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Episode 33

Melvin: Mum please and please stop forcing tola on me … He was a bit calm this time …making his way from the stairs to the sitting room ….

Chief Mrs: No way Melvin, you will have to learn to love her …please son you can’t disappoint me ans you know that ,you know how tola and aduke is to me… Sounding calm also…

Melvin: With a sign of resignation… Mum I will think about it ..


And what does he wants to think about …I said to myself as I was eavesdropping

at thier conversation…


Chief Mrs: Oh thanks son …

Melvin: Mum don’t thank me yet , I never said I agreed ,I only said I will think about it …

Chief Mrs: Please do my son, .. And by the way ,what is it that you wanted the discuss,the reason you sent your sister and tola up …

Melvin: You should have asked at the first place instead of bringing up unnecessary issue…

Chief Mrs: Which other discussion could be more important if not about you and tola …

Melvin: Oh please mum, not again…

Chief Mrs: Okay what is it you wanted to discuss ?


Back In the kitchen we were eager to know what he wanted to discuss …

Mama femi: What could he be that he wants to say

Joke: I wonder oo ..

Mama femi: Let’s listen ….


Melvin: Mum who is that girl ,I mean that maid, she looks new to me ,never seen her before …

What!!

He just asked about me ,does that means he noticed me?… I could not hide my joy … Wooah could it be my dreams are coming through, at least he noticed me.. I smiled …

Mama femi: Keji , he is talking about you oo …

I just nodded ,cus I know if I talk at that moment ,they would notice the happiness and excitement in me …..

Chief Mrs: Yes she is, I just recruited her not long ….

Melvin: But mum ,isn’t she too young to be a maid ,like when did you start recruiting young girls to work for you … He asked with seriousness in his voice ….

Chief Mrs: And why are you bothered? Is a 20 years old girl a kid ,Infact she is not even a maid ,she is my slave, but have been so nice not to treat her as one ….

What!!! Slave!!! God I could not believe my ears ,did she just call me a slave ,I felt pained and embarrassed ,she called me a slave in the front of Melvin the man of my dream ….

God am I really a slave … I flashed back to when I was leaving aunty stella the 1million naira cheque on the table ,so aunty stella really sold me completely ,I could not control the tears …. God why …

Joke: Choi!! Chief mrs get bad mouth oo, why she go call Keji slave nah. .

Mama femi didn’t say anything ,she only patted me on my shoulders and I understand what it means “AKUNA MATATA”


Melvin: Mum how could you call her your slave, that was harsh …

Chief Mrs: Cus that’s what she is, I bought her with a million naira ,isn’t that enough reason to call her my slave …

Melvin: Shocked …. Bought her ? .. for Christ sake mum ..when did you start buying people…

Chief Mrs: Well I bought her becos her buyer said she is a homeless ,and I felt she is still young and would be able to serve us well, when you get married to tola you will surely need a nanny for my grandchildren so I had to buy her … And how does that even affect you …she is mine, if I wish I could decide to keep her till she grows grey hair ,Infact anything I like I will do to her ,so please Melvin let this slide ….


I could not help the tears ..God am ruined, so I have been fooling myself all this while,so I am to serve Melvin and tola and even thier children …oh God why don’t you just take my life ,this is so heart broken lord …Aunty stella has finally finished me… I could nor control the tears, mama femi kept patting me …

Life can be so funny at times, just when u felt I might have escaped aunty stella ,I never Knew it was from frying pan to fire ,yet the stupid me was crushing ib my buyers son ,someone am to serve all my life …

God just take my life right now … I wept …


Melvin: But mum just try not to treat her as one ,she is still very young and she looks fragile …

Chief Mrs: Melvin don’t tell me this is the nonsense you wanted to discuss with me ehn ….

Melvin: Mum does this sounds like nonsense to you …

Chief Mrs: Yes , real nonsense…

Melvin: Speechless…hmmmm

Chief Mrs: Charles … She called the body guard beside her ..

Charles: Yes ma’am

Chief Mrs: Summon all the workers..

Charles: Yes Ma…


On hearing that I quickly clean my eyes and adjusted my uniform ,with my heavy heart ,I promised myself to avoid eye contact will Melvin and also to stop thinking about him ….

The kitcheh was the last place Charles came to,we all marched out in numbers and assembled in the sitting room ….

Chief Mrs: Charles call me tola and precious … Charles ran up the stairs ,in few minute he marched to the sitting room together with tola and precious

….

Precious: Mum you called for us

Chief Mrs: Yes, want to make an announcement

Precious: Okay mum Chief Mrs: Good afternoon everyone ..

Good afternoon Ma ,we all chorused…

Chief Mrs: I have a special announcement to make that’s why I summoned you all ..

What announcement could it be I asked myself…..trying every possible best to avoid eye contact with Melvin who kept staring into my eyes and I kept catching his glances..

The look on his face looks like he felt sorry and pity for me,but those look were making me feel uneasy not until chief mrs shouted my name in the midst of the announcement… It was then I knew have not been listening to the announcement…

Chief Mrs: Keji!! Keji!

Me: Shocked … Y-es m-a ..stammering …

Chief Mrs: Did you hear what I just said …

Yee I don die , I wasn’t listening Melvin has killed me …

Mama femi: Chief Mrs said you and nkechi would go to the market to get the stuffs for the welcome party that would be held for Melvin ….

Mama femi quickly bailed me out …my love for this woman ehn …

Me: Okay Ma..

Chief Mrs: So you were not paying attention ehn ..

Me: Ehm … I w-as Ma… I Said stammering …

I was so ashamed of myself that I had to bow my head ,Cus I knew Melvin knows I was busy staring at him instead of listening to the announcement… Oh Keji ,thought you said you won’t look at this guy again ….

But it’s not my fault nah,he was the one staring at me ,and I couldn’t help it ,I said to myself still bowing my head …

LOVE FAULT


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