MARRIED TO HIS MOTHER
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Kemisola was alone in the room, she had decided to rest after praying for that day. She was laying her bed when she heard a knock on the door.
“Who is there” She asked dropping the clothes in her hand
“Beatrice, I am here to check on you” She replied.
“Thanks, that is very nice of you” Kemisola moved towards the door to open it for her.
“I have missed you a lot, my sister” Beatrice said while hugging her.
“Same here, I really missed you but you know that since the problem had started I have not been having enough time for myself talk less of visiting other people, please forgive me” Kemisola said to her.
“Why should I be annoyed with you, you are a strong woman whom I know have been through a lot” Beatrice praised her while Kemisola was smiling.
“Thank You, my sister” She replied.
“Have you heard of what happened to your friend Clara” Beatrice asked her
“What happened to her, is anything the problem” Kemisola asked looking a bit confused.
“ Oh, you are not aware that she has become blind” Beatrice asked her.
“What!!!, Clara is blind, what happened” Kemisola asked with shock in her voice.
“Yes, she was found with a huge sacrifice beside her, she has been roaming about the street now without anyone to help her.” Beatrice explained to her.
“Really, I can’t believe this is all happening, Oh Lord, have mercy” kemisola said as she sat down looking a bit unhappy.
“What is your problem, instead of you to be happy and dancing that your rival is now blind, as it is now you can go and get your husband, you are still showing pity, are you telling me that you are not happy that it happens to her, huh” Beatrice asked her looking at her with the side of her eye.
“You can’t understand, sister. Things are not really like that, we should not be rejoicing at other people’s misfortune” Kemisola explained to her.
“Hmm, but she wanted you dead now, you should be happy that you are getting upper hand over her, you see people like her are met to be disgraced” Beatrice said to her smiling.
“But still it hurts me to see her in such condition” Kemisola said to her still feeling a bit hurt.
“ That is your problem o, but I will still celebrate on your behalf o, but before that, I want to ask you this question what kind of power do you posses that I don’t know about, you know that there is nothing we don’t tell each other, there is no hiding of secrets, just bare it all. After all, I am your sister, I also want that power even just tell me the secret of your power.” Beatrice said to her.
“Hmm, my sister, you should know that I don’t hide anything from you, but there is no secret to my power and I am not hiding anything from you” Kemisola said to her.
“But that is a lie, now, let me tell you if you don’t know, since you have been in battle with your mother-in-law and Clara, in spite of their attempts to bring you down, you are always coming out strong, the last one was the poison you were given, how you managed to survive is still a shock to many of us that are aware of the fact that you were almost dead or dead” Beatrice explained to her showing sign of serious and not smiling.
“Sister, the time is almost far spent and I still have some prayers to pray tonight, so I have to rest so that I can have the strength for the Vigil ma” Kemisola said to her.
“Really, so you are trying to tell me that I talk too much or that my questions does not deserve an answer or is it me that does not know how to pray, please shift, and let someone hear word, mtchweeew” Beatrice replied her looking visibly annoyed.
“I don’t mean it that way sister but like I said, I don’t have any secret that I am withholding from you,” Kemisola replied her.
“I don’t believe you, or you too have started visiting all this baba’s that no one knows about” Beatrice said to her.
“Which of the baba’s, my sister, I don’t do that kind of things, I am a Christian but this one that you are so keen in knowing what am using is making me to suspect something because for some times now, you have not called me nor did you visit me, even when I was hospitalized, you did not even bother to check on me as I was told. All of a sudden, you showed up and start asking me the source of my power, sister if am not mistaken, there should be something behind this” Kemisola said to her
“Oh, you have now take me as a witch or what is bad in asking my own sister where she got her power that no other power could overcome, huh” She stretched her hands out facing elsewhere as if she wanted someone else to interfere.
“Sister, don’t get this issue twisted, no one is labeling you a witch, but I am just suspicious” Kemisola said to her smiling a bit.
“Then, I should shut up niyen o, abi (right)” Beatrice replied her.
After some minutes of silence, Kemisola coughed then decided to talk to her.
“Okay, sister, if you really want to know the kind of power am using, you will wait till we start our prayer and till then no more words” Kemisola said to her with a bit of stern look.
“But I still have many things to gist with you o, and wait can’t you just suspend this night prayers, Am sorry for pestering you too since, and forgive my not coming to check you up at the hospital, am sorry” Beatrice said to her.
“Hmm, there is nothing there to make me annoyed but for the prayers, it is something I can’t afford to miss, sister” Kemisola said to her.
“But skipping a day prayer would not kill you, more so, I have gotten some fashion and lifestyle magazines that we would read together, you know that being a Christian does not mean we should not be fashionable” Beatrice said to her.
“Not at all, it doesn’t matter but right now, what am now devoted to is more than just sitting down and reading magazine” Clara said to her.
“So, it is now a sin to read magazine, huh?” Beatrice asked her.
“I never said it is a sin, ma” Kemisola reoplied her.
“Please, sister, can you free me, I need to sleep” Kemisola said to her sister and laid on her bed.
“Okay, no problem but when you wake up, you should know that we are going to gist, whether you like it or not” She said as Kemisola managed to answer her as she was already sleepy.
In no time, Kemisola was already asleep, Beatrice tapped her to confirm if she was really asleep and when she did not answer, she smiled to herself.
“Idiot, so you thought, you are smart, whether you like it or not, you can’t escape this tonight” Beatrice said to herself and smiled.
She went into the toilet so as to prevent her conversation with Iya Labake from being heard by Kemisola.
“She is sleeping right now but she refused to tell me the source of her power” Beatrice told Iya Labake.
“Really?, but this Kemisola has really become a mystery this days o, I checked her prayer altar spiritually and I discovered that there was fire around her, she has become untouchable but there is still something we can do and that is if we can make her sin” Iya Labake said to her.
“How can we make her commit sin and what does that has to do with her” Beatrice asked.
“You see, it will make her spiritual life become weaken and before she repent of it, I would have struck her” Iya Labake said to her.
“But tonight, what kind of sin can she commit” Beatrice asked her.
“Just try and get her annoyed, frustrate her life and make her angry, create a fight between the two of you and when she becomes annoyed, she will fight back, you can abuse her with whatever you think would hurt her deeply” Iya Labake said to her.
“So, if I make her angry and she fights back, it will weaken her powers” She asked.
“Yes,” Iya Labake added smiling.
Beatrice went back to avoid been caught, she got to where Kemisola was sleeping but was shock to meet her reading her bible.
“Kemisola, I thought you wanted to sleep” She asked her.
“Yes, but my spirit man was telling me not to be weak that I have to be at alert” She replied
“Spirit man, who is the person” Beatrice asked looking confused.
“He is the one that guide and help us spiritually, he is the holy spirit” Kemisola replied her while Beatrice was looking on in shock.
“Anyways, you have always love to talk in parables, but you should rest so that we can gist, you know we are gisting till the next morning” Beatrice said to her.
“I can’t sister, through the gisting, it can lead to gossiping and it is bad, I am now a new creature, am no longer in that game anymore, we should leave other people’s matter but focus on ours” She said to her sister.
Beatrice was not taking it cool and she immediately sounded an hot slap on Kemisola which led to blood coming out of her mouth.
“Are you now calling me a liar and gossiper, who are you, what are you” Beatrice shouted at her.
“But,” Kemisola wanted to explain when Beatrice landed another slap on her face. Kemisola was furious, she had enough and wanted to retaliate when there mother walked in.
“What is going on in that place” She asked them.
“She is rude and stubborn, how can she be calling me liar” Beatrice said to her mother looking angry.
Kemisola wanted to talk but something kept telling her not to, she was boiling but the spirit was telling her to calm down and because she could not retaliate nor talk, she bursted into tears and walked away into the sitting room.
Beatrice was still not satisfied, she wanted her to talk.
“That is why you can’t keep your husband , after you have useless yourself in school, idiot” Beatrice shouted at Kemisola who was weeping.
Their mother tried to settle it out with Beatrice but she would not back down, she left her mother and charge towards Kemisola who dodged her and ran into the room locking the door. Beatrice hit the door so that she should open but Kemisola locked it from within.
After sometime, the noise went down and Kemisola fell asleep in the other room. At midnight, Iya Labake summoned all her members as she declared that she was about to get rid of Kemisola.
“Now, it is time, Iya Labake said as she faced her demonic mirror to call Kemisola.
“Kemisola, the child of Asabi, if a dead is called in the coven, it is a living that answers the call, therefore, am calling you just three times and I want you to answer me speedily.
“Kemisola, the child of Asabi, this is your first time”
“Kemisola, the child of Asabi, this is your second time”
“Kemisola, the child of Asabi, answer me now!!!!” She shouted but instead of Kemisola face to show it was Iya Labake’s face that appeared on the screen.
“Ahh, Eewo ( Abomination)!!!!
“My face!!!
To be Continued…..
