One night ep 2

Episode 2
Back to recent.  I sat on the chair with thousands of thought came to my mind,I knew it was opeyemi who sent the text message “how the hell did she get my number I thought” all my effort to talk to her during the party was not successful as she wouldn’t even give me audience and I didn’t want to course a scene so that my boss wouldn’t know I knew his wife, so I just played along . I tried calling the number back but the phone was switched off .it was then that I made up my mind to expect the worst ,I knew I was eventually going to be sacked so I braced up for it, started making plans of how to utilize the little money I have saved so far, I occupied my mind with different ideas such as opening a barbing saloon, a dry cleaning shop or even a provision store, just wanted to invest the money so that I wouldn’t go back to the way I was before . I woke up on Monday morning with a more relaxed mind,I was ready to accept any decision my boss takes. I  Got to work earlier than my boss as usual and I did some work, hours later my boss came, a knock on my door alerted me so I stood up ,he walked in and to my surprise he said “ tunji tunji “thank you for coming to ben’s birthday ,my wife said I should greet you specially for her, ben kept asking of you when you have left” I smiled and said “ thank you sir I really enjoyed myself too” .we talked a little longer before doing the days work. later on that day when I had the chance to be alone I said to myself “ thank God” “ But how does this woman intend to deal with me”. the rest of the week was with mix feelings as I didn’t get to see my boss that often, the board of directors were having some meetings,I wasn’t too sure but I heard it had to do with one of the directors that was planning of leaving his position at the company, so only get to meet my boss once or twice in a day. But yet i still continued with my small business plan ,I was on my toes I thought to myself “if she doesn’t tell him this today, tomorrow or this week ,am sure she will one day and how surely get booted out “ .not knowing that my fear just began
It was Friday evening , I was about leaving the office when I saw Mrs. Badmus . mrs badmus is the office secretary, a matured woman who should be in her late forties ,she’s very nice but I must confess she talks a lot, She knows about everything that goes on in the company .i usually address her as mummy, so I said mummy which direction are you going ma, don’t tell you don’t know where I stay, then I said mummy I can’t remember o, she said “see you ,all this small boys I don’t know what you all think with your head self and you are not married o I would have said maybe it’s your wife anyways sha drop me at oworoshoki bustop” i gave a small laff and said “ema binu ma “ but in my mind I was like “this woman with her wahala self ,na that one I go they think” she entered into my car and I drove out .on our way home she said to me “I heard your boss’s wife is resuming on Monday “ immediately I froze then I said “you mean ope is resuming on Monday? Wait does she work here?” I can see that you have already done  your research on her, abi how did you know her name? i stammered then said “that’s what my boss calls her when ever he talks about her I lied, but she believed me .she’s a nice girl and very brilliant too, her father was the owner of the company she said. “Are u serious ma “was my response , yes she said he passed away few years ago but he willed the company to her and all other properties before he died he was a nice man.,ope is a hard working girl too but she prefers her fashion designing career over office jobs like this. That was why she married your boss ,he was a junior staff just like you then but she fell in love with him then married him because she couldn’t get someone to marry her because of her son,u know no man wants to marry a woman with a son that’s not his then she pasuaded her father to promote him to the top so that he could be her representative there .she had everything well planned out before her father died. Sorry ma did you say she already had a son? Yes she got pregnant while she was in the university, we were told that the father of the baby had an accident and died few weeks after she told him she was carrying his child, poor boy. You know she was raised by her father alone abi. At that moment I was sweating seriously but luckily form me we were at oworoshoki bus stop so I stopped the car and she alighted “ goodnite and have a great weekend she said” I just nodded.
As I was driving home all what Mrs. Badmus said was just flashing back through my mind.then I started thinking” abi na me this girl carry belle for ni, I shook my head and said lai lai how can that be now” the thought sounds scary to me so I stopped “after all she said the baby’s father is dead so how can that be me.ko possible “I thought. the rest of the drive home was quiet with thoughts of how much opeyemi as suffered on my mind.i was beginning to feel pity for her.i got home later that night ,I was very tired struggle to cook rice and warm my pot of stew then I ate and went to sleep The rest of my weekend was fun.went about buying washing machine for my dry cleaning shop and went to the shop I rented to take care of some things.the rest of the weekend was occupied by football, from playing to watching all Bpl and laliga matches. Monday morning came and I was surprised I woke up late.that was unusual of me .i also wake up early but today was different. I ran to the bathroom took my bath In less than five minute did all other things in less minutes too than usual then got in my car and off to work as fast as possible, usually I normally leave early for work so that I could beat the traffic on that busy road but on getting there today everywhere was blocked,I spent over an our trying to navigate through the heavy traffic, I checked my time it was 9:45 am.i later got to work around 10:12am and mrs badmus was questioning me with her eyes, I just  gave her a sorry face and ran up to my office,my boss was already in his office , I dropped my bag on my table and went straight to his office.”ekaro sir” I said he looked up at me and said ‘karo tunji bawo ni weekend “ I was trying to read the expression on his face so as to know what he was thinking but I couldn’t get anyting, so finally I said “am sorry sir for coming late today “ just get to work,I hope you know my wife as resumed work back now because Mr. Williams as left the company so she as to feel in pending the time we make a decision on who is going to be in that position “ I nodded and said ok sir. I was about going when he said to me “one of the things she hates most is lateness ,just pray she doesn’t pick on you for that because if she do, there is nothing much I can do about her decision is final” I nodded my head slowly and said ok sir opened the door and left his office.few ours later into work a call came through to my office  I picked it and a familiar voice said to me “Mr olatunji cole report to my office right away” it was like my heart stopped pumping blood and I held my chest for a while. Finally that moment have been waiting for is here I thought.
I left my office and went straight to the office were she was .i stopped at the door hesitated a while before knocking “come in” she called out. I walked into the office not knowing how to address her. A part of me said I should say” good morning ma “ but the other part said “for wetin na, no be this same Ope wey I bleep that time” as a guy now I went for my second thought , I just stood there waiting for her to say something then she said Mr olatunji cole a report just got me that you came to work at 10:12am today what time are you meant to resume work, 8.30am ma I said so how come you came 1hour 42minutes late. It occurs to me that you haven’t been taking your job seriously. I just stood there with one hand in my pocket and the other one is rested on the chair that’s in front of her table, then she continued “ due to the negligence of your work I will have to ask you to join the other guys downstairs , as from now on you are no longer the personal assistant to my husband .it was as if something hit me in the face I stood there not knowing if to beg for my job back or just accept the new position,at this time she was staring  back into the files in her front.few seconds later she looked up at me and said you can go that’s just all I wanted to say.i don’t know what happened to me just know that I couldn’t alter a word I just turned my back and left the office .i dnt even go to my boss office to tell him what happened because he as already told me he can’t do anything about it, I got back into my office ,started packing my things.before evening I was already downstairs .
To be continued