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"A SEQUEL TO Wetland" by Sinmisola Og'unyinka Demi had just met the first woman her husband married, and was foremost to die. For instance was she to do? She had grown up in the western part of the disarray, highest of it in her home town of Owena. She had only over and done with her school education in Lagos, and afterward baffled to Ilorin for one see youth service. In in style provisions, she had never crossed the Niger until she met and married her heart pulsate, Idem. On your own that the sadness of her heart now was not that of love but disgust.They had met in the role of Idem travelled to Owena to finger out a manufacture project. For Demi, it had been love at first sight. Had she suspected he was married, she most probably would never abide special him a second said. But not only did he in some way announce separated, he did not stomach a ring, and candid the three months of their courtship, never spine of changed woman. He never mentioned persistent a youngster, not to talk of three young.Demi's father had been discomfited with the fact that only Idem's young person brother came to represent the family at the marriage ceremony federation. It was so unimaginable that some of Demi's friends and family had had to sit with the brother, and one other friend Idem met in Owena. Her commencement on the other hand, said the world of Idem, and boasted of the uneasy of people Idem came from, Akwa Ibom people.Demi would abide loved to turn to Akwa Ibom call to meet Idem's family, even more his parents, who he boasted of so frequently, as godly people who would become calm for Demi' the purpose they set eyes on her. But she possibly will not find time to floorboard on the hoedown while Idem's project took all the time, and the hoedown was a long one. At some point, it seemed she didn't trust him anymore, and he spoken lessen at her doggedness, which he believed was afire by her father. Demi ample late that, compulsory to threat her relationship with the fastest man in the world.clothed in standing in the soul of a small parlour in Uyo, the reserves of Akwa Ibom call, faced with a satiated woman who had just been introduced as her husband's first wife, and three young young who looked foremost to do anything their father asked, she couldn't think of what to do.Idem had dropped her bag in the soul of the foot and late falling the catch napping, walked other into the line. The woman stood armaments akimbo, uncivilized at her with an sit-in of anger, repulsion and so radically repugnance, you possibly will physically delicacy it.Hand over was only one multinational to do. Demi encouraged unmistakable in the planning Idem had busy. He couldn't just tear her to frontage this woman on your own initiative. She had nil to say to the woman. Her husband still to pay her plenty of explanation!Offiong, that was what Idem had called the woman, stepped in Demi's possibility, just in time to edge her advance. "Where do you think you're departure to?"Demi met her take into account. They were about the exact elevation, 5'6, yet Offiong seemed shorter, most probably while she was vertical. The eyes that stared back at Demi were criticize and dull with a unsightly torrent."To talk to my husband, of course!" Demi stepped parenthesis out of her way.Offiong took a alert step in the exact planning. "This is my line. You are not welcome!"Assurance me!" Demi possibly will not keep this. She had come to meet Idem's family. She was earlier than two months in the family way for him. She possibly will never think what she was faced with now, but she was not foremost to go for a bow. She had not renowned he was married in the role of she took her vows to love him and live with him for better or for worse!Demi encouraged into the woman as yet to wander candid her, and the fat woman pushed her back. She lost her just and fell on her foundation. A soft cry fugitive from her mouth. "Idem!" she called out but got no return. "Idem! Fan out in attendance o!"Offiong carried her bag from the soul of the foot somewhere Idem had dropped it and opened the opening, flinging it out. "Go back to somewhere you came from, stupid idiot. Next of kin, my leg!"She lifted Demi up by her beat arm sufficient carelessly, and pushed her out as well, and slammed the opening.Something happened so fast, Demi possibly will a minute ago sense her lungful not later than realising she was out! She tried the prize of the opening but it refused to spell. She banged on the opening furiously, biting Idem's name at the top of her vocalize."You coward! Fan out in attendance if you dare. Fan out and frontage me!"A few ended of neighbouring houses tipped and some people peeped. One or two others came out to committed what the noise was all about but soon, all and sundry went back to their place businesses.Passable to be purport, Demi banged on the opening a few terminated times with a jewel she saw accurate, and afterward circled the quarters. She open it was a congruence quarters with a separating barrier, so one part was against the barrier. The other part led to a small plot that seemed as yet doubled as an outside kitchen. Exhibiting a specialism of spite she never knew she frenzied, Demi proceeded to defile the plot. She didn't be taught she was crying until she stopped to have the sense of hearing the ruin she had wrought. A pot of potage had been on its head, lumber and corpse were speckled everywhere. The dustbin had been emptied with the heavy littering every on all sides of begin. Hurt tableware and saucers were on the flummox somewhere they had been broken.The ruin was radically, but compared to what she felt, it was close to nil. Demi heaved profusely, and smarted cry apart from her eyes. She looked criticize and spied a glass with the shroud unreasonably opened. Three small pairs of eyes glared at her in obstacle and awe.She picked up a small pot she'd fund emptied of its favorable and flung it en route for the glass. The young swiftly stopped the shroud.Offiong's vocalize, from in the field of the room, came to her, strong and repartee, "Ashawo! Go back to somewhere you came from o! Next of kin snatcher!" Offiong's hand would abide been on her oral cavity to make the screeching, distrustful fair. "Wooooooo!" Demi walked back to the front of the line, her shoulders flabby in down in the dumps and lessen. She picked her bags. Weep rolled down her cheeks in respite. How possibly will this be progress to her? It was getting to late afternoon. She knew nowhere in this god-forsaken land. Where would she go? How would she get back to Owena? For instance would she tell people? She in reality did feel like becoming extinct. Hers had been the precede part of a charisma, and now a dread closing. And Idem had refused to come out to her aid. Wouldn't an forfeit abide made a difference? Why did he supply her in attendance to treat her like this?She walked to the track and looked up and down. She wasn't engrossed, she admonished herself. Her waterside had a join in this city. She would not be struck to the flummox and stretch out bestow.Demi implored all the inner strength she frenzied and stopped a taxi. It was a full of life day, thank God. She had some beat on her. She asked the driver to go for her to a good hotel.She would make enquiries on how to get to Lagos by air. And afterward find her way back home.Just the once Demi in due course arrived Owena the past day, it was with a choice to pick herself from the dust and move on. She had learnt a disagreeable lesson. She would, possibly will never trust any man again!

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