MY AUNT’S HUSBAND
EPISODE 5
What are you not interested in eh chinwe aren’t you the one I’m talking to Aunt Belinda shouted at me. Uncle Josh spoke up immediately, oh honey don’t mind her o I’m just asking her if she can help me prepare something else because I don’t feel like eating plantain for breakfast and she is just speaking English for me. Immeduately I opened my mouth to tell my Aunt the truth of the whole matter she slapped me hard across the face. Eh chinwe you now have grown wings okwaya(isn’t it),you now talk back at my husband and refuse to do things for him eh. See let me warning you this should be the last time you try such nonsense because the next time won’t be funny.
I could see uncle Josh smirking at me and it angered me so much “Aunt what he said isn’t what happened he was saying that I should….. She cut me off again with another slap. ‘wait are you calling my husband and liar see chinwe I don’t know when you began to tell lies , oh I can see you have started growing wings abi. See this should be the first and last time you say something like that again in this house. If my husband asks you to jump the jump, if he asks you to sit then you sit, don’t you ever and I mean ever disrespect him again, now make what he said you should make for him for breakfast. See I wasn’t the one that killed your parents so you can’t kill me because I’ll kill you before you kill me mtcheww.
All this insults because I’m trying to tell her the truth. She even had to remind me of my parents death. Tears swelled in my eyes but I did everything to make sure it didn’t pour because I didn’t want uncle Josh to think he had won. I had a conscience and I wasn’t ready whatsoever to hurt my aunt even if she just hurt me with her words. If only she knew what her husband was asking for then she would have a rethink over the things she just said. Wait chinwe are you still standing and looking at me oya cook fast so we can eat and go to church. This statement brought me back from my thoughts as I continued my cooking. “Honey what do you want her to make for you she asked uncle Josh. Uncle Josh smiled at her and said “babe don’t worry I’m not hungry anymore and we are already late so I think I should go have my bath so we can go to church”.
I looked at how foolishly my Aunt was swallowing his word, what a wife. After preparing breakfast I prepared for church but I wasn’t allowed to go anymore. See chinwe my mother inlaw said she is on her way so I want you to stay home and welcome her when she arrives okay?, prepare her room and make food for her my aunt informed me. I asked her about church and she asked why I was questioning her and asked if I was tired of staying with her. She reminded me that I am an orphan that she choose to help and I should be glad she still let’s me stay with he family.
I didn’t say another word as I went to take off my clothes and began to work again. I was just wondering what changed, isn’t this the same aunt Belinda that has never laid her hands on me for nothing, why was she being so harsh now. What has Uncle Josh told her, should be agree to what he said I should do anyways aunt said I should do whatever he asks, should I stand my ground and not hurt my aunt, and if he carried out his threats then what, why would aunt think I was lying.
I didn’t linger much as I started preparing for mom Beatrice (Josh mom) visitation. I knew it was gonna be fire for fire yet again. They were many rooms but mom Beatrice loved staying in the room close to her sons room. When I was done with everything I was assigned it didn’t even take long before mom Beatrice arrived. I greeted her but I was surprised she brought a girl of my age with her. We conversed like mother and daughter before she asked I bring them food, I was just thanking my stars because I made enough even if I didn’t know she was bringing someone, if it hadn’t been enough she would have started war with me.
“Where is my son and that barren witch ehh she asked,mom aunt Belinda isn’t a witch and she isn’t barren she hasn’t been visited with a child yet but with time she will have hers just be patient with……I didn’t finish my sentence as she cut me off, if not that I now like you I would have given you another slap to add to the first one I gave when I visited last,she is a barren witch and don’t ever correct me on that and as you can see I brought a real lady to bare my son children…. It was at that time I even noticed my aunt’s presence she had been standing on the door and after mom Beatrice said this I could see a tear drop from her eye while uncle Josh kept looking at the girls buttocks…………
