expecting the worse. I got there and sat in the
sitting room like a complete stranger.
He was in
his room upstairs, so I waited for him to come
downstairs, he knew I was around.
He joined me in the sitting room and sat directly
opposite where I was sitting.
"Hi" I said
"Hi"
" How was your week?" He asked
"Fine and yours?"
"Not bad. You didn't bother to call me during the
week" he said coldly.
"I thought you needed some time to your self. So I
decided to give you some space"
"I'm hungry" he said
I wonder what that statement had to do with me,
So I kept quiet.
"I said I'm hungry, I want you to cook for me" he
said sternly.
"Daniel, did you asked me to come here just to
cook, I think we have more pressing issues to
discuss"
"Oh! I'm now Daniel? I can't remember the last
time you call me Daniel"
"Sorry, I mean….
He ignored me and went upstairs, he came back
with his wallet. He opened it and counted 10
#1000 notes and handed it to me.
"Here is #10,000 buy all the necessary ingredients
you need"
"What ingredients?" I asked still surprised at his
drama.
"I want pounded yam and vegetable soup"
"Pounded yam!" I wonder what game he's trying
to play here.
"Daniella don't just stand there, it's almost noon, I
haven't taken anything today"
"What kind of a man is this for God sake, we are in
the middle of crisis and all his asking for his food"
I thought.
"I can't pound" I said
"That's a lie, the last time I came to your house, I
met you and one of your siblings pounding"
You can get an Ekiti man out of Ekiti but you
cannot get Ekiti out of him. I wonder why they love
pounded yam so much.
"There's no mortal" I said
"My gateman, Papilo got one for me yesterday" he
grinned.
"So this is actually not a joke, so you already have
a mortal in this house " I said and I almost curse
that gateman of his.
"The car keys is upstairs, go get it and take the car
with you" he said and switched on the plasma TV
"I'll take a cab" I said annoyingly. Imagine he
went upstairs to get his wallet and couldn't bring
the keys along with him.
"Your choice" he said.
I just pick my purse and phone from my handbag
and left.
****
I came an hour and half later, I met him watching
a football match. I went to the kitchen hoping he'll
join me but he did not. I can not come and kill
myself, so I called the gate man.
"Papilo!" I called out
"Ma I'm coming ma" he answered.
I ordered him to lock the gate and join me in the
kitchen. Shebi he knows how to buy mortal right. I
even thought Daniel will send him back to his post
but he said nothing.
I set the dinning when I was through. I checked
the time, 2:45pm. I told him I was through.
He settled down on the dinning. I turned back to
leave the dinning when he called me.
"Daniella, where are you going won't you eat?"
"I did not make provision for myself, I only
pounded two wraps and I've served your gate man
the other wrap"
"And why is that"
"Dee, I'm not here to eat"
"Really! So what are you here for, come back here
and sit, we'll eat this together"
There's no point arguing with him, he won't let me
be if I don't join him. And more so I want to know
where all this stunt he's pulling is heading.
To be continued…
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