SAINT MARY
©Kikelomo Fadugbagbe
Episode 7
“Daddy please” Rebecca begged again.
“If he loves you in return, then what is delaying him from marrying you all these years”
“Daddy we are still in school”
“Are you not in your final year, What course is he studying?”
“Christian theology”
“Christian theology?? which company employs that”
“Daddy, he’s a General overseer in the making”
“So Rebecca you didn’t see any man in your engineering department.”
Rebecca frowned at her Dad response. Elijah was just there staring at both of them.
“Is okay. You guys can pick a date for your wedding, I will sponsor with 10 million Naira.”
“What!” Elijah face brightened up. “Thank you, sir” He prostrated.
“Don’t thank me, thank my daughter.” He left.
“Papa guess what! this was a test to see if you love me and you passed” she hugged him tightly.
Elijah was confused “Mama, that doesn’t look like a test, but is ok, Now that I passed can I leave”
He tried to walk, but couldn’t. Rebecca drove him to his hostel.
“Papa please take good care of yourself, take a pain killer, and have enough rest, you will be fine”
Elijah narrated what transpired to his roommate
“Don’t tell me you are still going to marry that girl. Is she even a Christian why will she behave like that”
“She’s a Christian her background is the issue, she’s not from a Christian home. They still influence her, moreover, she said it was a test”
“And you believed her. I need to inform your parent what you are going through with this your so-called fiance”
“You dare not, are they not the cause of my misfortune. when their mate is making money where are they? If I was born with a silver spoon do you think she won’t respect me? That girl you saw paid my school fee twice.”
“Stop the blame game. Elijah stop! Focus on fixing the problem. what skill have you learned to put food on your table? Your total dependant on that girl is very bad.”
“Hmm, This guy is making sense, I’m going to learn something.” He said to himself “Thanks, friend you have spoken sense, I will work on myself.” He assured him.
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Mary narrated her dream to the caregiver.
“Your dream is clear, but I will advise you not to fool yourself. What if you prayed for them and they are not healed. Don’t even try it” She discouraged her.
Madam Cecilia became a shadow of herself. Clement had fled from the psychiatric home and he was nowhere to be found. She could no longer eat three square meals. Her second son; Caleb has started stealing due to persistent hunger.
Some villagers banged on her door one morning,
“Madam Cecilia bring out your son, we will burn him to ashes today”
She approached them fearfully
“Please what did he do again”.
“He stole the food I was cooking,” one of them said
“My son has been in this house since morning, you people should stop lying”
They pushed her away from the door, dragged out her son with the stolen pot.
They stripped him n***d and made him dance around the village with the pot on his head.
“Caleb we can no longer stay in this village the shame is too much, let’s go to my sister in the city. They traveled to Benin that same day. They arrived so late, she was surprised when her sister told her Mary was not staying with her”
“I thought she came here? So where is she?”
The following morning she walked some part of the City, in search of a greener pasture.
She found a house in need of a Nanny.
She walked into the house after approval from the security guard.
“Good morning sir, I saw a post for Nanny out there.”
“You are welcome what’s the name ma?”
“I’m Madam Cecilia”
“Ok you can call me Deni, I see you are advanced, meaning you’re up to the task, I have an infant that needs special care”
His girlfriend walked in with the baby.
“Yeah that’s the baby her name is wealth, I’m very busy these days, and my girlfriend is going back to school. I don’t mind if you start work today”
“Sir I don’t have anywhere before, let me start today”
“Ok, let’s start with 100k per month”
“Haaa! 100thousand!” she screamed
“Hold on Madam, make sure you do a good job. she’s the apple of my eye, if anything happens to her I will kill you”
“Ha! Nothing will happen to her in Jesus’ name” She collected the baby and started singing for her.
“Ok please feel free this is your home” They assured her
Madam Cecilia sat down and took a long stare at the baby.
“This is Mary’s carbon copy” she muttered
To be continued..
(Be careful who you share your dreams with, not everyone is happy for you.)
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