Episode
5
The next day (Thursday)
Andy had errands to run close to his sisters shop so he stopped by to say hi
and as usual gist a bit with her, she then told him to come in and hear the
latest development zo ka ji wani magana
mai ba da dariya
she said in Hausa. He was intrigued thinking it was work
related since there last conversation the day before was that she would talk to
some of her customers if they could fix Andy in one of their offices so he can
be earning something to add to his DJ works but he was shocked at what he
heard.
She told him how her
husband out of suspicious thinking told his 14 year old daughter in the morning
as they all left the house for the town that she should be aware and careful of
him (Andy) that he was a stranger to her and could actually do immoral things
to her being that she was his daughter from his first marriage (her mother was
dead) so they were not related to Andy in any way and so such evil things could
be lurking in his heart somewhere towards her. That he even told Sheila that
Grace whom the whole world knew as her mother including the children was also a
stranger to her and he showed her the pictures of her dead mother telling her
that her real family was he and her mother’s relatives stating the events that
lead to her mother’s death and the shot from the armed robbers gun. So she
should know her family members and differentiate them from strangers and be
careful.
He got mad but didn’t
say a thing to john as he was expecting him to be confronted since they were
both grown up men but John never said anything related to that to him throughout the day even when he joined him in
the car to be dropped on the way. While he was at home that night his niece
Sheila called him crying and telling him what her father had been telling her
concerning him but he calmed her telling her to brush those stupid statements
off as it were all coming from a bad angle of her father’s mind assuring her
that they were still cool.
Shit got really bad as
John kept blabbing and saying stupid things he initially had in mind and would
later regret because he had no censor in his speeches, as they were thought in
his mind so he spits them out without thinking them through.
It was later concluded
from most of his statements and actions that he was jealous of the fact that
the children were all in love with their mother and scared of him except for
the little ones blessing and Loveth who were still very small and had no
problems. His presence scared off the grown ones so he thought attacking the
cordial relationship between children (his other marriage gave him two children
Sheila and Jake who were 3years and 3months respectively when their mother got
shot) and stepmother whom accepted the children as hers and there was no
difference in treatment of all to have attracted unnecessary attention, was a
good place to start a reconciliation package with the kids by making them
scared of their mother. One of his funny and yet stupid complains was that she
kept on buying them stuffs and not letting them know it was their fathers money
so they would also recognize him instead when they were asked who got them
stuffs they usually said it was their mother and not him and it annoyed him. I
thought the idea of marriage was that we are one and whatever I do we did,
Grace asked which was the logic truth of marriage but he always had some stupid
opinion to counter whatever he hears.
John kept on
attacking Sheila’s mind with a lot of useless information’s, worrying her
fragile emotional heart until she developed tough skin towards his constant
comments. She once told her uncle Andy that she now just stands in front of him
looking at his face but hearing nothing at all but just watching as his mouth
moved open and close since his information she could not yet understand what to
do with them. He once referred Grace to an event back when he, a friend and her
uncle visited Sheila in school on their speech and price giving day. He
actually insisted that Andy accompany him to the occasion which Andy
reluctantly agreed because he was supposed to travel to Bauchi that same day
for a job. He claimed that Andy hugged Sheila in a way he was not comfortable
with at all to the amazement of the little girl who then asked him “daddy so
you have had this thing worrying you in your heart all these while?”
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