Daniel got home after the whole day with Darasimi. He was looking happy as if he was with the president, he passed through the living room to his room to rest for a while. He was so tired and full, he didn’t bother to come downstairs for dinner again.
The Queen wasn’t at peace, it was just as
if her conscience wasn’t giving her rest,
she was sighing up and down. Although
the arrival of the King was near, the
following day. The school will resume on
the seventh of January.
….
Darasimi was sitting on the sofa in the
living room watching the Television and
kids that were shown that went to
celebrate new year in a broadcasting
corporation. She was smiling and sipping
a bottle of Maltina while her mother
walked out of the room, she just took a
shower and relaxed on the sofa.
Darasimi stared at her for a moment,
Olufunke wasn’t looking towards her
direction. She was palming her hair that
was wet, she felt refreshed.
“Mum!” Darasimi suddenly called.
Olufunke quickly raised her head up and
looked at her. “Yeah. Why the shout?”
She asked.
‘Nothing.’ She smiled.
“Nothing? And shouted that way?” She
asked with curiosity of knowing why she
was suddenly shouted upon.
‘Okay, just want to gist you about Tony.’
She replied smiling.
“TONY?” Olufunke asked staring at her,
she took off her hand from her hair.
‘Yeah, or you don’t want to?’ She asked
laughing.
‘You aren’t serious, do you now want to
start teasing me?’ She shouted.
“Mum, just tell me what happened back
then. Tony was asthmatic, Ruth also is
asthmatic. Does it mean Tony is Ruth’s
father?” She winked.
Funke was short of words. She stared at
her for a moment and smiled. She walked
up to her and sat beside her. “I’ll tell you
want you’ve always wanted to hear. This
is how it went……………..
MANY YEARS BACK…
The heavily pregnant woman was rushed
in by her husband. He was panicking and
breathing heavily. The man just married,
so that was his first time of engaging
himself in a woman’s labour. The woman
eventually got to the midwife’s place,
“Omisola” by name. She was the only
able and best midwife in the entire
Kingdom.
She welcomed them into the delivering
house, she called her daughter to prepare
everything needed. Her beautiful
daughter, “Omitola” of twenty-five years
of age. She started preparing the
delivering room back to its normal
structure and the woman was helped into
the room while her husband was outside.
••••
King Phillips, the paramount ruler of the
great Kingdom. He ruled several villages
under his kingdom with the rules of his
forefathers and the ones he formulated
himself. He was wealthy and very rich
but despite all of this, he had something
he was never happy with, he was
asthmatic. If it wasn’t the oracle that
chose him, he wouldn’t have been chosen
as the King. Once he was attacked, it
was usually very terrible, but once in a
while.
Queen Olatoye, the King’s only wife. She
was like an epitome of beauty. She was
very beautiful and happily married to her
husband but with no child for several
years. Thank the gods of the Kingdom
that King Phillips wasn’t interested in
women, or else, he would have married
several so that he would have children in
the world and even a crown prince.
The family was a very happy one, just
that the King was very stubborn when it
comes to bringing the rules and
regulations of the Kingdom to reality.
••••
The woman was in labour for two days.
The delivery was very serious, the
husband couldn’t go back home. He was
very afraid and stayed with his wife but
was unable to see her.
It was very early in the morning, around
5:00am when Omisola called on her
daughter to quickly go into the bush and
get her some leaves that will aid the
delivery. Omitola, the daughter was
usually observant. She had always loved
her mother’s profession and wished to
take over after the demise of her mother.
The leaves were gotten and the woman
eventually gave birth to a set of twins.
Omitola wasn’t in the house then, she
got home and met the woman weeping
profusely and the husband also, Omisola
was also sad to hear she gave birth to a
set of twins, it was just as if disaster
broke out.
Omitola entered and met them in the
mood. She saw two handsome boys on
the floor and stared at her mother. She
walked closer and asked her what
happened.
“She gave birth to twins.” Omisola
replied her.
‘TWINS?’
…
According to the tradition and rules of
the Kingdom, twin children are assumed
to be evil and are usually thrown into the
evil forest for them to be devoured by
animals and die. The woman was
weeping profusely that she gave birth to
twins, they were even identical.
The children were brought before the
King, King Phillips who had no mercy
and hated parabulating. He ordered the
priests and guards in charge of things
like that to eliminate the children by
throwing them into the evil forest. The
hard labour of two days was killed just
like that because of the assumption that
they were devilish and evil.
••••
It was immediately after the judgment of
putting the twins to death by throwing
them into the evil forest that the King
had his serious attack and was rushed to
the hospital in the city for treatment. It
was as if the babies attacked him
themselves and dealt with him.
The Queen was in her room, weeping and
very sad. “Where someone is searching
for just a child, two children were thrown
into the forest.” They don’t pity the nine
months the woman used to carry the
pregnancy and the pains, blood, tears
shed before the baby could come to the
world. They kill twins without mercy in
that Kingdom.
Oluwaseun, the Queen’s honorable best
friend from childhood. She lived close to
the palace and was very beautiful. She
had given birth to four children and was
living with her husband. She came
around and knocked at the Queen’s door,
only to be surprised that she was crying
and in deep thought.
She sat close to her and started cooling
her down and speaking sense into her.
She was a patient and wise woman.
‘My Queen, you don’t need all this you
are into mow. You ought to be happy
every time, what if I wasn’t the one that
entered, someone else would have seen
you in tears.’ She uttered.
‘Imagine, where someone had no child,
two born babies were killed. Very soon,
the King will marry another wife because
of his health. We all know that asthma is
very deadly and dangerous, he would
want to have a son on earth now.’ She
complained.
‘Is that why you are crying? Come of it
“ore”‘ she hit her by her left hand.
‘This is not a matter of happiness. I’m
more than being sad. I jus…..’ She felt
dizzy and was just like vomiting. She
quickly stood up and rushed into the
restroom to vomit, she collapsed on her
way back due to the dizziness. She was
also rushed to the hospital where the
King was.
.
To be Continued
