CHAPTER 139

Martin shook his head in disbelief as he kept smiling. He had truly never seen such a playful man before. This made him to see that throwing Mr. One away from the house was not really a good thing. He would rather ask him in a calm manner. 

" You are too short for me to insult you. Mama cannot come with you right now because we have a lot of issues to solve as a family. I am begging you to leave" said Martin as he folded his arms once again.

" I am going to leave but this is because you have asked me in an appropriate way but not in a way that I felt offended" said Mr. One who immediately left.

Martin and Akeshia looked at each other then smiled. They were both beginning to be fond of Mr. One. 

Ruth on the other hand arrived at Mambo town accompanied by her family. They were all welcomed with a song till they reached the mansion except for Vivian and Lawrence who had arrived earlier yet they were not really welcomed with a song.

As soon as they arrived at the house, Ruth requested to be given a chance to have a conversation with them.  Ryan immediately agreed to her request.

" My lovely people of Mambo. I want to appreciate the kind of love that you have shown me ever since I came to this town. I want to also thank you for the fact that you accepted me and participated in the war especially the market women who outshined us warriors during the war. I would finally want to announce to all of you that I will be getting married to Ryan soon" said Ruth smiling.

Everybody present clapped for both Ryan and Ruth. Naomi therefore came towards Ruth and hugged Ruth to prove to  Ruth that she had supported her in the decision she had made. 

" Remember to inform the market women if you might need out our help" said Riziki smiling. 

" Thank you Riziki. I will remember to inform the market women once we finalize on my ....." Said Ruth who was finally interrupted on her mind once she saw Tere among the crowd. 

This was a clear prove that Faith had indeed lied to her the fact that Tere was arrested. She immediately went among the crowd but Tere dissapeared the moment that Ruth arrived where she saw  Tere standing. Everybody there looked at Ruth astonished. They kept wondering what was going on with Ruth but Ruth did not dare to answer them. Ruth instead went back to where they were standing outside the house and held Faith's arm then led her inside the house. 

As soon as they reached the living room, Ruth looked at Faith angrily which astonished Faith. 

" What is really going on with you Ruth? You have been behaving strangely ever since we left grandma's Magdalene mansion. Why is that?" Asked Faith filled with lots of curiosity.

 " Why did you lie to me the fact that Tere was arrested? You would have just told me the truth  about Faith because I couldn't have felt bad. What do you think that I have not gone through in this world? Oh! Tell me the truth that I really need to know" said Ruth angrily.

" This is the truth that you need to know. Tere was arrested outside the gates of the closer gates but when we reached the police station, smoke came all over then Tere dissapeared at that instant. I believe that Haggai is the one who helped her but I have no idea if it might be the truth" said Faith who felt a bit sad about the whole situation. 

" Yes! The truth is what I needed to know otherwise Tere would have not stopped tormenting me. Let's go outside" said Ruth as she went outside the house accompanied by Faith. 

As soon as she arrived outside, she found Purist carrying Jackson which made her smile. The crowd were still there and kept singing songs of laughter which made Ryan laugh. 

It was actually the first time for Ruth to see Ryan smile. She wanted to go towards Ryan but instead she went towards Purist. She was pleased at the way was Purist carrying Jackson as if Jackson was her own son. 

" You are really fond of him right? You really can make a good mother only if you could have been let by Tere to get married and have children at the right time of your life" said Ruth who wondered how Jackson and Purist had located each other. 

" You are the one who taught me that you don't need to breast feed a child in order to become a mother. I learnt it from you mama. I accidentally saw Jackson among the crowd crying. It seems somebody left him there and I had no idea who it was. I must find out about this matter once I arrive at my matrimonial home" Purist whispered at Ruth.

As as the crowd finished singing songs of praises to Ryan and Ruth, they all dismissed back to their daily activities. Purist left too accompanied by her son Jackson. 

Ryan and the rest of the family entered the mansion. They found Lawrence and Vivian seated at the couch angrily. This meant that Ruth and Faith had not seen them when Ruth brought Faith to the living room and confronted her about the matter concerning Tere's arrest.

" Vivian and Lawrence! We have no idea that you both already came to Mambo town" said Faith smiling. 

" What do you mean that you have no idea? You assumed us a while ago when you went ahead and confronted Faith about the issue concerning Tere here at the living room. What? You thought that you would have my good friend Tere arrested. Let me tell you the truth now. I am the one who who helped Tere escape from the police and Faith yet even my husband had no idea about it" said Vivian laughing annoyingly. 

Ruth shook her head in disbelief. She never thought that Vivian would go to an extent of helping Tere without Tere's knowledge. This made her to feel that there was something bad going on between Vivian and Lawrence.

" Why didn't you inform Lawrence? I thought that a bond between a husband and wife is supposed to greater than anything else in this world. Why is it that yours is different?" Ruth asked Vivian smiling. 

She knew that her questions would make Vivian angry. Vivian stood from the couch and went towards Ruth. She looked at Ruth angrily as she widened her eyes as if she was shocked about something weird happening in her life. 

" What is the matter with you? Why does the problem of a married couple have to involve you? When will you ever learn to mind your own business? I wish I had the chance to throw you out of this town and make you to never come back. I wish I had that one chance to do so, then I could have just done it" said Vivian as she spitted her saliva on Ruth's forehead.

Ruth slapped Vivian out of frustruation. No one had ever spitted on her like that before. She therefore forcefully wiped the saliva that had been spitted on her face by Vivian's scarf which had been wrapped around her neck.

" You have no shame Vivian. I even fail to wonder how you happened to get married to this royal family. People who have a way of spitting out their saliva are from common families which I am sure learnt no respect at all but caused a lot of commotions. Such people are always considered promiscuous" said Ruth who picked her bag and left accompanied by Naomi and Faith. 

This made Vivian to feel belittled. She went to her room and changed into her gown then went to the case square and started hearing pending cases since the time she had left and made rough judgements.

The first case was the case of a farmer who stole maize that were needed to be harvested by the plaintiff in order to go and sell them in the white market. Unluckily, the plaintiff caught him and filed a case against him. 

 Vivian made the judgement that he should be stoned to death since he was a thief. She also added that he should be burnt both his hands before he gets stoned to death. 

This made everyone at the case square to protest against the judgement who started throwing stones at Vivian. They did not bother to calm down even if the policemen of Mambo town begged them to do so. This was not until Faith approached Viviannamd stopped people from throwing stoning Vivian.

" What do you people think you are doing? If we justify a wrong then we are no different from the person who commits the offence" said Faith angrily as she helped Vivian to stand who had already fallen down after being stoned and hurt all over her body.

Everybody looked at Faith astonished. This was simply because they had not understood whatever Faith had meant by what she said. 

MARRIED AT SIXTEEN.