RED FLAGS
EPISODE 16
Ladipo and I were already in the heat of passion as we devoured each other like hungry wolves and I guess we were both s*x starved. Ladipo’s big hands were already doing wonders on my body as I moaned into his mouth. Suddenly, he stopped kissing me and stared deeply at my body. I found it rather odd so I had to open my eyes.
“What’s wrong?” I asked worriedly but he ignored me. I also looked down and saw what he was looking at. My dress was drenched with blood like I just aborted a baby or in a crime scene. I quickly fake a smile and said:” Oops, I never knew it’s the time of the month “. I expected Ladipo to say something but instead, he keeps looking at me like I just killed someone.
“Ladipo, Why are you suddenly quiet? Are you freak by blood? Are you angry it spoils the mood? I am so sorry but it’s nature and I can’t fight it. Let me go and change, I will be back shortly” I told him calmly then stood up to go inside my room to get changed. I was about to leave when he broke the silence and said:” Anisha, that blood doesn’t look like a period to me.
” Yeah, I… I know ladies get stained when their flow comes unexpectedly but you are drenched by your own blood like you are bleeding. Look at the floor, they are all full of your blood even if you have heavy flows, it wasn’t supposed to be much like this. I doubt how you didn’t collapse after losing this amount of blood. This is not normal Anisha ” He said with concern.
I didn’t know what to say after what he said. One mind was telling me to come clean and tell him what am facing while the other was telling me I am going to lose him immediately I tell him my predicament. I think about it and decided to go for the first one. I looked into his eyes and burst into tears which came as a surprise to him.
“Please don’t leave me,” I told him with tears streaming down my eyes.
“Leave you? Why would I? Is just some blood though is a little too much but I can’t leave you because of that. I am just concerned about you ” He told me worriedly and stood up facing me.
“I have been lying to you all this while Dipo, I know you might leave me after I am done explaining but at least I would know I didn’t lie to you about it, ” I told him and I could see him staring at me keenly giving me the go-ahead to say whatever I wanted to say and I know the thought going through is mind is that ‘i either aborted or cheated on him ‘.
I explained how have been bleeding for the past three months and I could see how taken aback he was at my revelation. I told him it wasn’t like this before and I am already finding a solution to it. After I was done explaining, he was silent for a while and I thought to myself” Anisha, give it up . You already lose him “.
“Thanks so much for showing me love these past months, I appreciate it and would never forget it. I know our relationship has come to an end which I understand the reason for it and am not holding it against you. I will for……” I could not complete my sentence as I burst into fresh tears and turned to run upstairs into my room.
I was about to climb the first stairs when a hand held me and pulled me back into his hard chest. I turned to face him and tried to talk but he silenced me with his glorious lips.
“Who told you am leaving you? I love you and am ready to stay till we find a solution to it,” He said then placed his lips back on mine. Tears streamed down my face as I shut my eyes and I responded then wrapped my hands around his shoulder.
We both pulled apart to get some air after what lasted for fifteen minutes. He leads me upstairs into my room and sat on my bed while I went into the bathroom to have a change of dress after cleaning myself up. We both laid down on my bed facing each other after I was done cleaning myself up. He asked me what’s the next step to take about my predicament and I told him am only waiting for my best friend’s pastor to be back so I can go for the deliverance which is the solution to my problem.
“Let’s wait for the pastor then ” he replied and kissed my forehead as we both drifted into sleep.
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Two weeks after the incident of Ladipo knowing my predicament, he showed me love and support but his controlling freak was now on a higher level. He would hurt me with his words without knowing. There was a day we had a party to attend together and I was putting on a fitted tight black dress and the next thing my boyfriend told me was to go back and get changed into something comfier to avoid people knowing I was putting on a diaper underneath.
“Ladipo, that word is hurtful. Why would you say that? Nobody will know I am putting on a diaper and this dress is not transparent. Why would you want me to change it ?” I asked him pathetically.
” I know what am saying. Is better to take precautions than never. Go and change that dress right away if you still want me and you to go to that party together ” he told me and I heave a sigh of relief as I went back upstairs to change.
If you are in a relationship with a control freak, you would understand what am saying. Ladipo typically controls my life as if he was the one that made me and he knew I had no choice since he came to know about my predicament. When his controlling freak was becoming too much for me take up with some stupid questions that come along with it like ” Don’t sit there, you might stain the cough. Why don’t you put on a tampon than a diaper so it will keep you longer and so on”. I had to keep disturbing Bimpe to know when her pastor would be back.
I was getting so fed up with his complain and control that I had to lose my patient one day. We both in my house chilling while I was cooking his favorite meal ( Rice and beans garnished with fish). The food was still on fire when I decided to use the toilet. I came out and quickly went to the kitchen to check what I was cooking when Ladipo shouted as if he was injected with a mad injury.
” Have you washed your hands before touching that food? If not you will have to cook another one because I won’t eat that ” He said to me.
” Seriously, Ladipo. I am now tired of all this and I think I am coming to regret ever telling you my predicament because you rub it on my face at every given time. You sure know I am a freak clean and there’s no how I will be coming out of the bathroom without washing my hands. What’s wrong with you? ” I asked him angrily.
” Are you yelling at me? You have been bleeding for the past three months so after washing your hands, you don’t know you are supposed to sanitize your hands before touching something edible? Common Anisha, you ain’t dumb right”.
” This is the height of it, Ladipo. You never told me to sanitize my hands when am giving you a blow job. Are you stupid or something? I have been enduring all your nonsense but I think right now you can be highly welcome in hell for all I care. Who are you? ” I replied him back angrily.
” Do you just say that to me, Anisha?” He asked me with a shocked expression.
” Yes, YOU and I would say it again and again. Who are you to control my life? You this idiot good for nothing man ” I told him angrily.
” Me, good for nothing man. I was just managing you but now I can see how ungrateful bit**h you are. F*CK you and keep bleeding till the rest of your life ” he said and headed to the door angrily.
” F*CK you too Bastard! , I don’t ever want to set my eyes on you again. Let’s see who is going to marry you with your controlling ego. Stay single for the rest of your life too ” I told him angrily.
He was about to open the door when someone opened it from the front. He came face to face with my mom and said:” Like mother like daughter, who knows if your daughter was involved in a ritual that backfires which makes her bleed every day. Stupid set of people with stupid problems. He spat and head out slamming my door.
My mum was shocked at his revelation that she had to look at me for confirmation. I burst into tears and said:” Mum, I am tired. Are you sure my Dad’s family is not behind my problem? I have been bleeding for the past three months now ” I told her and went on my knees crying.
My mum rushed to me and hug me with tears in her eyes. I will take you to a herbalist tomorrow morning and I am sure he will show us who is behind all this. Stop crying Oko mi (my dear)” She told me and hugged me tightly.
” He better show us who is behind all this because I am losing my patient already,” I told her and weep in her arms.
My mum and I set out to the herbalist place the next morning because I was determined on finding a solution to my problem. When we got to the herbalist place, he told me to say my thought and problem into the one thousand nairas note he requested from me and dropped it into the calabash in front of him after my mom explained all that have been passing through to him.
I did as the herbalist instructed and dropped the money inside the calabash. The herbalist chanted some incantation and told me to stare at the calabash in front of him that any person who appears there is the person behind my predicament. I stared at the calabash keenly as the herbalist keep chanting the incantations and I was so shocked when the person’s face I never expected to appear in the calabash.
