It Will Not Work on All
Mrs. Adaho woke up on 21st day of November 1999 and decides that it is time she talks to her only daughter about her nasty experience in the past. She looked at her daughter where she was sleeping, she is yet to wake up.
She returned home late yesterday, and she has told her mother that her teachers in the coaching center where she was attending gave them impromptu tests yesterday. After those series of tests, they were asked to wait behind for some instructions on how to answer the practical examinations.
Their examination is fast approaching, they have been receiving thorough coaching and instructions from those experts in their subjects, but those teachers do not want to leave any stone unturned, they do not want to assume to much for them, thus they are given them repeated instructions on how to go about answering those questions.
By the time Metilo, daughter of Mrs. Adaho got home she was tired. She joined her mother in the kitchen as she was rounding off what she was doing in the kitchen. She helped her take the foods to the table, after they finished eating and she packed the plates they used to the kitchen, she managed to give her mother a peck on the cheek as she went straight to bed to sleep.
Mrs. Adaho looked at her only daughter still sleeping and said, “yesterday must have been a hectic day for her, look at how she is sleeping like a log of wood. Thanks today is Saturday and there is no work neither lesson for her today” she went and brush her teeth, after she returned she shook her daughter, “Metilo, Metilo”, she stretches on the mattress where she is sleeping, answering half awake and half asleep, “yes mum”, “get up, don’t be a lazy girl the day is break”. “Uhm” still stretching “Okay” as she struggles to get off the bed while her mother entered the kitchen.
Mother and daughter are living in a one room self-contain apartment. The daughter sleeps on a mattress that is always laid on the floor, while her mother would sleep on the wooden bed with mattress on it.
Metilo removes the covering clothes on her, carries the mattress off the floor and laid it on the bed that her mother sleeps on. She takes a broom to sweep the floor as her mother returns, and said, “I need to talk to you today.”
“I hope everything is well mum”
“Everything is okay. Finish sweeping the floor so that we can talk”
“Alright” she replied.
Soon enough she finished sweeping the floor, packed it into the waste bin and returned to her mother. Her mother asks her to sit before her on one of the two plastic chairs facing the bed. After she has sited, her mother started talking to her, but without knowing that her daughter has been romantically involved with a guy in her coaching center.
“What I want to tell you today is crucial and I do not want you to toy with it. Maybe if I had seen someone to tell me what I want to tell you today when I was at your age, I know my life would likely not be like this.” Metilo is still looking at her mother not knowing what she wants to discuss with her.
“Some 20 years back, the single parent started, when I was a salesgirl with a Bookshop within the island, some guys started approaching me, but, I did not love anyone among them, thus I couldn’t give in to their proposals of love. However, as time passes by with me still working at this bookshop, a man called Klefty, appeared and as if I was magnetized to him, I discovered that I love the man dearly, loved her with all my heart, mind and soul and could trade my soul for his love. But before I could do some findings into this man’s life, past and present to know if I should continue my romantic involvement with him, one thing has led to another and I have taken in, I became pregnant for him. The pregnancy happened to become you when I gave birth.
“After taken in for this man, I moved into his house to be living with him as his wife, it was when I moved into his house that I discovered that the man has used diabolical means to get into my head to marrying him. Since I have taken in, there is nothing I could do about it, because it is said that knife cuts a child’s finger and the child in anger throws away the knife, has the knife not done what it wants to do? The knife has performed its enterprise on the finger of the child. I thus, was enduring all that I was passing through in your father’s house. Somedays after given birth to you, I resigned from the Bookshop as a sales girl because I cannot cope with nursing you and still being a salesgirl at the shop.
“Three months after I gave birth to you, your father disappeared into the thin air. It was after he disappeared that I was told that, that he has been married to three women earlier and that was how he treated all of them. I was down casted when I heard this, I cried and cried, but there is nothing I could do about this again other than to accept my fate.
However, before I get married to your father, I have resolved when I was young like you that I would never known two men in my life, in other words, I have vowed within me that I would not be married twice in life.
When your father left, that was why I started nursing you alone. As luck would smile on me, when you were 12 calendar months old, the government of the island put across adverts across all establishment that she wants to employ some people into the civil service. On seeing this notification, I decided to apply with my primary school certificate and as fate would have it, I was employed by the government.
It was because of this that I couldn’t further my education, although I later sat for O Level to improve myself and to get promotion in the civil service. That is my short story.
“My daughter?” she called, I tell you this today, because I know you have grown up, you have become a big girl, and any moment from now guys would be patronizing you, I however want you to learn from my mistake and ensure that you do are not coerced by anyone, into relationship that would truncate your academics.
When you see any guy whom you love, try to probe into his pasts, don’t rely on your intelligence and understanding alone. This matter of marriage is a life time contract according to the culture of our land and according to the holy bible. Thus, one of the best things to do is trying and confide in someone, tell someone about the relationship you are entering so that you would be rightly guided. In case the person wants to use diabolical means to get you as your father did for me, the person you confide on, those charms wouldn’t work on them, even if it is working on you, they would be pulling you back.
And if you can listen to them during those periods you will likely be delivered from the pit that the person has dug for you and covered with clothes for you not to see neither to know that there is danger ahead.
I am compelled to tell you this today, so that you will learn from me, learn from my pasts and build a virile, promising and better future for thineself.
After the Mrs. Adaho finishes speaking to her daughter, her daughter appreciates her mother, and told her that at the moment she is falling in love with a guy in their coaching center, but with what she has told her, she would tread the path cautiously.
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