BLOOD SISTER
Epi 11-12
( EPISODE 11)
MAMA RITA : Rita, Rita
RITA : mama, am at the backyard oo
MAMA RITA : how are you
RITA : I am fine
MAMA RITA : Rita, you see why I always say, we should always go to the farm and harvest some cas-sava, crops and go and sell, how which we were not doing all this things, where would i have gotten the fifty five thousand naira, we gave to charity
RITA : (silent )
MAMA RITA : Rita, I am talking to you na
RITA : mama I can hear you, I am not deaf
MAMA RITA : but you kept quiet, as if you are not hearing me
RITA : mama, I heared you
MAMA RITA : why did you not say anything
RITA : must I say something, what matter is that I heared you
MAMA RITA : ok, if you say so, plea-se come and help me to go and give mama Aka this money
RITA : mama Aka
MAMA AKA : Yes
RITA : mama no oo, I am not going
MAMA RITA : why
RITA : you want ify are daughter to see me and mock me
MAMA RITA : mock you, why will ify your friend see you and mock you, is it because you are not educated like her
RITA : Yes, I am no longer in her level
MAMA RITA : hmm, dont mind her, that will not st©p you from this mas-sage nah
RITA : mama I cannot go, she will start calling me names
MAMA RITA : you insult her too, don’t you have mouth, plea-se come and help me
RITA : mama, ok bring it
MAMA RITA : ah, thank you
RITA : you are happy now
MAMA RITA : Yes, I am really really tired because of the farm work today, thank you
RITA : how which you can make me smile like this
MAMA RITA : what did you just say
RITA : mama I know you dont have ear problem
MAMA RITA : hmmm
RITA : I am going
(I left to mama Aka house, on getting there I met ify outside)
IFY : hmm, Rita, I definitely know you will come looking for you
RITA : sorry to disappoint you darling, I am not here for you but for your mother
IFY : hmm, that’s shows you are a good girl that listen to instructions
RITA : Yes, I was trained to know my limit
IFY : I dont un-derstand
RITA : I was trained to un-derstand that all f!ngersare not equal, everyone with is own clas-s
IFY : really
RITA : where is your mother
IFY : inside, oh here she comes
MAMA AKA : Rita you are here
IFY : Yes ma
MAMA AKA : how is your mother
IFY : she is fine, she is the one that s£nt me here, she said I should give you this
MAMA AKA : oh I see, so quic-k, I was expecting it next week oo, anyway tell her I will be coming to see her, this evening
IFY : ok ma, I will be leaving now
MAMA AKA : so quic-k, you are just coming now
IFY : I have works at home to do
MAMA AKA : Rita, I know you very well, dont tell me you are still mad at ify
IFY : mama, what’s that, let her go now, what do you nee-d her around for, if is for us to sort things out, mama no
RITA : mama, I have nothing in mind oo, I only c@m£ here to give you this, that’s all, and you ify, do you think I will come back begging you again, the Last time I tried talking to you, what did you do
IFY : Yes I can remember very well, I asked you to stay away from me, you are good girl that obey things alot
RITA : good, I dont have your time anymore, but one thing I know is that, you will come looking for me, mark it
MAMA AKA : enough the both of you, why na, the two of you were best of friends
IFY : the best of friend I regretted, I regretted ma-king friend with a fool, a very big fool, mumu, mummy’s girl, mummy handbag, continue slee-ping at your mother back oo, dont go and start planning your life in few years from now, charity your sister will be a great person, and you will be her slave, because you will be begging her money
MAMA AKA : shut up your mouth, what’s wrong with you
RITA : mama I am going
IFY: one more thing, congratulations, I heared you have won another award in mumu, for returning your engagement ring, because your mother asked you to, fool, I just hate you
RITA : are you done
IFY : no oo, I thought you are going, that why I just rounded up, do you want me to continue, because I have your time oo
RITA :hmmm, okay
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( EPISODE 12)
MAMA AKA : ify what is the meaning of that
IFY: meaning of what mama
MAMA AKA : why will you talk to your own friend like that
IFY : mama, how did I talk to her
MAMA AKA : you are too harsh on her, she is your friend, for Christ sake, not because all is now well with you, you now turn your back on her
IFY : mama, I know I am over reacting, I just want my friend to open is eyes, are mother is not treating her well, and she is not bothered about it, she is still in that house smiling and laughing with that are mother. Her foolishness irritates me, Rita is a stupid girl, I am just doing all this to her, so that she can come back to her s-en-se
MAMA AKA : Rita is in her right s-en-ses
IFY : no, how can someone be in her right s-en-se that way
MAMA AKA : Rita, is in her right s-en-se, she is just a quiet girl that dont talk, she is very calm
IFY : her quietness is ma-king her look stupid, the calmness is not helping her, let her speak up
MAMA AKA : leave Rita alone, she can handle her family issues in her best way
IFY : who can handle issues, Rita
MAMA AKA : why can’t she
IFY : mama the one that pained me most, is this fool returned her engagement ring, because her mother ask her to
MAMA AKA : she is only obeying her mother
IFY : mama st©p saying that thing jor, how which is me ehn, God in heaven know what I will do, how can a mother ask is own daughter to turn down marriage proposal, mama check it na, and the mumu daughter, accepted it, ha! Mama you called that obeying, mama no oo
MAMA AKA : I un-derstand you sha, but Rita dont have choice than to obey her mother
IFY : mama that is why I always asked you, are you sure, your friend is the biological mother of Rita
MAMA AKA : Yes, she is
IFY : or is there something, the both of you are keeping away from us
MAMA AKA : you are mad oo, plea-se I am going inside
IFY : inside
MAMA AKA : hmm
(When I got home, my mother was at the backyard)
MAMA RITA : Rita, you are back
RITA : Yes
MAMA RITA : did you see mama Aka at home
RITA : Yes I saw her at home
MAMA RITA : what about ify, is she still around
RITA : Yes she is around
MAMA RITA : I hope the two of you, did not quarrel each other
RITA : of course, she must mock me as usual
MAMA RITA : I hope you insulted her too
RITA : really, insult her too
MAMA RITA : Yes
RITA : ify laughed at me, with all the errors in my life, she mocked me, with good reasons, I don’t have anything to use to laugh at here too, her life is well furnished
MAMA RITA : ok, your life is not furnished
RITA : of course my life is not furnished, you caused it, my life is full of too many errors, you are the cause of every errors in my life
MAMA RITA : me
RITA : ify is now a big girl now, who caused it, who made it happened, her lovely mother, how which in my next life, God will bless me with that kind of a lovely mother
MAMA RITA : so I am not a lovely mother
RITA : you are not, you are bad mother to me, you have sworn not to see me happy
MAMA RITA : me bad mother (she started crying ) why do you always blame me, why
RITA : because you are the cause of my mockery (I walked away )
(Early morning of the next day, my mother c@m£ out with her farm tools, she saw me outside)
MAMA RITA : Rita, you are outside
RITA : Yes mama, good morning
MAMA RITA : morning my dear, let us start going, so that we will finish on time
RITA : go where
MAMA RITA : what kind of question are you asking me, you are seeing me with farm tools, you are asking me, where are we going, we are going to the farm
RITA : farm, mama today is market day, is a day of resting
MAMA RITA : I know, let us go and harvest cas-sava for us to sell today
RITA : mama, dont go and kill yourself with work oo
MAMA RITA : you know your sister charity nee-ds money for her school
RITA : the way charity demands for money, is like we have central bank in this house, we are human, we cannot go and kill ourselves because charity is in the university
MAMA RITA : I know, but we have to be patient, she will soon roundup, let us go
RITA : you and this your national anthem, let us go, I am not going to the farm today
MAMA RITA : plea-se my daughter
RITA : mama no, go and drop your farm tools
MAMA RITA : fine, let me go alone
RITA : ok, if you wish
MAMA RITA : take care (she walked away, but I felt for her)
RITA : mama
MAMA RITA : Yes
RITA : wait for me, let me change into my farm clothes, so that I can follow you
MAMA RITA : ok
TBC