chapter 21

"Ifeoma, Why are your friends shouting at my mother and calling me names? Is this what goes on in my house whenever I'm not home?!" Fikayo snapped.

" Eh! It's like they swore for both mother and son with these my house, my house

sef " Bola chuckled.

"I beg your pardon? Bola or whatever that name of yours is, you know how I never liked nor talked to you because you are just a stupid prostitute who specializes in snatching people's husbands. Can you get yourselves out of my house, please! This is not a psychiatric hospital where you can just display your madness!"

"I'll leave before now! Why won't I leave?

Na here I go sleep? People wey get mansion sef no Dey shout my house up and down. I'll tell you my own before I leave! Learn to manage your home, learn to caution your mother! Learn to take your wife's side sometimes too! And learn to keep somethings that concern you and your wife away from your mother! You are the main source of fight between the both of them. Put your mother in her place, you won't die! Stop acting like a dimwit! Nonsense! Oma,

chop kiss jare! Make I carry this Hennessy Dey go, na my friend get am. " Bola concluded as she took the bottle of Hennessy and went out of the apartment.

"Take it! You are too poor to even get one yourself! And what are you waiting for?follow your friend!" Fikayo snapped at Halima who just shook her head.

"I thought my own home was full of drama, but Oma, yours is a soap opera. I'll call you later." Halima said as she picked up her bag and proceeded to leave.

"Don't ever call her, she'll never be friends with you people! Not when I'm her husband!"

" Peeele ! (Sorry)" Halima sang as she stepped out of the apartment.

"Oma! We need to talk! Meet me in the room right now!" Fikayo commanded as he walked past her into their room.

"Talk some sense into her! Or better still send her packing!" Mama shouted after her son.

Ifeoma hissed before she followed her husband.

"What is that nonsense that just happened!" Fikayo questioned through gritted teeth.

"Baby, I'm sorry about the insults directed to you" Ifeoma apologized.

"And the ones directed to my mother? You're not sorry about that?!" Fikayo snapped.

Ifeoma flinched."Calm down! Stop shouting at me like that, you can't shout at me like that! You know how much I hate been shouted at. I can't apologize for your mother because she insulted me way too much and they were just standing up for me as friends!" Ifeoma retorted.

"You hate being shouted at yet you do things that warrants being shouted at?! Ifeoma, your friends called me a fool! Is that how you rubbish me within yourselves? You are a married woman, they shouldn't even know anything going on in your marriage, weren't you taught that?"

Ifeoma was getting enraged.

"They shouldn't know anything about my marriage? Coming from someone who tells his mom about everything in our lives, even our sex life! The fact that you're lecturing me on what you yourself should be lectured about irks me"

"Seriously? Mother is different from friends! You know how much I never liked you still having contact with them anyways. They are bad company. When people see you with them, they think you do the same thing they do"

"Oh my God! Fikayo! Stop it! You need to listen to yourself right now. You sound... so... I don't even know the right word for it..."

"Stupid?"

"No! I knew these women before I even knew you, I was friends with them before we even met. They are the only friends I have and you can't separate us, it's just not possible. Marriage shouldn't make me become a loner for God's sake! It's unfair!"

"Oh please! Don't play that pity card! It won't work! What is wrong with you? I keep trying to get you to be a good and responsible wife, yet you keep been childish about it! You are not a child anymore, Oma! When will you understand that?!" Fikayo snapped three at his wife.

Ifeoma had had enough of that.

"You know what? Shut up! I'm childish? Childish? Wow! A whole Me! Childish! If there is any childish person in this marriage, it's you, Fikayo! You and no one else! You have taken an oath to be a mama's boy forever which makes you a little boy! I don't even want to talk about this before cos I love you and didn't want to doubt you but Fikayo, you told your mother that I collect money for hair and stuffs from you? That you pay all the bills? Really? I thought you were just a mama's boy, I didn't know that you already added manipulation and lying to that!"

"Oh! Is that it? You want to start riding on me and acting like the husband because you pay more bills than I do? Because you're now a little bit richer than I am?! Women will always do this!" Fikayo changed the subject as it hurt his ego.

"Don't even change it! Don't even try to! Did you or did you not tell your mother that sh*t about me?! That was the question, just answer it" Ifeoma stood her ground.

"That was normal! That was what she expected of me and I didn't want to ruin her hopes. I want her to see me as the man of the house, so I just told her that. It's no big deal!" Fikayo replies nonchalantly.

Ifeoma broke into tears.

"Wow! I don't even know my husband anymore. It's happening. You made me look useless and bad just to make your mom look at you as the man of the house?! Does that even sound sane to you? Like, have I ever told people or my own mother that I paid more bills and that I was the one who actually carries this household? Even my friends just guessed based on my post and workplace and comparing to yours! I never told them! That was how much I respected you, Fikayo! But you on the other hand don't even have an iota of respect for me, all you care about is your oversized ego and your mother! And then you dare tell me not to be friends with my BFFs again?"

"You will not be seen with them anymore, baby. That's my own! I can't have my wife been associated with those whores and mad people!" Fikayo simply said ignoring his wife's tears and lamentations.

Ifeoma chuckled, "That's the only thing you have to say to all I said? I want to see what you'll do when you see us together!"

"It'll shock you, Ifeoma! At this juncture, you'll have to choose between your husband and your friends!" Fikayo said and stormed out of the room.

Ifeoma cried as she stared at the entrance which Fikayo passed through."Where is my husband?"

TO BE CONTINUED...