I Can't Stand My Cousin

Lanre twist her lips to the side. Then she rolls her eyes and asked herself of she should listen to Anita. Anita could be telling her the truth for all she cares, but does she really wants Anita’s help. She doesn’t care whether K comes back to her anymore. She just wants to make sure neither of them gets him back anymore. One could say she changed her mind. She doesn’t want his attention or his affection. Neither does she wants him to live Ify because he was finding his way back to her, but because after everything she’s going to do, Ify and K won’t be a name placed together on a wedding banner.

“And I should believe the crap you just said?” Lanre replied Anita feigning disinterest.

“She wants you to marry Gozie! I don’t know why she thinks if she makes you Gozie’s wife she would be able to have full control of her second son unlike her first son who married a woman she can’t control. She believes you are obedient and would do anything she tells you”. Anita said.

“You are wrong”. Lanre replied.

“Your mother told me the day K came with me to your house that I just hold onto K. She told me he was a good man under the façade of a player”. Lanre said again. She asked Anita if such a woman would do such a thing to her? Then she tells Anita that she was the one who rejected K in the first place.

She felt like she had to dig out Anita’s true intentions. Was she being genuine? If she was and she learns Lanre had first refused K’s proposal, will she still want to help? Or is there a different reason to why she wants to help.

“K would have still come for you! You may not know, he was the reason you were at my wedding in the first place. He fell in love with you the moment he saw your picture on my phone. I mean he was restless until you came. He deliberately cane to the shoe store that day to see you”. Anita said.

Lanre told Anita she does not believe her and abruptly ends the call. But Anita was adamant. She called Lanre’s phone again. Lanre picked it up.

“Are you for real? Do you not get the message that I do not want to concern myself with these things?” Lanre asked Anita who told her that she knows Lanre wants K back but was only acting up.

“Plus, I can’t stand my cousin marrying the man I love. And I’m sure you want to take revenge on the person who spread those rumours about you”. Anita said to Lanre.

Lanre gripped her phone tight. If it were possible, it would break in her hand.

“What are you insinuating?” Lanre asked Anita. Anita told her that it was obvious who spread all those rumour about her.

“Did you not watch the video made by the Gossip Queen Mimi? Didn’t you hear what she said. What she said is reasonable and since I know my cousin well enough, I’m sure she did that”. Anita said.