Read the episode 15 of Finding Mr Right
The question that keeps running through my mind is this – which
is better, the one that is married and is unhappy in the marriage or the one
who is longing for marriage and hasn’t found hubby? That, people is the million
dollar question. Internally, I thanked my stars.
I could have been Mrs. Onisokame today, beaten, bruised
and battered. All of this has made me rethink and redefine this my finding
hubby quest. Why should I allow myself to be defined by my marital status, or
Mrs. Who I am?
Toke tried to call Ossy’s phone with Gloria’s line but he kept
cutting the call off. She tried with her own phone but got the same treatment.
By the time we tried with mine, his phones were switched off. We sat there, as
we waited for Dr. Phillips to come out of the emergency ward.
A little later, restless, Toke decided to ping Ossy
impersonating Gloria. The BBM read
“Ossy, you have killed our baby, I’m in the hospital, and the
doctor says I’ve had a miscarriage. And you aren’t taking my calls. What did I
do to deserve this? Marrying you?”
The bbm didn’t get delivered to him immediately, as his phones
were off. After what seemed like an eternity, the motherly figure of Dr.
Philips came into the doorway and beckoned on us to come in to see Glo.
When I saw my friend, I burst into tears. She had a cut above
her eye that had been patched up, the lacerations I had seen the day before had
become fresh again, and her black eyes had become even blacker.
All this, after the doctor had worked on her. I wondered
what Toke would have seen when she picked Glo up initially. We all stayed
silent for a while, grieving in our own different ways.
The bubbly, lively and mischevious Gloria I knew was gone, on
the bed lay someone else, a shadow of her old self.
Just a few months ago, we were phone selecting, Mr. X-ing and
all the likes. It seemed we had lost ourselves in the quest for a husband.
Toke broke the silence, saying what the circumstances would not
permit me to say and which Glo’s nature would not bring her to say. “That
marriage is over.
I read on some blogs how a Nigerian guy stabbed his wife
to death recently. We will not wait until you are dead and become bloggers’
fodder before this madness ends.”
Gloria’s BB beeped in Toke’s hand, and it seemed a welcome
distraction from the tension soaked hospital room. That was until she read the
message. “It’s the idiot,” she hissed. “What did he say?” I queried. Rather
than answer, Toke handed the bb over to me.
“The idiot! The frigging idiot!” I exclaimed, raw anger seething
through every pore in my body.
Gloria tried to sit up, anxious to see what was on the bb. She
winced in pain as she tried, so she lay back down. I wasn’t inclined to showing
her exactly what he had said so I paraphrased for her.
“He said the baby can go to hell, and that you had better get
back home to do your duties as a wife. He’s threatening to haunt you if you
ever try to leave him.”
Gloria spoke quietly. “He’s been threatening me every time he
beat me. I would have left him earlier if I was not afraid. Ossy doesn’t handle
rejection well at all. Ossy forced me to come to your wedding Oyin. You
couldn’t see me that day, but I had been beaten. If you were close enough, you
would have seen the marks.” She sobbed even more quietly, as her body shook.
“Gloria, as I said,” Toke continued, slamming her hand on the
hospital bed railing, “the marriage is over. While it’s painful, thankfully,
there are no kids involved just yet. And as regards his threats, we will teach
that foolish wife-basher a lesson he will never forget.”
Dr. Phillips came back in just as Toke was rounding off her
(quite imaginative) plans on handling Ossy. We knew our time with Gloria was
over. I screengrabbed the chat from Ossy and emailed it to myself.
Those kinds of things should be
documented. You never know, because people will never
believe an Ossy could say something like that about his own child. Or beat his
wife like that.
I asked Toke if she had taken pictures of Gloria the night
before. My smart Toke had. She forwarded all of them to my email.
Gloria was able to leave Dr. Phillips’ clinic by Sunday
afternoon and we brought her over to mine. I have missed my girls.
Even though it was something like this that brought us together,
that night was one of the best nights I had had in a long time. It brought back
memories of a time that wasn’t too far away in the past, when we were just
girls having fun.
***
So I know you are dying to know what we did to Ossy. First, Glo
was to go back home as if she had accepted her fate and act the part of the
submissive wife who was afraid of leaving or offending him, and do all she
could to avoid provoking a beating.
I was tempted to give Gloria the gist of Ossy stalking me and
all the Mr. Poet Ossy series, but Toke and I agreed not to. She was hurt enough
as it was and it would just rub the hurt in some more.
Monday morning, bright and early at my desk, just as
Gloria was supposed to be returning to the house (which she confirmed she did
without any event) Ossy sent me an sms.
“Take a risk with me.”
The bile in my throat rose but we had a plan and I had to act my
part. I wished with all my heart I could ignore it, but I responded.
“I’m in a meeting oga. Stop disturbing me and making my phone
beep.”
He responded instantly (which part of making my phone beep did
he not get, oniranu oshi). “So sorry”
“Stop beeping me! I will call you later,” I responded.
I nearly slammed my phone on the floor when another text came in
from him. “Really? You will call?”
I ignored him.
Later in the day, I brought myself into the right frame of mind
and called Ossy up.
Me: “Hey Ossy”
Ossy: Oyinnnnnnn. I’m so glad you called. You can’t begin to
imagine how glad I am. How have you been? All I’ve done is yearn for you.”
I was so incensed that this guy who was pounding my friend black
and blue could sound so excited talking to me. These animals are the ones that
look nicest and most normal outside. I remembered the plan and swallowed the
bile that was rising in my throat.
Me: You know you hit me real hard, but in my heart I know you
meant right. And I’ve missed you ni jare. You know good friends are very hard
to come by.
Ossy: I’m blushing here o. Me, good friend. Okay. We should hook
up and catch up on many things now.
Notice he doesn’t bring up my friend who happens to be his wife.
The cow is already falling for the bait.
Me: Yeah, that would be cool. How about Angels in Phase 1? You
know the place abi? And you won’t need Chris to hook that up.
Ossy: Of course. Wasn’t it me that showed you the place before?
Would have tried there for our last date, but didn’t want you to suspect it was
me at all at that time. I showed you this town now.
Me: True talk. I had forgotten. Let’s do Friday evening, so we
wouldn’t be in a hurry as we catch up.
Ossy: Alright dear. Would definitely make that a date.
Me: Aite dear (ewww). Talk to you later.
I hung up. I called Toke and reported the conversation
immediately.
“Can you imagine that bastard? He didn’t even mention Glo once,
all he was thinking was how he would get lucky on Friday. Kai, I so cannot wait
to deal with him!”
“Well,” I responded “his oju kokoro (lustful eyes) has made him
fall easily for our plans. It’s over to you now.”
“Okay, let me go and get dressed and hit the road,” Toke said as
she rounded our call off. Ossy would not know what hit him. I extracted the
pictures of Gloria’s battered face plus the screen munched image and got to
work.
***
The days flew by and I kept a string of calls going on with Ossy
to keep him encouraged about our rendezvous. I skillfully dropped subtle
comments here and there to drive the thought into his head that I wanted to
commence a secret affair with him. He swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
Shebi it is what was already in his mind to do. All that was
required was a little encouragement and he was game.
Friday came quickly (since we were so looking forward to it) and
Toke left the base (that’s what we called my house for this operation, military
feeling like) to begin her arm of the operations.
I had the whole beauty treatment I did on the week before
courtesy Ossy to thank for the outstanding glow of my skin. And then I wore
this gown! The neckline was plunging, revealing a good portion of my 36D in
glorious Technicolor.
The thing hugged my figure, and thanks to my flat tummy, the
valley it created accentuated the mountain on my chest. Don’t let me describe
what my hips down looked like, before some of our male friends… *cough cough*.
I set out and sure enough, tall dark and handsome Ossy was
waiting for me in all his lasciviousness. You know when some men look at you
and you can see that they have undressed you totally in their heads.
Angels is one of those exclusive places inside Phase 1,
Lekki with a drinks bar in front of the building, and large chalets
further into the compound.
These chalets were small bungalows that had all the trappings of
a house and all the Island big boys and girls came to do all the things they
wanted to keep secret. Ossy sure thought he had me.
The conversation was annoying but I smiled sweetly and laughed
at all the jokes. He successfully twisted and tilted everything we said towards
sex. I had never seen this part of Ossy before and couldn’t imagine what Gloria
had been put through.
Eventually, after I got a message from Toke, I sent him a BBM.
It read “ask for Chalet 5. I’ll be waiting there. Make sure you’re naked before
you come in. I’ll be waiting exactly same. You have exactly ten minutes to get
to me after I leave otherwise deal is off”.
I waited for the BBM to be delivered and saw the red light
indicator on his BB blinking and then leaned over to him seductively and
whispered. “I’ll be waiting. Read your BBM when I’m gone”.
Then I stood up and strutted my stuff before his lust-filled eyes
and went to the chalet.
Then I sent a BBM to Toke. “it’s all set.”
Ossy was not quiet as he approached the Chalet at all. I had
left the door open and a note on the door (lessons from my stalker, Ossy
himself) instructing him to undress as soon as he entered the door.
There was a small hallway between the door and the parlor in the
chalet where he could do that, and all the lights in the hallway were off and
the door leading into the parlor was shut. As I heard him come in, I pinged
him. “I’m waiting… #bbkisssmiley#”.
Thankfully, the network behaved and the message was delivered
instantly and he read it. I heard him hustle out of his clothes and then bumble
towards the door.
As soon as Ossy opened the door, Toke turned on the lights in
the parlor and all the people in the parlor shouted “Surprise!!!”
Ossy stood stark naked, in front of the small crowd in the
parlor, and instinctively, he tried to retreat back into the hallway.
But one of my friends from The Marquee stood behind him to block
his exit. A hush fell over the people in the parlor on the sight of naked
Ossy.
Toke and Gloria had gone to great lengths to gather all of his
friends, his bosses and colleagues at work, his main customers, his friends
from my company, his family, her family, everyone that mattered in Ossy’s life
basically.
The ruse had been that she was organizing a surprise party
for her husband to celebrate his recent promotion at the bank.
They had all come to celebrate with Ossy who was a clear star in
the eyes of all of them. Now, to have him walk in naked sent murmurs, hushes
and disbelieving exclamations throughout the gathering.
Gloria wasted no time. She quickly projected the images of her
looking radiant and beautiful side by side with the images of her we had
taken in the apartment right after her battery. The images were like this:
Fine Gloria + Ossy = Beaten Up Gloria.
“This is what this fine, career gentle-pig does to his wife at
home. Some of you might not believe, hence I will give you a live flesh and
blood result of his work.”
Thanks to her skin, the marks of beatings on her face became
clear the moment she removed her scarf and glasses.
The crowd let out a shocked oooh. Ossy stood there, looking
ashamed, unable to take his eyes away from the ground, his only exit from the
room blocked by a no nonsense bouncer.
Next, Gloria beamed screen-grabbed images of BB conversations
where Ossy had threatened her with violence if she ever left him onto the
screen.
The last screengrab she displayed was one in which she was
talking about the baby they had lost to his last beating and his callous
responses to her.
“My husband killed our baby, and feels not the slightest
remorse for it. The words are not manufactured. He is on the BBM of everyone in
this room and I’m sure you all recognize the contact name and display picture.”
She produced papers already prepared by Toke. “These are our
divorce papers. I have taken the liberty to sign it. And don’t be afraid, I
don’t need anything from you so I’m not asking for any of your things.
All I need is your signature, before these witnesses, before you
leave here now. And know that if even one single hair on my head or any of my
friends is hurt, everyone here will point their fingers at you, so you better
pray that we’ll be okay.”
With that, Toke took the papers to Ossy, and gave him a pen to
sign. He hesitated briefly and the bouncer behind him touched him on the
shoulder to remind him that he wasn’t going anywhere until he signed.
Trust Naija people, the guests just kept watching the film
unfolding before them ni o, no intervention nothing. Ossy signed and Toke
inspected all the places he was supposed to sign against the signature on the
wedding documents that Gloria had provided.
The signatures were genuine. She nodded to Gloria and then
the bouncer allowed Ossy out of the door.
I then smiled sweetly and thanked all those who had come and
told them there were refreshments if they still required any.
All done, we, the three Lagos musketeer babes stepped out
into the waiting car and drove to mine to celebrate.
We learnt later that Ossy left the country without trace, not
leaving his destination with even his family. We hoped never to see his wife
battering face again.
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