to be a good boy sir. And I promise you that I will even be the one to be calling.
HENRY: that’s good and that is what I like to hear. Maybe you don’t know that my wife and I are your reference in this relationship. Whatever we say or decide is what my sister must follow.
ME: ok sir.
BIMPE: ****mood changed immediately and was smiling**** so mr onihaxy, what will you eat?
ME: I’m ok for now. I’m fine.
BIMPE: I will never accept that, you must eat something.
ME: seriously, I’m good and fine.
HENRY: mummy Daniela, why are you asking him?, go to the kitchen and prepare something jaree.
BIMPE: ok dear, I will be right back.***stood up and left us****
HENRY: Mr nihaxy, let’s talk about you. How is work?, and when do you intend to settle down?
Henry and I continued to relate and chat on so many issues for the next 20 minutes until we heard a knock on the door. Henry asked who was at the door and a voice sounded from outside saying “it’s me Sarah”. Henry raised his voice to call bimpe. “Darling, sarah is at the door”. Bimpe came out to the living room putting on a kitchen apron. She went to the door and opened it.
The door opened and a young lady entered, holding daniella on the hand, Adebimpe bent down, picked Daniela up and kissed her, petting her and calling her several pet names. She dropped her down and said
“daniella, “oya” go and play with uncle Onihaxy”.
Daniella came over to meet me while Betty and Sarah entered into the kitchen. I asked Henry who Sarah was and he replied that she was the new maid.
The door opened and a young lady entered, holding daniella on the hand, Adebimpe bent down, picked Daniela up and kissed her, petting her and calling her several pet names. She dropped her down and said
“daniella, “oya” go and play with uncle Onihaxy”.
Daniella came over to meet me while Betty and Sarah entered into the kitchen. I asked Henry who Sarah was and he replied that she was the new maid.
20 minutes later, sarah came out of the kitchen to the dinning carrying a tray containing two dishes and some plates while Bimpe came out to meet us at the living room where I was playing with Daniela. Henry was so surprised seeing Daniela and I playing together like two kids. He turned to Adebimpe and asked,
HENRY: dear, has Mr. Onihaxy and daniella been playing like this before?
BIMPE: why did you ask?
HENRY: because I have never seen Daniela playing with an outsider like this before.
BIMPE: yeah, that is true. Maybe daniella liked him sha. And funny enough. She is always asleep whenever he comes here to visit betty, I think he met daniella awake just thrice.
HENRY: this is amazing.
ME: smiling at both of them, **see this man, why won’t she play with me when I’m her father** ”
BIMPE: anyways, food is ready, let’s all go to the kitchen and eat.
We all left the living room and went to the dinning with Daniela sitting by my side and still playing with me.
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