[STORY] JUST A LITTLE SIN (Episode 08)

Episode 8
By AMAH’S HEART.

We finally matched that early morning to see Mudi’s father.
I have already informed Larry a day before and it didn’t sit well with him.
He asked me to find a way to make my father change his mind because coming to see Mudi’s father will be like a bomb, it will blow up alot of things.
We will all get into trouble if any of that happened.
Larry said Mudi’s father is a very hardened man and will definitely punish his son if he finds out that he was the person that prepared the love portion without his knowledge.
After listening to Larry, I decided to discourage my father from going, I even told him that I have accepted Oni’s pregnancy and ready to be a father to her baby, even though I still don’t know who’s responsible for her pregnancy.
My father refused and said Oni’s condition is very critical because she’s pregnant and still under the influence of love cast
Is a very dangerous thing and he does not want trouble to be brought to his home.
If things are not fixed now, it may breed lots of unwanted namesis
My father promised to leave Mudi out of It all, he said we won’t mention who gave me the love portion, we will only focused on getting Oni back to normal.
I was really grateful and thanked him.

The first day, very early in the morning my father came over and said we should all leave to see Mudi’s father.
Oni said she was too tired and can’t find her strength. Mama said we should leave her due to her condition, while my father said he will get a motorbike to carry her but Oni said she doesn’t feel like leaving at all maybe another day but definitely not that first day. She wanted to stay with Mama, we should go without her.

Is a good thing that she was getting really attached to Mama and not me but she still have to come with us.

My father had to leave, and go back to his house because is obvious Oni was not ready to go anywhere. She clung unto mama like her life depends on her.

Whatever love magic remaining in her knew what was about to happen and didn’t want to let go of her.
Different ideas were traveling around my head.
Even the second time my father came, Oni wasn’t still ready, she bluntly refused.
I was really getting irritated and pissed off with the whole thing and even scolded her but she was having a tongue of a serpent and she fired back her own insult.

I began to wonder if the love magic in her has truly expired because although she has been giving me threats of hate but at same time convering it up with lots of affection, I really don’t know what to believe anymore.
It will be a good thing if the love portion has expired and she is free but after the few insults she rained on me she still rounded it up with affection by apologizing and professing love again, she then embraced me and held on tight.
I told her to please leave me alone as I gently pushed her off.

My father asked me to convince her so that she can follow us because is all for her own good and mine too.
He said I’m the only one that can do that.

I tried talking to her that night in a very loving manner but she still refused.
I asked mama to help me out.
My mother only asked her once and she agreed to follow us.

When my father came the fourth time, she changed her mind that she wasn’t going again but Mama came out and persuaded her to join us.
This time around, I was not having it and was ready to force her on the motorbike that my Dad rode down. But Oni willingly followed us as my mother kept encouraging her.
I sat behind her and off we go.

We arrived at Mudi’s father house early that morning and met the man preparing something in a burning pot close to his shrine.

He was hardly seen, he does not move about easily except mostly in the Forest or among bushes either searching for one leaf, herb or one flower or the other.

My father greeted him like a friend and he responded so well
He looked over at me and back at Oni who was sitting close to the shrine, on top of a heavy stone rolled to one side of the hut.
“Hey, young woman stand up from that stone. You shouldn’t sit in such a stone because of the child you carry..”

“Oh! you already know she is pregnant?
My father asked, I also wondered how he got to know.

“Nothing is hidden under the sun Uga my friend..” Mudi’s father replied
“… so why have you all come this early?that’s your son Tomasi right, the stubborn one.This particular son of yours took your character to some extent. The only different is that he’s not into many women like you were in his days…”

I watched as they both laughed it off. Mudi’s father presented a chair and we all sat
“..Uga, if you have come for me to carry out an abortion on her, I don’t do abortion. I never did and no matter what I won’t start it now. I hate to disappoint but there are things forbidden for me to do..”

“No..no, that is never the reason we came. She was cast under a love spell and she neither knows what she does or who she is. I’m here for you to take it off Odez. I will pay you if money is required..” my father replied almost immediately.

Mudi’s father was quiet. He moved close to Oni and placed the back of his hand on her chest, then back at her forehead, Then he checked her palm.
I watched as he bent to check her eyes puppy, he focused on the white part of the eyes.
After checking he walked back to the exact place he was standing before.

I looked at Oni, she looked back at me and smile.
Yea, that’s mostly the dumb things she does that confuses me.
I’m not sure she knows anything happening around her most times. Sometimes it appears like she do know but most times she really don’t.
She probably doesn’t know where we are presently.

Oni once said that all that matters most is whenever I’m with her but I don’t think such is still applicable because she recently attached her self more with Mama than with me.
She used to say that we can be in the darkest night and she still will see me clearly. We can be in the middle of a noisy market square and she can still hear my heartbeat.

Those love poetic lines are cool but I really don’t fancy them.
All I looked forward everyday is to have my life back. I want to have full control of my world and don’t need some pregnant Oni in it.
I’m still trying to keep Molly in check, I have warned her, reported to mama who warned her seriously.
Molly is acting weird, even though she hardly sneak out like before I know maybe cooking a plan but I’m not giving room for her to execute whatever she has in mind.
If Juru is the last man on Earth, I won’t still allow her close to him, she will rather remain single instead.

Oni tied me down with all of this drama, I really wanted to monitor every of Molly’s movement and that of Juru too but I don’t always have the time.
I know I’m to be blamed for all this, I regretted everything now.

“Who gave your son the love portion, how did he gets it? He asked, bringing my thoughts back to the present
My father looked at me before trying to speak but Odez, Mudi’s father interrupted again
“… there used to be a love cast on her but not anymore. This young lady here is in total control of her heart, mind, soul and entire being..”
I looked at Oni and her eyes remained straight, she was staring at nothing.

“I knew it, I thought as much. I perceived that you were pretending..”
I said out loud to her. she looked at me for a while before looking away.

“…I was told she was going to hate me after the love spell falls off her eyes but none of that happened except for few exchange of hateful words which she will still apologise just immediately. I’m confused..” I said to Odezi, Mudi’s father.

“A genuine love and care of either any of your closest relative defiles that part. But whoever that prepared the spell did not mixed up with the right ingredients portion. The quantities are much more than what is required and she may be in dangerous state or her baby due to that but I can try to see a way out of it. Like I was saying, Somebody related to you by blood broke the power of the hate because she would have tried to kill you or even stab you in your sleep if the hate part wasn’t overpowered with true love…”

He paused and looked at her for a while, he moved closer and rubbed her palm severally.
He asked her to pour saliva into his palm and she did.
He rubbed the saliva on one particular leaf, lift it to the early morning sun before bringing it down.
He said
“…It could be your mother that defiled it. This lady here had never really experience motherly love and care but your mother gave her a heavy dose of that, she accepted and treated her like her own. A motherly love she never had probably because something happened to her own mother way too early, either when she was a few years old child or an infant…”

Mudi’s father is right. My mother indeed took Oni as her own. After discovering that her father and step mother did not care about her when she went to report Oni’s whereabouts to them and in the process mama discovered Oni had lost her mother at a very tender age. Mama never stopped taking care of Oni after then. she sometimes plaits her hair, wash her clothes, cooks and serve her like a first daughter.
After finding out that Oni was pregnant, Mama believed it to be mine and doubled up the care.
Now, I understand why Oni did not want to come because she knew we will discover the truth
Oni did not want to go back to her place either because of the motherly affection from mama, something she never had.

Oni would have probably killed me if not that the aftermath of the love cast was rendered useless through the help of mama who does not even know that she was saving the life of her only son while caring for Oni.
It all began to make sense now.

Odez, Mudi’s father continued
“..That takes me back to my question. Who did this kind of thing.. who prepared this portion that you used on her. Such a person does not deserve to be in charge of any kind of power at all. Alot of things will be destroyed and lives wasted if he is in charge, who knows how many souls that he has already destroyed while trying nature power with no experience. He will abuse the nature kind favor on mankind, and what is meant for good would be used opposite. This is not good at all and I demand to know who that is because I won’t spare such a soul..”

Mudi’s father barked.
My father was silent and so was I.
How can I tell this man that it was actually his son.
He mentioned that Oni or the baby were in a bad state but he will try and fix it. I wish he could tell me who the baby’s father was because Oni had refused to say.

My most worries is how to save Mudi from his father’s wrath, I was the cause of all this.
My eyes is open and I wish I know better.
There’s trouble now as everywhere fell silent.
To Be Continued…