THE INSIGHT - CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 12


Dayo rolled on the bed all night. She kept getting up, checking the time, going into the kitchen to get water and coming back to bed. She just couldn't get herself to sleep. She practically joined the household pests to keep vigil.

She just couldn't understand what could have gone wrong with Kunle. She got scared when a thought ran through her mind.

"Maybe he has been kidnapped" She got up again and paced the whole room till her knees started aching. She sat on the edge of the bed and held her jaw with her hands. She picked her phone and tried calling again maybe she will get a better luck this time.


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Feyi looked beside her and smiled. It took days for her to be able to convince Kunle to sleep beside her. All along, they've been sleeping in different rooms, even though Kunle made it clear he's not going to touch her, seeing him snore beside her is enough joy. Feyi suggested they both relocate to the U.S earlier that day, after her Dad disapproved of the relationship.

"The U.S?"

"Yes, remember i was born there. I'm a citizen. It won't be difficult getting you in"

Kunle sighed and smiled. Going to the U.S has been his dream ever since he finished school but he didn't have the funds. Now, he'd be going there on a platter of gold with a citizen. What other luck could Feyi bring for him?

"Okay baby, but i'd want us to go visit my parents before we go" he said

"Really? Are you sure they won't be like my Dad who knows nothing about true love" she had asked with a raised eyebrow

"My Dad could be a hard nut to crack but I'm sure he'd later loosen up" he smiled and gave Feyi a peck.


The sound of Kunle's phone disrupted Feyi's thoughts. She leaned over to Kunle's side of the bed to get his phone.

"Who could be calling at this time of the night?" She took the phone and saw 'Dayo'. She hissed and dropped the phone.

"Can't she just read between the lines?"

Dayo dialed again and waited patiently, maybe a miracle will happen this time. She got it.

"Yes? Who is this?" a voice sounded from the other end.

Dayo's head rang a bell. She kept her calm and responded.

"Can i please speak to the owner of this phone?"

"If I'm right and if your watch is too, you'd see it's late. A responsible engaged man is already asleep by this time" Feyi said and ended the call, switched off the phone, remove the sim and broke it.

Kunle stretched lazily and yawned. He opened his eyes one after the other.

"Who were you talking to?"

"Nobody baby"

His eyes was ruminating the room when he saw his phone carefully dismantled and his sim destroyed. He sat up immediately.

"You did this? Why?" he was shocked. He had important contacts on that sim.

"I had to. Your ex won't stop calling" she rolled her eyes.

"We'd get you another sim tomorrow. By the way, what do you need it for? We'd soon be going to the U.S, remember"

Kunle sighed and went back to sleep, backing Feyi.


"Responsible engaged man???!" Dayo got up, with her index finger in her mouth. She paced the room twice and sat back on the bed.

"Am i not the one he's engaged to?" she asked, like she's waiting for a reply. The only one she got was from the crickets.

She sighed and checked the ring Kunle gave her few months back. She never took it off. She kissed it and lied down on her bed, facing the ceiling.


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She jumped out of bed when the time clocked 7am. She undressed and made for the bathroom. Under 30mins, she was done and out of the house. She made her way to Marfel Constructions.

"Good morning ma" Naomi greeted warmly with a smile.

"Morning" she put her hands forward on the huge desk. She was probably their first visitor for that day.

"Please I'm looking for Mr Kunle Johnson" she said immediately.

"Oh, Mr Kunle isn't in at the moment. Would you like to drop a message?"

Dayo countenance fell. If Kunle isn't in the office, so where could he be?

"When last was he here?" she pressed further

"That should be last week before he and......." Feyi cellphone rang, thereby cutting Naomi.

"Please excuse me" she dipped her hands into her bag and brought out her phone. It was Bisi, Kunle's younger sister. She has a feeling she knows the whereabouts of Kunle. She didn't wait a second before clicking on the receive button.


"Hello Sister Dayo" Bisi greeted from the other end.

"How are you?"

"I'm fine oo. Where are you?" she asked immediately

"Currently at Kunle's office to ask if he's there"

"Brother Kunle is home, sister and you had better start coming now. He's here with a strange lady he's calling his new fiancee and she's already warming her way into maami and baami's hearts"

The whole sentence dropped like a bombshell to Dayo. She didn't even wait to hear the remaining of Naomi's story before hurrying out of the company. Kunle's parents house is a 3hr journey if she got to the car park early enough and get lucky enough to be the last before the bus moves. Dayo sighed. She's not gonna meet them there if she goes with a commercial bus. An idea popped into her head.

She brought out her phone and put a call through to John, telling him what Bisi told her and that she needed his car urgently.

"If that's the case, you'd need me to go with you" John replied  "Philip just left the house now, he'd have come with us but it's fine. Just wait for me in front of Marfel Constructions. I'd be there in less than 30mins"

"No problem" she ended the call and found a suitable place to sit, waiting for John.

He arrived 30mins later and soon they were both on their way to Kunle's parents' house.


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Pa Josh looked at his wife's face. He's not exactly who we'd call a perfect man but he's a man of principles. He doesn't have a problem with you doing whatever you want to do but it will take a while to convince him it's right, and if you can, then goodluck.  Kunle knew this about his father. He is a man in his early 70s. Obviously has grey hair taking over. He had patiently waited for Kunle to finish his sermon about how wonderful Feyi is and how he had determined to spend the rest of his life with her. Pa Josh sighed and shook his legs. He normally does this when he has a lot to say. He looked at his wife's face, the latter was smiling. She was obviously in support of her son getting married to Feyi, "the first class lady". She wasn't in full support of Dayo getting married to her son but her husband was able to make her accept Dayo into her son's life. According to her, Dayo doesn't look like someone who could take care of her only son. Now that Feyi is in the picture and Dayo is out, she has every reason to smile again.



©Toluwanimi Odeniyi