Rasheedat: would you please hurry up? My baby must be hungry!
Ridwan: (looking so tattered) I am coming.. I just need to get the car key? But I cant find it..
Rasheedat: is everything you cant find… as if you didn’t use the car today? Was it not the car you brough us home?
Ridwan: I’m coming now.. take it easy.. I’m also worried about our baby!
Rasheedat: (walk away) come and meet me outside.
Ridwan: ahh! Where did I drop this car key? I have checked everywhere now…
Rasheedat: Ridwan!! If anything should happen to my baby all alone there I wont forgive you I swear to God.
Ridwan: can you just relax woman? do I look like am playing here?
Rasheedat: then get on with it!
Ridwan: you know you’ve been testing my patience since you put to bed.. if you hadn’t given birth to a sickler we would have been living fine and happy!
Rasheedat: (she furiously barge inside back to confront him) what did you say? So now it my fault! It my fault for our child being SS?
Ridwan: assuming you’ve told me that you are AS I wouldn’t have gotten you pregnant!
Rasheedat: see who is talking, were you not the one who keep shouting to my ears back then that you are AA? So why blaming me? this all your fault! If you had confirm you genotype really well.. we wont have been in this mess… I wouldn’t have open my legs for you to impregnate…
Ridwan: (tight is fist) woman! you are testing my patience and I might lose it!
Rasheedat: lose now! Na today? I came to your life to make it better and bless you with a child your foolish wife couldn’t give you and this is how you repay me? blaming everything on my head? How dare you?
Ridwan: (almost raise his hand on her when he cautioned himself)
Rasheedat: oh! so you want to beat me? ahhh! Ridwan! Them never born you well! (drag his collar ) if you know say your name na Ridwan! Try beat me! I will make your life a living hell! You this unfortunate being!
Ridwan: let go of my shirt!
Rasheedat: I will not! do your worse! Shebi you want to beat me before! So go ahead! Maybe I’m the one that curse you not be a father? Rubbish!
Ridwan: (panting heavily as he tried to calm down) kindly let go of my shirt so I can find the car key! Please…
Rasheedat: oh so now you know how to talk like a sensible man back! The next time you try that shit with me again! I will not hesitate to break your head with broken bottle.. that day! you will know you marry a thug!
Ridwan: point of correction you are not my wife! And you will never be!
Rasheedat: who want to be your foolish wife before? You give me nothing but pain and never ever appreciate my help… so if I ever begged to be your wife make I bend you this stupid man… better hurry up and meet me outside in less than 5 minutes or else… this house wont contain two of us..and if anything should happen to my baby! i will make sure you rot in jail! Rubbish! (walk away)
Ridwan: (couldn’t believe what his eyes just witness) ahhh! Jejely wahala dey on it own and I drag into my house! Oh my God! What have I done? look at the idiot I took as my bestie when I was foolish and naïve? Who will ever marry this rotten thing? What have I done for crying out loud? Which type of mess I have land myself into bayi? (suddenly notice someone tapped him from the back and quickly turn as he was startled) you! what are you doing here?
Zainab: (stretch out her hand) here is the car key you were looking for.. kindly go with her so I can atleast sleep in peace.
Ridwan: so you’ve been indoor since morning? You didn’t went to work?
Zainab: yes sir! i am on leave.
Ridwan: since when?
Zainab: since two days ago.
Ridwan: but why am I just hearing it now?
Zainab: (talking in a weak and tired tone )because you’ve been busy with your family issues and I didn’t want to bother you about mine.. I don’t want to add to your pains… so take, don’t keep her waiting, you know she might change it for you.. (drop the key on the table and walk back to her room and slam the door)
Ridwan: (tiredly watch her disappear in his sight when he fell on the couch) God! What have I land myself into? Ahhh? Look at my wife! She doesn’t even give me headache.. and I intentionally brought problem to my home…. Now I feel like am being punish..
Rasheedat: ridwan!
Ridwan: (quickly jump out of the couch and head) am coming now!!
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At the hospital
Rasheedat: (nagging after him as they walk into the pediatric ward) stupid man! If you ever blame again ehn?
Ridwan: (say no word to her again but focus on searching for the doctor while she enter the ward) doctor!!! (run after him)
Doctor: yes Mr. Ridwan?
Ridwan: please I need to see you.
Doctor: kindly follow me to my office please.
Ridwan: thank you sir.
A minutes after
Doctor: so what can I do for you?
Ridwan: please I seriously need a favor from you, I want you to carry out the DNA, I want clear my doubt, I don’t really believe if the child is mine.. and the stress is unbearable already for trying to keep her alive. Ever since she put to bed… we never spend a full day at home.. either do I even have time for my business again.. today hospital tomorrow hospital.. doctor help me! I want the DNA result today.
Doctor: actually Mr. Ridwan, I understand your point very well.. and it normal to doubt your wife if you think the child doesn’t belong to you.
Ridwan: she is not my wife!! I repeat she is not my wife.. my wife is at home resting..
Doctor: wow! Anyway we have carried out the DNA test… on that very day she put to bed as your legal wife instructed before you rant at her in my office.. so she came back to beg me not to show you the result since you don’t need it.. but eventually did anyway.. (open his drawer searching for the report)
Ridwan: I guess I was mean to her… anyway the result please.
Doctor: fortunately Mr. Ridwan… anyway go through it yourself… (hand over the report to him)
Ridwan: (hijack it and go through it) what? no!!!!
Doctor: I’m sure what you are seeing is that the child is absolutely yours 94%... so congratulations.
Ridwan: please doctor.. there must have been..
Doctor: some mistakes abi? trust me Mr. Ridwan.. we don’t make mistakes on report that can ruin marriage and amend it as well.. so carefully carryout the procedures.. so fortunately.. the child is yours.
Ridwan: noo!!!! Doctor no! for how long will I continue like this? Only God knows how much I have spent on her… it draining me emotionally, mentally and financially.. please any way she can be fully recover so we can go home and never come back.
Doctor: Mr. Ridwan, I’m sure you are a literate so you understand how issues like this work.. infact some are lucky to live for more than 30 years but your child’s case is more critical than you could ever imagine and if you don’t follow the treatment you might lose her.
Ridwan: (frustrated already) awwwwww! What have I land myself into? Whats the purpose of finding a child and when the child finally arrives … she comes with so much pain for me.. why me? all I ever wanted was a child why? (almost break down in tears)
Doctor: I am so sorry you are going through a lot right now, you just to be more prayerful than ever, we care but God cure.. so that’s all I can say sir.
Ridwan: (sadly rest his head on table ) thank you doctor.. (get up and head out but instead he head back into his car) I am so exhausted and tired.. I feel like disappearing right now… and there is my wife sleeping at home.. I wish I could be in that position.. but I cant even leave here if I don’t want wahala.
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Two days after, during the evening
Ridwan: I have had enough of your stupidity! I have heard enough of every pain and every chaos you’ve brought into my life and if you don’t stop frustrating me you this witch.. you might go missing in this world.
Rasheedat: just say you are going to kill me! just say it! and if I die, I cant even die alone.. we die together… you can see how our baby’s condition keep getting worse abi? due to your selfish interest… now I understand why God couldn’t answer your wife’s prayer because you cant even be a father.. maybe you are the problem in the first place not her.. instead of you to be grateful for answering prayers now you have the audacity to confront me that the child isn’t yours when the doctor even confirm it… I am not prostitude, I stand on my words but you? you are a demon… and you deserve any child calling you a father! I hate you so much… but as far as this child is concern we must find all means for her to survive.
Ridwan: I don’t even want anymore! I don’t want the child anymore? I am not hungry to have any child anymore! Please.. I just want to rest!
Rasheedat: now I realize how foolish you are and you can never be satisfied no matter what someone sacrifise for you.. at first you want a child desperately… your wife couldn’t do that… I decided to help your stupid soul and I gave you a child.. but now you don’t want anymore? If that is how your parents rejected you, do you think you would have been alive?
Ridwan: don’t you dare talk about my parents like that? I will beat the hell out of you!
Rasheedat: (hijack him again) go ahead! Beat me! if you don’t beat me today you are a bastard! Beat me! (nodding him) thank God, we have a police in this house that can witness all is going on. Just try beat me now!
Ridwan: (suddenly realise his wife inside, the push her away and run to her doorstep) zainab!! (banging at the door) open this door!! (no response) abi she isn’t at home ni? Zainab!!!
Rasheedat: why are you going to her? ehnn? So now you are tired of me you want to go back to your past! (chuckles in dibelief) so this is how unfortunate you are Ridwan!.
Ridwan: (furiously move closer to her and land a hot slap on her face) don’t you ever in your life! Ever! Talk to me like that ever again! because the next time you try such I will note hesitate to break you.. you this whore…
Rasheedat: (quickly return her own slap too) how dare you slap me?
Ridwan: (touch his cheek in disbelief) you slapped me? a woman slapped me? (push her and began to beat the hell out of her)
Ridwan: (he didn’t stop but continue to hit her mouth and face to his satisfaction before he finally let go of her)
Zainab: (appear from nowhere ) husband! I never knew you beat women?
Ridwan: (panting heavily) you know damn well that I am not! but this witch over here will test your patience beyond your imagination… and I will make sure she leave my house today.
Rasheedat: (crying bitterly on the floor with her bleeding nose) you beat me! ridwan! You beat me…. I will make sure this is your last day moving freely on this earth. Mark my word! See how am bleeding!
Ridwan: you just stay out of this ok? go back in and rest! I will take care of my mess.. but she is leaving this house today! (furiously head to their master bedroom)
Zainab: (tired stares at Rasheedat’s bleeding face) may Allah ease your affairs.. (as she was about to leave, rasheedat get up and drag her hair, ready to attack her but she didn’t know zainab was prepared for her, she dudge her slap and twisted her hand till she fell on the floor screaming, then she brings out her hidden handcuff and handcuff her hands behind her back) you are not a human but an Animal! Stay like that for this whole day…. unless you will walk to the police station and demand for the key. (adjust her gown and head back inside)
Ridwan: (dragging out her luggages out of the room and throwing it ouside until he realise she cant get up) why are you so quiet? Better get up and leave (move closer to her) ohh! Why didn’t I think of this! (burst into laughter) don’t tell me you were trying to fight a police? You get what you deserve… just leave my house! Leave! (he roar at her)
Rasheedat: I am not leaving! I am not going anywhere until you all pay for your crime! And if anything should happen to my baby! I will make you pay!
Ridwan: sha dey there for now! So I can rest small…(panting heavily) anytime your child is crying I will bring her to you (head back to his room)
Rasheedat: ridwan!!!!!!! I hate you so much! And you must pay for this.
Ridwan: I hate you even more!