The night was quite long, when morning came, I decided to park some of the properties I had bought, I didn't want to quarrel or cry anymore. While parking he was there apologizing and begging me to stop but I did not want to listen to anything. My heart was arching. After parking, I called for a taxi to take me up to my parents. In a few minutes, the taxi arrived. We parked in whatever we could and left behind what couldn't be carried. I reached home in the evening; I did not make any phone call or alert that I was coming over to stay. When the gateman opened the door my mother was the first to see me. She was kinder surprised to see me.
She came running feeling excited the momente
our eyes met,her happiness faded away quickly. 🥲🥲
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My facial expressions indicated danger or something was wrong. I hugged her tight crying in a big voice. After a few minutes of calming down,I greeted her and then requested her to help me upload the goods from the taxi. After unloading, I paid for the taxi and in the ducktail, the vehicle was out of our compound. After everything was set, and welcomed,I started explaining everything that happened to me. My mother was listening too keenly like he was the judge waiting to give the judgments. My dad was not around, I was told he had gone for an elders' talk within the village. After reporting what was necessary, I kept quiet and let my mother talk. She was sympathizing with me. I knew she was also hurting inside but she had to give the correct advice to her daughter without favoring or being biased. She told me I did the mistake of leaving my house and going back to my home. She said I should have been patient and not rushed like a fool.
I told her I'm just a human, I have feelings and emotions, she should not blame me for acting like that. She advised me we are going to discuss it and everything was going to be fine. She went to the kitchen to prepare something for me. I was feeling hungry since the previous day, I had not eaten anything and I had no appetite for food but I had to try to eat something. She prepared ugali,, ugali is a flour of maize crushed and cooked in hot water. It was served with fish. I ate but not to the fullest.
After eating I went straight to bed to relax and make my mind settle. I was woken up by my mother, it was already evening ready for supper. I went to the table; Dad was sitting next to my chair comfortably waiting for me. I went directly to where he was sitting. I greeted him and he welcomed me for the food. After having done eating my mother cleared the table and dashed to the kitchen and she came back not talking but she was expecting something to happen.
My father started interrogating me. I told her everything that happened and indeed for the first time, he agreed that my husband was responsible for all this inconvenience. He added that he was going to invite the In-laws and talk about this matter. A few days passed and the in-laws were invited. They came,ten in number, Dan was among them. I had calmed down my temper so I could talk eloquently. We all assembled in a house specially built for such matters.
I was the first one who was invited to tell both parties what happened exactly and what made me leave my house.😌😌😏
"My elders, Father ladies and gentlemen good morning, I take this opportunity to tell you what made me leave my house. It wasn't my wish to leave but my husband did, he came home one night and told me that he was having an affair with my former house help. They already had children and he wanted them to come to my house. My elder, is it okay to cheat on your wife? and to make it worse cheat with your house help? I was hurt and due to that,I decided to leave him alone. He never respected me and to add on that, he was not faithful. Thank you, my in-laws and my fathers."
The room remained silent like a deserted cemetery. Some were nodding their heads others were in deep thoughts. I guess everyone was in his own world of making laws and orders.
After that, Dan was invited to tell the in-law if what I was saying was true or false.🌝
"My in-laws, father, ladies and gentlemen I take this chance to thank you all for giving me an opportunity to say what happened,
first of all, to apologize for all that happened. Whatever my wife said is true. I'm sorry for that. I was tempted to have lust on my house-help Miriam. She got pregnant and she delivered two twins. I went to Miriam's parents and they advised me to give the equivalent price to take them home with me. I thought it was a good idea to tell my wife since it was a secret and now it shouldn't be a secret anymore. I request my wife to accept the truth of the matter and allow those two twins to stay with us. I love my wife so much and it was not my wish to cheat on her back. Please forgive me my in-laws".
There was tension in the room. My mother was almost busting due to anger.
I knew she was cursing all that was happening right now. Dan talked as if he did it knowing.The spokesman took over the lead and we had a discussion and came to an agreement that Dan will take the children and they will stay with us. I was to go back to my house the following day. I thought my decision to have a divorce will succeed but my inner voice wasn't willing for that. My in-laws departed from our compound very happy. My fathers also were very happy. It was only me who was not in my mood and my mother🥲🥱