What’s on your mind?
🙆🏽‍♂️The Abomination🙆🏽‍♀️
Episode 5
Before we left Toyin’s place, I managed to brief her. She was mute in disbelieve. We got home and
K@$$im was nowhere to be found. He abandoned the poor girl at home to nurse her pain all alone.
My feeling towards Ope was mixed, a feeling of pity for her and a feeling of jealousy for sharing my man
with me. We waited till 7pm but K@$$im never showed up. We left back to Toyin’s place that night. Her husband’s flight was scheduled to arrive Abuja by 6pm and he would pick a chartered taxi to Lokoja that
evening. How will he feel when he comes and see me in their house? I don’t want to create problem for
Toyin because they are living in harmony with her husband. They have just two children and David was
already in boarding school while Tola schools in Lagos with her father.
Toyin’s husband worked with a big telecommunication company in Lagos as a legal adviser. He only comes to Lokoja by weekend and
returns on Monday with the first flight. Toyin too is a lawyer, they met at the law school and they have been married for thirteen years.
Toyin, let me go and lodge in a hotel, I don’t want your husband to meet me here, I pleaded with her.
I already told him you are here and he’s eager to meet you. Did you tell him what happened between me and my husband? Yes of course, you expect me to lie to him? I have never lied to my husband and I
don’t intend to ever lie to him. This is one secret that have helped us live together in harmony since we
got married. When he comes he will intervene and use his masculine wisdom to address the matter. I
felt ashamed of myself because I have been lying to my husband and he also have been lying to me.
We had caught each other lying to each other on many occasions. Maybe I shouldn’t have told Toyin what happened? How will I be able to face her husband when he comes?
When he finally arrived, it was late and he only came to say hi with Toyin. When I saw the way they held themselves R0m-ntically I had an urge to cry but I let them out before I bursted into tears.
While I was struggling with my tears, I noticed a beep on my phone, it was K@$$im. He se-nt me a text apologizing for what happened in the morning. “My dear I’m sorry for what happened in the morning, it was the
devil who pushed me. I know I have offended you but I still love you”. I took my phone and deleted the
message in anger. Love my foot!
The following morning, I called my mother-in-law to inform her that I was no longer in her son’s house due to irreconcilable differences and the nee-d to advice Ope to return home. She tried to asked me
what happened but I insisted only K@$$im or Ope will tell her. The following day she was on the road to Lokoja. K@$$im and family are from Ajase close to Omu-Aran in Kwara state. When she arrived she called
me to come to the house. She also called K@$$im to come but he refused.
She begged me to return home but I refused. How can I stay with a man who abused his sister right in my prese-nce? Would I be
happy living with him again? How will the wound he created be healed? What can erase that memory of
what I saw that day?
It was obvious K@$$im will not come, it’s getting late ma and I nee-d to go, I told mama. Nneka you
can’t go anywhere, this is your house, she said as she held me and her tears swept me off my feet. I
broke down in tears, Ope joined us as we all wept like someone just died for us.
The tears we shed that day wouldn’t be greater if K@$$im was dead. I was tem-pted to stay back because of mama’s tears and
pleas but I was adamant. If I stay back, who will encourage me and keep my mind off the ugly situation
like Toyin will do? I pretended I wanted to use the toilet and sneaked out. Mama had stayed three days but K@$$im was yet to show up.
What’s on your mind?
🙆🏽‍♂️The Abomination🙆🏽‍♀️
Episode 6
Mama left with Ope and the house was deserted. I went there to pick more of my things. After a week,
K@$$im called Toyin begging her to plead with me to forgive him and return home. She can’t return home just like that. In fact, myself and my husband are already filing for divorce between both of you.
All these are like medicine after death. Go and continue to sleep with your sister, you beast. Toyin
insulted him. You must be the reason why my friend had not been able to conceive all these years.
This is pa-rt of the abominations baba talked about the other day. You better go and sort out yourself with
God before it is too late.
K@$$im kept se-nding me text of apology but I never reply any. We didn’t divorce but we were not living
as husband and wife again until our pastor intervention
He has called me severally, asking me why he has not seen us in church for sometime. He also had visited our home but met nobo-dy there. I was afraid to honour his appointment but Toyin encouraged me to. A meeting was slated for 10am the next Saturday.
I went with Toyin to see our pastor but on entering into his office, I saw K@$$im who was already sitted with elder James.
His head was buried in shame when he saw us. Good morning sirs, we greeted pastor and elder James together. Good morning my daughters, pastor responded cheerfully. You may have
your seats, he directed us to sit on the same couch with K@$$im but I didn’t know when I screamed, “I
won’t sit with this beast”. Immediately, I was given a plastic chair from the church to sit on.
I ensure I positioned my chair in a way our eyes will not set on each other.
Let us pray, pastor instructed, we all bent our heads in prayers. His prayer was short and simple. Brother
K@$$im what did you say happened between you and your wife that made her left home?
He kept quiet for minutes until pastor repeated the question again. He sluggishly stood up and said “we had a slight
argument and since I have been apologizing for her forgiveness. Please pastor help me beg her that I am
truly sorry. Pastor looked at me, I looked at Toyin in disbelieve. To err is human and to forgive is divine.
The scripture admonishes us to forgive ourselves of our offences so that our father in heaven can forgive
us, pastor continued his sermon of forgiveness as I sat down dumbfounded. So he didn’t tell the pastor
the truth. Slight argument? I was so angry like I should walk out of the pastor and the elder but they are
both old enough to be my father so I controlled my temper.
Sir, I want to leave until K@$$im is willing to say the truth. Before pastor opened his mouth to say
anything, I had carried my bag and dragged Toyin by her hand as we headed towards the door. My
daughters, please don’t go, let us not give room to the devil, the pastor begged but all fell on deaf ears.
I became more angry than before. K@$$im’s pretence and lies made me more sick than what he did to his
sister. I felt like killing him when pastor called him brother K@$$im. I wished pastor knew what he has
done. I started attending Toyin’s church but I tried to avoid baba(their pastor) because of our unfinished
deal with him.
Even with Toyin around, I felt very empty outside my matrimonial home. I started giving
attention to guys that were coming close. It is not what you are thinking. It’s just for friendship so I could
get my mind off my predicament. Those friendships didn’t last because they were all after my Honey-pot.
I vowed never to thread that path no matter the loneliness.
The picture of what happened between us
and prophet Ade still hunts my conscience.
I was married but single. My life was miserable and I became a shadow of myself. Nothing interests me
anymore. I abandoned most of my projects because of lack of concentration
TBC