“SAVED” Episode Two
(Mrs Woods sees Miss Simpson having a chat with Mrs Smith and out of the assumption of guilt and insecurity, she rushes to where they are standing and having their chat).
Mrs Woods: Hey, what are you beautiful ladies discussing that you are so engrossed with each other?
Miss Simpson: (looks at Mrs Woods in a distasteful way) Sweetheart, I have to run along now. I will pass by your place one of these days and kindly be cautious about your movement nowadays.
Mrs Smith: Is there anything I should be worried about, Dorcas?
Mrs Woods: Oh Edna, you worry yourself a lot. You know Dorcas is a police officer and with them, they always talk about security and safety issues. I believe she said that because of the level of insecurity, we are facing lately in our country.
Miss Simpson: (in a sarcastic tone) Madam all knowing has said it all, Edna. We will have a proper conversation the day I visit. Let me rush home before pastor Myles sees me here. He last called to tell me that he has a very long conversation with me and I don’t think today is the right day as it is the time of the month. Please take care and send my well wishes to the kids.
(hugs Mrs Smith and rushes to the car park)
Mrs Smith: Thelma so you have decided not to check up on me again and you don’t return my calls when you miss them.
Mrs Woods: Oh, please forgive me, Edna. You know how hectic it is with the kids and combining work all together. Nowadays, my new boss is putting me under duress and even answering my phone at work is a big deal. I come home very tired and that is when I have to fix dinner for the family. By the time I am done then the spirit will be willing for me to return all missed calls but the body will be dead tired.
Do you know just three nights ago, Kelvin and I were making love and the next thing he heard me do was snore? Can you imagine that? I was dead asleep whilst he was inside me thrusting.
Mrs Smith: You won’t kill me with your funny comments, but on a serious note, you need to tone down the work pressure before it breaks you down. I can already see the ripple effect on your face and you have equally lost some weight.
Mrs Woods: Well Kelvin said that this morning when we were dressing for church but I thought he was only pulling my legs.
Mr Smith: He was not kidding with you, my dear. You look like a shadow of yourself and if this continues, you might end up breaking down. If you have been following the media lately, you will get to know the alarming way people are dying and it’s all because of stress and lack of sleep. One thing I know is, when you drop dead today, latest by three days, your position will be occupied by a new person so please take your life into your own hands and don’t let your work or boss kill you with pressure. After all, what will one gain from owning the world and then later dying?
Mrs Woods: I think you have a good point here. I will have to apply for my annual leave now because for the past three years, I have not taken my leave from work and I think this is the perfect time for me to do that. Lately, I can’t even sleep well and by 2 am, when my eyes open, I can’t sleep again till daybreak.
Mrs Smith: And this is one of the things that brings high blood pressure and other deadly sickness. When was the last time you went for a check-up or even checked your blood pressure?
Mrs Woods: To be honest, I don’t remember the last time I did that, Edna.
Mrs Smith: Thelma, I need not tell you that you are sitting on a time bomb waiting to explode anytime soon. Don’t try to make Kelvin an early widower at the age of 40 because we all know life starts at 40. I made Gilbert purchase some of the medical checking kits for me when he went on one of his conferences so I do my own frequent checks every three days. I check my sugar level, blood pressure, cholesterol and weight. For Gilbert, I check his prostate and other important vitals. You know there are spare parts markets for machines but we don’t have such for humans and neither do we have any spare life anywhere. Please make your life very paramount to yourself because your health is your wealth.
Mrs Woods: Thank you so much for the great advice. I will heed to it and act accordingly.
Mrs Smith: And one more thing Thelma, you need a massage at least twice a month so that your nerves can be well relaxed. There is this new spa I discovered about two months ago and they are very good. I will text you their address and when you visit or call them, just mention my name and you will be given a 30% discount. They even do home service if you can’t drive to their end for a little additional cost.
Mr Woods: Please do well to text me their address and details for I feel I have been left out of all these wonderful goodies. I can’t come and kill myself for nothing in this world. I believe I deserve to give myself a wonderful treat because I deserve it.
Mr Smith: (walks in) Hello Thelma, it’s been a while since I saw you. Hope all is well because you don’t look too well.
Mrs Smith: Workload is what is taking her better part away. Thelma, you see what I told you was not a joke? Please consider my advice and work towards that.
Mrs Woods: I will surely do as you have advised.
Mr Smith: On this note, I will like to steal my beautiful wife away from you now. The kids are waiting for us by the car and they look hungry.
Mrs Smith: What were they expecting when they refused to eat breakfast before we left the house this morning? Thelma, I will get in touch with you later and for the address, the moment I get home, I will text you the details.
Mrs Woods: I will be in the expectant mood waiting for you. It was nice having this important conversation with you, my dear.
Mrs Smith: Likewise, my dear Thelma, my regards to Kelvin.
Mr Smith: See you some other time, my dear.
(walks away with his wife)
Mrs Woods: (talks to herself) Wheeeeew!!! That was close. If I didn’t rush to break the conversation between Edna and that long-necked giraffe, she might have spilt the beans to Edna. Hmmmm, God please help me to mind my own business before my loud mouth lands me into serious trouble.
At the Car Park
Melissa: So 35 minutes after closing from church, what at all are they still doing inside the church?
Glenn: You don’t need a visa to go in there and ask them that silly question. How do you expect me to know what is going on inside there as I stand here with you?
Melissa: You need not be rude to me for asking that question because I know as you are standing here, the reason why you are not pissed off is because you are scanning for the next victim you want to pull her pant down.
Glenn: Hey mind the choice of words you use for me because I don’t complain or talk when you also flirt around with those idiots back at school. You pretend to be holy but I know more than four guys in my class have had their way with you and the ugly part of it is that none of them was decent enough to even take you to a hotel room. It was either at the back of the school or in a car, it’s rather unfortunate my pretty little sister with all her beautiful endowed body and curves has no taste of class.
Melissa: Don’t even dare try to insult me, you habitual pervert. You have preferences for hotels and I also like my quickies at the back of cars and buildings, how so is that your damn business? Please mind your business as I also ply my trade.
Mrs Smith: Hey, what is this whole noise about, you two? Do you always have to pick on each other when you two are alone?
Glenn: She started it, Mom.
Melissa: I started what, you jackass.
Mr Smith: Watch your mouth young lady, you can’t use such adjectives to qualify your elder brother. Now apologize to him for using that uncultured word on him.
Melissa: But Dad he called me…
Mrs Smith: (cuts in) Will you just shut that gutter you call a mouth? Your father asked you to apologize to your elder brother and that is exactly what you have to do. Now, let me hear you apologize to him.
Melissa: (frowns) I am sorry to have called you a jackass.
Mr Smith: And what do you also have to say to her, young man?
Glenn: Apology accepted. I am also sorry to get on your nerves in the first place.
Mr Smith: Was that difficult to do? I don’t know why the youth of today find it so difficult to apologize when they are wrong. Did any of you lose his or her beauty when you said you were sorry? Did any of your buttons fall off when you apologized? Get into the car and let’s hit the road back home.
(presses a button on the car remote to unlock the doors as they enter and zoom off)
Mrs Smith: Honey, can we pass by the restaurant and have our lunch there? I feel exhausted going back to the kitchen to prepare something for you guys this afternoon.
Glenn: But Mom, you know we have lunch in the house on Sundays so why the sudden change of plans?
Mrs Smith: Shutting your mouth up will do us a whole lot of good in this car as your father drives us back home. Did any of you touch the breakfast I took my time to prepare this morning? Don’t try to provoke me this afternoon with your silly questions. If you don’t want to eat when we get to the restaurant, you can sit and watch us devour the food we order as you press your phone and surf the internet.
Mr Smith: Honey, I believe you know Glenn is right with what he said.
Mrs Smith: Well for your information, anytime the three of you fail to eat the food I take time to prepare, I will take it that you have had enough of my food so for the next three days, I won’t bother going to the kitchen to stress myself in cooking for you guys. I am not a machine or robot, I also deserve to rest sometimes and be given a queenly treat.
Mr Smith: Guys, I believe you heard what our first lady of the house said. You are most at times with her so if you default concerning her laws, you stand the chance to be punished.
Melissa: Mom, you are making a fuss out of this matter. You only prepared tea, fried some eggs and toasted bread so why are you making it look like you spent more than an hour in the kitchen to prepare breakfast for us?
Mrs Smith: One more word from your lousy mouth and I will slap the daylight out of you. When I was your age, I had retired my mom from the kitchen but for you, even boiling water is a problem. Look at the length of your nails. I sometimes wonder how you even wash your private part with that long nails. When was the last time you entered that kitchen to even fry eggs for any of us? I don’t know what I am doing wrong that none of you appreciates my efforts in that house.
Mr Smith: Can we please cease fire for now? I don’t like the brewing tension in this car this afternoon. Please if there is any matter, we will have a short meeting when we get home and resolve it amicably so that we iron out all our differences. I wouldn’t like us to present ourselves out there as an unfriendly and divided family.
Glenn: Dad for how long should we continue to pretend that everything is fine in our family whilst the truth is otherwise? I and Melissa are no strangers to the qualms and fights you and Mom keep having in the house.
Mr Smith: (looks at Glenn through the inside mirror) Now son, listen to me and listen to me very well, Yes, your mom and I do fight and have issues one way or the other but have you ever seen a third party coming to our house to resolve our matter? We disagree to agree on some matters concerning your well-being. The fact that we fight constantly doesn’t mean your mother doesn’t love me and I don’t love her, even though we fight, we never fail to assume our parental duties so mind your business as our child and we too, will continue being your parents. Hope I have made myself clear.
Glenn: It is crystal clear, Daddy. (Brings out his airpods and connects it to his phone as he plays music)
Mr Smith: Edna, are we doing French or Chinese food this afternoon?
Mrs Smith: I think an Italian dish will be okay as your princess loves pasta.
Mr Smith: Pasta it is then. Do we have any Italian restaurants on this route?
Mrs Smith: I know of a nice Italian restaurant six blocks away from here. Please use the next turn on your left and then the sharp right then drive straight for about 5 minutes and we will be there.
Mr Smith: Yes your royal majesty.
Back at the Church:
Mrs Woods: Yvette, I thought you have left already?
Mrs Williams: No, I am waiting for him to finish with a committee meeting.
Mrs Woods: Oh, I came back with an Uber since I forgot my Bible at the place we sat.
Mrs Williams: The power of being a gossip will make you leave the house to the office without picking your office keys one day.
Mrs Woods: Ain’t we in this together? You are my partner in crime so no further comments, my gossiping colleague and before I forget, do you know if I wasn’t fast this afternoon that long-necked giraffe could have broken the news to Edna after church?
Mrs Williams: You don’t mean it, Thelma!
Mrs Woods: Yvette, believe every single word I am saying. When we closed and we were socializing, my eagle lens zoomed in on Rebecca approaching Edna so I immediately ended the conversation I was having with Mrs Brown and rushed to where Edna and Rebecca were standing, the moment I got there, Rebecca gave an excuse that she will call Edna later for a discussion. You need to see the way and manner Rebecca gazed at me. In fact, her body language and temperament gave me the impression that she was about to cough out some venom to Edna.
Mrs Williams: She dares not try that nonsense and she shouldn’t think because she is a police officer, she can intimidate or oppress anyone here in this church. If she dares ruin the relationship we have with Edna, I will personally hire assassins to cut her life short. (looks behind to see if anyone is close to them)
Mrs Woods: Hey, be careful with your words. There are a lot of cameras around this place so please control your anger and words before it lands you in trouble that you can’t defend yourself.
Mrs Williams: Won’t you be my accomplice when that day comes?
Mrs Woods: You know what Yvette, let me go in there and get my Bible since that is the reason why I came back here. I don’t have any savings anywhere where I can rely on to pay for the services of an attorney and I don’t want to waste my little time running up and down at the law court. I think from henceforth, we need to be objective on the kind of issues we discuss because had I known is always at last and a word should be enough for the wise. (walks away angrily)
Mrs Williams: (talks to herself) And what did I say that was wrong?
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