"Yeah!"
Aminat walked over to him and bent to remove his sneakers. When her fragile long fingers laced on the shoes, she could feel and smell the luxuriousness. She gently took her leg on her kneel to unbuckle but he shifted his leg to her lap.
"It feels better there" he licked his lip and his wife tried hard not to laugh.
"I didn't know this is how good it feels to get married. I've missed a lot!" He sweetened and everybody in the room chuckled.
"Your house staffs could have done this for you. You know" Temmie objected.
"I know. But believe me, it feels better when it's your partner. I'm feeling like I've not been shoe relived before" he laughed with a seductive groan and Yemisi shook her head at her son's immoral weirdness.
"Well. I've been waiting for Ayo to come home before I spill this bad news" Ayoola confessed with a sad tone.
Everybody including Ayo turned to her immediately with tensed looks.
"Keji and Tunde are divorcing" she announced and Yemisi and Temmie face dimmed with disappointment.
Ayo let out a short fast hiss that only his wife could hear before turning his head back.
"Oh my God! I'm sure it's the devil!!" Yemisi sympathized and his son snickered quietly.
"Yeah baby. Exactly!" He groaned to Aminat's foot massage after relieving him of his shoes and socks. His wife was a bit grateful that her in-laws were busy saddening about the news they heard. Else, they'd start to taunt her with his seductive groans.
"Keji and Tunde divorcing was the last news I expected" Temmie added with a grieved voice and Ayo, who was strolling on his IG laughed hysterically, pretending he saw something funny on his phone.
Though how his family was reacting to the news was annoying to him. But if he had shut their sympathies up, they'd pounce on him saying he does not understand love.
"Ayo is not even saying anything!" Yemisi frowned with her concerned pitched voice. But her son did not even budge.
"Which kind human are you, Ayo?!" Yemisi scolded and his sisters shook their head and folded their arms at his lackadaisical behaviour.
"Sit down" he instructed his woman and she obeyed before laying his two legs on her laps. He then turned to his mum.
"Sorry" he muttered reluctantly.
"Why are you telling us sorry? Are we the one that's getting divorced?" Temmie questioned and triggered Ayo to burst out.
"Exactly! When you're not the person getting divorced, why are you guys so concerned about them like this? Why are you changing mood and sounding like this?!"
"Is a crime to feel sorry for their marriage split?" Temmie frowned.
"Then why are you dragging me into it? Ayo this! Ayo that!! Ahnahn!!" He hissed adjusted on his seat.
"You of all people knew how they started their love story, and anybody that still remembers that would definitely be touched!" Ayoola threw in another point and he let out a short savage laugh.
"So?! I should jump over third mainland bridge because Keji and Tunde are divorcing?"
That statement made Aminat to almost screw up while trying to contain her laughter. Though the coldness in his voice about the divorce displeased Aminat with the fear of him not being committed to their marriage emotional with zero percent.
But he was so funny!
Yemisi knew how she'd get him to pour out his mind. She guessed Keji being his ex girlfriend, he must have something in connection with something.
"You still like Keji?"
Yemisi's question banged his head like an anvil. It was more of like she told him if he'd have more sh*t. Ayoola and Temmie went mute while Aminat pretended she didn't hear the bang.
She remembered when the internet broke that the Nigerian model, Morenikeji Badmus married a business mogul, Babtunde Collins while the model was still right in a relationship with Tlay and there were no claims that the two had broken up.
Everyone initially felt bad for him. But they were shocked to the bones when it was reported that he attended the wedding and congratulated the new couple. Temmie had once told her before he arrived that it always takes him less than twenty five hours to get over a breakup.
While everyone was expecting his next hit to be a heartbreak song, he shocked them all with a song eulogizing the body of a black woman. Aminat knew how everything went.. She read blogs to the fullest, it was such an interesting time for her.
Barely a month after the wedding, Babatunde Collins took to his Twitter handle to blast Tlay, saying he was an ingrate to loose someone like Keji. That he doesn't worth the lady by all standards. He continued by saying that Tlay was richer than him by all standards, so if he doesn't have a horrible personality, what could make Keji leave him for someone lesser?
Throughout these saga, Tlay in courtesy of Ayo Fashola 3 never came out to debunk any of the allegations nor reply to any tweet. If there was a step in which a public figure took like Ayo that time.. But there was none.
"Mum?" He called softly, breaking into Aminat's thoughts. Ayo was really a man of few shouts and words.
"Yes"
"Your spirit forbids that for me" he calmly mouthed and Yemisi could perceive irritation and anger in his voice.
She rose up and walked over to him and whispered something to his ear before planting a sweet kiss on his forehead.
"But I could still remember how he used to regard her as the light to the light of his life" Temmie ruminated and Ayoola nodded in agreement.
"It's so simple, NEPA has taken their light" he hissed and everybody went into another round of laughter.
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Aminat noted that since her husband arrived at the house, he barely talks. He could sit at a spot for five hours uttering nothing! Sometimes he'd sleep off where he sits till someone would wake him for a meal or something.
On that morning, everything started to go on the norms of the house. He woke up late and dashed out immediately when he was done with his morning rituals.
To his surprise, he met his wife cleaning the house. His mother came in with unlaced trainers for jogging. He moved closer to her and bowed a bit to her before squatting to laced her shoes.
After he was done, he rose up to confront his mum why Aminat was the one scrubbing the house.
"Where are the two maids?"
"Ohh! I've sent them away" Yemisi hissed, scratching her scalp to show their irrelevance.
"Who'd take care of the house then?" He furrowed his brows in displeasure and fold his arms.
"We divide the chores among ourselves. The house is not that big or is it?" She widened his eyes at her son he gave her a blank look.
"You're kidding" he said and moved towards the door.
"Where are those two?" He stopped midway.
"They're in the kitchen, cooking" Yemisi replied with a helpless pout.
"Cooking!?" He squeezed his face again.
The house wasn't so big as Yemisi said, his two sisters could hear him from the kitchen.
"Yes! We're cooking. Is anything with us cooking again?" Temmie laughed.
"Because you're women doesn't mean you have to sweat in the kitchen. With your financial status, you should be cooking because you want or feel like, not because you ought to... This early morning!?" He lectured before staring at his wrist watch again.
Aminat kept watching him like she was watching TV. She could not still bring herself to understand why he was displeased because they were doing morning chores.
"So your wife would only cook for you when she feels like?" Ayoola threw in and Aminat sighed in frustration again.
"Or you can't wake up at anytime and demand for food, uh?" Temmie added with a winking tone.
"You think I'm like your hungry husbands?" He slammed with a laugh and the women's temper loosed immediately. Especially Ayoola.
"Stop yelling at me. I knew I was married before I spoke. But you were using your husband's mentality on me" he defended himself when he realized he won't be able to handle Ayoola if she could storm of the kitchen.
"Yes! Our husbands eat and we cook without complaining. They aren't like you who doesn't seem to have a tummy to feed" Temmie teased and Ayo's jaw dropped in laughter.
"WTF! And you're here watching them do this to me?" He turned to his wife who regretted immediately why she hadn't disappeared out of the dining immediately.
"Get up!" Ayo scolded his wife who was still mopping the ground, kneeling beside the bucket.
She stood up immediately and he kept staring at her as if the mop was something disgusting and irritating.
"Drop everything somewhere and go and clean up. They'd be here in no time" he pointed to her working clothes and she looked at herself before vacating the room.
"Who?" Yemisi asked.
"Your new home staffs" he replied without raising his head up from the phone. Seeing that he was desperate to get the house helpers back, Yemisi surrendered to him.
"Are you taking her to somewhere?" Ayoola screamed in elation and Aminat thanked her stars she was out of the room.
"It's a family thing! We don't tell anybody" he laughed and Yemisi could not help but blush for her daughter in law.
After breakfast, the whole family settled in the sitting room, discussing about their plans for Christmas.
While Yemisi alongside with her two daughters were sitting on different sofas. Aminat's luck wasn't so bright. He came to sit right beside her and she couldn't run. She kept staring at his tattooed
"Should we get a cow?" Ayo suggested and everybody yelled at him.
"Cow? Do you want to do a wedding ceremony or something?" Yemisi laughed.
"I'm sorry. But I didn't know how such things run you know" he apologized, laughing at their outburst.
"We'll get someone to dress suya for us though" Ayo licked his lip. Aminat suddenly remembered a blog she read about him. The article claimed he loves suya so much.
"You're cooking a mini breakfast before anything, Ayo. You remember?" Ayoola pointed at him and he rose his brow up in recall before nodding.
"Tracy or Kumi might come over. Plus the house helpers you're bringing. I'm afraid we might run out of rooms" Temmie reminded them and everyone nodded.
"Olamide would move in to my room. So.. That'd cover things up" Ayo said.
Aminat felt like..