My only sister episode 25

(My Only Sister)
✨ Relocation
🇳🇬 A Nigerian Tale 🇳🇬
🎭 Chapter Twenty five (25)
IT was a quiet, snappy and sullen marriage held in the courtroom, reason being that the couple were still very much young
So, a plan for a bigger wedding was by the corner, to be held once the bride cut off ties with anything related to school
Well, it’s been about a week since Fred and Annette began living as couple
Fred just got an information about his place of primary assignment during his period of service, and he made out a plan instantly
Though he had already been breached about it about a month earlier, and so had began preparations towards it
As soon as his phone beeped and he found out it was all about the service, he walked up to his father, he was sitting on the sofa in the sitting room going through a newspaper
“Dad?”, Fred called and sat beside his father
Dr Kingsley looked up from his papers, and adjusted the glasses on his eyes
“Yes son”, he said
Fred sighed
“Dad I’ve just been informed again about my primary assignment”
His father nodded
He sighed and continued
“Well this gonna be the first time I’ll be telling you of the place I’ve been posted to”
“Yes, where?”
“Lagos State, I’ve been posted to Lagos State”
Dr Kingsley’s eyes w¡dened in surprise
“Lagos State? All the way there?”
Fred smiled
“Yes dad. Anyways I’ll be going there with my wife”
His father looked at him
“Can you? You know what that means?”
Fred laughed
“Father you forgotten the kind of son you’ve got? I already prepared for it”
“Oh really?”
“Yes dad, I bought a duplex in a very good site as soon as I got to know”
His father looked at him
“Huh? A house?”, he asked unbelievably
Fred nodded
“Yeah. So my wife and I will be relocating to Lagos soon, I’ll likely start up from there”
Dr Kingsley smiled
“That’s good, no problem with that, just make sure you take very good care of her”
“Of course”, he laughed
“Anyways son”, he patted his shoulder, “that’s splendid of you. Good, I give my support”
Fred smiled
“Thank you Dad. Thank you”
“You are welcome. Will you be traveling by …..”
“By air dad, yes by air”, he interrupted
“Ok, so when?”
“In a week’s time”
He nodded
“So inform her then”, he turned to his newspaper
Fred got up
“Sure. Thanks once again”, and he walked to his room
He entered the room to find Annette sitting on the bed in a sober mood
He sighed, she’s been like this for days, since she was confirmed pregnant
He walked up to her and sat beside her
“You still doing this?”, he asked, “thought you had gotten over it?”
Annette looked at him, tears filled her eyes
“How can I get over it Fred? How? Being put in the family way at age nineteen? Getting married?”, she paused and sniffed
Fred cuddled her into his arms
“I understand”
She freed herself
“You don’t Fred, you don’t. All my life I never wanted my marriage to go the way it went, I never did. So quiet and sullen, no”, she shook her head, “I never did”
Fred sighed and placed his hand on his forehead
He never knew her to be as cantaekerous as she just sounded
“You know, I never knew you to be such cantaekerous”
She looked at him
He nodded
“Yes”, he placed his hands on her shoulders, “now can you just forget all that? And let’s move ahead with what life had given us, can we?”
She sighed, and kept mute
He continued
“Well, we will be leaving for Lagos in a week’s time”
She turned to him
“Huh?”
He smiled and nodded ©️
✨ Still Birth
THE aroma of the sizzling food filtered into Annette’s nostrils and she smiled
She was resting on the sofa heavily pregnant, her husband was the one in the kitchen preparing the meals
Well, he’s been so sweet and rom-ntic throughout the past months, always helping out in the house chores, making sure she goes for antenatal, making sure she takes her drugs at the right time, infact doing everything that she rarely even felt the heat, despite his busy schedules everyday
Wow, wasn’t she really blessed? Of course, with a caring husband, she smiled
“Food’s ready”, Fred announced as he carried trays of food to the dining
He walked up to Annette in the sitting room and pecked her forehead
“Food’s ready dear”, he repeated smiling
She smiled
“I’m lazy”, she winked
Fred laughed and helped her up
“I know that. All the time lazy”, they laughed
He wrapped his arms around her and they walked to the dining. Then he shoved back a seat for her to settle down
After she had sat down, he proceeded to dish out the food onto plates
She salivated, vegetable stew rice and fried plantains
“I prepared it to your taste”, he said
Annette laughed
“You sure?”, she asked
He nodded
“Sure”, he shoved a plateful towards her
“Help yourself”
“Thanks”, she took a spoonful into her mouth and instantly dropped her cutleries
Fred noticed
“What’s wrong? You’re not eating?”, he asked
She sighed
“I don’t like this. I want to eat fried yam and stew sauce”, she pouted
Fred sighed, this was the part of her he hated
“But you told me yourself that you wanted rice and plantains for dinner, besides the doctor said you need a lot of veggies you know?”
She nodded
“I know. But I don’t have appetite for this anymore”
He sighed, at other times he would have gone immediately to prepare her what she wanted, but sorry, he was very tired now, and not in the mood for that
“I’m sorry babe, you have to eat this or you go to bed on empty stomach”, he concentrated on his food, ignoring her
Annette looked at him and knew he meant it, he wasn’t ready to go prepare another meal, and she decided to make do with what she’s got
She reluctantly picked up her cutleries and began eating
Fred sighed in relief, he really wasn’t ready for that
“So how’s your service going?”, she suddenly asked
“Well good enough. All the teachers I met there as well as the students, they’re all accommodating. The school is good”, he nodded
She smiled
“I can see you’re very confident with it”
“Very confident”, he supported
“Just be careful”,
He looked at her and she winked
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Fred sat in his office marking some notes, when a knock came on the door
He looked up
“Come in”, he said
The door opened and Ellen, a young looking woman entered
She was dressed in a tight fitted short red gown and a red stilettos
She really dressed to kill
Fred sighed on seeing her. Ellen was a teacher he had met in the school on his arrival.
Since he knew her, she had been giving him the green light, but he was just not interested
“What do you want Ellen?”, he angrily demanded as soon as she got to his table
Ellen smiled
“You should be gentle on me Fred, as a gentleman that you are, come on”, she smiled and sed-ctively sat on his table
He placed his hands on his forehead
“Ellen when would it occur to you that I’m not just interested? I’m not”, he banged his hand on the table
She laughed
“Take it easy Fred. As for your questions, it would occur to me when it would also occur to you that I don’t know the reasons you’ve been chasing me away”
He angrily looked at her
“Must I tell you the reasons? I’m not just interested period. Please use the door now”
She got up from the table
“Tell me why you keep keeping me away?”, she asked, her hands folded
“Well, there are three reasons. I’m married, secondly I’m not just interested and for the last, there’s a CCTV camera installed in here and taking all our discussions into recording, to use against you”, he said
Her eyes w¡dened in shock, she didn’t know what to say or do
She looked round as if looking out for the camera he just mentioned
Fred saw her pensiveness and laughed
If all couldn’t prevent her at least, the third would
Before he knew it, she turned and ran out of the office
“B—h”, he spat out
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Fred got home and met a total silence
What’s happened?
“I’m home”, he announced as he walked further into the house
Still there was no answer, then a sharp noise from the bathroom caught his attention
He instantly dropped his suitcase on the floor and ran towards the direction of the noise
He opened the door and met his wife struggling in pains in the tub, she was in labour
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A nurse ran out from the ward and Fred instantly got on his feet to see if he could talk to her, but as usual, she just scuttled past him
That’s exactly what they’ve been doing since his wife went into the labourroom
They had arrived about an hour ago and since then, he had been apprehensive, on the wait for her to come out
He was really worried
About some minutes later, the doctor came out and he walked up to her
“Doctor? Please tell me how was it?”, he asked
The doctor sighed and looked at him, then she shook her head pitifully
Fred was on the verge of losing his mind
“Dr? Is anything the matter? Talk to me”, he insisted
“I’m sorry Mr Fred, it was a still birth”
What! ©️
✨ Bad News
Annette stood in front of the mirror, in a sober mood
Well, she’s been like this for days since she lost her baby
She has to forget all that and forge ahead with life, resume school as soon as possible
She felt a hand on her wa-ist and she turned instantly, it was Fred
“You still worried dear? I’ve told you to keep your mind off the worries”
She sighed, it wasn’t an easy thing to do
“I’m sorry, it’s not easy as you think”
“I know. But you’ve got your studies to worry about now”
She nodded
“Yeah”
“Then focus on that”
Then the phone rang, and she picked it up from the bed
She looked into it, it was Sochima
“Hello”, she picked it up
“Hello sister”
“I’m here, anything?”
“Mom and dad were involved in a fatal accident”, she sniffed, she seemed to be crying
Annette instantly grew worried
“Accident? What happened?”, she asked
“Infact, they couldn’t make it, the accident claimed their lives”
“What!”. ©️
✍️ Ndozi Nuellitta ✍️
To Be Continued 🙄🙄