INA-AYOMI

CHAPTER THREE

BIMPE'S POV

Wande and I were in love, it was a beautiful thing. Mothers know what's best for their children but we children never listen. My mother warned me severally to be careful but I was too much in love.

The rich never allowed their children to marry the poor or average they wanted to join their kids together to multiply the wealth. I was born from an average home. My father was a high school teacher while mother sold some foodstuffs not far from the house. We didn't have the world but we were okay and could afford a 3 square meal.

Wande's father was a very wealthy trader, best friend to one of the wealthy chiefs then.  wande's father wanted his son to marry his best friend's daughter. They would joke about it saying they would name the first born 'Oyedamola'.

Wande kept on assuring me it wouldn't happen I saw all the signs but ignored them. Mother warned me, she would always me down to explain things to me but I was blinded by love and all I wanted was Wande. The day Wande proposed to me my world turned I was happy, my whole family had sleepless nights because I was all over the place.

"Bimpe when will this young man come and see us"? mother kept asking.

"Mother, he will come he promised to come mother Wande is not like other guys"

"Adebimpe use your head! I am your mother you can't know more than I do" I never listened.

Though mother wasn't in support she put in good words for me when my father was around.

The day Wande was to come see my parents mother cooked, father wore his best attire and even my younger ones were in their best church attire. We waited from sunrise to sunset but Wande never came, and from that day I never heard from him. Three months later I heard he had married Solape and they went to town. that was how I met Ayoola he would send me letters through Ayoola. He planned to divorce his wife Solape and come back to me, he told me sola never wanted to marry him so the feeling was mutual. He begged me to wait for him just for a little while. One year later I still received letters through Ayoola who was your father's friend I used to think they were brothers. the last letter I received from him told me he would be coming to see me and he did. We talked mother was never in support but my heart was.

INA-AYOMI'S POV

Mother told me ever since father's visit they had been living together as man and wife because he told her he and Solape were no longer together.

Mother made it known to me that father was fighting for my custody. It made no sense to me. don't get me wrong I love my father but I would never leave my mother. I would always choose mother over father because no matter how many bribes I received or how father pampered me mother has always been there for me. A father's care goes unnoticed but a mother's love is everything. Mother said she was scared I would pick father.

Mother explained to me I had to go to the hospital but she couldn't drive so she told uncle Ayo to drive us there. Mother hated uncle Ayo part of the story said he knew father was lying to her all along and even though they had become friends he never told mother.

"Is he like in coma or something" I asked

"Do not say things like that Ina-ayo". I was just asking a question. Mother goes turning it into something else.

The ride was tensed and I wished Gbenga was here. While driving to the hospital uncle Ayo had dropped him off at his house.

"Igba(time) Wande" mother told the receptionist or nurse I wasn't sure when we got to the clinic. We were given a room number and we proceeded.

"I want you to be respectful no matter what"

"Okay mother he's my father after all" I was not that excited to see father instead I was nervous. When we got there a woman was sitting beside his bed, she looked a little younger than mother but I could tell their ages weren't far apart. Father was laying with his eyes closed and a lot of wires connected to him I hated the sound the machines made.