The dreams of a mother (Cry of a dying soul) - Season 1 - Episode 32

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The dreams of a mother (Cry of a dying soul) - Season 1 - Episode 32

Dayo: “Thank you ma’am, may God bless you. I will like to be on my way now” He said after eating, and Khadijat’s mother brought out a thousand naira note, which she gave to him.

Dayo: “Iya wa, this is too much, the money is just one hundred naira” he said looking at the note in his hand with wide eyes.

Khadijat’s mother: “Take it my son, you need it” she said and bade him goodbye, not knowing that her grandson had come to her house.

After Dayo left, she went to her neighbour’s house to hear what she had to say.

Damilola’s mother: “My son just called me. Khadijat did not die in that accident as we thought, she gave birth to the child, but died on the operating table. However, the child is alive, but something happened and he ran away. He was staying with the son of the woman who saved Khadijat, and Damilola only found out after the boy ran away. They are still looking for the boy” she said.

Khadijat’s mother sat down heavily on the chair, she thought that she was beginning to heal from the loss of her daughter and her grandchild, but now the wound had been ripped open. She began to shiver so much that, Damilola’s mother had to wrap a blanket around her.

Dayo kept coming back every day to Khadijat’s mother’s house, to help her with chores and follow her to the market.
The woman became fond of him and one day, after serving him jollof rice and a cold cup of water, she began to ask him about his parents.

Dayo: “I have no parents, my mother died while giving birth to me. I don’t know about my father either.”

Khadijat’s mother: “What is your name?” she inquired.

Dayo: “I am Dayo”

Khadijat’s mother: “That is a good name, but don’t you think you should return to school, education they say is the best legacy”

Dayo: “I want to go to school because I want to be a medical doctor, it is my mother’s dream, but who is going to send me to school? That is why I am working in the market to save money to go to school” he explained.

Khadijat’s mother: “It is such a pity, come back tomorrow I will have something for you” she said and encouraged him to be a good boy.

The next day, she wanted to go to the market and was waiting for Dayo to come as usual, to escort her to the market.
While she was waiting, there was a knock on her door. She went to open it and saw Damilola’s mother with some other people.

Damilola’s mother: “Neighbour, this is my son, Damilola and he came with Madam Lagos and the man who our grandson, Dayo was living with” she said, with mixed feelings. She was happy to know that their grandson was alive and not dead with his mother as they had thought, but now they didn’t know where he was or what he was doing.

Khadijat’s mother: “Did you say Dayo, how does he look?” she asked, as something told her that she had been with her grandson all the while, and had not recognized him.

Damilola began to describe Dayo, there was tears in his eyes as he described the boy, whom he had loved, not knowing he was his son whom he had rejected.

Khadijat’s mother: “Alhamdulilah, that boy has been with me all these while, and I didn’t know he is my grandson. Thank God for directing his footsteps to me, may Allah be praised” she said, and told them that they should wait for Dayo would soon come to follow her to the market.

But they waited for a long time and Dayo did not come, they stayed in Oshogbo for a week, but Dayo did not show up. They were back to square one.

Question: What has happened to Dayo, did he see them and run away again, or has something terrible happened to him? Also who does Tania’s pregnancy belong to, her husband or her lover?