Chapter 16

The day that mama was to move in with her son and his wife came knocking on the door. Ifeoma was grunting and acting all angry with her husband the more the day grew nearer.

Fikayo was taking his bath while Ifeoma was seated in the sitting room watching a telemundo that she wasn't quite giving attention to.

She kept murmuring to herself angrily. Her husband's phone rang loudly and she jumped up hastily to check who it was, she never thought it would be a mistress because she had never doubted her husband. She only wanted to see if it was mama and she was right.

She picked up the phone from the table mumbling under her breath. She hung up the call and deleted it from the call log. The phone rang again and she did the same thing. She continued to hang up the call over and over again as mama kept calling.

When she heard footsteps of her husband coming out of their room, she quickly dropped it and laid down on the couch.

"Oh, I left it here. Mama would have been calling me to come and pick her up at the park." Fikayo said as he picked his phone.

He was shocked to see no missed calls from his mother. His mom wasn't that patient.

"Oma, did my phone ring?" He decided to ask his wife.

"Ring? No. At all! It didn't even blink, why are you asking?" Ifeoma feigned innocence and talked to her husband lovingly.

Fikayo was shocked because all she had been doing in the house was giving him grunts and nods.

"Mama is coming today. Have you forgotten?" He reminded.

"Oh! Maybe she already changed her mind. You know how these old women think." Ifeoma replied.

"Definitely not my mother. Let me call her." Fikayo said as he attempted to dial mama's number.

Ifeoma stopped him before he could go further, "No! Don't call her! Just wait tills he calls herself." She exclaimed.

Fikayo gave his wife weird looks before surrendering to her charms and then he went back into the room after dropping his phone.

Ifeoma smiled secretly as she picked up the phone and followed her husband in.

'If she couldn't stop her from moving in, at least she should get some punishment while at it, she must find her way into this house by herself. Doesn't she come uninvited before, so because of some luggage now, she needs car to pick her up.' Ifeoma thought.

It was afternoon and Ifeoma was lying on her husband's chest stroking his tiny chest hairs. Fikayo was enjoying all the attention his wife was gifting him all of a sudden today. He really missed her been like that so he completely forgot about who was coming and who he had to pick.

Mama barged into the house, her face contorted in anger as she startled the lovebirds who were lying down on the cushion. Fikayo was shocked while Ifeoma just had a smug smile on her lips.

"Mama, you're here? By yourself?" Fikayo exclaimed as he rushed towards his mother.

"No! I'm here with Jesus!" Mama replied sarcastically.

She was fuming judging by the way her eyes was glaring daggers and her hands on her waist standing akimbo.

Ifeoma chose that moment to welcome her mother in law despite the fact that she was the reason for the whole scenario.

"Mama welcome! How was your journey?"

"Go and greet your ancestors in heaven!" Mama responded angrily.

Ifeoma retreated smiling mischievously.

"But mama, I told you to call me. You should have called!" Fikayo accused his mother.

"If I throw my slippers from here, it'll hit you right in the groin and you know that I never miss! How else would I call you? I called over a hundred times and you kept hanging up the call!" Mama shouted at her son.

"Ahnahn! Mama, don't exaggerate it, you only called fifteen times." Ifeoma said forgetting that she was supposed to just keep her mouth shut.

Fikayo turned to look at his wife, his face contorted in confusion.

"Fifteen times? What are you saying? You said she did not call!" Fikayo snapped.

"Oh! So your wife is now your phone keeper? This witch that doesn't want me here in the first place, ehn! You left me in the park to look for taxi and pack all these heavy loads by myself!" Mama shouted.

At the mention of loads, Ifeoma's eyes surveyed the luggage that the taxi driver had helped mama to drag inside.

Her mouth hanged open, "Is she planning to die here?" She unconsciously whispered.

"Shut up, Ifeoma! Shut it!" Fikayo snapped at his wife.

He was beyond angry about the stunt she pulled and the fact that she kept acting like she did nothing infuriates him the more.

"Sorry! Mama, what will you eat?" Ifeoma continued not minding her husband.

"Who will eat your food? So that you can poison me, Abi?" Mama retorted.

"Baby, can you see that I've tried my best as a daughter in law? I don't want to hear that I'm stressing your mother. Ehnehn, Mama, in case you're hungry, tell me because the kitchen key is with me and you can't cook for yourself without it. I rest my case." Ifeoma concluded as she went into her room.

"See your life! Is that a wife or a stupid girl! Next time when your mother says you shouldn't do something, you won't do it!" Mama snapped at her son before she sat down on one of the sofas.

Fikayo looked to and fro at the direction of the two women. He was tired already and today was only the first day of cohabitation.

He felt like there was more to come and he dreaded it.