Unknot The Tie – Episode 9

EPISODE 9

 

☞Nnenne Uju izuanagbara.

 

IFEOMA STOOD UP. SHE STARTED SWEATING IN HER SHOES.

 

-please sir, please, i,i, i, don’t do dogs please.

 

-it’s not about what you don’t do dear. it’s about what we do.(he opened his brief case and brought out wraps of dollars. He dropped it on IFEOMA’s laps.) that’s for the first round. As you can see, i’m really nice. i pay before service.UNDRESS.

 

-ok, ok, ok, but emmmm, you first please. you first.

 

-shut up. No bitch dictates to me how i run my shit. My dog first. Undress!

 

THE DOG WAS BARKING, NO ROARING, WHICH ALSO MEANT, UNDRESS!!!. IFEOMA UNDRESSED SLUGGISHLY AS SHE CRIED AND BEGGED. HER PLEAS WHEN FALLING ON DEAF EARS. THE DOG WAS ALREADY WAGGING ITS TAIL. IMMEDIATELY IFEOMA TOOK OFF HER CLOTHE, THE DOG BOUNCED ON HER. IFEOMA WAS CRYING. IT WAS NOW THE TURN OF THE MAN. THE DOG TURNED AGAINST IT’S OWNER. IT WON’T ALLOW HIS MASTER COME CLOSE. THE MAN WAS SURPRISED.

 

-what’s wrong with you mehn? it’s my turn. that’s how we role. what’s your problem?

 

THE DOG REFUSED THE MAN WILL COME CLOSE TO IFEOMA. IFEOMA ACTUALLY MADE A CHARM SHE USED TO WASH HER SELF. IF DOZIE SLEEPS WITH HER, HE WILL BE GLUED TO HER. HE WILL NEVER LEAVE HER. NOW THE CHARM HAS GOTTEN THE DOG. THE MAN TRIED COMING CLOSER TO IFEOMA AGAIN, THIS TIME, THE DOG BOUNCED ON HIM AND GAVE HIM A HEAVY BITE ON THE FACE.

 

IFEOMA WAS SHIVERING AND CRYING. THE MAN WAS BLEEDING FURIOUSLY. THE MAN SCREAMED. IFEOMA STOOD UP AND STARTED DRESSING UP. THE DOG WAS BARKING AT HER TO STOP. IFEOMA DID NOT UNDERSTAND. THE DOG DREW HER CLOTHES WITH ITS TEETH. HE PUSHED HER TO THE BED. IFEOMA. STARTED FIGHTING WITH THE DOG. THE DOG WASN’T GOING TO LET HER BE. ONE MAN WALKED INTO THE ROOM. A FRIEND TO THE OWNER OF THE DOG.

 

-shit!!!! how could cannon(the dog) do this to you? hurry, lemme take you to the hospital.

 

-he will kill this lady. what do we do?

 

 

-my friend you first, you are bleeding. dog bite isn’t a small issue. let’s go. (to IFEOMA) if you can kill him, kill him.

 

-nooooo, please oooooo, don’t leave me and this dog please. please i beg you

 

(they left) aaaaaahhhhhhh, i am finished. somebody help me ooooo. somebody heeeelllllllppppppppp.

 

THE DOG WAS JUST LICKING ALL OVER HER. IFEOMA WAS SHOUTING. ONE OF THE MEN GUARDING THE OWNER OF THE DOG CAME IN. THE DOG STARTED BARKING AT HIM IN DEFENCE. HE HAD TO GO BACK. THE DOG SLEPT ON IFEOMA’S LAPS. SHE HASN’T BEEN THROUGH ANY WORSE NIGHTMARE IN LIFE THAN THAT.

 

AYO’S RESIDENCE.

 

AYO CAME IN AND MET MIRIAM COATING A CAKE. MIRIAM SAW HIM COME IN.

 

-good evening sir.

 

HE STOOD WITH BOTH HANDS IN HIS POCKET, STARRING AT HIS WIFE. MIRIAM WAS LOOKING AT HIM FROM THE CORNER OF HER EYES. SHE QUICKLY CARRIED THE CAKE TO MOVE IT AWAY BEFORE HE DESTROYS IT.

 

-Good evening love. how you?

 

MIRIAM ROLLED HER EYES. LOVE? HOW ARE YOU? HMMM.

 

-i’m fine. and you?

 

HE HELD HER HANDS.

 

-come, come with me.

 

HE HELD HER HANDS, LEADING HER TO THE ROOM. HE MET HIS KIDS ON THE WAY.

 

 

-good evening dad they greeted.

 

-good evening my cuties. how was today?

 

-(looking SURPRISED) good (paula answered) emmmm, dad, why are you holding mum’s hands. That’s how you hold DAMI’s hands when you want to FLOG him.

 

-(Ayo laughed) i am not flogging mum ok? and why are you still up? it’s past eight.

 

-we are waiting for mum to tell us bedtime bible stories and pray as usual.

 

-(Ayo looked at his wife) oh, ok. well, today, you paula will be praying with BAMI. I want to be with mum ok?

 

-Mum, (dami called) how are you?

 

-(MIRIAM smiled) i’m fine sweetheart.

 

-is that tears? on your eyes?

 

AYO WAS SHOCKED. WHY ARE HIS DAMI SOUNDED LIKE THAT.

 

-nooooo(miriam smiled) i’m fine.

 

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AYO WAS SWEATING. THE WAY HIS KIDS SOUNDED SHOWS THEY DON’T TRUST THEIR MOTHER BEING AROUND HIM. IS HE THAT BAD? HAS HE BEEN THAT BAD? THEY GOT TO THE ROOM. AYO SHUT THE DOOR. MIRIAM WAS SCARED. AYO COULD SEE FEAR IN HER.

 

-sweetheart, relax. it’s not what you think ok. please sit down (miriam sat) emmm, don’t know how to start but, emmmm, (he scratched his head) are we good? did i hurt you? ok, do i do things that hurt you?

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MIRIAM LOOKED AT AYO AND SHOCK HER HEAD IMMEDIATELY TEARS STARTED ROLLING DOWN.

 

-i’m i supposed to answer that? really Ayo? hmmmm, you didn’t just me, you killed me. The MIRIAM sitting with you is different from the MIRIAM you married six years ago. My heart is filled with brusies, pain, and lately, it is BEGINNING to develop REGRET Ayo, YES, REGRET. Because i wanted to stay with someone who will help me stay closer to God, who will help me build my faith, i prayed ernestly that the LOrd will give me a good fearing man. i served the Lord faithfully as a young lady. i kept myself, i came into your house CHASED. you AYO are the first and only man i have know. All i was trying to avoid, you brought my way. You accuse me, call me names, you slap me, treat me like i mean nothing to you. i showed you love but you pay me back with so much pain. Don’t see me as WEAKLING Ayo, i am not. The STRENGHT of the wise is not RETALIATION but in ENDURANCE. That is why the bible says, if i endure to the end, i will be saved. You took from me material things, but what i will not allow you take from me is THE SWEET FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLYSPIRIT. You will not defile my relationship with GOD.

 

AYO STARTED CRYING.

 

-sweetheart, please, forgive me. seriously, i, i, don’t even know how to place it. i guess i feel you don’t love me enough or maybe, i love you too much, i’m just jealous and it is taking away my sense of reasoning. i just don’t know. I want to be the man. i want to be in control. i was told if i am not hard enough, you will take me for granted. i’m sorry please. My reasoning changed after what happened to AUSTIN my friend and after DUBEM talked to us. Dozie and me. We usually laughed at him with the way it looked as if his wife bosses him around. Little did we know that those foolish things he does is wisdom. Austin is now behind bars. HE killed his wife.

 

-JESUS!!! lydia is dead? oh my God. lydia sent me something on my whatsapp. Austin doesn’t have a heart. i cried because i am not safe. The friend of a thief, might not be a thief but must one day join his friend to steal. oh lydia, such a PRECIOUS soul. i can’t believe it.

 

 

-i am sorry sweetheart please. please teach me what to do. you are more matured than i am. please help me to help this marriage work. i love you, ife mi, please.

 

HE WENT TO HIS BRIEFCASE AND BROUGHT OUT HER ATM, PHONE AND CAR KEY.

 

-please, accept them and accept me back.

 

-Ayo, material things are not my problem. They were not here six years ago. You are the man i married. it is you i want, the kids too. Be my friend. i want to share everything with you. your attitude makes me keep things from you because you MISUNDERSTAND everything.

 

-i will change. help me please. i love you sweetheart. thank you for staying. have you forgiven me?

 

-YES, with all my heart.(she smiled) I LOVE YOU.

 

-thank you. I LOVE YOU TOO.

 

AYO AND DUBEM ACCOMPANIED DOZIE TO HIS IN-LAW’S HOUSE.

 

AFAM SAW HIM AND BECAME MAD.

 

-Dozie, ogini? what are you doing here? (he ran off and dragged bottle and broke it. DUBEM AND AYO HELD HIM. Dozie took to his heels) Come, you people should leave me o. this fool has the guts to come to my house? icho onye? (to look for who?) mma gi k’o mpa gi?(your father or your mother?)

 

-nwanne calm down DUBEM REPLIED. please drop the bottle. This is not the solution.

 

-see ehee, i am respecting you people o. in fact, it is like he knows i will kill him if he came alone.

 

-please calm down my brother. i know how you feel.

 

 

-mba o, you don’t. nwanne, you don’t. My only sister. ADA NNEM. The only flower in my father’s garden. This idiot wants to blind her. My sister did not marry you because her family is poor. if not for how God has made it, NKECHI will not marry. you are lucky o, very lucky. CHIBUZOR AND EZE are not in NIgeria. you would have seen craze. idiot. You think once your manhood develop in size means you are now a man.

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-you are right. please my brother. you have every right to be angry. DOZIE is my childhood friend. Since SECONDARY school. He didn’t do well. i kept telling him. Now he has realized himself. He has come back for his wife.

 

-he is a mad man. hmmm, do you know my sister is pregnant? There is an injection the doctor was supposed to give to her o. The doctor asked if she is pregnant, i said i don’t know. My sister said NO. just see o. The doctor asked her when she last saw her period, she told him. Doctor calculateed and said there might be a chance she could be pregnant. That was how we ran test o. okwa afo ime. (PREGNANCY o) that is how that idiot would have killed my sister’s baby. scan says she is carrying twins. Two boys. That is what my sister would have lost. After how many years of marriage. Thank God for the doctor. You are not taking her anywhere. in fact, leave my house.

 

AFAM’S WIFE AND NKECHI WERE RETURNING FROM THE MARKET AND SAW THE CARS IN THE COMPOUND.

 

-my husband is here o. That’s his car and the other cars are for his friends.

 

-Are you sure?

 

-yes.

 

-let’s go back. He must not see you.

 

-sister, i want to see him.

 

-haaaaaaaa, Nkechi, hahahahahaha. i thought you were doing he will never see you and your babies. Don’t mind your brother o. Forgive your husband. For him to come back, he must have received enough sense.

 

 

-maybe he knows i’m pregnant.

 

-i doubt. he doesn’t.

 

-let’s go inside. sister, how do i look?

 

-hahahahahaha, very BEAUTIFUL.

 

DOZIE COULD NOT GET HIS EYES OFF HER WHEN NKECHI STEPPED IN.

 

-Ada go inside. Afam shouted.

 

DOZIE WENT ON HIS KNEES. PLEASE FORGIVE ME…..

 

-LEAVE MY HOUSE. Afam shouted as all their pleas fell on deaf ears.

 

TO BE CONTINUED.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UNKNOT THE TIE.