Love with bitter tear - Season 1 - Episode 19

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Love with bitter tear - Season 1 - Episode 19

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He raised the compass as high
as he could but then he heard the
shuffling of feet outside his
door.

He quickly hid the compass
under his bed, la!d on the bed and
pretended to be asleep.

The door slide open and Ophelia
tiptoed into the room. She sat on the
edge of the bed…

Ophelia: “Sammy…”she called his
name in a whisper. “Sammy?”
she tried again when he did not
answer her. He stirred a bit, the
right side of his face was
swollen and reddish. She had taken
with her a bowl of warm water
and towel.

She dipped the towel
into the bowl and sq££zed out the
water, reached out towards his
swollen face with it but he
flung her hand away.

She tried again and the same thing happened.

Sammy: “Please stay away
from me. What exactly do you want
from me now?”

Ophelia: “I am just trying to help
you”

Sammy: “I don’t need
your help.

So just leave me alone” he said
and turned away from her.

Ophelia: “Hmmmmmm! How
can a boy be so stubborn?” she said
and sighed again.

Sammy: “You
think I don’t know
you are the one reporting
everything to my dad? You are
such a nine tailed fox aunty
and I hate you from the bottom of
my heart”

Ophelia: “Hate me as
much as you
want. This is just a tip of the
iceberg. Just imagine what his
reaction would be when I tell
him how you readily gave Annie
up?”

Sammy: “I did not readily
give her up, she was snatched away
from me” he sat up with a scowl on
his face.

Ophelia: “Who do you
think he will believe? He already knows
you as a spoilt little brat. See I
will advise you to just thread
carefully and start coming home the
time you used to before. Don’t even
stay ten minutes late
otherwise…”

she stood up and stepped back
from him. Looked at him for a
while, shook her head and left
leaving the bowl and its
contents
behind. Sammy looked at her
retreating
figure and cursed her in his
mind.

“Mum even if you are dead, do
you have to just stand by and
watch our lives ruined by this
usurper? I heard the spirit of
dead mothers do fight for their
progenies but you, why are
you sleeping so much? God! I am
your child, you did say children are
your heritage so why do you
watch while I am being
tormented?” === Annie, now
six years old was just
as brilliant and smart as
Sammy when he was the same age.

Her daddies were so proud of her
academic excellence that each
time she came first in her class,
they got her a mirage of toys
and
any other things she wanted.

She was indeed a princess living a
fairy-tale life.

Ever since that fever of hers, they took extra care
where she was concerned,
taking her to the hospital every
month for check-up: they did not want
a recurring incidence. It was the
end of third term in The
Embassy Primary School, her
nanny Ewatomi went to pick
her up from school. Ewa was a very
caring and nice lady of twenty
three years.

She, like her daddies doted on her and was
very attentive to her just like a
mother would be.

They had to get a
nanny for her when she was
three years because their jobs
became more demanding. At
first they were afraid to leave
her in the care of an outsider because
of all the stories they’d heard and
read about evil nannies and
maids but Ewa who was
Ralph’s friend volunteered to help out
since she was not so busy.

She wanted to do it free but they
insisted on paying her. When
they got home, Ewa was so
curious to know what her
report card stated… Ewa: “Now that
you have eaten Annie love, please can I see
your report card now?” she winked
and contorted her face in order
for Annie to take pity on her
and show her the card but she just
laughed.

Annie: “Ahahahahahaha…see
your face like rat s--t! I will not
show you. Never!” she said
hiding her card behind her.

Ewa: “Where did you hear rat
s--t from o. this girl you are getting
spoilt fa”

Annie: “My aunty in
school do say
it to anyone who is crying
unnecessarily in class”

Ewa: “Okay o but why? Why
won’t you show me? I thought
we were friends?” she said
pretending to be sad.

Annie: “Yes we are friends but I
want to show my daddies first.

Even I have not opened it yet.
Let’s wait for them you hear?

Don’t be sad, I will show you
after I show them then I will show
myself too” her voice was just
like that of Alice in Wonderland.

Ewa: “Awwwww! How can you
be so sweet?” she said and
gathered her into her arms.

“How
I wish I gave birth to you, then
I wouldn’t ask for anything
much in this life again but just a
comfortable life for you”

Annie: “That reminds me…Who is
my mother?” She disengaged
from her embrace to look at
her.

Ewa: “Uhmmmm!” she did
not see the question coming.

Annie: “Okay don’t answer that.

There is no way you’d know
anyway” she said and strutted
to the front of the TV to watch
cartoon on Nickelodeon
station.

“Can I watch cartoon now
please? Since I will not be
going to school anytime soon and I
have many days to do my
assignment?”

Ewa: “Yes baby you can” she
replied smiling fondly at her.

The heavy hands of sleep was
upon her but she refused to
succumb to it, she clutched her
report card in her hands
waiting for them to return.

Ewa: “Annie, come let me tuck
you in now, it’s almost 9
o’clock and you are supposed to be on
bed latest 8:30. You will show
them tomorrow okay?” she
said approaching her.

Annie: “No! I
will wait for them”
just then she heard their car
horn outside. “Tada! They are back”
she said excitedly. As soon as
Paul had stepped in,
he saw Annie running towards
him with an envelope in her
hand. He stooped down and
threw open his arms as she
jumped into it.

Paul: “My ever
happy daughter”
she gave him a peck on the
cheek and went over to the Ralph
and d!ckson, embraced and pecked
them one after the other
beaming with smiles. “Why aren’t you
asleep yet? It’s way past your
bedtime.

Ewa: “She was waiting for you o”

Annie: “See my report card” she
extended the envelope to him.
He took it and tore open the seal,
unfolded it and “wow” escaped
his mouth.

Ralph: “Let me see!” he said and
snatched it from him.

“Wooooow!

Our baby is a genius. You got a
double promotion to primary
three? Come and give me a
bear hug jooor…” he said and
scooped her into his arms
spinning her round and round until she
could laugh no more.

d!ckson: “But how can a girl be so
smart? She got 100% in all of
the subjects except Yoruba where
she got 95%. Wow! We will go
shopping on Saturday. Where
would you like to go this time?
Shoprite?”

Annie: “No! I don’t
want anything
this time…” she looked down.

Paul: “Hey! Is anything wrong?
How can our Annie not want
anything after getting a double
promotion?” he said worriedly.

Annie: “I want to know my
mum.

Everyone in school has a mum
and dad but I only have three
daddies and no mum. I want a
mum too” she said choking on
tears. The four of them
exchanged
confused looks. That was the
first
time she ever asked about her
mum.

Ralph: “Sweetheart!”

Annie: “Is my mother dead? If
she
is dead then one of you should
get married so I can have a
mum.

Aunty Ewa is a good person,
why can’t one of you marry her?”
she said looking from one
embarrassed adult to another.

Paul: “Don’t worry, you will
know your mum soon okay? I just
hope she really is alive and not
relenting in her search for her
daughter” === Richard could
no longer bear the
tension between him and his
son.

The wound on his face had
healed remarkably fast but the
one in his heart remained
fresh.

At night when he thought
Ophelia was asleep, he sneaked
into Sammie’s room to talk to him.

Richard: “Sammy wake up” he
tapped him on the shoulder.

Sammy jerked up in his sleep
thinking it was his step mum.

Sammy: “What is it this time?

Why won’t you let me rest? Would
you have turned me to your sex toy
if I were to be your son?” he said
drowsily looking distraught.

Richard: “Sammy what are you
talking about?” he shook him
vigorously.

Sammy: “Sir? Sir?”
he was jerked
awake at last.

Richard: “Who is
turning you to sex toy and where did you
even hear that word from?”

Sammy: “I read it from a novel. It’s
nothing dad” he said and tried
to go back to sleep but his dad
stopped him.

Richard: “Come on talk to me. You
did look terrific while saying
that a while ago. What is
happening?”

he asked persuasively.

Sammy: Daddy, I say never mind.
I was day-dreaming

Richard: This is unusual. Where
did you hear that from?

Something is fishy. Talk to me
Sam. I’m your father.

Sammy: “Hmm… It’s…it’s…aunty”
he started to weep.
.
.
Could that be end of the
road for Ophelia? Will Richard
believe Sammy?