And Tunji couldn’t get his mind together because Bolu had
threatened to tell Caro that he came late when he gets home.
“Am so sorry I came late” Tunji said.
Still there was this awkward silence and none of the kids
said anything.
Tunji’s heart trembled! He wondered what his excuse was
going to be, he had fun once and back to regrets.
They got home as at 7:30pm and Caro wasn’t home, it was
unusual.
“Where is my mum?” Toun said with a mild and gentle tone.
“This house feels so empty, I am scared!” she said.
Tunji picked up his phone to call Caro, but he had no
airtime.
“Irresponsible me again…” Tunji said to himself
“Okay kids, let us just wait a little moment am sure it is
just a hectic traffic, she would be back soon okay?” he said
But unsurprisingly they both walked out on him, and headed
for their rooms.
Tunji ran off to go prepare dinner at least he had escaped
Caro’s query, but he was a bit worried.
“Things might have gone wrong, but I still love her” Tunji
said to himself.
He had finished preparing dinner, so for the first time he
decided to do something unusual by carrying their dinner’s into their rooms.
Although he knew Caro was against it, he was ready to risk it.
When he got to the room the kids were both crying with a
letter in their hands…
Tunji wondered what they could have read, so he dropped the
food by the bed side table, collected the letter and read:
Bolu
I know I have not been a good mother so far as
expected, because I don’t have so much
time to spend with
you
I am truly sorry.
But today I have to
tell you something I ought to have said a long time ago.
When Toun was three
years old, I had to keep you and your sister with your
Uncle, Sam, because
the doctor said I had cancer, cancer of the blood and I was
dying.
I thought things were
going to be better, but no it’s not
I got back from the office around 2:15pm feeling
a little unusual and I am sure
this is where it all
ends.
So I am writing this
letter just in case I don’t make it back home, to tell you how much
I am going to miss
sneaking into your bedrooms and pecking you, our movie nights on Friday’sour usual Shopping on Saturday’s
and. I also want you to know
that Tunji is your
father and he is going to take care of you just as I would have done
As you are reading
this letter I am at Havana Hospital and I hope it won’t be too late.
Tell your father “I love
him and I am sorry.”
CARO
“Are you really my father?” Bolu asked with so much tears
and a heart full of sorrow
Filled with tears and short of words, he grabbed both of
them and left hurriedly to the nearest bus stop and got a taxi. They got to
the hospital at exactly 11:02 pm
“Doctor Williams!” Tunji shouted on getting to the hospital
Doctor Williams was heading for ward 201 when he turned back
to see who was shouting.
“Oh! Mr. Tunji, I have been trying to reach you” he said
“ I am here now, is my wife okay? did you handle it well?”
Tunji cried…
“But Tunji you have always known it would end one day. We
di-”
Tunji interrupted, “ Doctor what the hell are you trying to
tell me?” he said crying out
“Tunji we did everything we could but am sorry to say we lost
her”
Tunji dropped to the
floor and wailed in agony grabbing his children hugging them so tight as they
all cried
The doctor urges Tunji and the children up and ushers them
to the waiting room.
“Would you like to
see your wife before she is taken to the morgue?” the doctor said
“No… that’s fine I just want to take my kids home I would be
back tomorrow” he replied
Tunji thought, where he was going to start from, how was he
going to care for his children, how he was going to make them happy? He had no
job, to him life was going to be hell
He slept that night in so much worry after putting his kids
to bed, as he cried from the depths of his heart.
The door bells rings the next morning as at 7:00am, Tunji
hurries to the door, while the children were still asleep.
He opens the door,
“Can I help you?”
The young lady replied, “are you Tunji?” she said
“yes I am” Tunji replied
“I have your wife’s will”
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