Resuscitated Hope - Episode 3

Resuscitated Hope

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He entered his room with Yewande while they arranged their luggage's. There room had been cleaned and arranged in anticipation of their arrival.

Just then, there was a knock on their door.
"Koi, Koi, Koi, Koi", it sounded heavily.
"Come in", Emeka said.
And there was a noise, "it's Echezona,  Mama wants to speak with you".
"Okay, tell her I'm coming", he said.
Echezona is a little boy who had been staying with Emeka's mummy since he was nine, and now he is twelve. 
They were done with arrangements and he wanted to have a little rest. 
It was 6:00pm, just some hours till dusk.

"I think you should see your mother and come back for that later", Yewande chided.
"Uhmm", Emeka grumbled as he stood and made his way to where his parents were..

In the verandah were his mother and father, sitting on a long wooden chair without a resting back as they murmured away. While Adaku stood and rested on the wall with her hands folded.
He saw Adaku and the exclamation, "go and serve the food to your husband rung in his head again".
He shrugged it off.
"Ma, I heard you called me", he said tiredly.
"Yes", they chorused.
With some motherly smiles, "Have a seat" . They both adjusted side ways as he sat in their middle.
He was pressed to ask who Adaku was as he took a glance at her and their eyes did freeze tag.

He was brooding on telling his parents about Yewande before they broke the news of Adaku being his wife.
"Guess what?", he started with.
"Bia, this boy" his father said, you know we are not good at guessing? Don't play with your parents emotion.
"Err, you brought niceties for us", Mama said.
Papa hissed and Emeka took a quick laugh.
"What really brought you with your friend?", Papa asked.
"She is more than a friend", Emeka said wryly.
"You don't mean it?", Mama said with a straight face.
"She is my wife to be and she is four months pregnant", he cut in abruptly.
There was a shock and minutes silence.
He looked up and could see Adaku mouth agape and their scenario took some minutes silence.
Tears were clouding Adaku eyes and Mama couldn't say anything as she was befuddled.
Papa folded his hands like someone that was betrayed.

In some minutes Adaku tears turned into a cry.
"You have deceived me"
"You have turned me into your slave" 
"You have made me worked for you for months with marrying your son as a reward"

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. She took turn narrating as villagers came to observe.
Mama stood up to console her as she rebuked her and ran out.
Teary eyes, soggy eyeballs and swollen eyes, she kept soliloquizing as she walked home.
What will become of me? My envious friend will mock me.
I will become an object of ridicule.
Those suitors I have rejected just for this?
"What will become of me?", she asked again and sobbed away.
She found no answer to this, as she kept walking ignoring stares and shunning consoles.


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"You have disgraced me", Mama shouted as she bit her fingers with a sad face.
"I didn't, Mama", he said, I never told you to find a wife for me.
"Shut up", Mama yelled.
Just then, Yewande came out and Mama shouted, "you this witch? What did use to bewitch my son as she stood to slap her and yelled, "I will deal with you today and make sure you loose that pregnancy".
"Twaaaaah", a slap descended on Yewande's face and she writhed in pain. Mama moved closer to stretch her hair forcefully, Emeka reached closer and drew her away.
"Oh, so you want to disgrace me in front of this people because of an outcast?", she screamed.
Papa stood up and calmed her down.
"Okay, son, onye e be ka obu?", he said calmly. It means, which place is she from?
Emeka hesitated as the question means so many things.
He decided to let the cat out of the bag as Mama gave him a scary look.
Mama could be clannish, the silence gave her indication it could be from a clan they don't marry.
She was waiting to devour.
"She is a Yoruba gir......"
Ewoo, "Nnukwu aru/biggest abomination", she yelled and some villagers looked in bewilderment.

Papa stood up and walked away in pain and Mama took turn to break the sad news to her relatives and they all took turn to reject the union.
Emeka was nonchalant and was ready to carry out the marriage rites.

*1980*
He took his friends to Yewande house and they got married traditionally.
Yewande's mother was happy but her father was pained by her not marrying their tribe.
Emeka's mother was sober for the union, but his father left all to God.

And Yewande was heavily pregnant; it was eight months old .
In the mid of eight months one could tell the pregnancy had taken toll on her.
Her face, legs and body were swollen.

One fateful night,
"Hello dear, I'm so weak, I can't do anything, I need help", she said.
"Why not invite your mother or any of your sisters over", Emeka said.
"My father doesn't want any of them to be here", she said.
Then, it dawn on Emeka that their marriage was built on a wrong foundation.
He made up his mind to stay with her, then his business started having a dwindling turn.
Nine months, she delivered her child and it was a girl.
They named her Ifeoma. Their happiness and love grew stronger.

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Read " Outcast " by the same author ( Obinna Tony )

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