When The Tide Of The Heart Changes

Episode 18

LIFE

It’s been 6months since Johnny and Yvonne moved down to the village.

Yvonne whose belly now clearly protruded due the beautiful life that grew within her, with all the inconveniences that goes with it.
She now looks paler than normal, tiny bits of black rashes could be detected on her hands and a little part of her face as a result of the constant mosquitoes she had to battle all night and tiny little insects that looks like tse-tse flies that perches unknowingly when ever they see an open flesh.

Her swollen legs looking relatively big, like its filled with water which Johnny takes the task of massaging them each night, pregnancy is both the responsibility of both man and woman.

Her now hand plaited natural hair still shone like she still uses her foreign shampoos, her beautiful face still ever radiant and undiminished.

All the while she still remained a happy creature, graceful and beautiful as ever even though her general appearance changed.

Sharp piercing pains that seems to break her pelvic cavities and spinal column into pieces, like those bones are being crushed against rocks, occured almost every two days interval, each pain seeming new all the time keeps her and Johnny awake the greater percentage of the night.

Mama Nnenna ‘The 2nd wife of Johnny’s uncle’ quite fund of Yvonne have told her that the pains means it was a boy and he is trying to play football.

“Hahahahahaha my womb have now become stamford bridge” Yvonne would joke with an invasive laugh imbedded in pains.
Mama Nnenna was also responsible for teaching Yvonne how to live and adapt to the new life she was introduced to.

Things like Cooking in a firewood stove, getting firewood, sweeping the compound and many other things, All seemed alien to Yvonne the first couple of months of their move to east.

Johnny made several trips to abuja meeting business partners and trying to get his business back on but no help came.

It seemed everybody and everything was against him, even the ones he helped turned their backs on him.

He couldn’t call or contact Alhaji Umaru who already warned him never to contact or visit him.

His suites were becoming worn out and shoes a bit old, after 6months of not changing his ward rope, bears growing invasively over his face.

Back home, he helped Yvonne with most of the house chores like washing and cooking. She had many times argued that she was only pregnant and not sick so she needed no help in doing the chores.

Johnny and Yvonne were hurled into a whole new world, introduced to the other side of LIFE.

“Baby can you imagine Mr linus changed his mind just barely 3hours after agreeing to help me” Johnny relayed to Yvonne after another disappointing trip to Abuja.

“What? why?” She have blurted out in surprise…

“Baby i am beginning to think my mum have a hand in all this” She added with a long hiss.

Those words echoed into Johnny’s ears like a resounding gong.

“Could it be that Bimbo master-minded his downfall?”

He is beginning to see things from another dimension but its yet still too unclear to be sure.

Yvonne have succeed in dragging him to church and changed his views about God.
He learnt to trust God in his situation and rays of hope enveloped him.

“Surely in between two dark clouds their’s a silver lining” He stressed.

Life as we know it holds nothing constant.. their is always the good and the bad that keeps everything in balance.
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