‘Mum’ said Shola, ‘yes my baby’ answered Dorothy. ‘Will you forgive dad please, I know you’re bittered and angry at him’said Shola weakly pleading her mum .
‘I and Dad talked so much the last time he came to hospital and he promised to change mum. He should be receiving an award for being the “Worst Father” of the year.
He also said some things about me being born and how my birth caused him to lost his Job and he pleaded with you not to get pregnant because the doctor said so,’ continued Shola. Dorothy stood with pain written all over her face, she looked at her husband with disgust. A lot of damage has been done already.
‘Mum, Dad, you both have been angry at one another all this years, for 10years,you both refused to talk things out till it escalated to bitterness, Dad you lost your place as the head of the family, you stopped loving mum and started resenting her that you started hitting her.
Mum you both stopped communicating and the devil breed on that till it grew to bitterness. But despite all this, God loves us mum, and Dad God gave you a virtuous wife whom you don’t know her worth, she kept on praying for you despite all you did to her.
He gave you two beautiful daughters whom he didn’t allow the devil touch’ Shola said between breathe. Fiyin stood at their mum’s back and was patting her back, Dorothy was weeping while Tayo bowed his head in shame.
His daughter was rebuking him, he felt ashamed of himself. And for the first time in a long while he felt that was God chastising him. ‘Mum, Dad please forgive one another, please ,I know it is hard but your love can be rekindled’ said Shola as she spoke difficty.
‘Remember how you guys met,mum told me’ she continued. ‘How you guys were in the same faculty in school and you were the Drama Coordinator in your fellowship, how mum was also in the fellowship and how God told you she was your wife’ Shola continued.
Dorothy remembered those years on campus, she remembered how all those guys were after her because of her beauty. She didn’t know she would end up with Tayo their fellowship drama head. She was in her sophomore while he was in his final year when she was told that someone wanted to see after the prayer meeting on that particular day.
She was surprised when it was Tayo because everyone was always around him, he was the jovial type and they’ve never had any form of communication. She was reserved and quiet, trying to find her ground in God. How he noticed her she kept wondering.
When he told her she was his wife she hissed and walked out on him, she didn’t go for any fellowship meetings for a month all because she was trying to avoid him. He didn’t speak to her again till he left the school and went for service.
She by all means made sure they didn’t come in contact. He came back to school when she was in her final year only to reaffirm what he said two years back. That was how their love life started and here they are. Little did she know he would bring his ministry into their home and would perform his drama all through their marriage because all she could see is a marriage filled with drama. And he, is the script writer she guess whose story has a bittersweet lines.
With a broken heart Tayo stood up and knelt in front of his wife, Dorothy was shocked,she wept bitterly. She could see how remorseful he was and she also went on her knees too. ‘I am sorry baby, I am sorry for everything I put you through,I am sorry’ Tayo said admist weeping. Dorothy wept and they both hugged themselves. As they hugged they both felt the sparks they’ve long lost.
Fiyin hugged Shola too as they both had tears of Joy on their face. ‘Thank you Jesus, Thank you Shola,’said Fiyin. That day was a memorable day for the Solomons as their long lost peace was restored. Shola told them all to go that she was exhausted and needed some rest. They all hugged and left her.
‘Mum, I am free now, the healer has healed me, I am so happy’ Shola said Joyously as she jumps around in a garden full of beautiful flowers and butterflies. She wore a very beautiful yellow gown and white shoes. Her hair was beautified with flowers too.
Dorothy sat on a chair and watched as her daughter jumped around with happiness, she was happy too. And she smiled. ‘Shola come we have to go, enough of playing in the garden baby,baby mi let’s go’ said Dorothy. ‘Mum I want to play a little more, I am happy here mum’, replied Shola. ‘Shola,Shola,’ Dorothy shouted as she woke up from her sleep.
She immediately picked up her phone from under the pillow to check for the time, it was 8am already. She hurriedly got up and woke Fiyin up from the floor. They were late already, she should have gotten to the hospital by 6am, she was two hours late already. ‘Where was her husband?’,she thought.
She hurriedly rushed to the bathroom on the way she met her husband who had already had his bath. She greeted him and collected the bucket from him. They all got dressed and didn’t bother eating before going to the hospital.
On her way to the hospital kola called her and she told him she was on her way to see Shola. He told her he would come in an hour time and she said they’d be expecting him.
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