Emzy90:
hope u are happy nw *winks

missuniverse:
Bibi ve come with her twist again...


y do I think Sly's dad is still alive?
y do I think I knw where Dupe had seen at tatoo b4?

arosunshine:
Cc Lawlahdey et colik how market ? :p

team #Dupche

missuniverse:
Bibi ve come with her twist again...


y do I think Sly's dad is still alive?
y do I think I knw where Dupe had seen at tatoo b4?

missuniverse:
Bibi ve come with her twist again...

y do I think Sly's dad is still alive? y do I think I knw where Dupe had seen at tatoo b4?

missuniverse:
Bibi ve come with her twist again...

y do I think Sly's dad is still alive? y do I think I knw where Dupe had seen at tatoo b4?

MozB:


lovers of sly!!!!! I hail Una..

Julietogbo:
Bibijay123 I carry beyonce hand for u oooooo three gbosa jor gbosa gbosa gbosa. Nice one

queentosks:
Wow bibi!!! Ur story is so captivating,even wen m in class nd a lecturer is in front of me, wud stil com and read, I jst hope I won't start dreaming abt these characters weldon dear, thumbs up!

yusufibrahim:
Bibijay the magician of great story..... Nothing short of the great piece u normally give us it's nice exciting and educative too... More grace to u
#respect

dominique:
A Bibijay story without a twist ke? Kolewerk
I knew there was something sinister about Sly's past but a killer? Too bad
But Bibi, I'm not clear on some things sha. You wrote that Annie was a little girl when her mother was killed, but she is older than Sly, how come she didn't recognize him? Sly has been going to the house before, how come he never saw Annie? Didn't Sly see her that fateful night?

At least we can safely conclude that Dupsly is dead and buried

vandops10:
Do we need to vote for this literature to win any award?
I will vote, everybody in my office, house, street, estate will vote.
Realy looks like real life something
Bibi u too much abeg

arosunshine:

am in the team #dupche
nt a fan of sly ;(

Julietogbo:
Bibijay123 I carry beyonce hand for u oooooo three gbosa jor gbosa gbosa gbosa. Nice one

bibijay123:


Read it again. I didn't say she was a little girl o, I only said she saw her mom being killed. As for the other qsts, you will see the answers in subsequent updates. Yea Annie's older than Sly, as for why she didn't recognize him you wee knw later.

bibijay123:


lol Teamsly all d way!

Lawlahdey:
Bibi.. You just broke my heart, when this is not a twine again

I hate Dupche

swann:
I just got goose-bumps reading this...

It's a pity Uche is blind now but it's kinda romantic how that doesn't drive Dupe away. She's a good woman


Sly is a bad person and i spit on everything about him...

bibijay123:

Chapter Seventeen



Funmi


" Where do you think you are coming to? Not this house." My mother shouted, blocking the door with her body." Useless girl! You think you can bring shame upon me and come back into my house? I am not a killer, so I can't harbor one in my house."


" I don't know what you heard about me, but I didn't do it. I am innocent." I said.


" Shior! You think I don't have eyes to see for myself? Is this how you left here? Take a good look at yourself! Is this how a Godly child should dress?" She shouted.


I looked down at my shorts and crop top. There was nothing wrong with it. It molded my curves and brought out my hour glass figure.


" If you won't let me in, fine. It's okay. I will go back to the hotel I lodged.". I said.


" Please go back oo, I don't want to see you ever again. Ha! Funmi! Funmi! You are a disgrace! You are shameless and heartless! So you can even show your face here after all the shame you have brought upon us." She said.


I took hold of my suitcase and walked out of the compound. I wasn't surprised my mother refused to let me in. She was a wicked woman and a terrible mother. Just like Mabel, I thought and spat out. Disgusting women.



My hand crept to my full, aching breasts. I wondered what to do next, I couldn't go see Dupe because I didn't want to see her parents. I knew I was carrying Tade's child since the day I was roughly shoved into the cell. I had missed my period before then, my breasts were heavy and tender. It wasn't enough reason to conclude that I was pregnant but I knew I was. A smile started on my lips as I flaged down a cab. This baby would be my golden ticket back into Tade's life. Even if he wanted nothing to do with me, he wouldn't deny his own flesh and blood. Or would he?


" Madam, shey na here?" The cab driver asked, parking in front of the big gate.



" Yes." I alighted and paid him. I knocked on the gate and it was opened by Papa Love. The old man squinted his eyes, trying to get a clearer vision of me.


" Hello" He said, opening the gate.



" Papa Love, it's Funmi."


" Funmi? Funmi?" He asked, " Oh Pastor's daughter? the one that went to Ghana with Auntie's son?"


" Yes." I agreed.


He shook his head. "Terrible, terrible. I heard terrible things about you. Come inside, she's at home."


I walked into the main house with my suitcase, Mrs. Afolabi was on the couch watching a movie. She whirled around, the smile on her face froze on sighting me.


" What do you want here?" She asked, standing up.


" Please hear me out ma, I am innocent. "


" Oh really? did you trip and fall on my son's dick? did you perhaps lost your senses and gave the poisoned food reserved for household rats to my daughter_ in_ law?" She asked. " I don't want to hear whatever cock and bulll story you have cooked up. You are a disgrace! You have failed us! You couldn't even prove not all Nigerian girls are home wreckers!"



" Tade took advantage of me! They both did! they both exploited my lack of experience." I said, " They both set me up and had me thrown in jail!"


"So what do you want from me?" She asked, arms folded across her chest.


" I am pregnant. " I replied, hoping it would soften her heart.


She burst into laughter while clapping her hands." Bravo! why are you telling me? you think you can trap your bastard on my Son's neck? is that why you seduced him? He told me everything and how you threatned to destroy his home. Let me tell you this, whatever it is that you have schemed up, it won't succeed. I won't sit back and let you destroy my son's life!"


" I am carrying Tade's baby! I am not asking you to help me. I don't want my child to be termed a bastard. I'm only asking you to accept my child when he's born."


" That will be over my dead body! You are an ingrate! No woman should steal another woman's happiness for herself! that is what you are trying to do and I will not allow it. Leave my house! Get out!" She shouted.

I pulled my briefcase out of her home while she continued calling me names.
****
I bought a flight ticket the next day and went back to Ghana. I checked into a cheap hotel and laid low for some days. I went to Serwa's school every morning and watched from my hiding place as Mabel dropped her off and picked her up again by noon. I missed my little girl so much, I wished I could grab her from Mabel's hand but that would be foolishness.Afterwards I would go back to my hotel room and plot their ruin. One morning, I took a taxi and followed her back home when I was sure she would be the only one at home.


I had disguised as a Muslim woman with a shawl covering my face and I wore a long black gown. The security guards let me in without any hassle. Tade's car was not parked in front of their block, it was truly the perfect time to put my plans into action. I rang the doorbell, I heard her voice call out that I should hold on.


She pulled open the door and stopped in shock."You? What do you want here?"


"Mabel, please forgive me. I am here to beg for your forgiveness. My conscience wouldn't let me be. I have wronged you greatly." I said, letting my voice quiver.


Her expression softened and she drew closer to me. Perfect angle to drive a knife through her, I thought.


" Look, we all are human and we are not perfect. It was very wrong of me to think you were. I trusted you 100%, it was a mistake. It's all in the past now, my husband and I have made our peace. My family is back to what it was before and we are happy. Please go back to Nigeria, don't try to ruin it for me again. I have forgiven you, you should also try to forgive yourself." She said righteously.



My hand stole into my bag which was on my shoulder, beneath my veil. I could feel the cold steel of the knife, slowly I lifted it out of the bag. Mabel turned back to look into the house. It was the perfect time.



" Mabel! What's taking you so long?" A voice said, from inside the house. I dropped the knife back, I was so close to lifting it out.


Alicia walked out of the house and stood beside her friend.


" Funmi" She said. " Security! Security! " She shouted.


" No need for that, I was about leaving." I said cooly. The bitch had ruined my plans. Time to put plan b into action.


" Will you go back to Nigeria?" Mabel asked quietly.


" Yes, thank you for forgiving me." I said. She was spared this time, next time she might not be lucky.
****


"Tade!" I called, running to catch up with him. He was about entering his car. I ran faster and screamed his name out, louder. I had gone to wait outside his office because I knew I had a better chance of getting him to listen to me outside. He could have security throw me out if I had gone to see him in his office. He stopped and looked back, he looked at me in surprise as I caught up with him.


He looked so handsome in a chinos pant and loose shirt. I felt my heart beating faster than normal and I had to remind myself that I wasn't there to admire his good looks. I was there to rip his family apart in any way that I could.


"Funmi" He said, staring at me.



"Before you say anything, please hear me out. I am not here to cause you any trouble, no. I am here because I found myself destitute when I returned back to Nigeria. My parents has disowned me and I am carrying your child. I thought you might want to know that we made a baby."


"A baby?" He repeated to himself, " Are you trying to blackmail me? You really are out to destroy my life."


"This is no blackmail. We can have a test if you want, Tade I don't know what happened to Mabel but I did not poison her."


"How do I know it's mine?" He asked, surprising me.


"I was a virgin remember?!" I scoffed.


"And you were once a saint too! Look, you can't have this baby. It will kill Mabel if she finds out. You have caused us enough trouble already, we don't need anymore from you." He said.


"Mabel? Mabel? How about me?" I cried out, " Do I deserve this from you?"


"I will write you a check. You will leave for Nigeria and you can do whatever pleases you with the baby. Come for the cheque tomorrow, if you fail to leave after three days I will have you thrown in jail and this time around I will make sure you rot there." He said.


"I have committed no crime! You can't throw me in jail!" I replied.


" Don't push me. You don't know how far I will go to keep my family together. " He said.


" You don't know how far I will also go to get justice" I replied and walked away from him. I touched my tummy, sorry baby, I will make sure daddy leave you something good before I send him to heaven.
*******
Slyvester


"That was what happened." I said, narrating the events that led to my father's execution to her.



" The night my mother was killed was on the eve of my 26th birthday. I had left home since I was eighteen to stay on my own. I was a difficult child so we fought a lot and she took me to a boarding school. My mother invited me over so we could catch up on old times. She could be self centered at times but she was my mother and I loved her" Annie cried." After dinner, we had both gone into our separate rooms. She woke me up in the middle of the night that she suspected someone was trying to break into the house. We had no security guard because nobody wanted to stay in my mother's employment."


" Annie," I said, slipping my phone towards her." Call the police"


She carried on like I didn't interrupt her." My mother asked me to dress the bed I laid on, do away with my personal items, and she also asked me to hide in the guest wardrobe. While hiding in the wardrobe I heard footsteps which I was certain wasn't hers. I heard the doors to each room being banged until all went quiet.After sometime, I tiptoed out of the wardrobe and hid behind the door connecting to the living room. Then I saw three masked guys, the one who seemed to be the leader was pointing a gun at her. I tried to look for something to identify the guys and I noticed the tattoo on his arm. A bull's head." She stood up and leaned her back against the wall. " For years I tried to find that masked guy with a bull head tattoo on his arm. I had an artist draw the tattoo for me and I tried to find him myself since it seemed the police was not looking hard enough."


" Annie, We lost our home because of your mother. My four year old sister was raped to death. I joined the bull fraternity because I wanted to avenge my loved ones. After I had my revenge, I thought I would be free but I wasn't. I had nothing else to live for, all I had left was bitterness. When I staggered back home that night, my mother had been waiting up for me. She held me as I puked my guts out. She saw the blood stains on me and she knew. She has never spoken a word to me since that day. I was only seventeen, I thought killing your mother would heal the wound in my soul but it only widened it. You can have me arrested here and now. Do it Annie." She wouldn't have been able to find me prior to tonight because we were only three who bore that tattoo on our arms. The bull founder, his protégée and I.


She picked up her blouse, wore it and slipped on her sandals and walked out of my house.
*****

I stopped my car in front of the little house my mother lived in. She had refused my help to buy her a nicer and bigger house and she hadn't spoken a word to me since the day I staggered home, drunk on Alhaja Risikat's blood. Everyday I went to see her, I would sit on a stool and talk about my day while Mama pretends to be busy with her crotchet work which she sold for a living.


I would talk about my victory in court, my clients and how they treated me like I was a Messiah. She would sit quietly, not batting an eyelid or turning to look in my direction. I had told her about Dupe, on my way out, I dropped the necklace I bought on the stool. I told her it was a gift from Dupe, the next time I visited her, the money I left for her was still on the stool held in place by a small stone but the necklace was gone.



" Mama," I called, entering the neat small room. She didn't respond, she never did. She was knitting quietly in her chair while her legs were placed on the stool in front of her. I closed the door behind me. " Mama, It's me"


She didn't look at me, her fingers continued knitting. I knelt down beside her.


"Mama, My past has finally caught up with me. Annie is Alhaja's daughter. she knows I killed her mother." I said. She didn't look at me, but her hands were trembling." Dupe has also left me Mama. She went back to Uche, he had an accident so he's blind now. I am all alone once again, I have to go back home now, I want the police to meet me at home."


The crotchet work fell from her hands, tears streamed down her cheeks. She pulled my head into her thighs and I cried, I cried for the first time in my adult life.


" God be with you Sly," She said." God be with you son."



I stood up and walked out, into the cold icy evening. Christmas was only few days away, the air smelled fresh and it was icy on the skin. Dupe would be spending hers at the hospital with Uche but I would be spending mine behind bars.



TBC