THE NIGHT WIFE CHAPTERS 51-60

THE NIGHT WIFE CHAPTERS 51-60

CHAPTER 55

BY SOLOMON ADINYA

“Dooshima be careful so the cutlass will not cut your hand. ” Mama Amos said, Dooshima paused to clean the sweat entering her eyes. She continued cutting the wood, not minding the blisters that had swollen on her right palm. The white sack of water on her hand, hurt more than any pain she had ever experienced.

She had to support the woman who had been supporting her all the while she had moved to her house. She had tried to cook Moimoi to Hawk it at the garage. She followed a video on YouTube to make the Moimoi.

She and Prisca had laboured for hours to make the snack, but it turned out so badly that they had to throw the whole pot away away. She had no choice but to follow mama Amos to her farm . The old woman had laughed so much when she saw Dooshima fumbling with the hoe.

“Dooshima have you ever been to farm before? ” The woman asked , she shook her head .

“My parents are so rich, I had never been to a farm before, my parents provided for everything that we needed.” Dooshima said with deep smile, that couldn’t hide the sadness beneath the surface.

“Why don’t you go back to them? you have refused to tell me what happened why you ran away. You don’t trust anyone . ” Mama Amos said.

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“Mama is not that I don’t just want to go back into that story, it hurts me so much. But I put the whole blame on myself.” Dooshima said .

“No wahala. You’ll make the dinner this evening when we get back to the Village my chest is paining.” Mama Amos said, Dooshima chuckled she remembered the last time she mad Egusi soup , how terrible it had ended.

“Mama I don’t know how to cook oh, I can only prepare noodles for myself and my daughter, I used to run away from the kitchen because we had maids.” Dooshima confessed.

“I’ll teach you how to cook, I used to have a restaurant in Makurdi when my husband was still alive. I trained my children after he passed away with my restaurant, cooking is something is what every woman should know how to do.” She told Dooshima, she was still cutting the wood.

“Dooshima be fast the weather is changing, let us start going home before your baby starts crying.” Mama Amos said.

Dooshima had learnt how to make rope to tie the firewood from palm fronds, she made two ropes and piled the woods on each other. “Dooshima can you carry this wood you’ve loaded? ” She asked.

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“Mama I’ll try.” Dooshima said, the two women tried for over two minutes to put the wood on Dooshima’s head, they began to make their way out of mama Amos’s farm.

The old woman had a basket of Maize they had harvested from the farm. The two women walked at horse speed, the cloud changed and it became so late.

“Dooshima be fast oh, the rain wants to fall oh. ” Mama Amos said. “This wood is too much.” She said, the weight of the wood almost tore open Dooshima’s back, she couldn’t say anything, she struggled to take each feet in front of her, there was a stream that crossed their path, mama Amos wanted them to cross it before the rain fell.

Because they would be cut off from the town if it rained. The lightening flashes continued and then a heavy rain began to pour down on the two of them.

They got to the stream, the water had risen it was waist deep, Dooshima struggled to keep steady, the current of the water almost pushing her down, she held hands with the old woman till they made their way out of the water.

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The rain continued pouring heavily until they got Lessel. Shania had been crying for hours, Dooshima was soaked wet, she was trembling.

“Your daughter refused to keep quiet oh, since this evening before the rain started, she cried until she fell asleep.” Prisca said.

“Thank you Prisca.” Dooshima said , she had taken her bath and had changed into a dry cloth, The red given had been stitched over many time, most of her clothes had worn out and gotten torn up. Shania woke up immediately she heard Dooshima’s voice.

“Mummy, mummy. “the baby cried as she almost fell off Prisca’s hand as she dived towards Dooshima, she took her baby into the house.

” Are you hungry ? ” Dooshima asked her daughter, she didn’t have any food at home.
“Aunt Priscy gave me indomie.” Shania said in a babyish tongue.

“Are you still hungry? ” Dooshima asked the baby nodded. She had about two hundred naira left she was thinking of going out get small pack of noodles and egg for her daughter, when a soft knock on the door made her paused.

“Hello mama? ” Dooshima said surprised to see mama Amos standing there with a plate of rice and stew, Dooshima was famished, she had not taken anything apart from the Eba and bene seed soup mama Amos had given to her in the morning. “Mama this one is for me? ” Dooshima asked, she couldn’t express her joy.

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“Yes Dooshima I thought you don’t have anything to cook this evening? Amos prepared rice and stew.

This is your own.” Dooshima appreciated the euphemism, she didn’t have any food to cook, if fact she had not cooked anything for over a month, she had no gas in her cooker and no raw food at home. She collected the plate.

“God will bless you mama, I don’t know how to appreciate you enough.” Dooshima said, the woman chuckled and went away, the compound was so dark,the power holding company had not restored the electricity.

Shania was eating as if he had not eaten in five days. “Mammy eat? ” She said when Dooshima paused for her to have enough of the food.

“Thank you my sweetheart, just eat mammy will be fine.” Dooshima said, but the little girl will not listen to her mother, she took a spoon of rice and pot it in her mother’s mouth.

Dooshima felt so sorry for putting the girl in such hardship, she wished things could get better for her soon so she could take proper care of her daughter.

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