CHAPTER 17

Olu got home around five clock in the evening, his mother too had back from shop, door opened and closed and he sat on chair.

"welcome my son" she said with happy voice.

"I greet you ma, welcome!"

"How was your day?" She asked.

"It was fine" sound unhappy.

"Should i set your table?"

"Not yet mom"

"Okay" going to her room.

"Mom! sit down, i want to ask you something"

"Okay my son, what is it?"

"What it is my father's name, where is he living?"

"Your father is fine" looked at him and smile.

"Don't tell me that, i want to know about my father!" he shouted.

"That is only what i can tell you, your father is fine!"

"Mom i don't want to hear that, it's since all this years that you have be telling me that my father is fine, i am tried of this i want to know whom my father is!" Said with anger and sat on the floor.

"I need a rest" she stood up going to her room.

"Mom, you can't go! tell me about my father, i am 25 years now, i don't know my father not talk of his name, i know nothing about him!"

"My son your father is fine!" she stepped back.

"Please mom, please!! I beg you" started crying like a baby and knelt down on the floor. She moved closed to him and hold his shoulders.

"Don't cry my son, sit down"

"Okay, mom, i heard you" he sat down.

"Your father is alive, the day we are separating he told me not to talk about him, so that is why"

"Okay mom, what it is his name?"

"His name is AKINWUJI.

"He come from which state?"

"He is from Oyo"

"Where is he living now?"

"In the FOREST"

"Do you know how to get there?"

"I can still remember"

"Why is he living in the forest?"

"It is a long story"

"Okay, i want to see him"

"You mean you want to go to that forest?"

"Yes ma, i want to go there"

"Human being did not use to live in that forest except your father, even me i just know how to get there i have not enter into that forest before"

"I don't care, i have to meet him"

"Okay then, may be next week"

"No! tomorrow" he said

"Okay then, if it is how you want it i will do it"

"Okay mom, thank you" he was very happy.

"You are welcome my son"

"Set my table, i want to go and pack my loads and prepare for tomorrow" running to his room.

"Okay my son!, My husband said one day will come that i will need to see him, hmmm! The day have come, God is great"

"Mom, it will take us how many days to get there?" Taking from his room and his mother sat on the chair.

"I don't know, may be four days" she answered.

"Okay mom, have you set my table?"

"Yes my son" she replied him.

In the next morning, Olu had wlke up by seven clock packing all his load inside the car and some food in a big bag, the house maid helped him to carry some loads to the car and he went to his mother's room, stood at the door.

"Good morning ma"

"Morning my son" she said from her room.

"I have pack the loads inside the car, is you that am waiting for so making it fast"

"Okay my son, am coming"

He left, she fast with her makeup looking at the mirror, she put the makeup bus inside her bag and left the room, locked the door and put the key in her bag. She met them outside, they are in the car waiting for her, the driver come out to opened the door for her.

"You will drop us at the express and you will take the car back home, don't take it to anywhere"

"Yes ma, I heard you" he opened the door.

The gate man opened the gate for them, him and maid greeted them.

"We will drop at the express?" Olu asked on their going.

"Yes my son" she answered.

"I think the car will take us to half way?"

"Car can not enter that place"

"Okay mom" pressing his phone.

"Make sure you check the car every day" talking to the driver.

"Yes ma, I will do it" he said.

"You are the over see of the house now, don't allow the house maid or gate man to bring anybody into my house including you and clean it every day"

"Yes ma, we will do as you said.

"Drop us here where the sigh board is"

"Okay ma" he parked, opened the boot pack their loads and put it at the road side.

"So, you can go home"

He entered into the car and left, his mother looked around finding the way to get there.

"I think, this is the way to get there"

"Are you sure mom"

"Yes, because the day we are separating is along this express, I remember"

"If you said so, let go" entered into the bush, she roll her cloth up because of the water in the leafs.

"Anything that you see on your way, don't be sacred,

"Okay ma" looking around the forest.

"That is what my husband told me"

"Mom help me to carry one bag"

"Okay my son, bring it" she collected from his hand.

"Thank you mom" they had walk far from the express getting closed the forest.

"We have been getting closer to the forest" she said.

"This place have been getting dark"

"We just start the journey" she said.

"Thank God, I take touch and light alone"

"If you are in the forest, you won't know that time have gone, did you known is after three"

"Yes I know, mom why that father is living in this dark forest, very dark"

"When you get there ask him not me"

"Okay, mummy" They saw a man coming from their kingdom with a bag in his hand looking at them.

"Don't be scared okay"

"Okay ma" looking at him.

"Who are you?" He asked moving close to them.

"Am Akinwuji's wife and his Son from town"

"Then what are you looking for?"

"We want to see Akinwuji" Olu said.

"To see Akinwuji" he said like three times.

"Yes, to see him" his mother said

"Okay, go like this, follow this direction"

"Okay sir, thank you" Olu said.

" But it will take you two days to get there"

"Okay, thank you" his mother said.

"You are welcome, you can sleep anywhere but don't be sacred if you see anything"

"Thank you, we really appreciate it" his mother said and he left, they continued with their journey.

"It because we don't scared, that is why he talk to us and he doesn't attack us"

"Yes, him too tell us not to be scared" the night have been falling they found a place to stay.

He opened the bag brought out two blanket spread one one floor they both sat down on it looking around.

"Am very hungry" Olu said.

"Me too and am tired, my leg is paining me"

"Sorry ma, will you like to eat bread or rice?"

"Let eat rice, it can spoiled before tomorrow"

"Okay,ma" took two plate out from the bag, he served their food gsve one to his mother with a water inside a big bottle with a cup.

"We can sleep here, tomorrow we will continue"

"As you said mom" after eating Olu took a leaf on the ground use it to wash the plate and put it back inside the bag, slept on the blanket use the second one to wrap his body.

"Good night mom"

"Good night my son" she faced the other side and started praying, it took her an hour to finish the prayer and slept beside his son, brought a long cloth from her bag used it to wrap herself and faced the other direction.