Part 24
On friday morning, madam took me in her car, she told me she would drop me at her friend’s store to get some items for janet before she leaves for ibadan. As we were driving in her car, she kept patting my laps at interval whenever we discussed something funny. We had series of discussion about sikirat’s mother who died, about janet and jamb, about how I see her house, she told me I will be helping with cooking pending janet’s arrival, she asked about my girlfriend, but I kept smiling to avoid the question, she kept patting my laps at intervals . She finally dropped me at a supermarket ,had a private discussion with the shop owner left.
The super mart owner gave me tins of milk and milo, soaps, and some other gift items. I returned home on a bike, Janet picked out of the items I brought and she left for the ibadan and I followed her to the station. After her bus took off, I returned home. I didn’t know where to put the remaining items I brought from the supermart so I took everything into my room waiting for madam to arrive and sort them out. At about 6pm, janet called to inform me about her successful journey. She told me to go to the kitchen and see the food timetable for that night. ..
“Chaiii, I don turn house boy for here, see wetin sikirat’s absence don cause”.
I placed a call to sikirat for guild lines on how to prepare porridge which was on the time table, sikirat laughed at me to the extreme on the phone. She even joked at me saying “I pray make aunty janet spend one week so dat u go be the cook for a whole week”. I followed her instructions and prepared the porridge. Gideon was so spoilt that he couldn’t boil ordinary water. His laziness made the whole cooking stressful.I served myself and gideon because madam hadn’t arrived from the bank. After eating dinner, I went to bed immediately at around 7:30pm because I was so tired. A few minutes past 8pm, I heard madam’s voice in the living room. I overheard her chatting with gideon about dinner and the person who cooked it. I overheard her commenting on the food as she was eating. She asked of me from gideon and she was told I had gone to bed. She bid gideon “goodnight” and went into her room. 20minutes after madam entered her room. My phone
ranged. I looked at the screen and it was madam calling. I picked it.
ME: hello ma.
MADAM: oluwale, the international cook
ME: **laughed**
I only tried my best ma
MADAM: you tried . But janet and sikirat will beat you at cooking any day, anytime.
***laughed***
ME: ***laughed back***
ok ma, I will improve tomorrow morning
MADAM: ok dear. meanwhile, where are the bathing soaps you brought from the supermart, I couldn’t find it in the bathroom.
ME: its with me ma, I didn’t know where to drop them so I took them to my room.
MADAM: ohhh God!!!. I need it urgently to take my bath.
Please bring one into my room right away
ME: ***amazed***,
ok ma, I’m coming right away. She hanged up. I was wearing only boxers and singlet, I took the whole polythene bag containing the items and went straight to madam’s room.
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