"What kind of question is that? Why would I tell you about my pregnancy?" Ifeoma questioned.
"Because it's mine and you know it!" Adam said.
The parties present shouted dramatically.
"I talk am!" A new voice said. They all turned to see who spoke and it was Fali.
"What gibberish did you say, busybody?" Ifeoma snapped, she never even like the lady anyways.
"Pastor talk say he no possible make you carry belle for your husband, say you go need another man wey go do am for Una. You do like say you no go do but you later do am, no be so?"
[The pastor said you'd never be able to hold a baby for long for your husband and that you need another man to do the deed. You acted so saint and then went to still take his advice, isn't it?]
"Gbam!" Mama added.
"You went to see her pastor and didn't tell me?" Fikayo asked, confused.
Ifeoma laughed hysterically at how everything was now about her and not about the idiot who actually cheated and started the whole drama.
She looked from Fali to Adam to Mama and then to Sewa and then she bursted into another fit of laughter.
"You sure say she still dey okay like this?" Fali asked moving away from her.
"I think she's running mad o." Sewa said.
"Of course, I'm mad! Wait, let me even try something." Ifeoma finally spoke.
"Fikayo, I also cheated on you, once, I think and yes, with Adam." Ifeoma blurted out as both Sewa, Adam and even mama looked confused.
But mama quickly composed herself and started to shout.
"Bad wife! So it's true? You opened your legs for another man? Useless woman! That pregnancy isn't even yours, Fikayo! See what I've been telling you and you never listened?"
Ifeoma laughed harder, "Why, he can cheat but I can't? We are even now, so let's just forgive each other and leave in harmony, don't you think?"
"What are you talking about! How could you? And you made me keep kneeling for you despite knowing that you did the same thing?" Fikayo said.
Ifeoma laughed yet again. "You're angry, right? Yep, that's good cos that's exactly how I feel and then you're begging me to just take it like that and forgive you! You should take it like that too! Take what you're dishing out to me! Take it!" She screamed at Fikayo.
"I can't! I can't take another man's baby! I can't have a woman who just goes having sex with the next man available! I didn't even envision you as a whore! You're a wife!" Fikayo snapped.
"You think you have the right to shout at me or point fingers? No, you don't! We are going to forget all of these happened, and we are going to live happily ever after! I love you baby. I didn't think it'd come to this, I never wanted to hurt you. Forgive me, baby, please, forgive me!" Ifeoma acted and then burst into laughter again.
The parties in the compound were all beginning to doubt her sanity as she laughed too often rather than cry like she was doing before. The fact that she admitted to cheating even confused the parties that plotted it.
"Oma, are you even in your right senses?" Fikayo asked again.
"Trust me, I'm very much okay. I'm even more okay than every single one of you. Even though you're threatening my mental health, I'm very okay." Ifeoma responded and then she walked towards Sewa who still had a smug smile on her face.
She chuckled before she spoke as calmly as ever. "Let me guess, you're the director of all this, right? Then mama is like the producer, and then there is an actor and an actress. You're going through all this stress just to get this man?..." She laughed again before she continued, "Fikayo? You must think he's quite a catch, girl, you'd be surprised very soon and I can't wait to see the look on that face when you get to know that he's not all that! Well, it's not my business anymore. I'm leaving this house to you, you won!"
"Y'all won! Mama! You won! Congratulations, I'll have your award sent to you! You are the winner! You've succeeded in your agenda! The witch have given up your gold of a son! You now have your son to yourself, you now have the daughter in law of your choice. In-fact, you have the whole house to yourself. I'm done with this shvt! Over what! That thing? Man, I've been so blind! I'm out, man! I'm fvcking out of here!" Ifeoma screamed as she walked towards the gate.
"What of your car and load?" Sewa shouted after her, satisfied.
Ifeoma looked back at them and just smiled yet again despite the huge ache she felt in her heart. "I'll send people to get all of them for me! And that includes every single thing I bought with my money in this house! I'm not sure there will be much left so I suggest you start shopping!"
And then she went out of the gate. She expected Fikayo to run to her and stop her, she expected him to not believe that glaring drama, but then she had always been the one putting in the effort.
But now, she was done, she thought before she ordered a Uber and immediately she got into the car, she burst into tears that had been held in her.
'She was really leaving and he didn't care.'
TO BE CONTINUED...