Tanure forever episode 6 – 7

💞TANURE, FOREVER💞

CHAPTER 6

AUTHOR PAMELA

“Please….Please try and save both of
them,I can’t choose”Richærd muttered.The
doctor walked away.
Richærd slumped on a chair and brought
out his cellphone,he needed to tell his
parents about this.He gave Maami a call.
Hours later,Mr Ojaide,Bisi and Mr
Boyowa arrived at the hospital after a long
trip from Ibadan.On seeing Richærd,Mr
Ojaide rushed towards him and grabbed
him by his collars.
“This is all your fault!You murderer,I
hope you’re happy now”He thundered.
“It wasn’t my fault, I swear, I didn’t do
anything”Richærd replied shakily,he
glanced at his father who was staring at
him disappointedly.
Just then, the doctor came out,Mr
Ojaide released Richærd as they rushed to
meet the doctor who was sweating
profusely and looked so exhausted.
“We tried our best but we couldn’t
save the baby”He announced.
Bisi sat on a chair feeling so bittered, the
long awaited baby was gone.
Richærd legs were transfixed to the
floor,he still couldn’t fathom out the
doctor’s words.Mr Ojaide stared at him,if
not for his newly found faith,he would
have smashed Richærd’s head against a
wall.
Mr Boyowa shook his head sadly.
“How is she?”Bisi asked.
“She still hasn’t regained
consciousness but I’m sure she’ll be fine,
but mentally… I don’t know,so you need to
stand by her more than ever”The doctor
replied and walked away.
Richærd closed his eyes wishing the
ground would open and swallow him.

**************
Tears trickled down Richærd’s
cheeks, even if nobody had noticed,he was
the one who mostly looked forward to the
birth of his child but now there would be
no child that he could call Max Olamide or
Catherine Temitope.
“Why did you come here to hide and
weep”Bisi asked behind him,he was at the
back of the hospital.
Richærd quickly cleaned his face.
“I wasn’t crying…. I just yawned”He
replied.
“And you let your yawning turn into
uncontrollable tears”Bisi said and sat
beside him.
“I really didn’t mean for any of this
to happen… I swear..I really wanted the
baby”Richærd confessed.
“Do you know of anyone who has any
motive of harming her?”Bisi asked
curiously.
Richærd gulped.’It wasn’t Christine’He
thought trying to assure himself again.
“No, maybe they were just bunglars
and they thought no one was home”
Bisi sighed.”it’s just so sad that I would
have to wait again for another Akinjimi or
Omotola”She said and turned to look at
Richærd, just as she had expected,he
looked shocked.
“What? Aren’t you married?Look,
Kayo,as long as I’m alive you and Tanure
are staying together, and when she gets
better,you two must give me
grandchildren”
Richærd just stared at her quietly.Bisi held
his hands.
“Tanure is yours now, you have to
accept that fact before it becomes too
late”

****************
She woke up to a reality that shook
her to the bones,she wept and was
practically traumatized by the incident,she
wouldn’t talk to anyone not even
Bisi.Tanure fell into deep depression
becoming a shadow of her own self.

Tanure looked around her ward,she
was alone,she slowly sat up,she would be
discharged soon and she would have to
go back to the village.She didn’t want to
go through that hell with Maami Funmi
again but she had nowhere to run to.
She placed her hand on her stomach,she
felt so empty… just days back,she was
expecting a child and now it was gone.
This really had to be the badluck
Richærd and her father always talked
about.She could never be happy.She could
never be loved by anyone.
Her heart hurts…..her stomach
hurts….. everything hurts.
She turned around and saw a glass
cup of water on top of the table.
“No one wants you Tanure.You
always ruin people’s lives.See, your baby’s
life is already ruined before even seeing
the world.You’re going to be in pains
forever and this pain is only going to stop
if you cease to exist”A voice reverberated
in,side her head.
With tears falling down her eyes in thick
sheet,she brushed the cup away from the
table and it fell on the floor scattering into
pieces.
She bent down weakly and picked up
a piece of glass.She stared at her
wrist.She clenched her fists tightly so she
could see her veins properly.
“Slit it, end this miserable life,it won’t
hurt anymore,no one would be able to hurt
you anymore”The voice sounded again.
Tears clouded her vision. It won’t hurt
anymore,no one can hurt her anymore.
The door opened, Richærd and Bisi
walked in.
The bag containing some cereals
and other light food that Richærd was
holding fell from his hand taking in the
sight in front of him.
Bisi walked towards her.
“Don’t come close to me”Tanure
warned and Bisi stopped dead in her
tracks seeing her hand tightened around
the glass,it was cutting through the skin
of her palm and she could see Tanure’s
blood already.
“Drop the glass,Tanure, please”Bisi
pleaded.
“Tanure, I know this is hærd for you
but we can get through this
together”Richærd promised, frantically.
She scoffed.”Liar.We won’t get through
anything together,who would want to have
anything to do with me? I always bring
badluck, the baby’s dead because of me”
“The baby didn’t die because of you,
Tanure… nothing was your fault,you aren’t
badluck.Please don’t do this to
yourself…you still have so many beautiful
years ahead of you”Bisi pleaded.
Richærd saw her hand loosen slightly
from the glass,she was getting distracted.
“I do?”
“Yes, this would all pass and would
seem foreign from your memory and
you’re going to look back and smile that
you didn’t hurt yourself……”
Richærd hurried towards her and
gently removed the glass from her hand
as she weakly struggled with him.
He pulled her into his arms.
“Leave me alone…. don’t touch
me…..”She cried as her fist crushed into
his chest trying to push him back but he
tightened his arms around her and
reluctantly she gave up and sank into his
body…. crying and trembling.
Bisi heaved a sigh of relief.
Richærd just held her in that position
as her cries filled his ears,he felt
unaccountably bleak, frozen in,side.
Was this the same girl he had been
with months ago,he recalled the
excitement in her eyes when she would
look up to him and smile,then he would
drool over those dimples.
But since she started living with him,
she’d just look at him warily, and spend
most of her time alone in her bedroom or
his study then watch TV,she had retreated
herself to somewhere he couldn’t reach.He
no longer saw her smile or laugh hærd as
she did that day when they saw a drunk
old man rocking his body against a
tree.And now this had to happen.
He hærdly went to church, honestly
he couldn’t remember the last time,he
stepped into a church but he wanted this
prayer to be answered badly.Christine
shouldn’t have anything to do with this.He
wouldn’t be able to take it if he was partly
the reason why he lost his child and why
Tanure almost took her life.
He stared down at her tears stained
cheeks and bloodshot eyes.
A red-hot skewer lacerated his
in,sides.

💞TANURE, FOREVER💞

CHAPTER 7

AUTHOR PAMELA.

It’s been two days since she had
been discharged from the hospital,Bisi,Mr
Ojaide and Mr Boyowa were preparing to
go back to the village.
Bisi walked into her bedroom holding a
tray of food to find her lying on the bed
with her eyes opened.
“Tanure,eat something”Bisi urged.
Tanure sat up.”Ekaaro Maami”She
muttered and started eating.
Bisi smiled and gently stroked her hair.
“You have to get over what
happened,you have to move on”Bisi
advised.
“Shouldn’t I come with you to the
village?”She asked.
“No,this is your home”Bisi snapped.
“The only thing holding us together
is gone, Maami,I don’t want to stay here”
“Tanure, I understand your fears
but I don’t want any other woman for my
son, you’re his and he is yours so let
things work themselves out”Bisi said.
Tanure was quiet,she knew Bisi would
never see reasons with her and she
definitely couldn’t tell her that Richærd’s
heart belonged to another woman.Bisi
held her hands.
“Your father wants to talk to you”She
announced.
Tanure swallowed.

***************
Mr Ojaide walked into Tanure’s
room,she was too scared to even look at
his face.He sat on a stool beside her bed.
“How are you feeling?”He asked,
calmly as he placed his hand on her
forehead.
She cringed.”Fine”
He felt hurt seeing her like this,what had
blinded him all these years to see that he
has been making her life a living hell.
“I’m sorry, Tanure.I know that can’t
change anything now but I’m truly sorry
for everything”He muttered.
Tanure stared at him surprised,was this
her father?
“Recently, I started the village
church,it has really given me inner peace,I
found those lost hope and faith and I
realized that nothing was your fault,
everything that happens in this life has a
reason, I was a coward for not giving you
my attention, I couldn’t control the pain of
losing my wife so soon so I hated you for
it thinking it would lessen the pain but I’m
sure that I’ve been tormenting your
mother’s soul, making her restless that
she died in vain.I thought you deserved all
what Funmi did to you.I’m so sorry,
Tanure, I know I can never make up for
lost times, I know I don’t deserve your
forgiveness even if I ask for it but I just
want you to know that I’ll stand by you
from now on, I won’t sit back and watch
anyone hurt you again”He said, tearfully.
Tanure just stared at him as painful
memories reeled through her mind.
“I wish you had changed towards me
sooner, I wish……”
Mr Ojaide held her hands, shakily.
“I know and if I could do anything…
even if it means taking my life just to see
you happy,I would do it”
Tanure stared at him as hot tears rolled
down her cheeks,if only he had been kind
to her, maybe she wouldn’t have been so
desperate to get away from the village.
But nothing could change the past
now, maybe if she finally goes back to the
village,Maami Funmi wouldn’t dare
maltreat her anymore.
“Oh…baba”She cried and hugged
him as tears flowed freely down her
cheeks.
Father and daughter clung to each other,
wishing they could have a second chance
to make up for everything.

**************
Bisi,Mr Boyowa and Mr Ojaide soon
left for the village, before leaving Mr
Ojaide had given Tanure some Christian
pamphlets to make her feel at ease.

Things were as cold as ever,they
hærdly talked,though he badly wanted to
talk to her,he wanted to know how things
would be between them.
Tanure on the other had arranged
her things waiting for the right time to
leave his house,she knew he would want
nothing to do with her and was probably
waiting for the right time to kick her out.
Richærd arrived home from work,he
met Tanure in the kitchen.He had visited
the police station today and they still had
no news about who attacked her,this only
meant someone with a lot of money did
the clean job but he still argued strongly
against his subconsciousness that it
wasn’t Christine.He was saying that it
wasn’t Christine but he was avoiding her
like a plague.
“I have been meaning to ask you,
did you see the faces of the men who
attacked you?”He asked, curiously.
Tanure turned around.
“No,they were wearing masks,
maybe my instincts might be wrong but I
think they were sent by someone who
knows me and wanted the baby dead”She
replied without staring at him.
“Why do you think so?”Richærd
asked.
“One of the men said they weren’t
supposed to kill me”

“What if she loses the child?”

Richærd quickly pushed that voice
aside.
“Richærd, I want to leave,I shouldn’t be here anymore”Tanure announced.
He was taken aback by her words,this was what he wanted, right?He should agree to this but he couldn’t form those words.
“But… I… Why?”
“Staying here would mean that I’m practically destroying your life, you’ve made it clear to me times without numbers that I’m just an intruder…an obstacle. I really want to be happy and I don’t want to make you and your lover unhappy.It wouldn’t be fair, right?”With that,she headed towards her bedroom.
“What would Maami say?She won’t agree to this”Richærd said following her into her bedroom.

Tanure grabbed her luggage.Richærd felt confused as hell,he didn’t want to let her go,he had to find the right words to make her stay.
“Tanure, didn’t you hear me?”
She angrily turned to face him.
“We can just tell her that we tried but it didn’t work.We aren’t meant to be together”
“You’re my wife.You’re mine!”Richærd thundered.
“Says who?So that I can be your fool again?”She asked and rode her luggage
away.
Richærd stood there feeling so
disturbed.He felt he would be making the
biggest mistake of his life letting her
go.Ever since he held her in his arms at
the hospital,he hadn’t been able to see her
as that naive village girl but as someone
he wanted to protect… someone he
wanted to change for. He walked to the
door and stopped.Damn!He was
confused.Why was he feeling this way?
This is the same village girl he didn’t want
to be with.Maybe he had gotten used to
her staying in his house.Maybe it was her
meals.It had to be just her being Tanure,
the girl he had wanted to play around with,
the girl who poured water on him, the girl
who he had helped to carry her bowl just
to end up walking like a drunk.Until he
could fathom out what this was,he wanted
her to be in his house, everyone else didn’t
matter.
Tanure walked down the street, she
had no idea what she would do when she
gets back to the village,she didn’t even
have enough money to start a trade but
then she had hope,she had her father,she
would be okay.
She heard footsteps behind her and
felt her arm being grabbed,she was pulled
around.
Richærd looked down into her face.
“Stay with me, Tanure”
“Stop……”
He had his hands on her arms now.His
voice sounded rough.”I don’t really know
what’s wrong with me but we can be good
together,you said you loved me, right? how
can that change so soon?”
She pulled herself free of Richærd
who just let his arms dropped.
“It doesn’t matter if I loved you, right
now,I feel nothing for you and I know you
feel the same too,you have a
girlfriend”She reminded.
“We broke up”He blurted out.
“Liar! I won’t ever fall for your lies
again”
As she tried to leave,he held her
hand again.
“I want to love you”He announced.
She stared at him.”For real”He added.
“He’s lying again”Her subconscious
mind warned.
“Just think about it,Maami will never
allow us to go our separate ways,so let’s
try and make this work, please”He
pleaded, seriously.
Tanure scoffed.”I know you have a plan for
me,let me tell you,it isn’t going to work
this time, since you won’t let me go, I will
have to prove to you that nothing good
can come out of this cursed marriage,this
time,you won’t be able to fool me
again”She declared.
Richærd gulped taking her luggage from
her.He hoped he would be able to put up
with this new version of Tanure.

*************
The following week, Richærd got
promoted to the regional manager in the
company he worked for.And just to make
her smile,he had told her that she was
responsible for his progress.
But she only nodded and
congratulated him dryly.Can’t she even try
to act as his wife even for a day?He
couldn’t believe he was the one craving for
her attention.
To make her get over her trauma,he
bought a bigger house in the posh part of
the state.He knew she was happy about it
though she didn’t admit to it.
Richærd walked into his house,he
could hear music coming from the
kitchen.He str-de towards there and
slowly opened the door,he peered in,side
and saw Tanure dancing to the beat of
‘Tonight’ by Nonso Amadi.
He opened the door widely and
leaned against the doorpost.Great!it was
Nonso Amadi today, tomorrow it will be
Johnny Drille or Adekunle Gold.
He was starting to regret buying her
a cellphone,these men weren’t even giving
him breathing space, maybe he should’ve
been an artiste instead.But to him,he was
more goodlooking than any of those
artistes.
His eyes followed the gentle sway
of her h¡ps,and he could feel his member
already getting hærd.Her back was to him
and he allowed himself imagined all what
he could do to that big and well
rounded………
As if sensing his presence,she turned
around and frozed.Damn!She wasn’t
expecting him to be home soon and the
last thing she wanted was for him to see
her dancing.
Richærd cleared his throat.”You’re such a
terrible dancer”He teased, purposely
adding to her embarrassment.
“How long have you been standing
there?”She asked.
Richærd shrugged and str-de towards
the breakfast bar,he sat down on a chair.
“Long enough to know that you’ll get
disqualified instantly if you apply for a
talent show”He teased.
She scoffed.”That’s none of your business”
Richærd grinned,he shouldn’t be the only
one to get upset all the time.
She quietly served him his meal and
sat opposite to him.
He quickly pulled himself together,
time to act sweet if he wanted some
action tonight.
“You really seem to like Nonso
Amadi’s songs,are there other artistes
you like?”He asked as if he didn’t know
them.
“Well, I like Johnny Drille, Adekunle
Gold,Ric….”
“What about me?”He asked, sweetly.
“You’re not an artiste, and you’ll be
disqualified instantly if you apply for any
talent show”
Richærd grinned.”Iyawomi, now you’re
using my own words against me”
‘Iyawomi?’She thought and almost
smiled but quickly reminded herself that
this was Richærd, someone who had a
plan for her.
“I’m full, Goodnight”With that,she
stood up and walked away.
Richærd’s teeth clenched, how do you tell a
woman who suddenly has annoying mood
swings that you’re so ho-ny? No!He
shouldn’t be scared of her,she was his
wife and this was his right, even if he was
still figuring out why he felt compelled to
share something more than s€× with her.
He should start taking her down,at
least twice a day,all he had to do was to
turn her on.

TBC

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