buried under the rocks of lies (episode 11)

I went with my friends to the female detention center and saw the head warden, I told her that I wanted to speak with one of the detainees and I told her that it was mama d I wanted to see, she took me to the visitors room and I sat Down and waited a bit before mama d was led out, I couldn’t even believe at first that she was the one, until when she got closer and then I saw she was the one, she looked so lean and sick and her face was battered up with bruises, I could not still believe that she was the same woman that I grew up knowing. She sat opposite me and I stared at her the warden had already told me that I just had fifteen minutes to speak with her.
Me: I came here to know the truth about my parents.
Mama d: your parents
Me: yes! Who are my parents and were are they
Mama d: your parents are not far from you, my late husband brought you when you were eight months old, my husband was an armed robber at that time but your mother was his ex girlfriend but she left him when he joined bad gang and married your father, you were not their first child, you had two brothers and a sister, my husband took you because you looked like your mother and your arrival to the family brought so much joy to them all.
Me: you said my parents are not far from me
Mama d: let me finish the story mini, my husband had a change of heart months later and wanted to return you back but he could not as the cold hands of death cuddled him away leaving me stuck with you and I hated you because my husband loved your mother till he died
Me: enough of the story (I said as I have heard enough) where am I parents
Mama d: I have to show you to your parents, I can’t tell you who they are but I will return you to them (at that time the warden came telling us that our time was over and mama d stood up and the warden wanted to lead her in but she had not yet told me who my parents were and I needed to know)
Me: tell me who my parents are
Mama d: (she just looked back) I have to take you to them (she was lead inside and I just wondered why she insisted on taking me herself to my parents, I went to head warden and told her what she wanted to do and the head warden notified me that mama d had previously asked for permission and that she will be given an hour tomorrow and she will be able to take me to my true parents. I thanked her and walked back to my friends, I was wondering in my mind who my parent were and why mama d insists on taking me there herself, tomorrow I will finally meet my parents and my family)

i told my friends about the progress on finding my parents but sharon commented telling me that when mama d mentioned that i have three siblings, daniel, david and damilola are siblings and i could be their sister but i told her that god will not let that be because david can never be my brother and daniel too can’t be, well we waved that idea off and we returned to our hostel but when sharon went to the club and bidemi slept off i remained awake thinking about all that mama d said, i was thinking about how it would have been if i wasn’t stolen from my parent, maybe i could or might have lived a better life, but all has happened and all i want now is to find my parent after 19 years, then the thought came into my mind concerning what sharon had said about the probability that david, daniel and damilola were my siblings both i then waved that thought off, it could never be possible and i don’t want it to be, then i went to bed, after thinking about david, i have not still heard from him and although i badly miss him i just want to give time and let destiny take its course over our love, the next afternoon i left with bidemi to the station where mama d was already prepared and so where the security that were going with her, i guess she had already told them where we were going to because immediately we got there, we got into their van and we set out, my suspicion began when we drove into david’s street and my heart increased its beat when we got to david’s gate and the gate man opened the door as we drove in, i could gather from all the cars packed there that they were all in well all except daniel who is in jail, we got down and i looked fro but in my mind i wished that sharon’s word will not be true as a lot of things will go wrong in my life, when we got in i saw david’s father sitted down with david’s mother and dami also sitting stood up as soon as she saw me and she came to hug me)
dami: tumi we have missed
me: i have also missed you too dami (i said then david’s parent stood up)
david’s mum: ngozi what are you doing in my house (she said to mama d, well i guess they already knew each other from long ago because i never knew that mama d was ngozi) after all that you and your husband did to my family, you still have the rights to come to my house (david’s mum said angrily, i have never seen her this angry before, then the inspector spoke out)
inspector: mrs odetola calm down please, this detainee is hear to say some truth and it will be good if you hear her because she has limited time (he said to david’s mum who just nodded and looked at mama d)
david’s mum: so what do you want to say
mama d: my husband was the one who too your second daughter
david’s mum: what (she exclaimed)
mama d: but when he took her, he then faked the news that he had thrown her into the river and drowned her, he did that so you would not be able to find your daughter (as she was speaking my mind went totally away accessing every information that comes out)
david’s mum: so where the heck is my daughter, where did your husband take my little girl too (she shouted at mama d) where is she
mama d: (she is here (she pointed at me at first i thought she was pointing at someone else but then i realised she was pointing to me and then i heard a loud “what” and i looked back and saw david, he was so shocked that he was glued to his feets, was he there all the time, i also became shocked so i was their stolen daughter)
david’s mum: (she pointed at me with her hands shaking in fear and i could see tears forming in her eyes) she! tumi is my daughter
mama d: yes she is the eight month old twin sister of this daughter you have with you (she pointed at dami, what the f--k dami and i are twin, its impossible we don’t even look alike, definitely this woman is talking rubbish) i am not lying about this kemi, my husband took your daughter and brought her to me, but he died two months later after been in an accident, i then deliberately refused to give you back your child (her voice had become cloudy and her eyes were now teary) because my husband always loved you over me and he would do anything for you, he thought of you till his last breath and so i made sure that i will make your daughter pay for that, i made her into a prostitute, at an early age because i know how much pain it will cause to you finding your daughter as a prostitute (she said and then i realised that she was referring to me, so that was why she always hated me, i knew there was more to her hatred for me but what i cant still accept is that the odetola are my family it just could not happen)
david’s mum: why did you do all this, why? (she asked as tears rolled down her eyes and everyone else just watched like as if it was a drama, david was stumped shocked and i could not tell what he was going through because he just remained blank but i could tell what was going on with me, i felt sad, happy and angry at the same time, i finally find my family after nineteen years but then they turn out to be the family of the only man that i love, all this truth is just getting me crazy, i don’t think i can handle anything more, i can not)