MY FACEBOOK GIRL SEASON 5
EPISODE 28
After some sessions of discussions and gist, I left Adeola’s house in the evening and drove back to Lagos. On that Saturday evening after reaching home, Henry called me on phone.
HENRY: hi Onihaxy
ME: hello sir, happy weekend sir.
HENRY: same to you Onihaxy, Are you in Lagos presently?
ME: yes sir
HENRY: ok, can you come to Lekki tomorrow?
ME: eeeehm, ok sir. Hope no problem sir ?
HENRY: not at all, just that grandma, Betty and I had a discussion recently and I’m sure that Betty had informed you already because she told me that she did.
ME: yes sir,
HENRY: so, I want you to come around so that we can brainstorm together. I should be at home from 3pm downward because I will be living Abuja on an early morning flight.
ME: ok sir.
Immediately after Sunday service at 11am, I drove to Lekki directly from church and I was able to arrive at my in-law’s house at few minutes past 2pm. I met Adebimpe, Sarah and Daniella at home. Daniella was with her mummy in the living room while Sarah was outside the compound sweeping the surroundings. Bimpe tried to offer food and drink to me but I lied to her that I was fasting because I never trusted her. Daniella left her mum and came over to play with me and telling me stories about the house and her school while Bimpe was busy staring at us.
Around ten minutes past three in the afternoon, we heard a car horn from outside, Adebimpe told me that it was henry and few moments later, Henry came into the house. Daniella ran towards him, Bimpe also stood up and hugged him and I also greet him too. “Onihaxy, you are welcome. I am glad you came earlier than my arrival, how have you been?” he said to me as he dropped her bag for Bimpe who later carried the bag upstairs.
HENRY: *** hand shake****Mr. Onihaxy, you are welcome.
ME: thank you sir. How was your trip?
HENRY: it went well. Like I was telling you on phone yesterday, the whole family had a conference call to deliberate on the issue on ground between you and my sister and I feel you need to be carried along.
ME: ok sir.
BIMPE: **came down from the stairs to join us in the living room***
HENRY: **turned to bimpe** have you entertained Mr Onihaxy?
BIMPE: thank you oooo, I wanted to entertain him and he refused. He said my meal can never be as delicious as that of his wife?
HENRY: Mr Onihaxy, don’t say that again, even Betty can attest to it that she can never cook a meal as delicious as my wife’s meal. I have even caught her on several occasions learning how to cook from my wife in the kitchen. Mummy Daniella, is that not so?
BIMPE: Tell him and let him hear.
ME: don’t mind her sir. I just told her that I was ok for now.
HENRY: No ooo, I won’t take that ****called on Sarah and told her to prepare food for us*** so as I was saying Onihaxy, Grandma, Betty, my wife and I talked about the next move after her master’s degree program due to the fact that she was already engaged to someone here in Nigeria and they are expected to get married immediately she finish her studies.
ME: ok sir, Betty had already hinted me about it.
HENRY: but since she had already made her intentions known to us that you are the one he wanted to marry and not the other guy, I have no choice than to support her since she is the only sister I have.
ME: thank you sir, I so much appreciate.
HENRY: though you haven’t met our dad yet, but I believe you will meet him someday. I don’t want you to see him as been bad or evil but sometimes, people of his class would always want to associate with other people of similar class. Not because of wickedness or hatred for the lower class, but because sometimes, you have to mingle and rub minds with people of same or higher class to keep and maintain a status. But what most parents failed to realize is that, grown up children should be allowed to marry people they like irrespective of social class or backgrounds. You know why?
ME: why sir?
HENRY: it may take 50 year to build a fortune, but it takes just one night of robbery or fire accident to bring a millionaire back to square one. Sometimes, money may vanish and it will take only true love to keep the union going in the hard times. I have once been in this same situation before when I was in the midst of a strong decision, either to pick a lady nominated by my daddy or a lady I love.
ME: hmmmmmmm
HENRY: yes Onihaxy. I am so happy that I went for the latter; my marriage is a blessing with a cute daughter to show forth.
ME: *****see this mumu, cute daughter indeed***** thank you so much sir.
HENRY: I just want to ask if you are ok by the plan and if you are ready to quit your job as soon as the plans are concluded?
ME: yes sir, my job and career are nothing compared with the love I have for my lovely wife.
BIMPE: ****smiled**** point of correction, she is not your wife yet because you are yet to prostrate to me in the open and also, I am yet to receive tubers of yam from you.
HENRY & ME: laughed…….
HENRY: no problem, I am fully in support of you guys. Betty and I will first make a job arrangement for you over there and as soon as that is done, she will come to Nigeria so that you guys can have a registry wedding and you will both fly back to UK to continue your matrimony. But remember, I will not appear in the wedding neither will my wife also appear at the wedding scene.
ME: thank you very much sir.
I spent more hours hanging out with the family while henry called his sister on phone and she spoke with us via loudspeaker. I resumed back to office the following week, we were having our usual Friday morning general team meeting when all the teams do come together for a general meeting to share ideas and discuss about the work process. It was also an avenue to strengthen inter-team relationships and settle any issue between or among various teams. The meeting was still on-going when Funmi suddenly bumped into our office unannounced; everyone was worried because Funmi won’t come to our meetings on a good day except when she wanted to complain about errors from the team and its member. She cut-in the ongoing discussion and took over the podium, she greeted everyone and we all responded to her greetings.
Funmi appreciated everyone for a good job well done and she encouraged us to work harder, she reminded us that the project would be ending in three weeks’ time. Lastly, she shocked everyone by saying that the management and the team leads are watching everybody and there are eight permanent vacant seats to be filled after the project and the team-leads will be the one to nominate candidates for the management who will further do proper assessment on people nominated by the team-leads. She rounded up her speech and walked out of our office. While turning my head, I caught Benita staring at me and she was trying to smile at me before I turned my head away from her direction. “yes!!!!!!, God don catch her……..”
After the meeting, we all resumed our work and I was stylishly looking at Benita and I observed that she wasn’t too comfortable. Minutes later, she stood up and came to me with a file, telling me to put her through with the file and I was surprised. In fact, the entire team was surprised to see her coming to me because it’s been long something of such happened. I ignored her but she refused to leave my table while trying to smile at me and I had no choice than to answer her. I was more surprised that there was absolutely no issue with the file; I just smiled as she walked away from my table and Immediately she left, the entire team members started clearing their throats “ hmmmmmhmmmmmmmm”.
During break, I was about stepping out to the canteen when I received a call from Adeola, she said she wanted to speak with her mum. I asked her why she didn’t call her mummy’s line directly and she told me that her number was unreachable, I told her to hold on while I rushed to Funmi’s office. I handed over the phone to her while I sat down on the visitor’s seat in her office; they spoke for a while on phone before dropping the call.
ME: she said she called your line but it wasn’t reachable.
FUNMI: there is nothing wrong with my number; I don’t know why she lied about that.
ME: really?, that was what she told me oooooo.
FUNMI: well, I already got the message she passed across. That reminds me Onihaxy, you will be dropping me off at my house today.
ME: **surprised*** what happened to your car?
FUNMI: it developed a fault and it’s with my mechanic, or did you see my car at the park today?
ME: I didn’t notice it sha, no problems ma.
“chaiiii, which kind complication be this?”
“ what if Adeola comes unannounced again ?”
“ won’t I be the person she will catch tonight?”
I left the office and went out to eat at the canteen while Funmi gave me money to buy food for her from the eatery. I received chat messages from Segun and we started chatting.
SEGE: how far Onihaxy, how is work going?
ME: everything is going fine my guy.
SEGE: how is Adeola and Funmi?, have you later discovered what went wrong between the two of them?,
ME: yeah I did. I forgot to tell you. After mounting lots of pressure on her, she confided in me that she caught her mummy red – handed sleeping with a guy whom she introduced to her mum as her friend.
SEGE: chaiiii, I thought as much too. I was just wondering what could be happening that a child would want to make her mother feel pains. How did it happen?
ME: she said she came home unannounced and she caught them and that was why she was using me to play a game of love with her mother.
SEGE: but why is she using you?
ME: I wondered too oooo, she said her mum didn’t want us to be close or have anything to do together. I think it’s an issue of not mixing business with pleasure.
SEGE: hmmm, hope this girl has not been suspecting you with her mother sha?
ME: I doubt it. Because if she did, she wouldn’t have decided to use me
SEGE: was Funmi aware that it was a game?
ME: no ooo, Adeola begged me not to disclose it to her mum until further notice
SEGE: no problem anyways, just be careful in this game you are playing and don’t let it become a reality. And also, thread with caution any day you are visiting Funmi, make sure all paths are cleared so that she won’t catch you too.
ME: yes boss, it’s just for a while anyways, I will soon be out of the country.
SEGE: really?, where are you going to?
ME: it’s a new development between Betty’s family and I. we deliberated and resolved that it will be safer for me to join her over there than for her to come to Nigeria. Betty wanted to secure a job for me over there before coming to Nigeria for us to have a registry wedding and then depart together.
SEGE: wooooh, sounded nice. Since when have you been planning this and you didn’t tell me?
ME: not too long anyways, I will give you more gists when I reach home.
SEGE: no problem, what about Benita?
ME: that girl?, I told you that we don’t talk again now. I don’t know why she suddenly began to behave funny.
SEGE: abeg let her be jaree. She can go to hell. Let’s talk later in the night.
I finished up with my food, suspended the chat and returned to the bank. I stopped by at Funmi’s office to drop her food for her before returning back to my own office. At the close of business for the day, Funmi called me and begged me to give her 30 to 45 minutes to finish her report and I waited on my seat, watching all my team members as they were departing one after the other. Only Benita was left in the office seated on her chair, pressing her phone and smiling to herself. she was stealing a side glance at me but I ignored her completely by plugging my earphone into my ears and moving my head in the rhythm of the songs as I was browsing on the system. 25 minutes later, she stood up from her seat and came to meet me, rest her butts on my desk and looking into my eyes. I was surprised and removed my earphones to hear what she has to say.
BENITA: I have been calling you since morning and you aren’t responding.
ME: calling me?, well, as you can see, I was on earphone . And why are you calling me if I may ask?,
BENITA: ***smile*** Haba, can’t I call on my boss again?, or is it now against the rule of the bank?. Anyways, I just want to remind you that next week Tuesday is my birthday in case you have forgotten, I am expecting my gift.
ME: gift?, from me?, I am surprised anyways.
BENITA: **smiled*** surprised that I am asking you for birthday gift?, well. You must give me my gift either you like it or not. Or else, I will let the whole office know that you impregnate me and you aren’t willing to take responsibility of the pregnancy.
ME: ***burst into laughter*** Benita, please start going home.
Benita was forcing herself on me until she left. I was alone in the office, chatting with Betty on BBM until few minutes past 8pm when Funmi called me to inform me that she was set to go. I had to call Adeola on phone before leaving the office to stylishly tease her about her present location and from the background voices and the information I deduced, she was in her room as the voice I heard was that of her neighbours which she introduced to me during my visit to her school in Ibadan. To be very sure, I requested to speak with them and she passed her phone to the two ladies one after the other and this gave me a perfect assurance that the coast was clear. I stepped out of my office and went to meet her in her office before we both walked out to the park together, we entered into the car and I drove out of the bank.
While on the road, Funmi requested that we should hang out at the previous spot we used the other night we went out together. I refused but after several pleas and pressure from her, I accepted to go out with her with a condition that she won’t drink more two bottles and that we are going to leave on time, she laughed out loudly saying I was feeling like a boss. We arrived at the spot, located empty seats and we ordered for drinks and pepper-soup. I was sipping my Energy drink while she was taking her bottles of Guinness stout. I keep on checking the time because I didn’t want to go home late and when it was few 9:30pm, Funmi was already on the third bottle and I hurried her to finish up and let’s start going home. To my greatest surprise, Funmi wasn’t intoxicated and drunk unlike the last time and this made me to believe that everything that happened that day was a scripted play.
Before we left the venue, a young man saw her from afar and waved at her before coming over. As he came closer, Funmi stood up and excuse herself from me to meet the guy and they hugged so passionately.
“ that guy was too young to be in same level with Funmi”
“ he even called her sweet mama”
“ no doubt, the guy must be one of her sugar boys”
“ but why is this woman behaving like this now?”
“ why can’t she just re-marry instead of hopping from one young guy to the other?”
I was still lost in my thoughts when she came back to meet me and told me to let us go, she paid the waitress and we left. We were delayed by heavy traffic and before we could reach her house, it was already nine minutes after 11pm. I wanted to go back home that night but she teased me to sleep over since the next day was Saturday and it wasn’t a working day.
*** I promise you, I will not have s*x with her this night ***
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