Ifeoma walked into the eatery gracefully on her heels. She spotted Halima and Bola seated around one of the tables eating jollof rice and fried rice and then she walked towards them and sat down.
" Eh eh! Ifeoma! Your face is scarce o! I almost thought you're no more living in Nigeria sef" Bola said as soon as she sat down.
" Abi you're the one who hardly stays in Nigeria again. Dubai everytime, you're the one everyone is talking about right now o. Money Dey your hand na, make we help you spend am " Ifeoma saluted her friend jokingly.
" Ah . It's not my fault o , that's where Ademi is enjoying his life now o , trying to get away from his wife as much as possible. We might get married in Dubai sef" Bolanle said with excitement.
"Get married to another woman's husband! I hope you know that he married his wife legally and can sue you people!" Halima said.
"This one have come again o . You're such a kill-joy. Never happy for me for once, blah blah blah ! Abeg, leave me alone o, let everybody do what pleases them" Bola said while Ifeoma rolled her eyes at the both of them.
"When will you ladies ever stop fighting each other at every little thing. Abeg o, let's talk about what has been troubling me" Ifeoma started.
"What else will be troubling you if not your husband and his mother?" Bola said with sarcasm.
"I can't believe that I have to admit that you are right. See, I'm so tired of this woman. You know what the new development is right now, Fikayo wants his mother to live with us!" Ifeoma exclaimed.
" Ehn ! And you agreed to it? Any other normal mother in law would be fine o but that bag full of troubles Fikayo calls his mom shouldn't be allowed o! See ehn! Say goodbye to your marriage" Bola aggravated.
"Calm down, Bola! You're such a drama queen. She's tensed already as you can see, why are u trying to aggravate the issue for her? See
jare, Oma, I think you should have a heart to heart discussion with your husband o. Do not allow it" Halima also contributed.
"You guys think when he told me, I just said, oh okay, why not, bring her in? of course not, I refused! I refused vehemently. For the past two days after he told me, we haven't even exchanged as little as hello in that house. But he's not listening, he thinks I'm just been dramatic and insensitive about the whole thing. You girls know how much of an high regard he places his mother compared to me!" I explained even further.
"And that is such a bad thing, honestly!" Halima buttressed.
"I thought you'll say it's a good thing! We are saying the same thing but in different ways yet you think I'm wrong and you're right" Bola said to Halima and then faced Ifeoma squarely.
"See ehn , What I'll tell you is that you should just take her since there's nothing you can do! When she moves in, poison her! Simple as ABC!" Bola said nonchalantly and went back to drinking her smoothie.
"Is she a rat to just poison like that? Eh Bola! You never cease to amaze me! Oma, don't even listen to this girl o, when everything happens and it backfires now, the world will not help you to hear that you killed your mother in law just because she frustrates you. This girl giving you advice sef will disappear then. Even Fikayo will not hear such reason, he'll throw you in jail straightaway!" Halima said.
"Ahnahn, is she daft? She'll do it in a way that she doesn't get caught na! Na who them catch dem go dey ask questions " Bola shrugged.
"It's like you're talking from experience" Ifeoma guessed.
"Well, in my head, I've killed Ademi's wife a million times! Now that I even heard that she's pregnant, it's even more annoying" Bola explained.
"If anyone should be killing anybody in their head, it should be that woman killing you cos you're the one who won't leave her husband alone, yet she's overlooking whatever her husband does outside with you and you're still looking for how to collect her husband entirely! Bola, you won't succeed, I fear who no fear you!" Ifeoma said.
"Leave her now! I just can't wait for the day your Ademi will disappoint you and tell you he can never leave his wife, that's when you'll know that you're just the other woman and will always be the other woman" Halima added.
"It's okay! You guys are not even supportive at all"
"If you're looking for friends who'll support this nonsense you're into, you know where to find them! Or did those glamorous Titi and Chioma leave you, those ones will keep hailing you. But we? We'll always tell you the truth, so that when it all backfires, I'll be able to say that I told you so" Halima said again.
"Oh! Halima, hope your husband hasn't pulled the stunt of that time again?" Ifeoma asked in a coded way so that Bola doesn't get what she was asking about.
"No, he hasn't. But I think it's just because he hasn't been coming home for some weeks now. When he's stable at home then I'll know. Plus I always try to avoid any sort of confrontation with him, I still found condoms in his pocket last week but I didn't bother to say anything about it" Halima told Ifeoma.
"At least he's using condoms with his concubines. Some men are so dumb that they do it raw and then they'll now bring disease home for you!" Bola contributed.
"Who called you? Do you know what we're talking about?" Halima accused.
"See this one. What you don't want the father to hear ehn , it's the father that'll still finish the matter for you. You think I'm daft? It's me that all these coded nonsense will work for? You found condoms in his pocket, confronted him and he beat you up. Guy that looks very much like a woman beater before, if there was a job that says woman beater, he'd fit that job perfectly, he looks like he beats women for a living! Be coding nonsense there, you didn't want me to know because I'll say the truth abi " Bola said.
"I didn't want you to know because you'll mock me" Halima said.
"And have I mocked you? Sometimes you conclude sh*t about me just because of the way you act. Don't conclude about what I'd do for me please"
" Mehn , you guys are as useless as the p in psycho. You didn't say anything tangible that can help me to stop mama from living in my house. Just changing the whole topic up and down" Ifeoma joked.
But deep down within her, she was scared at the fact that her mother in law will really move in with them and there was nothing she could do to stop it.
TO BE CONTINUED...