This fictional story made me remembered the popular saying that "the devil you know is better than the angel you don't know"
It was 8:00am that very Tuesday! And as usual, i had already prepared for the day's job. My job was not something to joke with because it was the only source of my income then. Even though the resume time for me was 9:00am, i always made sure that i resumed 8:30am every single day to avoid stories that touches the heart.
During these period, i was staying at Ring Road in Benin City. The place i lived was a peaceful community filled with different classes of people. Therefore i was opportune to see and mingle with some rich class and share some positive ideas with them. Out of all the rich people i had the opportunity to meet with, was a man called Mr. Obasohan.
This very man was someone who hates anything that gives him stress and lack of peace. All the while he lived in that community, he made sure that he minded his business and stayed out of trouble. You will never see him outside if not for something very important. He'd always zoomed in and out in his Mercedes with his beautiful girlfriend, named Felicia.
So there was this day i had an opportunity to converse with Obasohan that i will never forget. Because what he told me that day left me wowed. On this very day, we were just having a very nice discussion where something led to another, then we dabbled into relationship and marriage issues. We were sipping some alcohol while having this discussion, then out of nowhere, Obasohan made mentioned of his girlfriend, Felicia.
Felicia was a girl who had spent almost two decades with Mr. Obasohan. She was so caring and very generous. The only issue, which i believe was not an issue anyways, was that she likes standing her ground. Some times the both of them did yell at each other over who is right or wrong whenever there was misunderstanding. And this made me felt awful because they looked so good as couples.
So while we were having this discussion, out of nowhere he just told me that though he loved Felicia so much, he cannot marry her because she was too exposed for him. He said that Felicia questions his every moves and sometimes she does things differently from what he'd expected of her. This behavior of hers always gets him pissed off but being that he hates problem with passion, he always kept mute.
On hearing this i became very sad. I tried to convince him that from the experiences i have had with women, even though he is older than me, i believed that Felicia would make a very good wife. But i didn't stress on this too much because his class was way higher than mine and i did not want to ruin my friendship with him. So he did what pleased him.
After he had sent Felicia away on the bases that she lacked respect for him, Obasohan went straight to the village to marry a very beautiful and respectful illiterate, called Ngozi. This girl was so loyal, even more loyal than what Obasohan expected of her. She cooked so good that he was forced to cry out that he has seen the woman of his dreams. I became happy for him too cause i love seeing people happy regardless.
Many years passed and they lived happily together. But not until that very Tuesday morning when i heard a very loud quarrel coming out from Mr. and Mrs. Obasohan's duplex as i was going to work. Though i don't joke with my job but i couldn't walk pass without showing concern as a good neighbor.
When i got to their door, i knocked and knocked but there was no response so i headed straight to work and deal with my business of that day. As i was coming back from work later that Tuesday evening, i saw Mr. Obasohan soliloquizing. I greeted him and asked him what the problem was in the morning?
What he told me left me very speechless. He never knew that the respectful illiterate has been cheating on him with another man whom she was dating back in the village before Obasohan married her. According to him, what caused the quarrel in the morning was that he noticed that his important documents were not the same as they were the previous night.
After much questioning and investigation, he got to realized that Ngozi had already planned with his village boyfriend to do away with him. Their mission was to poison him and take his property. They had already forged all his documents except one very last one which Ngozi tampered with during the night while Obasohan was asleep. If they had succeeded in forging that last document, the next thing would have been to kill Obasohan.
According to him, he was so disappointed and felt betrayed. He never believed that Ngozi could do such to him because he'd always showered her with lots of money, love and other good things life can offer. It was at this moment he shouted "The devil one knows is far far better than the angel one does not know." then tears started dropping from his eyes. I simply told him to take heart and that he should handle the situation with wisdom....then i walked away.
Mr. Obasohan has since placed his respectful illiterate wife, Ngozi and her boyfriend under arrest awaiting when investigation will be completed for proper judgement to be passed and possible punishment to be served. He has since went back to beg Felicia, his ex-girlfriend for forgiveness but it was already too late. Though Felicia forgave him but she was already engaged to another man and they were planning their wedding.
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