𝟑𝟎 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥

~~ 35. ~~

Sholape leaned back on her chair and wondered what was in Yimika's mind and what she was thinking of doing. She knows she can be very cunning. And she always wants everything and the best. And she can be hard to read.

She hopes she isn't planning what she is thinking. But she hopes whatever she plans never works.

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Mrs Jolaoluwa sat in her shop with one of her close friends. She had come to visit her as she does once in a while. They had sat for hours talking about their lives and children. Then her friend sat straight and face her friend looking more serious.

"Mummy Demmy, there is something I want to discuss with you. It is very important I discuss it with you. O ni binu si mi (You won't be angry with me). But I have to say this for your sake and your son's sake."

"What is it?" Mrs Jolaoluwa asked her friend oblivious to what her friend is about to say.

The woman started with a proverb and some wise sayings. But her friend still did not understand the point she is trying to make.

"Your mother came to see me." She started and Mrs Jolaoluwa stared at her quietly, silently hoping it wasn't what she thought. "It is about your..."

"Mummy Tosin don't go there at all." She quickly stopped her.

The woman wasn't offended. She just stares at her in understanding. She knows it was a topic she won't be glad to discuss. A very sensitive topic. It has taken everything in her to approach her with the topic. She knows how sensitive she was to the topic.

Mrs Jolaoluwa just understood all the back and forth her friend had been going with her sentence.

"Mummy Demmy. Please just listen to us... You have to...."

"You know very much that it is just something little and absurd that gets me angry. I don't want us to have any problems. You know how much I hate to talk about this." She told her angrily. The woman nodded.

"I know. I know that very well. And that is why your mother even talked to me about this. At least hear what I have to say. I understand your pain." Her friend said.

Mrs Jolaoluwa shakes her head. She knew her mother will try to make another move. She had been trying to talk to her about it. But she won't hear anything about those people.

It has been three weeks since those family had come to visit her. Despite she chased them away that day, they still came back. They persist in coming back. At first, her mother was also angry to see them. She chased them away the first time they met her at home. But after their third and fourth visit, she felt for them. And she pleaded with her daughter for them to listen to what they had to say and to know the reason why they had come back.

And because of it, she had yelled at her mother on two different occasions not to let them inside her house and not to talk her to listen to them. And that had been what prompted her to ask her friend to convince her.

"No, you don't. Because if you do, you won't mention it in my front. I already told my mother to let go of this matter. You, people, don't understand what these people did to me and my son. Demilade will not even want to hear this and so do I."

"You can talk to him. Do it for your son. At least they had come with their two legs. Listen to them."

"Ko le ye e Suliat (You can't understand Suliat). Ko le ye e. If you know what we both went through. What I had to make my parents go through because of them, you won't even let them in my sight. Those people are cruel. They made life hard for me and my family and I will never forgive them."

"It is hard, I know very well. But you have to do it to let go of the pain. You have to...." She said as she comfort her friend.

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Mrs Jolaoluwa had finally agreed to listen to her mother and her close friends to give her August visitors a chance to express why they had come to visit after all the past years. Since they have been persistent and won't stop coming despite her gateman does not let them in except the day that her mother was home.

She was even surprised that her mother had agreed to meet with them. She can remember they both share the same hatred for the family. But she seems to be the one pacifying her now and also convincing her to listen to them.

She decided to listen to whatever they wanted to say but she won't sit in the same room with them. She had said they didn't worth any of her time. She preferred to be in her room reading a book than sitting with them.

Her mother had agreed to be the channel between them. And since they were desperate, they decided to talk to Mrs Grace. 

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"That is why they had come. Everything. It is just like how I had predicted it." Her mother told her later that night after their visitors had left.

Mrs Jolaoluwa chuckles and scoffed.

"They've got the gut. So they came here to tell me that." She huffed.

"We talked about this, Jola." Her mother said.

"Mommy, you know more than anyone that can never happen. Not now and I don't think ever." She disagreed.

"Listen to me, Jola. You have to do this for yourself and your son. We've agreed to do this."

"I'm still talking nicely mommy. Demilade is the last person you want to discuss that with. You know that."

"How do you want your son to listen when you are behaving this way? I told you this day will come someday. And here it is. You need to calm down, Jola. Because no other person will tell Demilade other than you."

"I'm not telling him anything. They don't worth our time."

"Jolaoluwa."

"Mom. I'm done. I need to rest. I have places to be tomorrow." She told her mother and she left the room.

"Jolaoluwa. I'm still talking to you." Mrs Grace called but she got no response from her daughter.

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